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Format focus: Eat Yourself Whole
After a glut of fat-fighting shows comes a programme which looks at alleviating medical conditions through diet.
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Zeal nets reality deal in Pakistan
Indie and distributor Zeal Television is making Pakistan's first reality series - a makeover show funded by cosmetics giant Unilever.
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BIG hires Akhtar for factual commissions
Bristol indies Available Light, Icon Films, Quickfire Media and Testimony Films have stepped up their collaborative efforts by appointing a development producer to bid for large-scale commissions.
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Phillis joins ITV plc board
ITV plc has appointed the chief executive of Guardian Media Group Bob Phillis as non-executive director.
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Marsh picked for Celeb Poker
Sports pundit Rodney Marsh, fired last month for making a joke about the tsunami disaster on Sky Sports, has been signed up to appear on Challenge's third series of Celebrity Poker Club.
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Blair to face public grilling on Five
Five has gained exclusive access to prime minister Tony Blair as part of a series of programmes in which senior political figures face questions from the public. Talk to Your Prime Ministerwill be the first in the series, which will begin this month and be produced ...
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Broadcast and skillset aid TV workers
Broadcastand Skillset are launching a scheme to help TV professionals improve their chances of getting a job. The Win A Mentor initiative will see two people receive guidance from an experienced tutor. Anyone working in TV looking to change career direction or new entrants to the industry should go to ...
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Patscheck steps in at sci-fi channel
Universal Studios has parachuted in Steven Patscheck, vice-president of programming, Universal Latin America and Brazil, to run the UK Sci-Fi channel until a new president has been hired. He takes over from Dan Marks, who left on Friday for BT. Patscheck will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the ...
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C4 and IWC join up to help new TV talent
Channel 4 and IWC Media is asking writers and directors to submit ideas for their new talent scheme, Coming Up. Eight ideas, which should be contemporary and aimed at a young, urban audience, will be made into 30-minute films and will broadcast on C4 later in the year. Writers should ...
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Target wins ITV daytime order
TARGET Entertainment's recently launched production arm has won its first terrestrial commission for a 25 x 30-minute daytime quiz on ITV.
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Octagon poaches In Colour? producer for factual push
Sports marketing firm Octagon CSI is pushing into factual and entertainment programming and has appointed the producer behind ITV's successful In Colour?strand to oversee the move.
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Plantin to exit September
September Films chief executive Marcus Plantin is to step down at the end of the year.
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New chief for Granada ent in Manchester
Granada producer Rachel Ashdown, the programme-maker behind ITV1's new entertainment show Celebrity Wrestling, is to replace Heather Coogan as head of entertainment in Manchester.
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Auschwitz documentary sold to Germany
BBC Worldwide has sold its landmark series on Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz to nearly 12 countries, including Germany. Public broadcaster NDR has bought 'Auschwitz: The Nazis'and 'The Final Solution'
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S4C in£1m hand-out
Welsh-language channel S4C has earmarked£1m in development finance for the indie sector over the next two years. The scheme will see Welsh indies compete for a share of the cash, which will be allocated to new drama, formats or inter-active projects. The invitation to tender will be published on the ...
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Pop Factory hiring
Welsh indie The Pop Factory has appointed former Zeal Music head of production Dewi Evans as commercial director. Evans, who worked on music series The Pepsi Chartand the international roll-out of CD:UK, has been charged with driving the Pop Factory brand into the global marketplace and ...
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Red Hot under fire
Freeview lawyers have issued a warning to adult service Red Hot over the channel's use of the Freeview trademark. The Richard Desmond-owned channel began broadcasting last week on channel 61 of the DTT platform on a pay-per-view basis. However, as Red Hot is renting the space from Top-Up TV, the ...
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Smooth to roll out
Guardian Media Group Radio is to launch its Smooth FM station nationwide on the Sky Digital platform. The station, which currently airs a mix of soul and R'n'B music in the north-west, will begin broadcasting across the country on channel 878 from 14 February. It rebranded as Smooth last year ...
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Rugby wins 8.9m
BBC1's coverage of the Six Nations rugby union clash between Wales and England on Sunday (6 February) was watched by an average of 6.7 million viewers (33%). Six Nations Grandstand, which ran from 5.15pm to 7.20pm, peaked at 7.10pm with 8.9 million (40%). The event beat ...
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Celador to woo over-50s for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Celador Productions to make 40 episodes of a nostalgia-based quiz show as part of a strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime line-up.