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BBC drafts in its own ?Jane Tennison'
The BBC is set to launch a new long-running crime series featuring a hard-edged female detective after buying the rights to six novels by author John Connor.
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Dyke and Ball to join saban pay-tv group
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke is set to join ex-BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball, who is working for Israeli billionaire Haim Saban's German pay-TV group ProSieben SAT 1. The former adversaries, who famously clashed over Dyke's decision to broadcast the BBC's services on satellite 'in the clear', will sit ...
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Attaboy wins two Discovery H&L orders
Attaboy TV has scored two commissions from Discovery Home & Leisure. The Salvager , is a 15 x 30-minute series for September presented by a Hell's Angel who turns junkyard finds into furniture. Daniel Allum produces with Steve Grizzell as executive producer. Attaboy is also ...
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Atkinson comedies sold into europe
Fremantle International Distribution has sold two Rowan Atkinson sitcoms to 12 countries. Mr Bean and The Thin Blue Line have been picked up by Super RTL in Germany, RTL in the Netherlands, TVNZ in New Zealand and YLE in Finland. Canal 7 in Chile, Artear in Argentina, M2 in Morocco ...
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American animation to debut on Trouble
Flextech teen channel Trouble has bought Game Over, a new animation from US distributor Carsey Warner penned by The Simpsons writer David Sacks. The 6 x 30-minute CGI series, which follows a group of computer games characters and features the voice of film star Lucy Liu, will kick off on ...
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UK programme sales hit£520m
The worldwide success of shows such as Living with Michael Jackson helped lift international sales and licensing deals of British programmes to almost $1bn last year.
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C4 favourite to air Friends spin-off Joey
Channel 4 is set to pick up Friends spin-off Joey. C4 has a first-look deal with Warner Brothers for UK rights to the show and controller of acquisitions June Dromgoole will travel to Los Angeles next week to vet ...
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Moyles reverses R1 breakfast dip
Chris Moyles has lived up to his promise to be the 'saviour of Radio 1' by picking up an extra 680,000 listeners for the BBC station's breakfast show.
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Classic FM to spend£1m on marketing
Classic FM is to launch a£1m marketing campaign in a bid to continue the upward momentum of its audience figures. Owner GWR has ploughed the money into the national station following last week's Rajar report, which revealed that Classic has boosted its audience by 300,000 listeners to record a total ...
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Kerrang! rocks another 50,000
Kerrang has grown its audience by over 50,000 in the first three months of the year, taking its total to 775,000, according to Rajar.
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SMG boss' pay breaks£500,000 barrier
Andrew Flanagan, chief executive of SMG, owner of Scottish TV, Grampian TV and Virgin Radio, saw his pay rise to£562,000, from last year's£476,000, according to the company's annual report. Donald Emslie, the chief executive of SMG Television, had a 35% boost in his pay and received£311,000, up from£230,000 in 2002. ...
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NewsSugar for The Apprentice
Electronics tycoon Alan Sugar looks set to step into Donald Trump's shoes for the UK version of US reality hit The Apprentice.
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Sharman handed task of replacing The Simpsons
The BBC has handed the task of finding replacement shows for The Simpsons to daytime controller Alison Sharman, as part of a new strategy to run cheaper long-running series in the weekday slot.
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NewsBurton Race heads to Devon for C4
Channel 4 is to document Michelin-starred chef John Burton Race's attempt to reverse the fortunes of a Devonshire restaurant in a new series from indie Optomen Television.
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Tractor Tom heads for france
Contender Entertainment Group, the multimedia firm, has shifted its flagship kids property Tractor Tom to French terrestrial TV channel France 5. The broadcaster has picked up 52 x 10-minute editions of the show, voiced by Liza Tarbuck and Cold Feet star James Nesbitt, which it will air next year. France ...
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forever eden in fresh global roll-out
Forever Eden, Mentorn's 'never-ending reality show', which airs on Fox in the US, has been sold to South Africa's MNET and Foxtel Australia. Television Corporation International is also in talks to sell the 25 x 60-minute series, which features 11 members of the public competing to remain at a specially ...
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Five to examine do-it-yourself surgery
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned to make a one-hour documentary for Five about people who perform surgery on themselves in extreme circumstances. DIY Surgery, which will be broadcast later this year, has been commissioned by Five commissioning editor for factual entertainment Liam Humphreys. It will be executive produced by ...
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Granada to peer into China's mind
Granada is making a four-part, multimillion-pound documentary for BBC2 about the state of modern China, after gaining unprecedented official access from the communist government.
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swedish channel latest to sign pop idol
Pop Idol is to continue its global roll-out with a new sale of the format to Swedish broadcaster TV4. The Swedish version of the format, jointly owned by 19 Entertainment and Fremantle Media, has yet to be titled but will air in primetime on Friday nights this autumn. In Scandinavia, ...
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Living orders show by celebrity hairdresser
Celebrity hairdresser Simon Forbes has set up an independent production company and bagged his first commission from Living TV, writes Naomi Rovnick.