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Paramount buys Charlie Sheen comedy
Paramount Comedy has signed its first deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution, picking up hit show Two and a Half Men. Paramount Comedy, owned by Viacom, has acquired the exclusive UK cable and satellite rights to the 23 x 30-minute first series of the show, which is currently showing ...
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Everett and Fry to play Holmes for BBC and ITV
The BBC is to slug it out with ITV in a battle of the deerstalkers after revealing that it too has commissioned a Sherlock Holmes drama.
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BBC signs deal to show prime in italy
BBC Worldwide has completed a deal to broadcast its international entertainment channel BBC Prime on Italy's Sky Italia platform for the first time. The deal, which takes effect from 1 August, will allow an extra 2.6 million households access to the channel, which airs BBC programming across Europe, the Middle ...
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British tv triumphs at rockie Awards
British programme-makers dominated the Rockie Awards at the Banff Television Festival in Canada, winning nine out of a possible 20 awards. Winners included Tiger Aspect's Catherine Tate Show; Lion TV's The True Face of War; the BBC's This Little Life; BBC and Endor Productions' State of Play; BBC and Ziji ...
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My hero back in autumn for fifth run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a fifth series of comedy My Hero from indie Big Bear Films. Production on the 10 x 30-minute run, which will again star Ardal O'Hanlon as a secret superhero, has just begun, with broadcast due in the autumn. It is directed by John Stroud, ...
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BBC ends exclusive Audley Harrison deal
The BBC has ended its exclusive£1m UK TV and radio rights deal with boxer Audley Harrison, saying it wants to focus more on emerging talent. Harrison's last fight for the BBC - his 17th bout for the corporation - will be this Saturday (19 June) against a Polish fighter, Tomasz ...
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Discovery opts for Ascent's playout facility
Discovery Communications, owner of the Discovery Channel, has chosen Ascent Media Group as its global technology and playout partner.
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Kanjee appointed as Evolutions md
Simon Kanjee has ended 18 months of speculation by joining independent post house Evolutions as managing director.
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France's M6 buys up ITV crime dramas
GRANADA International has sold its ITV cop drama Murder in Suburbia to French channel M6, as part of raft of deals with the broadcaster, writes Paul Revoir.
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Bomber Ace takes flight for C4
channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make a follow-up to Spitfire Ace with a series in which relatives of second world war veterans are put through their paces manning a Lancaster bomber, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4 to unlock secrets of Einstein's brain
Two scientists will examine Albert Einstein's brain in a new Channel 4 documentary - one of several commissions from C4 head of science Simon Andreae.
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C4 picks up rights to virgin festival
Channel 4 has landed the rights to broadcast the V Festival for the next three years. The event, which is held in Chelmsford and Staffordshire simultaneously will be screened live on E4 on 21 and 22 August. In addition, C4 will screen two 90-minute highlight shows. In the run-up to ...
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O'Leary indie unleashes Parent Trap on BBC3
Dermot O'leary's indie Murfia is making a show for BBC3 in which young people are followed around by their parents at work, in the pub and on dates, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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Red 3 expansion
Bristol-based Red 3 is expanding its base of operations to house the incoming staff that it believes will be needed to deal with upcoming CGI commissions, such as SS Republic for National Geographic. Red 3 directors Simon Edgar and Peter Bailey have been working closely with their Manchester affiliate, Red ...
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.
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C4 charts troubles of Men Behaving Badly star
Leslie Ash - the former Men Behaving Badly star whose recent sexual antics ended in a spell in hospital - is to be profiled by Channel 4.
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One Last Job for C4's ex-cons
Channel 4 is setting up six former prisoners in business as florists for a new documentary series produced by indie Lion.
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NewsC4 reunites Band Aid stars
Channel 4 is to reunite the array of 80's pop icons who sang the smash hit Do They Know It's Christmas , to mark the 20 thanniversary of the landmark charity single
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NewsITV & BBC face off over Sherlock Holmes
ITV and the BBC are set to slug it out in a Sherlock Homes battle after both channels revealed they have commissioned new dramas based on the fictional detective.
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A drama or a crisis?
Fewer people are taking a butcher's at the residents of Albert Square - unless they're on webcams, of course. Peter Keighron finds out how the bigwigs plan to reverse the ratings decline and get things sorted.