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Parthenon to distribute for scandinature
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has signed a five-year distribution deal with Scandinavian wildlife production outfit Scandinature Films. Parthenon will handle international sales of the firm's entire natural history and science catalogue, which includes 36 hours of documentary programmes including Viking Voyages, Dead Sea Scrolls and ...
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RDF makes first sales for US court TV
RDF International has made its first distribution deals for Court TV, after taking on nearly 80 hours of programming from the US crime and investigation network. Dutch broadcaster SBS has acquired the free-TV rights to I, Detective(26 x 30 minutes), where viewers get the chance ...
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Open Mike gets paramount comedy orders
Indie Open Mike Productions is the company behind the two Paramount Comedy channel commissions, which were reported in Broadcast(17.10.03). Jo Brand will host a chat show while in 12 x 5-minute £100 in Brightoncomedians are given£100 to spend on something ...
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Mipcom deals hit by early closure
Major distributors failed to make last-minute sales at this year's Mipcom television market after companies closed their stands early, the organiser of the event has claimed, writes Michael Rosser.
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Diners oust head chefs in UK food show
UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned a 'Faking It-style' cookery series from Red Door TV for UK Food. The 15 x 30-minute Kitchen Take Overfeatures presenter Paul Roseby pouncing on unsuspecting diners in a restaurant, who have been set up by friends, and ...
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Nat Geo buys Mayday and Dogs with Jobs
Cineflix's London-based international distribution arm has sold a brace of programmes to National Geographic Channels International (NGCI). Mayday, a 6 x 60-minute series offering a scientific view of recent air crashes, will be screened in 144 countries and 26 languages. It has also been pre-sold ...
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At It Productions to make Busted doc
Indie At It Productions is to make a 60-minute documentary for Channel 4 on young British pop band Busted, featuring a Monkees-style narrative. The Busted Popworld Special - Britain's Biggest Pop Band, ordered by C4 commissioning editor for music and youth Neil McCallum, will air during the T4 Sunday strand ...
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MMA wins celebrity reality bites order
Manchester-based indie Multi Media Arts (MMA) has won a raft of commissions including a hidden camera cookery show for ITV1. A broadcast pilot of Celebrity Reality Biteswill feature Coronation Street'sMartin Platt attempting to run a restaurant kitchen on a tight ...
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Lion wins factual orders from BBC
The BBC has ordered a raft of factual series from Lion Television including an inside look at a boot camp for unruly youngsters, writes Michael Rosser.
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Noddy goes to Poland, Asia and Slovenia
Brand management company Chorion has made several international sales of its£10m CGI children's series Make Way for Noddy. The 100 x 10-minute series, which is currently shown on Five in the UK, has been sold to Polish broadcaster TVP, IVM in Indonesia, RTV in Slovenia and MediaCorp TV12's Singaporean free-to-air ...
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Initial to produce Mandela's aids awareness concert
Initial, the music entertainment and live event arm of Endemol, is to produce a major Aids and HIV awareness pop concert, supported by Nelson Mandela, to be broadcast globally by MTV. The concert, featuring artists such as Beyonce, Ms Dynamite, Bono and the Eurythmics, is being recorded by Initial in ...
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ITN to give universities free access to archive
ITN is to give colleges and universities across the UK free access to its huge news archive - one of the world's largest film and image libraries, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC2 to get own consumer show
BBC2 controller Jane Root is set to commission her channel's first major consumer strand as part of a raft of new orders for the BBC's in-house consumer affairs unit, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV2 orders expose of celebrities' lives
ITV2 has commissioned a regular programming strand about celebrities' lives. Celebrities Exposedwill encompass a series of 60-minute standalone episodes with the first two - Love on the Rocks and Lies, Lies, Lies - produced by Scream Films. Isis Films will produce the third instalment, working ...
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NewsDating show to take over from Blind Date
ITV has commissioned a Saturday night dating show, loosely based on the format of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, to replace the axed Blind Date, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsC4 to 'shed light' on Brown stunt
Channel 4 is set to repeat its controversial Russian roulette stunt, in which illusionist Derren Brown supposedly fired a loaded gun at his head, with extra unseen footage in an attempt to
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BBC plans theme night on nation's debt habit
The BBC is to follow up its controversial day of programming on asylum with a look at the nation's burgeoning debt pile in the latest in its run of current affairs specials, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Beckham to train kids on CBBC
The BBC has picked up the rights to former England captain David Beckham's training project for kids, Really Bend It Like Beck-ham, after it was launched at the Mipcom programme market a fortnight ago, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Pye resurfaces at Sony
Former Granada senior executive Chris Pye has resurfaced with a new role as vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), writes Michael Rosser.
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Japan to be tested
Indie Talent Television has brokered a deal for a Japanese version of Test the Nation. The Eyeworks live event format, which has been screened in the UK on BBC1, is set to air later this year on TV Asahi and is co-produced with TV Man ...