All Broadcast articles in 18 November 2005 – Page 2
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Frost to front ITV London politics show
Sir David Frost has been signed up to present ITV London's new politics show, as the network revamps its regional political programming. Produced by Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions, Frost Tonight will broadcast on Thursday evenings from January, covering all the major political issues in the capital. It will ...
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Hunt orders found
BBC1 controller of daytime Jay Hunt has ordered a series from Leopard Films looking at the lives of foundlings - babies abandoned on doorsteps by their parents. Presented by Kate Adie, the 5 x 45-minute series Found will look at the effect of abandonment on their lives. Gill Waddington will ...
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Format focus: So Sudoku
ITV Production has released details of its long-awaited sudoku gameshow format.
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Tory grandee to front Five series on trees
Former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine is to present a 60-minute one-off documentary on Britain's best known trees for Five.
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Five licensed for Freeview slot
Five has been granted a broadcast licence from Ofcom to launch a general entertainment channel under the name Five.2. The broadcaster has speeded up plans for its first digital launch, spearheaded by director of programmes Dan Chambers in the hope it will win the available Freeview slot being sold by ...
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Foundation first
The Foundation has finished filming its children's programme Finders Keepers at the Maidstone Studios. The show, presented by Jeff Brazier, was the first to be shot in Maidstone's new 12,000ft studio, which was completed in October. The programme, for ITV1, first aired in the early 1990s, when it was originally ...
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RDFR secures first look at October
October Films has become the latest production company to sign a first look deal with RDF Rights as the super-indie continues to add to its international distribution portfolio. RDF Rights will now collaborate with October on ideas from initial concept through to final sales. Last week RDF inked a similar ...
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Queen's Sister job is Farmed out
The Farm Group has completed the post on Touchpaper Productions' drama The Queen's Sister for Channel 4. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones and produced by Kath Mattock, the two-hour drama explores the late Princess Margaret's tempestuous relationships with the men in her life. The Farm's graphic designer Barney Jordan composited ...
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Facilities survey
Broadcast is asking facilities to take part in its 2006 post-production survey, highlighting the changing face of the industry, the most successful companies within it and what concerns the sector has. The results will be published in a pullout section in January 2006. The questionnaire can be downloaded from www.broadcastnow.co.uk ...
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GI rejig follows Torrance's exit
A shake-up at Granada International (GI) following last week's poaching of Caroline Torrance by Endemol will see Tim Mutimer promoted to the newly created role of director of sales.
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Endemol and Fremantle on ITV Play list
ITV has shortlisted four companies to run its new transactional channel ITV Play including Endemol, interactive specialist Enteraction and Fremantle Media.
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Emap Scottish head
Emap has appointed its national brands director, Steve Parkinson, to oversee the group's Scottish stations on an interim basis, following the departure of managing director of Emap Radio Scotland David Goode at the end of the year. Parkinson will oversee the stations from January while the group seeks a permanent ...
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Oryx takes Guinness World Recordsto Middle East
The Arab world's unlikely fascination with that most British of institutions, Guinness World Records, is set to continue in a deal in which Oryx Production and Distribution will repackage Ultimate Guinness World Records for 18 Arabic-speaking countries, including Iraq and Syria.
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FID takes Yuschenko doc to the US
Talkback Thames documentary Poisoned, which originally screened on Sky One in April, has been sold by Fremantle International Distribution (FID) to the History Channel to air in the US on the foreign-focused History International. Sparked by the poisoning of Ukrainian president Victor Yuschenko last year, it examines the occurrences of ...
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NBDTV wins global rights to Quo doc
Specialist music and factual distributor NBDTV will handle international rights for the 55-minute Little Green Men documentary The Party Ain't Over Yet - 40 Years of Status Quo. The special, made to mark the band's upcoming anniversary, will provide unique access to the band in the studio, on tour and ...
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Crow TV to merge sites
Post-production house Crow TV is to close down its Chiswick site and merge its suites into its Shepherd's Bush facility in January.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Paul Crompton
Commissioning editor, popular factual at Sky One is looking for more faces like Danny Wallace and Julie Burchill to front shows and for big ideas to fill the 9pm weekday slot.
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DNE unveils new playout centre
Discovery Networks Europe unveiled its new playout centre in Chiswick this week, touted as one of the biggest in Europe.
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Third Best of Friends on way to CBBC
Indie Talent TV has won a third commission for its CBBC entertainment show Best of Friends. The indie is to make 20 half-hour episodes, which tasks 10-year-olds to prove how much their friends mean to them by undertaking challenges. It was developed by Jonathan Wolfman from an original idea by ...
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Red Bee campaign
Little Britain is invading the airwaves on Thursday (17 November) when the show's narrator, Tom Baker, will be BBC1 guest continuity announcer. Red Bee Media created the campaign to promote the channel's Thursday night line-up, as well as the continuity announcements and 16 teasers for Little Britain, which will run ...