All Broadcast articles in 12 November 2010 – Page 3
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Demand Five VoD splits from BT Vision
Channel 5’s video-on-demand service, Demand Five, is going through a distribution shake-up with BT Vision and Virgin Media.
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Sky Living sinks teeth into Teen Wolf
Sky Living has acquired supernatural drama Teen Wolf from US studio MGM ahead of the relaunch of the channel next year.
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Wild hires head of development in factual push
Wild Pictures has hired a head of development as part of plans to turn the company into a major player in the factual arena.
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Little Princess crowns Zodiak Rights
Zodiak Rights is to distribute pre-school series Little Princess following a deal with indie Illuminated Film Company.
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Hunt fights corner over O’Reilly misogyny claims
Former BBC1 controller Jay Hunt has hit back at claims that four female presenters were culled from Countryfile because she “hated women”, arguing that the suggestion was “profoundly distressing”.
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Darroch pledges cash for Sky content push
BSkyB boss Jeremy Darroch has pledged to continue investing in content, and aims to increase spend in line with increases in revenue – meaning a potential boost to programming of £200m.
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BBC cuts to see World Service scaled back
Entire services from the BBC World Service could be closed as part of its £67m cuts, with those broadcasting to areas such as the Caribbean, Vietnam and Macedonia thought to be most at risk.
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Diversity award winner to be decided by Broadcast readers
Broadcast readers are to decide whether Cast Offs, The Sex Education Show or My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding is the most groundbreaking show at this year’s Cultural Diversity Network awards.
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Quickfire lines up Grant for Arabian Nights doc
Bristol-based independent Quickfire Media has secured Richard E Grant to front a 1 x 60-minute film about the Arabian Nights for BBC4.
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Animation companies call on Clegg to introduce tax breaks
A group of animation companies has written to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg calling for a meeting to discuss incentives needed to make the UK industry competitive globally.
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ITV already drawing up plans for Salford
Granada Reports has scoped out a space at MediaCityUK in Salford and Coronation Street is believed to have agreed a site near the hub as ITV edges closer to relocating its north-west operations.
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Ferguson to front C4 series on the rise of Western civilisation
The Ascent Of Money historian Niall Ferguson is to return to Channel 4 for a new series charting the rise of Western civilisation.
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C4 sends chefs to cookery school for daytime series
Channel 4 has ordered 50 episodes of a new daytime cookery series starring Cook Yourself Thin chef Gizzi Erskine.
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BBC3 to pilot panel show from Twenty Twenty
BBC3 has ordered a non-TX pilot for a comedy panel show from Twenty Twenty called 10 Things You Don’t Know About Your Mum.
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BBC2 targets access doc
BBC2 is on the hunt for a major access documentary after being turned down by British Airways, as part of a raft of factual opportunities at the corporation.
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Cohen sets sights on stronger BBC1 online presence
Danny Cohen has made building a stronger, more coherent online presence for BBC1 a key priority.
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Radio 1 visualisation suite feeds video demand
BBC Radio 1 has installed a visualisation suite in its Portland St headquarters as it ups the amount of video content it offers listeners.
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No stumble on this Trip
If The Trip is a mock travel documentary, does that make it a Mockulogue? Elsewhere, MasterChef: The Professionals broiled its last this week as Kirstie Allsopp tried to get us to rethink how we refurbish.
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Comment
Save our poultry pensions!
The NUJ dutifully produced a photo gallery of angry BBC staff up and down the country manning the placards.
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Sky’s the limit for TV’s Tesco
Landmark 10 million homes is just the start as Sky broadens its output.