All articles by Jessica Rogers – Page 9
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NewsDisney joins Sky’s Picnic
Disney Channel is the first third-party brand to agree carriage on BSkyB’s controversial proposed digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, Picnic.
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NewsAll3 goes global with the Underdog Show
BBC format The Underdog Show is to be remade in seven territories around the world following a series of deals struck by All3Media International.
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NewsScandinavia sales for C4I factual slate
Distributor Channel 4 International has sold a raft of factual and comedy shows to broadcasters in Scandinavia.
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NewsWarner Bros to launch UK channel
US studio Warner Bros has partnered with Virgin Media and BT Vision to launch a new entertainment channel devoted exclusively to the studio’s content.
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NewsUS version of Little Britain postponed
Production on the US version of hit comedy sketch show Little Britain has been put on hold because of the American writers’ strike.
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NewsShaps hails new era in ITV drama
ITV director of television Simon Shaps has announced a new era in the broadcaster’s relationship with drama producers as it continues its drive to modernise its output in the genre.
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NewsITV signs up MPW
ITV has signed celebrity chef Marco Pierre White in a golden handcuffs deal which will see him working exclusively for the broadcaster until 2010.
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NewsBBC3 comedy gets US greenlight
Comedy indie Brown Eyed Boy has secured an order for a full series of BBC3 pilot How Not to Live Your Life and has been given the greenlight to produce a US pilot of the show.
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NewsFive invites viewers to judge Spice Girls
Five will attempt to gauge the public’s reaction to the Spice Girls’s reunion in a one-off documentary from Twofour, The Spice Girls on Trial.
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NewsEndemol US seals indie deal
Endemol will move into feature films after its US subsidiary bought a majority stake in US indie Original Media.
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NewsFox Italy picks up 150 hours of C4I shows
C4I has sold more than 150 hours of programming to Fox Italy.
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NewsBelgium buys Trinny and Susannah format
Belgian broadcasters are hunting for their very own Trinny and Susannah after optioning the format to the pair’s latest show from Granada International.
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NewsRDF inks first-look drama deals
RDF Rights (RDFR) has boosted its drama catalogue by signing first-look deals with a trio of drama indies.
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NewsBBC1’s Damages gets new run
FX has handed a two-season order to BBC1 acquisition Damages, ending weeks of uncertainty over the show’s future.
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NewsBlue Peter in another TV fakery claim
Blue Peter is the subject of yet another TV fakery scandal after it emerged that producers drafted in child actors to pose as competition winners.
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NewsCBeebies to move
BBC children’s channel CBeebies is to be moved out of BBC Television Centre in a move set to save the corporation around£500,000 a year.
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NewsHadlow rules herself out of BBC1 chief job
BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow, one of the favourites for the BBC1 controller job, has ruled herself out of the running.
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NewsPilkington to leave Eyeworks
Eyeworks Distribution’s managing director Yvonne Pilkington is to leave the company at the end of the year.
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NewsFive’s Hidden Lives to end?
The future of Five’s successful shock doc strand Hidden Lives is uncertain, with indies believing the next series could be its last.
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NewsFive pulls plug on scripted comedy
Five will not develop or commission any more scripted comedy shows for at least the next 12 months and will instead concentrate on light entertainment and comedy panel shows.