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NewsEndemol produces mobile music video for MySpace star
Endemol has teamed up with MySpace star Tila Tequila to produce a music video exclusively for mobile phones.
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NewsShaq to front RDF US format
Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal has been signed up by RDF to front the US version of its format Unfit Kids.
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NewsMonster strikes deals for Planet Rock Profiles
Dublin-based distributor Monster Distributes has closed a number of new deals for ITV's music biography series Planet Rock Profiles.
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NewsBBC and IBM sign tech partnership deal
The BBC has signed a joint projects deal with technology firm IBM that will kick off with state-of-the art image video search technology being applied to CBeebies and CBBC content.
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NewsLife on Mars and Longford up for BPG gongs
BBC1 series Life on Marsand Channel 4 drama Longford lead the nominations for this year's Broadcasting Press Guild Awards with four nominations each.
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Sports deals see North One head to Oz
Indie North One is opening an office in Australia on the back of securing two major sports contracts in the territory.
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NewsSky One axes Vorderman's Big Brain Game
Sky One has ditched sudoku show Vorderman's Big Brain Gameafter just one series.
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NewsNickelodeon picks up Those Scurvy Rascals
Nickelodeon has acquired the multi-platform rights to animation series Those Scurvy Rascalsfrom entertainment rights company Entara.
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Glastonbury rights sold to NBD Television
NBD Television, the distribution arm of DCD Media, has acquired the rights to distribute television highlights of this year's Glastonbury Festival.
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NewsBBC3 to screen six comedy pilots
BBC3 has commissioned six new comedy pilots including a sketch show presented from a gay perspective and a sitcom about teenage life written by an 18-year-old.
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NewsLife on Mars writers reveal new projects
The co-creators of Life on Marsare developing two new dramas for the BBC and ITV1 under their newly formed indie Monastic Productions.
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Nesbitt returns for Murphy's Law
Undercover cop Tommy Murphy will return to BBC1 in a fifth series of the drama Murphy's Law.
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NewsShaps moves swiftly to recommission hits
ITV director of television Simon Shaps has demonstrated his confidence in his current slate by recommissioning three big new shows.
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Nickelodeon's Me: TV heads for US peak
Nickelodeon's US channel is launching its own version of Nickelodeon UK's live studio web/TV format Me:TV.
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NewsTorchwood heads to Network Ten
BBC Worldwide's Australasian arm has sold sci-fi drama Torchwoodto Australia's Network Ten. It is the corporation's first drama deal with the broadcaster for 15 years.
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Five' Hidden Lives is 'most shocking' yet
Five has commissioned its shock-doc Hidden Lives strand for a third series, with 6 x 60-minute programmes featuring stories from around the world.
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NewsHeggessey: indies can earn more from rights
Talkback Thames chief executive Lorraine Heggessey has suggested an X-Factor broadband channel as an example of one of the ways indies can extract more value from the new terms of trade.
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NewsDropping kids pays off for ITV
ITV1's controversial decision to drop its weekday CITV strand has led to a surge in viewers, with the commercial network's share for the 3.30pm to 5pm slot more than doubling.
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ITV to develop music formats with Globe
ITV Productions' entertainment department is developing a raft of music-based programmes after joining forces with Globe, the production arm of Universal Music.
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Commissioner's Q & A - Janet Han Vissering
Nat Geo Wild's senior vice-president, strategic development and co-finance is looking for programmes which can become long-running series .