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C4 set to trace contemporary jazz path
Somethin' Else is to travel throughout the US and Europe for a Channel 4 documentary on contemporary jazz. The 90-minute documentary, It's a Jazz Thing , will be broadcast in November. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis will present the programme and talk to leading figures in jazz ...
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Granada wild to revisit predator series
Bristol-based Granada Wild has been commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to make four more instalments for the Built for the Kill series. Subjects to be covered in the 4 x 60-minute series are cats, snakes, sharks and raptors. Andrew Buchanan will executive produce and ...
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Wise Buddah secures music commissions
Wise Buddah has picked up a hat trick of commissions from BBC Radio 2. Time Team star Tony Robinson will front Tony Robinson's Classical Feast. Former Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq will examine the state of the UK music ...
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BBC to feature entrepreneurs
The BBC is to launch its own business entertainment format featuring wannabe entrepreneurs.
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NewsC4 wins bidding war for Richard & Judy
Channel 4 has re-signed daytime favourites Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for another three years, despite renewed interest from their old bosses at ITV.
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Animals explore sex for C4
Channel 4 is to air an ambitious three-part musical that aims to tell the story of the evolution
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Grammer pilot lures Fox
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is hoping to follow up the success of his long-running series with a British-made comedy for Fox.
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Boxers fight for Five TV fame
Young boxers struggling to gain recognition are to be put under the spotlight for a new Five show in the mould of Jamie's Kitchen.
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NewsNBC orders US version of The Office
NBC has ordered six episodes of a US version of Ricky Gervais's award-winning sitcom The Office , despite the pilot show being panned by critics.
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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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Tarrant leaves Capital FM on a high
Veteran breakfast DJ Chris Tarrant left 95.8 Capital FM in good shape but has put pressure on Johnny Vaughan to perform in his place.
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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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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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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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Cowell to give richard dunn lecture
Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell is to give this year's Richard Dunn memorial interview at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Cowell, whose indie Syco (formerly Simcow) is making X Factor, a major new pop contest for ITV, will give the interview to ITV marketing director Jim Hytner. Organisers ...
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hallmark reports subscriber growth
The international arm of the American Hallmark Channel, put up for sale by owners Crown Media last month, has reported a 5% growth in subscribers. The business, which includes channels in the UK, Latin America and Asia, grew its subscriber base to 57.3 million for the three months to 31 ...
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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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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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Electric Sky provides spark for Fox Italia
UK distributor Electric Sky has secured a major deal with Fox Italia that will see it become a significant provider for the network's new channel for women, writes Michael Rosser.
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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 ...