All Broadcast articles in 27 November 2009 – Page 3
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NewsITN signs archive footage deal with Shanghai Media
ITN has inked a ground-breaking deal with China’s biggest commercial broadcaster, Shanghai Media Group, that will see its archive material transformed into a number of new documentaries.
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NewsSixty hours of UK drama are right up 13th’s street
New Australian crime channel 13th Street has bolstered its schedule with the acquisition of eight UK dramas.
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NewsCome Dine With Me creators cook up fresh format duo for ITV1
The team behind Come Dine With Me and Britain’s Best Dish are to produce two new factual formats for ITV1’s daytime schedule.
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NewsRogue Traders’ Allwright to sort out holiday woes
Rogue Traders presenter Matt Allwright is to front a peaktime BBC1 consumer travel show designed to expose the worst of the tourist industry.
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NewsFive to strip JLC game show
Justin Lee Collins’ first show for Five under his two-year golden handcuffs deal will be stripped across the Christmas period.
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NewsRed-tape protests unite speakers across industry
Producers, politicians and talent all identified a common enemy at last week’s The Media Festival: excessive regulation.
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NewsC4 moots online charge for advance episodes
Channel 4 is considering charging viewers to watch new programmes online before they air on TV as part of plans to break down the barriers between the schedule and on-demand viewing.
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NewsBBCW’s indie investment capped
BBC Worldwide looks set to end its buying spree of stakes in UK indies after the BBC Trust called time on mergers and acquisitions - but a deal with Channel 4 and a potential purchase of Virgin’s share of UKTV are still on the cards.
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NewsITV1 pulls the plug on Beat the Star after two series
Beat The Star has been dropped from ITV1 to make way for new entertainment formats.
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NewsFormer C4 colleagues Dale and Brooke team up at Rare Day
Rare Day, the indie run by ex-More 4 head Peter Dale, has appointed former Discovery UK managing director Dan Brooke as its managing director.
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NewsSTV’s Hain hits out at lack of clean ITV feed
The row between STV and ITV has intensified, after disagreements over whether the latter is providing its licensees with a clean feed of programmes.
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NewsTwenty Twenty aims to build on history roots
Twenty Twenty Television, the indie behind The Choir and The World’s Strictest Parents, has made two senior management hires in specially created posts.
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NewsBurns’ search for C4 boss to hot up in the new year
Channel 4’s hunt for a new chief executive will begin in earnest in January as new chairman Lord Burns is only beginning to draw up his shortlist for the role.
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NewsBBC scraps plans to air ‘horny priests’ ballet
The BBC has dropped plans to air a ballet inspired by impresario Sergei Diaghilev this Christmas – after discovering that it features a deformed Pope who rapes nuns.
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NewsUK animators fight for tax breaks
The struggling UK animation sector is launching a last-ditch bid to get tax breaks from the government after losing another long-standing player – Triffic Films.
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CommentBargain is sign of the times
Endemol’s ability to get a competitive deal reveals change in indie sector
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NewsSnap buy boosts Endemol UK
Endemol UK has become the country’s biggest indie after completing a whirlwind deal to buy Tiger Aspect and Darlow Smithson Productions for around £30m.
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NewsC4 to look back on a decade in TV
Channel 4 is to count down the 20 landmark TV shows of the last ten years as part of a two-part special to air at Christmas.
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NewsEastEnders praised for bipolar storyline
EastEnders was awarded a Mental Health Media Award last night for putting bipolar disorders centre stage.
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Simon Shaps to chair Mercury Media
ITV’s former director of television Simon Shaps has added distributor MercuryMedia to his portfolio of non-executive positions.