All Hat Trick Productions articles – Page 13
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ITV boosts police line-up with crime novel drama
ITV is to bolster its slate of new detectives by turning Sophie Hannah’s crime novel The Point Of Rescue into a two-part drama, featuring a male and female investigative double act.
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Indies pilot Old Harry’s Game for Sky
Hat Trick and Waddell Media have teamed up to develop an animated version of long-running Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry’s Game for Sky 1.
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Mulville: ITV bosses should give talent space
EDINBURGH: Hat Trick boss Jimmy Mulville has questioned whether new ITV chiefs Adam Crozier and Archie Norman can turnaround the fortunes of the commercial broadcaster, warning that they’re “not simply dealing with tins of beans”.
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Hat Trick adapts Victorian crime story for ITV
Paddy Considine is to star in an ITV adaptation of award-winning period crime book The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher.
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The truth is there are no certainties in this industry
As the fate of Thames shows, the future of TV is impossible to predict, says Jimmy Mulville.
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Funny Or Die cuts UK ties
Funny or Die UK, the comedy website backed by Hat Trick Productions, is to close after 18 months.
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ITV1 spices up daytime with cookery shows
ITV1 is to serve up a trio of cookery shows to bolster its daytime schedule.
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The Bubble set for two more territories
Israeli panel show format The Bubble, which began its UK run last week, is to be remade in Sweden and the Netherlands.
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New Pact chair Manners braced for tough talks
Debbie Manners is to take over as chair of Pact - and is bracing herself for a year dominated by negotiations over digital terms of trade and pressure on indies as commissioning lags set in.
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Mulville hails new chapter for Hat Trick
Hat Trick managing director Jimmy Mulville has heralded the start of a new era for the “unencumbered” indie as it returns to full shareholder ownership following a three-year battle over its financing.
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Hat Trick completes MBO
Hat Trick has wrestled back full ownership of the company after buying back the 45% stake held by finance group August Equity for the past six years.
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GameLab scores Bafta hat trick
The indie behind the BBC learning disability web drama Us5 has scored a hat trick of nominations for the 2009 British Academy Children’s Awards.
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Hat Trick brings Israeli panel format to BBC2
MIPCOM: Hat Trick Productions is adapting Israeli news panel show format The Bubble for BBC2.
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Hat Trick to produce US TV satire for BBC2
Hat Trick Productions is making a BBC2 sitcom starring Friends actor Matt LeBlanc that satirises the trend for US remakes of British comedy shows.
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Armstrong to front BBC1 satire pilot
Armstrong and Miller’s subsidiary Toff Media is piloting a companion show to Have I Got News For You that will cast a satirical eye on the week ahead.
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BBC vetoes Armstrong and Miller's 'gipsy' joke
BROADCAST TV COMEDY FORUM: Armstrong and Miller have agreed to cut the word ‘gipsy’ from a sketch in their forthcoming series after “debate” with BBC executives.
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ITV1 goes for Hat Trick’s Dinner Date
Hat Trick Productions is moving away from its comedy roots with a dating-meets-cookery show pilot for ITV1.
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Mulville and Fry savage TV’s compliance culture
Jimmy Mulville and Stephen Fry launched an angry Edinburgh tirade against the box-ticking culture of TV compliance, sparking relief among execs who welcomed the “bullet-proof ” talent’s decision to say “what everyone else is thinking”.
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Krod Mandoon facing uncertain future
The BBC has retracted claims by senior staff that it has axed Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire because of funding issues.
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BBC2 green lights Alan Davies chef comedy
BBC2 has greenlit Whites, the kitchen comedy co-written by Peep Show star Matt King and featuring Alan Davies as a lacklustre celebrity chef.