All Broadcast articles in 11 February 2005 – Page 2
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Wall to Wall wins US order from FX
Wall to Wall has won the first commission to be awarded outside the US from cable network FX with a documentary-style drama similar to its BBC one-off Smallpox.
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UK leads international TV format sales
The UK has cemented its position as the world leader in TV formats, as new figures show British titles represent nearly half of all global format sales. Shows such as Pop Idoland Who Wants to be a Millionaire?helped British distributors claim a ...
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Red Hot under fire
Freeview lawyers have issued a warning to adult service Red Hot over the channel's use of the Freeview trademark. The Richard Desmond-owned channel began broadcasting last week on channel 61 of the DTT platform on a pay-per-view basis. However, as Red Hot is renting the space from Top-Up TV, the ...
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House finds home at Hallmark
Hallmark has bought the multichannel rights to US medical drama Housefrom NBC Universal International Distribution. The show features British actor Hugh Laurie in the lead role as Dr Gregory House, 'a brilliant but anti-social diseases specialist'. Due to debut in April, the 16 x 60-minute series ...
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Pop Factory hiring
Welsh indie The Pop Factory has appointed former Zeal Music head of production Dewi Evans as commercial director. Evans, who worked on music series The Pepsi Chartand the international roll-out of CD:UK, has been charged with driving the Pop Factory brand into the global marketplace and ...
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Sanctuary Post faces the music
Sanctuary Post is post-producing BBC Entertainment's new series Facing the Music. The series for BBC2 is presented by husband and wife vocal coaching team, David and Carrie Grant, who attempt to teach members of the public to use singing to say something special to someone in ...
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Extasi restricted
The government is to restrict access to pornography channel Extasi TV, which broadcasts outside the UK but can be picked up in Britain via satellite, over concerns that the adult service was screening 'frequent episodes of sexual violence'. From the end of this month it will become illegal to supply ...
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Plantin to exit September
September Films chief executive Marcus Plantin is to step down at the end of the year.
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Format focus: Eat Yourself Whole
After a glut of fat-fighting shows comes a programme which looks at alleviating medical conditions through diet.
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Waddell takes off for Discovery
Brian Waddell Productions is to co-produce a documentary with Discovery on an attempt to make the first solo non-stop flight around the world. The 60-minute show will be directed by Discovery's David Cumming and producer/director Kelda McCann and executive produced by Janine Waddell. It will air on the Discovery Channel ...
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Zeal nets reality deal in Pakistan
Indie and distributor Zeal Television is making Pakistan's first reality series - a makeover show funded by cosmetics giant Unilever.
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Target wins ITV daytime order
TARGET Entertainment's recently launched production arm has won its first terrestrial commission for a 25 x 30-minute daytime quiz on ITV.
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Darby goes into Red
London post company Red has appointed former board director of The Hive Debbie Darby as senior producer. Darby was made redundant last September after six years at VTR and The Hive. She also spent 11 years as an associate director and senior producer at design agency Lambie-Nairn. The appointment is ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Mark Freeland
The BBC's head of comedy commissioning admits that a rude word in the title of a proposal can help sell it to him - oh, and it helps if the script summons up the singing of non-standard angels
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Octagon poaches In Colour? producer for factual push
Sports marketing firm Octagon CSI is pushing into factual and entertainment programming and has appointed the producer behind ITV's successful In Colour?strand to oversee the move.
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New chief for Granada ent in Manchester
Granada producer Rachel Ashdown, the programme-maker behind ITV1's new entertainment show Celebrity Wrestling, is to replace Heather Coogan as head of entertainment in Manchester.
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Patscheck steps in at sci-fi channel
Universal Studios has parachuted in Steven Patscheck, vice-president of programming, Universal Latin America and Brazil, to run the UK Sci-Fi channel until a new president has been hired. He takes over from Dan Marks, who left on Friday for BT. Patscheck will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the ...
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Elstein to be Digital Classics chairman
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has been named chairman of arts programming distributor Digital Classics. Digital Classics owns a library of concert footage by artists including Miles Davis, and is valued at£9m.
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Marsh picked for Celeb Poker
Sports pundit Rodney Marsh, fired last month for making a joke about the tsunami disaster on Sky Sports, has been signed up to appear on Challenge's third series of Celebrity Poker Club.
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Buyback ok for ITV
ITV has been given the green light by shareholders to buy back shares from smaller US investors - a move that it hopes will save it millions of pounds. The£3.5m buyout will see ITV acquiring back the stakes of about 600 shareholders in the US, who each own fewer than ...