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C4I hires Fleisher to head business affairs
Channel 4 International has hired a director of business affairs to handle its commercial and legal operations. Michael Fleisher reports to managing director Bernard Macleod.Fleisher was previously a consultant to
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Channel 4 seeks deaf programming adviser
Consultant sought as Saturday morning deaf series axed
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NewsOutright secures Russian deals
Outright Distribution, formerly Screentime Partners, has licensed Lion Television's gameshow format Cash Cabto the TNT network for a further five years.
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Clerkenwell Films hires STE development executive
Fried to spearhead drama and feature film output drive
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BBC pledges loyalty to indies despite reshuffle
In one of his first policy statements this week, new BBC director of television Mark Thompson pledged that indies would not be frozen out of the BBC, despite plans to scrap
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Curse of Diana's dresses appeals to US
Minotaur has secured significant sales in the US and Canada for a controversial Living TV documentary about Princess Diana's dresses.
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Lygo scoops new role at E4
Channel 4 head of entertainment and music Kevin Lygo and deputy commissioning editor, entertainment Andrew Newman, have landed the top programming jobs at E4, C4's planned digital entertainment channel.Lygo will become
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C4 pours£250 million into education
Channel 4 this week announced plans to spend£250 million on educational programmes and online projects over the next five years, writes Ashley Davies.
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GMGR hires Simons for radio push
Guardian Media Group Radio (GMGR) managing director John Myers has drafted in ex-LNR programme director John Simons to become his director of radio, writes Colin Robertson.
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NewsC4I sells Taliban and Iraqi films
Distributor Channel 4 International has sold a trio of hard-hitting documentaries about Iraqi death squads and Taliban fighters to networks in Belgium, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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FREEFORM LOOKS BACK TO GENEALOGY FOR C4 COMMISSION
Freeform Productions is making a 3 x 60-minute series about genealogy for Channel 4. Extraordinary Ancestors was greenlit by C4 commissioning editor, multicultural Yasmin Anwar and is expected to go out
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TOYOTA SIGNS SUNSET + VINE FOR FURTHER WILDLIFE SERIES
Sports indie Sunset + Vine has been commissioned by motor giant Toyota to make two more 26 x 30-minute series of Toyota World of Wildlife. The wildlife show is distributed by
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SKY MAKES A DATE WITH TALENT TV FOR MORE OF THE VILLA
Sky One has recommissioned dating gameshow The Villa from Talent Television. Ordered by Sky One director of programming Jamie Roberts, the second run of the series will have an extended run
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Comment - Can TV unite the UK?
Can the BBC continue to bring British viewers together, asks Stuart Cosgrove
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ADAM AND JOE ASKED TO GROW UP FOR FOURTH SERIES
World of Wonder Productions has started work on a fourth series of The Adam and Joe Show for Channel 4. The new run of the show was ordered by C4 deputy
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HEWLAND PICKS UP FURTHER EPISODE ORDER FROM ITV
ITV controller of night time Carol Groves has ordered further 26 x 30-minute series of both Dial A Date and Young, Gifted & Broke from Hewland International. Audience participation dating show