All Broadcast articles in 15 January 2010 – Page 4
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NewsRace for top position at C4 enters final stages
Channel 4 is aiming to appoint a new chief executive in time for next week’s Oxford Media Convention - where former incumbent Andy Duncan is delivering the keynote address.
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NewsC4 hands Paralympics schedule centre stage
Channel 4 has vowed to “totally immerse” viewers in the 2012 Paralympic Games, which it claims will give the broadcaster a commercial boost as well as playing to its PSB strengths.
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NewsFive puts Chinese cookery AFP on peaktime menu
Five’s next step in its AFP output strategy is to serve up a peaktime Chinese cookery show paid for by Sharwood’s owner Premier Foods.
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CBeebies set to order Snapper’s CGI alien series
CBeebies is poised to order a CGI animated children’s series based on Nick Butterworth’s bestselling books about an alien called Q Pootle 5.
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NewsRenegade appoints Folio’s Nissen to managing director post
Renegade Pictures has hired Folio Productions’ Ed Nissen as managing director as part of a reshuffle designed to free up co-founders Alex Cooke and Jon Rowlands.
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NewsBBC launches drive to find female ent faces
The BBC has made hunting for new female entertainment talent a key priority and could use Jonathan Ross’ departure to give women presenters a higher profile.
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CommentWill the Beeb rue Ross’ exit?
Questions abound as the star leaves gaping hole in chatshow format.
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NewsPeppa Pig to belt up over safety concerns
Peppa Pig indie Astley Baker Davies is to spend three months adding car seats and seatbelts in to old episodes of the animated kids’ series because of health-and-safety fears.
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Scott takes leave of Princess to try fresh challenges
Princess Productions co-founder Sebastian Scott has left the Shine Group-owned indie to pursue “new personal challenges”.
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CommentJames O'Hara, ITFC
ITFC managing editor James O’Hara on his top three sex symbols, who he’d put in the Big Brother house and the best advice he’s ever been given.
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FeaturesSpooks and size matter
While the real universe swirls about us in a magical and perplexing way, the digital universe piles in through the telly in a quite straightforward manner.
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CommentSnowed in, stocked up
Ice Age conditions played havoc with TV’s year-round productions over the past fortnight, but the Blitz spirit lives on.
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NewsHoop Dreams director to make Storyville film
Steve James, the director of Oscar-nominated documentary Hoop Dreams, is to meet former gang members who break up fights on the streets of Chicago in a film for BBC’s Storyville strand.
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CommentC4 News / Male-heavy panel shows
Emily Booth shares her love of Channel 4 News and her loathing of the lack of women on panel shows.
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NewsHeat on drama indies as film producers court BBC
Drama indies are facing increasing competition from feature film producers who are turning to the BBC with projects that never made it as cinema releases.
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NewsShiver series to showcase houseproud Brits
ITV1 plans to take a look behind the doors of Britain’s proudest homeowners in a Come Dine With Me-style daytime gameshow.
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NewsBravo snaps up first two series of US con drama
Bravo has picked up exclusive rights to a US con artist drama made by the producer of movies Stargate and Independence Day.
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Shine promotes Shibley to boost UK client book
Shine International has promoted Eli Shibley from manager to director of international distribution in line with plans to grow the company’s roster of third-party clients in the UK.
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FeaturesAndrea Jackson, DRG
Andrea Jackson, managing director of acquisitions at Digital Rights Group, on recent acquisitions, what she is looking for and how the recession has hit the distribution business.