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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 ...
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BBC1 to explore WWII shipwrecks
The BBC's Natural History Unit is to spend months exploring the undersea world for a high-end documentary for BBC1.
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NewsBBC show to offer life of a millionaire
Initial is to make a primetime National Lottery show for BBC1, in which ordinary people are moved into a mansion to lead the lifestyle of a millionaire.
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Le grand Ron: parlez vous?
Pardon my French indeed! Ron Atkinson, the disgraced former football pundit whose poor choice of vocabulary got him sacked by ITV, is to have his foreign language skills put to the test in a new BBC reality show.
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NewsBurchill essay adapted for BBC2
Manchester-based indie Scarlet Television has adapted an essay by journalist Julie Burchill on
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NewsHoney, we've got a second series!
Honey We're Killing The Kids- the BBC3 series that shows how unhealthy lifestyles will affect youngsters later in life - has been recommissioned for a second series.
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NewsComment: Hard times in toon town
Over 700 movers and shakers from Europe's animation industry descended on the Danish city of Kolding last week on the hunt for the next Bob the Builder.
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NewsMinotaur still going strong at ten
Flextech-owned Minotaur International will celebrate its tenth anniversary at next month's Mipcom with the launch of over 150 hours of new programming, including six new 90-minute films in SMG's ITV crime franchise Rebus.
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NewsOff the Fence launches UK docs
Amsterdam and Bristol-based factual producer and distributor Off the Fence is headlining its documentary Mipcom slate with The Day that James Dean Died.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Animal Planet commissions OSF special
US network Animal Planet has commissioned Sydney and London-based Southern Star to produce an hour-long special, Lyndal's $70K Lifeline Challenge.
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BVITV launches Roger Bannister TV movie
London-based Buena Vista International TV (BVITV) has picked up the ESPN produced TV movie Four Minutes, which tells the true story of how British medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier in 1954.
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Electric Sky expands sales team
Independent factual distributor Electric Sky has appointed Claudia Weber as sales manager, covering the US, Canada, German speaking Europe, DVD/Home Video and non-theatric sales.
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Motion Gallery names new sales director
BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales business of BBC Worldwide, has poached ITN Archive sales director Linda Reeve.
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NewsTotally Frank to make Mipcom debut
New girl group Frank are set to make their international debut at Mipcom, where Channel 4 International will launch the new 26-part teen drama Totally Frank.
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NewsTarget secures Bounty
Target Entertainment has picked up animation studio Silver Fox Films' 26 x 11-minute series Bounty Hamsterfor international distribution.