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Know Comment wins BBC contract
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of the four 2004 political party conferences in Scotland. It marks the first time conference coverage has been contracted out to the indie sector by BBC Scotland. The company will work with Bowtie Television, which ...
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case
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C4I does brisk business with Australia
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a package deal with Channel 4 International. ABC has also bought Lion Television's two-part documentary Island of the Minotaur , RDF Media's Carthage, The ...
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American Idol 3 set for global airing
American Idol 3 , the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol , is to be screened on a string of channels around the world including ITV2. The latest series of the show, produced by 19TV and Fremantle ...
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Action time does format deals in Europe
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow All Together Now , created by Keshet Formats, has been picked for an additional 18 episodes by Star Channel in Greece and a second series on Show TV in ...
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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Clocking Off writer pens BBC cop show
Clocking off writer Bill Gallagher is penning a cop series for BBC1 and BBC3.
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£8m BBC2 arts show
BBC2 controller Jane Root this week confirmed a£8m investment in arts programming including a new 60-minute weekly arts journalism series, The Culture Show , which she billed as the channel's biggest new cultural programme for 10 years. The show will feature arts coverage from around ...
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Sky One co-pro deal
Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel in the US have joined forces to make a 13 x 60-minute series of the 1980s sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica. Filming is due to start next month in Vancouver with David Eick as executive producer. The show expected ...
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ITV gains terrestrial rights to Ali G films
ITV has snapped up the terrestrial premiere rights to Ali G in da House , the cinematic debut of Sacha Baron Cohen's comic creation, despite the fact that the character was developed by Channel 4. The acquisition is part of an output deal with Working ...
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Newsnight special looks at Iraq war
Jeremy Paxman is to front a 90-minute primetime Newsnight special on the reasons why Britain went to war in Iraq. Prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to appear on the programme, which will mark the first anniversary of the war. It will look at ...
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NewsFive's£5m reality gamble
Five this week unveiled details of its much-vaunted£4.7m entertainment show Back to Reality - the channel's most expensive commission to date.
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NewsBBC reorders State of Play
State of Play , BBC1's award-winning conspiracy thriller, has been commissioned for a second series.
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C4 cooks up Ramsay show
Outspoken Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay is to give advice to struggling restaurants in a new series for Channel 4.
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NewsNew Asian magazine for BBC2
The BBC's Asian programme unit (APU) is to launch the first new Asian arts, entertainment and culture flagship show since Network East in 1987.
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NewsFloella charts Caribbean immigrants
Former Playschool presenter Floella Benjamin has made a short series for Channel 4 looking at the stories of first generation Caribbean immigrants to Britain.
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C4 helps indies break America
Eleven independent production companies from outside London are to receive a crash course in breaking the US market as part of a new initiative from Channel 4 and producers' alliance Pact, writes Glen Mutel.
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CD-UK invades Germany
Blaze Television's ITV1 music show CD:UK is to be adapted for Germany where it will go head-to-head with BBC rival Top of the Pops , writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 jettisons my new best friend
Tiger Aspect's award-winning comedy My New Best Friend has become the victim of its own success after Channel 4 deemed chief protagonist Marc Wootton too recognisable to front another series. The