All Broadcast articles in 21 October 2005 – Page 3
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Sky Premiership exclusive draws to close
BSkyB's monopoly of live Premiership football rights inched closer to an end this week as the Premier League moved towards an amicable agreement with the European Commission. After 'constructive' talks with Richard Scudamore, the league's chief executive, the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said she would give herself until Friday ...
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Clifton confirmed
Pete Clifton has been confirmed as head of BBC interactive, and will take over the running of the corporation's news website, as well as the news division's interactive and broadband elements. Clifton has been overseeing the post since May, when former head Richard Deverell left to become chief operating officer ...
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New Dublin channel
A new channel dedicated to the city of Dublin has launched on NTL. City Channel offers local news, sport and family programming 24 hours a day to the city's 450,000 cable subscribers. The service is set to be the first of several launched in the Irish Republic, with similar offerings ...
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Chan joins firefly
Indie Firefly has poached Channel 4 commissioning editor Angela Chan just nine months after she joined the broadcaster. Chan is to quit her role in C4's news and current affairs department, where she has worked on Unreported World and Dispatches. She will start in November as executive producer at Firefly ...
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Stelios cruises Caribbean for US show
Two Four Productions has secured a deal to produce a US version of the Sky One documentary series Cruise with Stelios for the Travel Channel. Renamed Cruiseline, the series will be shot in the Caribbean. ID Distribution has also sold the 20 x 30-minute UK series to The Travel Channel.
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Zeal fails to find UK terrestrial berth for Miss World
Miss World will be shown to its largest potential global audience ever this year but Zeal Television has failed to secure UK distribution on a terrestrial network.
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Rejigged Sky News begins with Sunrise
BSkyB kicks off its new-look Sky News on Monday (24 October) at 6am with new signing Eamonn Holmes and Lorna Dunkley presenting Sunrise. The channel will unveil a new multimillion-pound studio and revamped programming schedule. Other new signings include James Rubin, the former chief spokesman for Bill Clinton, who will ...
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Beazley confirmed as Lush successor
Jon Beazley has been appointed BBC executive editor for entertainment commissioning after a month of caretaking the post. Beazley, who while mainstream entertainment commissioner handled such programmes as Test the Nation, was widely tipped for the post. He is expected to take up the job with immediate effect and will ...
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The BBC's 'talent drain'
The BBC has real reason to fear losing some of its best programme-makers, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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BBC factual to phase out DigiBeta cameras
The BBC's plan to cut production costs has gone a step further, with its factual and learning department's proposal to phase out the use of DigiBeta cameras for the department's programmes.
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BBC World on net
BBC World is the latest channel to be made available on IPTV network GreenGrass as part of its beta trial. It will join ITN and motor-sport channel Revs TV in the trial ahead of GreenGrass' full consumer launch in January. The channel will go live and be announced to consumers ...
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Betty appointment
Indie Betty has appointed director Alannah Richardson as executive producer to boost its features and formatted documentary output. Richardson was previously a freelance producer and director, although she worked with Betty on the ITV1 documentary Love in a Foreign Climate and was series producer for the first series of Spendaholics. ...
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Animal Planet looks at worst pets in UK
Animal Planet UK has commissioned three series for its winter season, including a Mentorn-produced show looking at the country's naughtiest pets, writes Susan Thompson.
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Extreme alliance
Extreme Video has collaborated with unmanned blimp specialist 2PiR to develop 'tele-eye', the world's smallest and lightest remote-controlled HD aerial TV camera system. It was used for the first time this month for Sky TV's coverage of the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham's NEC.
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Format focus: All star record breakers
You know celebrity reality shows are far from finished when Guinness World Records TV gets in on the act.
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My family writers aim at comedy slot
BBC1 is hoping to crack the critical 8.30pm comedy slot with a new series from two of the writers of My Family and My Hero. Home Again, a 6 x 30-minute in-house series written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie, centres around a married couple - played by Samantha Janus ...
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C4 orders seventh series of Wife Swap
Channel 4 has picked up a further 6 x 60-minute run of RDF Media's Wife Swap to air late next year. The seventh series order has been made despite the sixth series still being in production. A further 6 x 30-minute run of the accompanying studio-based series Wife Swap The ...
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C4/NatGeo tie-up marks disaster anniversary
Channel 4 and the US National Geographic Channel have jointly backed a major drama-documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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ITV4 set to air Wahlberg's Entourage
ITV4 has signed a deal for HBO comedy Entourage, the series executive produced by Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg. Entourage looks at the day-to-day life of fictional Hollywood actor Vincent Chase (played by Adrian Brenier) and his group of hangers-on, who follow him from New York to Los Angeles.