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NewsProduction base for Turner in UK
Turner Broadcasting is to set up a London-based development unit to develop original animated comedy outside the US for the Cartoon Network.
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ITV wins Uefa rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the Uefa Cup in a deal understood to be worth over£20m. Covering the 2006-7 to 2008-9 seasons, the agreement will give ITV exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of the tournament. ITV, which fought off ...
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Nick Knowles in jail
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of the UK's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha. Behind Bars, which is produced by CityHospitalmaker Topical Television, ...
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Setanta wrestles PGA Tour golf from Sky
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from this January and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel. The Irish sports group, which recently picked up two live Premier League rights packages, has brokered a six-year deal to air the PGA Tour competition in ...
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Uefa Cup final stages to air on ITV
ITV has bought the UK broadcast rights to the final stages of the Uefa Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth more than£20m. ITV now has exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals over the next three seasons of the tournament, after fighting ...
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ITV set to bring back drama to daytime
ITV is to bring back drama into its daytime schedules in a bid to tap into the success that the BBC has had with shows such as Doctors.
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NewsStephen Fry returns to ITV in legal drama
Stephen Fry is to make his first drama series for ITV in over 10 years, with a show about a country solicitor with the human touch.
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NewsBBC to set Casualty in 1906
The BBC is to make a medical drama set 100 years ago, but filmed in the fast-paced style of modern shows such as Casualty.
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NewsITV to bring Gervais' Flanimals to TV
ITV is to bring to life Ricky Gervais' best selling book Flanimalsfor a new series which will be narrated and written by the comic.
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Format focus: Master of Champions
Major US network ABC has given a new lease of life to a extreme Japanese talent format
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NewsITV scores UEFA Cup rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the UEFA Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth over£20m.
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NewsBBC's website proves to be World Cup favourite
World Cup coverage on the BBC's website has seen it take a 58% share of traffic to sports and gambling websites during the tournament, according to figures from internet research group Nielsen/NetRatings.
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NewsBBC & ITV divvy up World Cup quarter-final matches
ITV and the BBC have agreed the split of games for the quarter finals of the World Cup, excluding the England match which had already been bagged by BBC1 in a prior arrangement.
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NewsBBC goes behind bars with prison special
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of Britain's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha.
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Electric Sky tops up for Sunnyside
Brighton-based distributor Electric Sky has bagged a number of new factual titles in time for this week's Sunnyside of the Doc programme market in La Rochelle.
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NewsMobile deal for Baby Cow world cup song
A teaser of Baby Cow's new animation Fulking Hillwill appear on mobiles ahead of a TV commission, following a deal brokered with Phones International Group by Target Entertainment.
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NewsGranada America to make paranormal show for Discovery
Granada America has picked up a commission from Discovery Channel in the US for a new paranormal reality series which attempts to solve murder cases with the help of psychic sleuths.
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NewsBBC Buckingham Palace joke backfires
The BBC received over 100 complaints last night following a spoof newsflash which claimed a 'major incident' had occurred at Buckingham Palace.
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NewsFuturama to make TV comeback
Cult Channel 4 animated comedy Futurama is to be brought back from the dead, three years after the series from TheSimpsonscreator Matt Groening was axed.
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NewsPiers Morgan makes strong US debut
Piers Morgan is on track to repeat the American success of Simon Cowell, as the new talent show he judges on debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC.