All Broadcast articles in 23 March 2012 – Page 4
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Standing Stone develops app for new Dispatches
Tom Gutteridge’s Standing Stone Digital has won the second-screen contract for Channel 4’s new-look Dispatches.
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Producers celebrate after tax breaks win
Producers are already counting the hours of drama and animation series that could return to Britain as a result of the government’s tax breaks.
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North One boss Heather Jones exits after WRC loss
North One Television managing director Heather Jones is stepping down from the role after less than a year in the job.
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Discovery goes for adventure
Discovery has ordered a trio of adventure series including Freddie Flintoff’s first solo project and a survival/automotive mash-up that will air internationally.
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Endemol adapt Wipeout model for Prize Island
Endemol is looking to replicate the success of its global phenomenon Total Wipeout with a new international physical gameshow pitting couples against each other.
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CiTV acquires action toon Redakai
CiTV has acquired the rights to animated adventure series Redakai: Conquer The Kairu from Zodiak Kids.
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E4 seeks new content after axings
Channel 4 is dropping a raft of E4 originations broadcast over the past year as the youth-skewed channel takes shape under new head of formats Dominic Bird.
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C4 hunts younger racing audience
Channel 4 has pledged to attract a younger audience to the ‘crown jewels’ of horseracing by offering tie-in programming and a refresh of the coverage.
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C4 offers £500k for games
Games developers will be handed budgets of up to £500,000 to create cutting-edge games for Channel 4, Colin Macdonald revealed in his first briefing.
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McDonald to host 3D monarchy series for History
Sir Trevor McDonald is to front a 3D series for History that will explore the tradition of the monarchy, using rare stereoscopic footage from 1953.
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TOWIE's Mark Wright heads to US for ITV2
ITV2 is poised to hand former The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright his own series, charting his bid to crack America.
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Mr and Mrs returning to ITV1
All Star Mr and Mrs is to return to ITV1 in 2012 after a two-year hiatus.
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Behind The Scenes
David Suchet: People I Have Shot, ITV1
David Suchet’s personal journey took us up the Eye and into Number 10, but a mining disaster put everything into perspective, says Harry Hook.
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Electric Sky acquires Call Girls doc
Distributor Electric Sky has acquired documentary Call Girls and already secured four European sales.
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IABM opens US office
The International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers has opened a US office in California.
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Darroch defends pulling Sky News F1 story
Sky chief executive office Jeremy Darroch has revealed that a Formula 1 story was temporarily pulled from the Sky News website because the broadcaster’s commercial sports team had not been briefed.
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Victory for drama and animation tax break campaigns
George Osborne has confirmed that the government plans to introduce tax breaks for the TV, animation and gaming industries.
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Horse & Country eyes intl expansion
Horse & Country TV has made two new appointments designed to accelerate the channel’s roll out into international markets.