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UKTV launches NZ channel on sky digital
UKTV is launching a sister channel in New Zealand this month to be carried on the country's Sky Digital platform. The joint-venture between BBC Worldwide, Fremantle Media and Foxtel will screen a mix of contemporary, classic and popular British programmes. UKTV, which runs a similar station in Australia, will include ...
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My Family cracks German market
Award-winning BBC comedy My Familyis set to be made for viewers in Poland and Germany after producer DLT Entertainment secured format deals with TVP and RTL, writes Michael Rosser.
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Distraction sells Dream home to Germans
Distraction Formats has completed its first European sale of reality lifestyle show Dream Home, to German producer Blue Eyes Film and Television. Blue Eyes is now in discussions with local broadcasters. The renovation show, which first aired in 1999 on TV2 in New Zealand, follows two young families over a ...
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Real Life Media scores shows
Leeds-based indie Real Life Media Productions has scored a raft of commissions including a series looking at the impact the birth of twins and triplets have on families, writes Jon Rogers.
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NewsCan you spell 'repetition'?
The American phenomenon of national spelling events, as seen in the current Oscar-nominated hit movie Spellbound, is to be brought to the UK with both the BBC and Channel 4 developing formats.
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NewsCoogan and Reeves plan family ITV show
Comedians Steve Coogan and Vic Reeves are to team up to write and perform in an ITV comedy sketch show series.
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NewsJohnny Vegas signs comedy deal with BBC
Comedian Johnny Vegas, the former face of the now defunct ITV Digital, is to become one of the leading names on the BBC after signing an exclusive development deal with the corporation.
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BBC goes all out to pick Euro song
The BBC is to create a big prime-time 'very sexy' Saturday night event to choose next year's British Eurovision song contest entry after the national humiliation of scoring nil points this year.
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Sky's Baker drops Live Boob Job
New Sky One controller James Baker has kicked off his tenure by rejecting a major live surgery event planned by his predecessor Sara Ramsden.
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Legal action halts TV show
Brighter Pictures this week defended its format There's Something about Miriam in which six men were stunned to discover that the beautiful woman they had been wooing was a transsexual.
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CD: UK plans live spin-offs
ITV has ordered three 30-minute spin-off editions of Blaze Television's Saturday morning pop show, CD:UK. The CD:UK - Spotlight Specials will run after the main CD:UKshow on Saturdays from 15 November and feature pop acts Pink, Christina Aguilera and Britney ...
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NewsBrucie is back on the Beeb
Veteran presenter Bruce Forsyth is to re-join the BBC eight years after leaving for ITV.
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ITV1 wales tunes up pop award special
ITV1 Wales is to screen a 60-minute special based on The Coca Cola Pop Factory Music Awards 2003, which took place last week. Commissioned by HTV director of programmes Elis Owen, the Pop Factory production will feature acts such as Irish band The Revs and appearances from The Darkness and ...
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ITV2 to screen comedy awards party
Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Mark Durden Smith have been lined up to present ITV2's post-awards show from The British Comedy Awards. The Fun Goes Onwill go behind the scenes to talk to the winners at the after-show party once the awards, hosted by Jonathan Ross, ...
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RDFI acquires ideal world programmes
RDF International has acquired the distribution rights to a trio of documentaries from Glasgow-based indie Ideal World. RDFI will distribute human-interest titles Siamese Survivorsand Surrogate Mother: The Baby Makeras well as current affairs documentary Hunting the Washington Sniper, which all ...
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TWI takes race to the altar to Europe
TWI Entertainment has sealed a brace of deals that will see dating format Race to the Altarscreened across Europe. Endemol Holland has licensed rights to produce the format in the Netherlands, where it is pitching to local networks, while Banana Productions has picked up local ...
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BBC and HBO team up for epic Rome drama
The BBC and US network HBO are to undertake their first series co-production with an epic drama series chronicling the rise of the Roman empire through the eyes of two foot soldiers. The 12-episode Rome, which is due to air on BBC2 and HBO in ...
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British series in global distributions
Distributor Minotaur International has made a raft of sales to broadcasters across the globe, including selling the last six episodes of long-running crime drama Taggart (pictured) to ABC in Australia, French channel FR3 and Denmark's Danmark Radio. Challenge format Travel Sick has been picked up by German music channel Viva ...
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Ex-Loaded ed James Brown moves into TV
Former Loadededitor James Brown, ex- Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon and Lord Bell's Chime Communications have formed an unlikely alliance to create a new television show.
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Clear Channel says Capital is vulnerable
Roger Parry, chief executive of US media giant Clear Channel's international division, has described Capital, the UK's largest radio group, as vulnerable to takeover, writes Michael Rosser.