All Broadcast articles in 9 October 2009
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FeaturesTigh Dudley
Titles for a S4C cookery programme in which contestants are eliminated during the show.
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NewsFuture funding strategy to help Pepper
Future Film’s move into TV production financing (Broadcast 09.10.09) is set to provide a boost to Pepper, the post facility in which it owns a stake.
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Facilities news in brief
News in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 16 October featuring Sequence Post, Visual Impact, Envy, MPC and Prime Focus.
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Ascent wins Dutch film archive clean-up deal
Ascent Media has won a Europewide tender to clean-up and transfer more than 1,250 hours of historic newsreel film from Holland’s film archives.
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UTV invests in tapeless future
UTV has set out its ambition to become a fully tapeless broadcaster by the end of next year.
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NewsRufus Hound fronts Dave monologues
Argumental star Rufus Hound is to hold forth on subjects ranging from the internet to dancing and camping in a series of webonly monologues for comedy multichannel Dave.
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FeaturesTuring’s Test
Radio indie Made in Manchester Productions is taking its first steps into drama with a self-funded one-off about WWII code-breaker Alan Turing.
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Dubz.tv prepares for agency rebrand
Digital agency Dubz.tv has hired ex-ITV interactive commissioner Siobhan Mulholland to spearhead its rebrand as a ‘strategically driven’, multiplatform content generating agency.
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NewsCosgrove Hall on the brink
Cosgrove Hall Films, the children’s animation studio behind Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, is facing an uncertain future after owner ITV confirmed the company has been placed under a review.
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NewsPact: freezing online services a 'car crash' for suppliers
Pact has launched a blistering attack on the BBC Trust’s “shocking” decision to freeze the budgets for three of the corporation’s online learning services – claiming it will be a “car crash” for indie suppliers.
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NewsYouTube moves to tackle piracy
YouTube executives have hit back at UK critics by revealing their technology is analyzing an increasing amount of content each day in a bid to tackle piracy.
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Behind The ScenesMicro Men, BBC4
Comedy drama Micro Men tells the story of the race for home computer supremacy in the 1980s, as part of BBC4’s Electric Revolution season. Producer Andrea Cornwell takes Broadcast behind the scenes.
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NewsITV axes Kingdom
ITV has axed Norfolk based drama Kingdom, after three series on the commercial broadcaster.
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NewsCat Deeley to host US dance show import
The BBC’s forthcoming version of US show So You Think You Can Dance is to be hosted by Cat Deeley when it airs in January.
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NewsiPlayer guidance restricts viewing
The BBC has revised its editorial guidelines in a bid to stop children watching inappropriate programmes on its online iPlayer.
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NewsBBC recommissions Missing drama
The BBC has recommissioned the critically acclaimed drama Missing for 10 new episodes to be screened next year, making it twice the length of season one.
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NewsToday programme tops broadcast list
The best of British broadcasting has been named as BBC Radio 4’s Today by the influential viewers’ group Voice of the Listener and Viewer.