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Princess launches new formats at Mipcom
Princess Productions will launch new formats We are Detectivesand Office Monkeyat Mipcom.
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Zig Zag's James Dean doc sold in Sweden
Amsterdam-based production and distribution company Off the Fencehas sold Zig Zag's brand new investigative documentary The Day That James Dean Diedto TV4 Fakta in Sweden.
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Schlessinger Media licenses BBC titles
US distributor Schlessinger Media, a division of Library Video Company, has licensed exclusive US educational and home video distribution rights to three new BBC series: Primary History: Aztecs, Science Clipsand Primary Geography: Water.
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Granda scoops HBO factual deal
Granada International has scored a coup by replacing Channel 4 International (C4I) as the distributor of HBO's documentary and family programming slates.
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UK hour for Iberia
Viewers in Spain and Portugal are to be offered a daily hour of UK comedy and drama, after a deal was struck between BBC Worldwide and the People + Arts channel. The channel's Iberian feed - a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery - will carry a specially branded ...
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Hit to make Thomas radio show for Fun
Hit Entertainment is to produce two new radio shows for digital children's station Fun Radio, in which it holds a 47.5% stake. From 3 October five to 10 minute Thomas & Friendsstories will go out on weekdays at 3.30pm. Hit has also produced a daily 10.30am ...
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Granada sells US reality hit to French
Starting Over, a Bunim and Murray reality format represented by Granada International, has been commissioned by French network TF1. An initial order of 50 x 60-minute episodes has been placed for the reality series which gives women the opportunity to make extraordinary changes in their lives such as embarking on ...
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Format Focus: Showhouse
Primetime home makeover shows seemed a thing of the past but an Irish indie wants to revive them.
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Postman Pat firm posts profits rise
Entertainment Rights, the rights firm behind Postman Patand Basil Brush, has reported a 56% increase in profits. Turnover increased by 37% to£12.4m while operating profit was up to£1.2m for the six months to 30 June. Deals with HBO in the US and ...
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Sky One orders doc on Kate moss fall
Sky One has commissioned Scream Films to make a fast turnaround documentary charting the fall from grace of supermodel Kate Moss. Kate Moss: Fashion Victim?is an hour-long special looking at the media outcry which followed printed pictures of Moss taking drugs and her subsequent dismissal by ...
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Five doc follows disabled skateboarder
A film entitled Half Woman Half Skateboardwill form part of Five's fourth series of its Extraordinary Peoplepopular science strand this winter.
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Clocking Off writer pens postal drama
Daniel Brocklehurst, one of the writers behind Clocking Off, has won his first series commission with a six-part BBC1 drama about postal workers.
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Quiz Nation debuts Celebrity Sudoku
Optimistic Entertainment is making a live daily series called Celebrity Sudokuto kick off its new look Quiz Nation channel. The two-hour show, being executive produced by radio presenter Richard Bacon and Flipsideassociate producer David Owen, uses nine celebrity faces instead of the ...
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Cartoon network superhero exclusive
The Cartoon Network has optioned exclusive broadcasting rights in the US for Gene-Fusion, an animated action adventure produced by Belfast-based Banjax Studios, Pop6 and Beckett Entertainment. The film will be delivered in late 2006, with a 26 x 30-minute TV series to follow in 2007. The ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Karen Brown
The BBC's daytime commissioning editor - out of London and entertainment is most excited by a project chronicling one woman's efforts to transform a deprived housing estate
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Box TV embarks on Conrad Black drama
Hollywood actress Lara Flynn Boyle will arrive in London next week to begin filming on the 120-minute Box TV production Shades of Black, dramatising the fall of disgraced former Daily Telegraphproprietor Conrad Black. Flynn Boyle stars as Black's wife, Barbara Amiel, while Black ...
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Zig Zag backs Hotel Channel
Zig Zag Productions has branched out into the channel market, backing a new broadband TV station aimed at tourists and business travellers in London.
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Challenge gambles around the world
Challenge has commissioned Class Films to make The Ultimate Gambler, a 15 x 30-minute series following an ex-croupier as he gambles his way around the world. Armed with£15,000 and travelling to 15 different countries Cole Parker will bet his money on everything from Filipino fighting spiders ...
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C4 doc spotlights teenagers' lives
Channel 4 Education has commissioned Raw TV to make a 90-minute documentary about teenagers in Britain. Sixteen for a Daywill follow eight teenagers with differing opinions and attitudes but one thing in common: they were all born on the same day in November 1989. The production ...
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C4 music season to feature U2 concert
Channel 4 will air Vertigo 2005 - U2 Live from Chicagoas part of the broadcaster's UK Music Hall of Fame season in November. 3DD has acquired the worldwide distribution for the special, directed by Hamish Hamilton, which was filmed in high definition during the first leg ...