All Blakeway articles – Page 4
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NewsBlakeway wins series for China
Blakeway Productions has partnered a Chinese indie to make a landmark series about the West that is being lined up for state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
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NewsTen Alps cuts losses
Ten Alps has significantly cut its pre-tax losses after restructuring its finances and raising £3m from shareholders.
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NewsStanding 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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NewsBlakeway exec completes C4 current affairs team
Channel 4 has completed its news and current affairs commissioning team with the appointment of an executive producer from Blakeway Productions.
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NewsITV commissions second Perspectives run
Comedian David Walliams is to divulge his passion for Roald Dahl and actor David Suchet will provide a snapshot of the world of photography for the second run of ITV1’s arts strand Perspectives.
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NewsC4 awards Dispatches contracts
Channel 4 has awarded Blakeway Productions, October Films, Nine Lives Media and ITN Productions contracts to make programmes for the Dispatches strand in 2012.
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NewsC4 probes Queen Victoria’s secrets
The controversial relationship between Queen Victoria and her Muslim Indian servant Abdul Karim will be explored as part of Channel 4’s 2012 history documentary line-up.
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NewsC5 orders Benidorm ER
Brits who injure themselves while on holiday are to be the subject of a new Channel 5 doc series.
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Ten Alps TV names development chief
Ten Alps has promoted a Blakeway Productions executive to head of development for its entire television and radio division.
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NewsProducers defend standards of TV journalism
Current affairs producers and investigative journalists have given TV newsgathering practices a clean bill of health in light of the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal.
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NewsC4 reworks Dispatches evidence for news bulletin
Material intended to form the basis of a third Blakeway Productions’ Dispatches on the phone hacking scandal will instead be used to make fresh allegations against the police in Channel 4 News tonight.
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NewsBBC to explore Planet Dinosaur
The BBC is to bring to dinosaurs back to life with four new commissions and a range of interactive initiatives.
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NewsFood giants lose battle over Dispatches claims
Cereal manufacturers Nestle and Kellogg’s have lost their challenge against an edition of Dispatches that they claim unfairly portrayed them as targeting children with unhealthy foods.
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NewsCBBC meets ballet boys
Real-life Billy Elliots and children trying to overcome a stammer will feature in a series of documentaries for CBBC.
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NewsBBC nabs Stirling Prize in arts push
The BBC’s arts commissioning editor Mark Bell has unveiled a raft of new programmes that includes snatching the broadcast rights to the Stirling Prize for architecture from Channel 4.
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NewsSky Real Lives spotlights cancer care
Sky Real Lives has ordered a 10-part documentary series from indie Blakeway North focusing on the work of Macmillan and Marie Curie nurses.
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NewsBlakeway wins Nobel commissions
Blakeway Productions has won a double commission for two shows on this year’s Nobel Prize awards.
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NewsVictim's son to front Madoff doc
The son of a British soldier who killed himself after his family’s life savings were swallowed up in Bernie Madoff’s $50bn swindle is to front a BBC2 doc on the subject.
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Blakeway buys Belfast indie
Ten Alps subsidiary Blakeway Productions has acquired the Belfast-based indie Below the Radar in a deal worth up to£800,000 to help expand its factual output.
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Blakeway North gains 30 Stone sequel
Manchester-based Blakeway North is celebrating four new commissions following the appointment of executive producer Sarah Murch earlier this year, including a follow-up to the successful documentary Lose 30 Stone or Die for ITV1.