All Broadcast articles in 26 November 2004 – Page 6
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CiTV presentation moves to Manchester
ITV is moving its CiTV presentation department from Birmingham to Manchester early next year.
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Five doc looks at sex change of hearts
Five is to follow the journey of a transsexual who undergoes a series of painful operations to reverse her gender swap.
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Gavin to be non-exec chair at Contender
Rupert Gavin, the former chief executive of BBC Worldwide, is to take up the non-executive chairman role at animation company Contender Entertainment Group, producer of Tractor Tom. Gavin, who unexpectedly quit the corporation's commercial division in the summer, is to help the company attempt ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Chantal Rutherford Browne
UKTV Style channel executive Chantal Rutherford Browne cares more about 'life' than style ideas and is keen to find out what women want
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Best in the world
Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time.
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Beamish to Landmark
Indie Landmark Films has hired former Darlow Smithson development producer Jennifer Beamish to head its science division. Beamish, who has also worked as head of science development at Tigress Productions, will join the Oxford-based indie at the end of the month. Landmark Films' recent science output includes ...
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BBC to terror-proof Five's playout
BBC Broadcast has signed a new five-year contract to provide Five with level-one disaster recovery as commercial broadcasters invest in resilience amid continuing terrorist fears.
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Exclusive horticultural coverage on BBC
The BBC has signed a four-year deal for exclusive rights to the Royal Horticultural Society's four major flower shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. The deal will also see a collaboration on three new BBC2 gardening series for next year. The working-titled Winning Tatton from ...
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South Bank searches for Mary Poppins
Initial is producing a documentary for ITV1 arts strand The South Bank Show about author PL Travers, creator of Mary Poppins. The Real Mary Poppins goes behind the scenes of the new West End musical which coincides with the 70th ...
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John Willis in call for authored docs
BBC director of factual and learning John Willis has called for less homogenised television and more pieces like the controversial BBC2 series The Power of Nightmares. During the Royal Television Society's annual Christmas lecture on Wednesday (24 November), Willis said he wanted to see ...
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RDFR set to distribute Bad Lads' Army
RDF Rights has secured the distribution rights for the format and finished series of Bad Lads' Army. The 8 x 60-minute series, which indie Twenty Twenty produced for ITV, follows 30 young offenders who are put through an army-style regime in an attempt to change ...
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Allen's new ITV passion
ITV's regional strategy is under scrutiny as plans to pull out of non-news programming threaten to overshadow a£40m investment in news. Broadcast headed to Maidstone to ask ITV chief executive Charles Allen how deep his commitment to news really goes.
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Living to air Boston Legal
Living TV has signed its first deal with Twentieth Century Fox, picking up all UK rights to US primetime drama Boston Legal.
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FX to exclusively air Sony drama Huff
FX has clinched exclusive multichannel rights to Sony Pictures' Huff. The 13 x 60-minute drama follows psychiatrist Dr Craig 'Huff' Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) and also stars Oliver Platt ( The West Wing ). It was written and created by ...
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Goldcrest adds to TV facilities
Feature film facility Goldcrest Post is expanding its broadcast capacity, spending up to£200,000 as it pursues managing director Peter Joly's policy of diversification.
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GWR reports ad loss
GWR, the radio group set to merge with Capital Radio, has added to the downbeat feeling across the sector by issuing a warning that the radio advertising market has weakened. The company, which runs Classic FM, reported an 8.7% year-on-year drop in advertising revenue for October and forecasted that it ...
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Celador sells diet across the globe
Celador International has made a hat-trick of sales of You Are What You Eat. The diet and nutrition series, which airs on Channel 4 and features Dr Gillian McKeith, has been sold to MTV3 in Finland. The second 18-episode series will air on C4 ...
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Manchester's Flix acquires Avid Nitris HD
Manchester edit house Flix Facilities is to invest£100,000 in new equipment including an Avid DS Nitris HD.
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Absolute Flame hire
Absolute Post has appointed James Allen as a senior Flame artist. He joins from Glassworks. Allen has worked with directors Chris Cunningham and Will van der Vluht as a Flame operator.