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Hallmark snaps up BBC dramas
The Hallmark Channel is on the lookout for UK drama acquisitions and has kicked off its new strategy by buying BBC hits Spooks and Hustle.
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NewsFive in£10m-plus budget boost
4.15pm: Five is increasing its programme budget to over£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers confirmed today.
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NewsNat Geo buys Rough Trades
10am: National Geographic International has picked up the pay TV rights to Rough Trades, a series lookingat unusual professions throughout the world.
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NewsComment: Unlocking the potential of mobile
Online chatrooms are buzzing with rumours that Apple is to unveil a new video iPod this week, a development that mobile TV evangelists have long been predicting will radically transform our viewing habits, writes Dominic Schreiber.
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NewsTarget bulks up on US reality
Independent producer and distributor Target Entertainment has snapped up the latest reality series from the makers of ABC Family's hit format Switched.
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NewsExtreme picks up lifestyle catalogue
London-based Extreme Entertainment has continued its push into factual and lifestyle content with the addition of over 700 hours of short-form programming from UK producer PeakViewing Transatlantic.
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NewsScreentime signs with Fulham for Soccastars
Format specialist Screentime Partners has struck another deal for its reality series Soccastars and tied up a number of options for new BBC Saturday night show What Kids Really Think.
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NewsFremantle Media launches Showtime! at Mipcom
Fremantle Media is looking to follow up the global success of Pop Idol and X Factor with the launch of two European formats that are already proving a hit in their domestic markets.
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C4I picks up Zig Zag's Family format
Channel 4 International has acquired the international rights to a major new formatted documentary series from London-based indie Zig Zag Productions.
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BBC sells Rick Stein down under
BBC Worldwide Australasia has licensed new cooking series Rick Stein's French Odyssey (10 x 30-minutes) to The LifeStyle Channel in Australia and New Zealand's TVNZ.
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Men & Motors brings bikers to Cannes
LA-based Men & Motors International will launch four new titles at Mipcom including a series on World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss.
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NewsCosgrove Hall takes development slate to Mipcom
Creating and owning original properties is a key priority for Manchester-based animation studio Cosgrove Hall, according to its new MD Anthony Utley, who is going to Mipcom with three new shows in development.
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NewsRubber Duck to develop Bzots
Rubber Duck Entertainment, the newly created intellectual property arm of The Contender Entertainment Group, has teamed up with Chicago's Eat Your Lunch to develop a CGI/live-action series based on the US company's Bzotsproperty.
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NewsNick promotes Borkent
Jules Borkent has been promoted to VP, programming at Nickelodeon International.
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NewsCPLG picks up Dragon Booster
Licensing and merchandising agent CPLG has picked up UK rights to the animated series Dragon Booster, from Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications.
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Southern Star buys into Darrall Macqueen
Australian producer-distributor Southern Star has bought a 75% stake in indie Darrall Macqueen, the producer of BBC2's Smileand interactive children's programming, such as ITV's Play the Game.
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NewsParthenon bulk up on HD shows
Factual producer and distributor Parthenon Entertainment has added four high definition specials to its slate.
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UK worst pet show
Animal Planet has commissioned an eight-part series about the UK's least well-behaved animals called Britain's Worst Pet. The series from Mentorn follows animal experts Trude Mostue ( Vets in Practice, Animal Hospital), Roger Mugford and David Sands as they ...
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Third outing for who do you think you are
BBC2 has commissioned a third series of Wall to Wall's genealogical factual format Who Do You Think You Are?and has revealed the new celebrity line-up for the second series. The second series airs in early 2006 and features Stephen Fry, Jane Horrocks, Jeremy Paxman, Julian Clary, ...
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Parthenon to show secrets of long life
Factual producer/distributor Parthenon Entertainment is making a 60-minute documentary Live Long Live Wildfor National Geographic Channel International - about the oldest animals on the planet. Executive produced by Parthenon's Natalie Humphreys, the show will broadcast early next year. Talks with UK terrestrial partners are ongoing. Parthenon ...