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MipTV 09: Factual: Buyers: Marijke Huijbregts
Commissioning editor, AVRO Close Up, the Netherlands
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MipTV 09: Factual: Buyers: Ken MacDonald
Vice-President, Programming, Discovery Channel, Canada
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MipTV 09: Factual: Buyers: David Weiland
Senior vice-president, programming, BBC Worldwide Channels
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Ratings
The Apprentice returns with 8.1m
Interest in BBC1's hit show The Apprentice shows no signs of flagging yet as the fifth series got off to a cracking start with a massive 8.1m viewers (33.3% share) last night at 9pm.
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MipTV 2009: The Guide
As broadcasters, distributors and producers flock from around the world to MipTV in Cannes, Broadcast tips the Hot Picks for this year's market, reveals what factual buyers are looking to acquire and examines several key territories including the US.
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Heathcliff and Hannay go down under with ABC
ABC Television in Australia has acquired BBC1's remake of spy story The 39 Steps and ITV1's yet-to-air Wuthering Heights from ITV Global Entertainment.
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ShineReveille picks up FX UK's debut No Signal
ShineReveille International has secured the sole international distribution rights to FX UK's first homegrown show No Signal.
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Bazalgette to chair SPT UK
Former Endemol chief creative director, Peter Bazalgette, has become non-executive chairman of Sony Pictures Television's UK production business.
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Casualty moving to Cardiff
The BBC has confirmed that Casualty will move to Cardiff in 2011 after more than 20 years of being produced in Bristol.
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Windfall moves into cinema
Factual indie Windfall Films has moved into theatrical productions with the release of its feature-length documentary Sons of Cuba.
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BBC names radio comedy boss
The BBC has named Bafta-winning comedy producer Jane Berthoud as its new head of radio comedy.
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DCMS to examine BBC/ITV news-sharing plans
The BBC's plans to share news footage with ITV will come under scrutiny in a new select committee enquiry.
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Sky Arts acquires archive film interviews
A series of interviews and documentaries with some of film's biggest names including Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers and Marlon Brando have been acquired by Sky Arts.
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Bertelsmann reassures Five staff
Bertelsmann has moved to reassure Five staff after revealing earlier this week that the UK broadcaster could not survive unless it joined forces with another company.
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Branagh bags first UK TV award
Kenneth Branagh will today pick up his first UK TV award when he receives a Broadcasting Press Guild prize for his BBC1 crime drama Wallander.
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F1 goes interactive
Formula 1 fans watching the BBC's coverage online will be able to choose which cameras to follow during races and to explore virtual 3D versions of every circuit in the championship.
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The Mentalist wows 3.6m for Five
Five outperformed ITV1 at 9pm last night as US acquisition The Mentalist began with a startling 3.6m viewers (16.3% share).