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Chorion promotes
Chorion, owner of children's characters such as Noddy, has promoted finance director Jeremy Banks to the newly created role of commercial director. The move follows Chorion's recent acquisition of the Mr Men brand from the family of the late Roger Hargreaves, creator of the characters, as well as a spate ...
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Minotaur scores major deal in nigeria
Minotaur International has inked a major deal with Nigerian pay-TV platform Communication Trends Network Limited for 1,800 hours of drama, factual, entertainment and children's shows. Included are SMG TV's long-running ITV series High Road, more than 75 hours of Fash's Football Challenge, made by indie Zig Zag for Bravo, comedy ...
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Discovery signs Reeves and Murray
Comedians Vic Reeves and Al Murray are to front new shows for the Discovery Channel as it adds to its clutch of comics as presenters, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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Discovery rejigs
Discovery Networks Europe has restructured the roles of its channel directors. Animal Planet International director Eliza Burrows hands over her responsibility for Discovery Kids to Clare Laycock, channel director, Discovery Health while Discovery Channel director Katy Thorogood will take over Discovery Wings. Thorogood has given up control of Discovery Travel ...
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Sky One takes Shock Treatment from Diverse
Sky One has commissioned indie Diverse to make a magic reality show that will see a group of people put through a series of hair-raising tests, in a bid to discover what fear really is, writes Paul Revoir.
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Virgin drops Djs
Virgin Radio has dropped DJ Daryl Denham and Jezza, the host of its daily Confessions show. Jezza - Jeremy Kyle - who has presented the daily Virgin Confessions phone-in show from 22.00 to 01.00 for two years, has agreed to step down. But Denham, who was shifted into the weekend ...
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Drama village for university
The BBC is setting up a 'drama village' in Birmingham in partnership with the local university, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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GMG hopes to push Smooth to Edinburgh
Guardian Media Group is to bid for the forthcoming Edinburgh radio licence with its Smooth brand, writes Michael Rosser.
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New editor at shine
Indie Shine has appointed Princess Productions series producer Jon Riley to take up the new post of editor, entertainment. Riley, who will report to creative director, entertainment Steven D Wright, will be charged with bolstering the indie's entertainment slate, particularly in comedy entertainment. His credits include A Wife for William, ...
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Pact ethnic survey
Producers' alliance Pact is launching a survey into the success of ethnic minority-led production companies. Pact will first gather data from every independent producer in the UK to establish a benchmark of 'success'. It will then survey ethnic minority-led production companies to see how their achievements match up to the ...
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Tiger to show how Hitler was fooled
Tiger Aspect is to recreate how the British fooled Hitler into thinking the D-Day landings would come through Calais in an ITV1 drama documentary, one of three new commissions for the indie's factual department.
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Fremantle media set to push fresh ideas
FremantleMedia has hired Alice Whiteley as its acquisitions and development director for its worldwide licensing division. She will be responsible for acquiring third-party brands and 'invigorating classic properties', in particular children's shows, to drive new programme ideas. Whiteley had been business development director at Ealing Family Entertainment before joining Fremantle ...
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Globes on living TV
Living TV has picked up the rights to screen the Golden Globe film awards until 2007, after sealing an exclusive three-year deal. The Flextech-owned channel secured the deal for coverage of the LA-based film and TV awards ceremony, seen as a pointer to the Oscars, after a successful screening of ...
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OSF hires Hawkins
Indie OSF has appointed Caroline Hawkins as an executive producer. She has previously worked on Delia Smith, Summer Holiday and Wild and Dangerous for the BBC and has also worked on shows for Five, National Geographic and TLC.
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Panorama IRA special
BBC1's flagship current affairs strand Panorama is to screen an edition of BBC Northern Ireland's current affairs strand Spotlight in one of its slots for the first time. The Superdollar special, which originally aired in Northern Ireland in March, traces counterfeit $100 bills from North Korea to an Official IRA ...
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Radio 1 looks at India's biggest rock band
Somethin' Else is to travel the world for a slate of documentaries commissioned by BBC Radio 1 and digital station 1Xtra. DJ Bobby Friction will present a 30-minute programme following India's biggest rock band. Parikrama - Rock in India will air on R1 in mid-August. Gay in JA will focus ...
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C4 swoops on 50 episodes of US reality hit about teenagers
Channel 4 has picked up 50 episodes of US cable reality hit Switched! to broadcast in its T4 youth slot, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4I strikes deals for Derren Brown
Channel 4 International has sold two series featuring psychological illusionist Derren Brown to Finland. Brown's new series Trick of the Mind and Derren Brown Mind Control have been picked up by Finnish station YLE. South Africa's SABC has also picked up Trick of the Mind, which finished its 6 x ...
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Channel 4 takes a look at medieval times
Channel 4 has commissioned three 60-minute documentaries about the 14th century. The Granada-produced The Black Death, commissioned by C4 head of history Hamish Mykura and executive produced by Bill Jones, will look at the plague. The Peasants' Revolt, from Spire Films, looks at the uprising of 1381. It was commissioned ...
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4 learning unveils autumn highlights
Channel 4's education arm, 4 Learning, has unveiled a raft of programmes for autumn, including a documentary series focusing on anti-social behaviour. The 5 x 30-minute Rude Britannia will look at the behaviour of 14 to 19-year-olds. It will be accompanied by the six-part 'rites of passage' series The ...