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BBC's Allen joins ISD
Multichannel broadcaster Ideal Shopping Direct has hired former BBC executive Marc Allen to “inject industry credibility” into its four retail channels.
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NewsBennett axes BBC3 comedies
BBC3 controller Zai Bennett has canned a trio of the channel’s comedies as one of his first moves in the job.
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NewsBBC scraps multiplatform commissioners
The BBC is scrapping the role of multiplatform commissioners and cutting ten more jobs from BBC Vision as part of its restructure of BBC online.
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NewsBBC caught in six-day week row
Bectu and Directors UK are fighting an “unmistakable” increase in “exploitative” six-day-week freelance contracts being issued by BBC Vision Productions.
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NewsBig name drama set for BBC1
William Boyd and Sally Wainwright are both writing 9pm BBC1 dramas as part of a 25-hour slate designed to “challenge what popular mainstream drama is on the channel”.
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NewsBennett sets out BBC3 stall
A new Sharon Horgan comedy, a British Hurt Locker “but with laughs”, and a season tackling unemployment are among the first commissions by new BBC3 controller Zai Bennett.
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NewsUKTV weighs options as four execs move on
UKTV is reassessing its top-level structure following the departure of four high-profile executives in three months.
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NewsBBC4 budget at risk as DQF reaches next stage
BBC4’s £55m commissioning budget faces a major squeeze, with the channel running more repeats and less original content, as part of the latest proposals to emerge from the BBC’s Delivering Quality First initiative.
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NewsMixed Syco fortunes for Fountain Studios
Fountain Studios has lost the final of The X Factor to an arena but is set to secure a deal to host ITV1’s million-pound roulette gameshow Red Or Black?.
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NewsBBC Wales’ Wenger to join Film 4 team
One of the execs behind the latest incarnation of Doctor Who and the resurrection of Upstairs Downstairs has been poached by Channel 4’s movie division Film 4.
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NewsMTV orders Firecracker pilot on troubled teens
Firecracker Films is to build on the success of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings by producing an ob doc pilot about troubled teens and their mothers for MTV.
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NewsC4 to delve deeper into life for BFGW follow-up
Channel 4’s record-breaking Big Fat Gypsy Weddings will return early next year to delve deeper into issues facing the travelling and gypsy communities.
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NewsJamie to explore British food origins for C4
Jamie Oliver’s latest series for Channel 4 will see the chef travel the UK exploring the origins of traditional British food.
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NewsMartin takes Mediterranean trip for Good Food
UKTV cooking channel Good Food has ordered a Mediterranean-themed series from Splash Media fronted by Yorkshire chef James Martin.
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NewsNavelgazing TV to produce spoof sketches for Dave
Dave’s first sketch show commission will be made by the indie behind hit online comedy Toyboize.
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NewsApple offers Prokit fix
Apple has released Prokit 7.0 to fix problems in software including Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro and Motion.
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NewsChannel 5 books Silent Library
Channel 5 has commissioned a remake of a Japanese gameshow in which contestants must keep quiet while enduring ‘punishments’.
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NewsBBC 'concerned' about NAO audit
The BBC is “concerned about giving away something and not being able to get it back” if it allows the National Audit Office (NAO) access to its books, the Auditor General has said.
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NewsJeff Stelling quits Countdown
Countdown presenter Jeff Stelling is to leave the Channel 4 show after less than three years.
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NewsDavid Walliams to host Sky panel show
Comedian David Walliams is to front a new panel show for Sky1 made by CPL Productions, the indie behind A League of Their Own.