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NewsC4 plans musical Gay Wedding doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a one-off musical to coincide with the legalisation of same sex marriage.
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NewsVice launches online news channel
Youth-skewing brand Vice has launched an online news channel that will have 35 foreign bureaus and over 4,000 contributors.
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NewsBBC3 threat: the industry responds
Fears for the future of BBC3 have sparked a Twitter campaign to save the channel.
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NewsBBC eyes online-only future for BBC3
The BBC is drawing up plans to turn BBC3 into an online-only channel, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsBBC dominates RTS nominations
The BBC was nominated for 29 awards in 20 categories at the Royal Television Society Programme awards.
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NewsC4 names indie investment fund boss
Channel 4 has hired Nutopia co-founder Laura Franses to head up its £20m indie investment fund.
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NewsOfcom warned over apps 'loophole'
Ofcom has been warned about a “potential loophole” in its regulation of second-screen content as part of a report it commissioned into the burgeoning sector.
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NewsBroadcast Breakfast with BBC4's Cassian Harrison
There are just a few seats remaining at this week’s Broadcast Business Breakfast where BBC4 boss Cassian Harrison will share his plans for the station.
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NewsSky Arts raises curtain on Playhouse Presents
Sky Arts has ordered its third run of Playhouse Presents comedies and dramas starring talent including Matthew Perry, Cara Delevingne and Ben Whishaw.
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NewsProduction accounting guide launched
Industry collective the Production Accounting Forum has released an online guide to production accounting.
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NewsDiscovery snaps up Raw
Discovery Communications has struck a deal to buy Gold Rush producer Raw TV.
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NewsCompany & Element secure TV3 soap
Irish broadcaster TV3 has struck a deal with Shameless indie Company Pictures and Quirke-producer Element Pictures to produce a long-running local soap.
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NewsBBC2 plans Stoke City kit-man biopic
Pete Bowker has penned a one-off BBC2 drama about a former Stoke City kit man, which will star Toby Jones and be directed by Entourage’s Julian Farino.
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NewsRadio 1 digital producers exit for social start-up
BBC Radio 1 digital execs Alistair Parrington and Laura-May Coope are leaving the station to launch social media agency, Social Life.
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NewsBBC3 doc ‘infringed’ privacy of nurse
BBC3 has been rapped for failing to disguise the identity of nurse in a Cherry Healey-fronted documentary examining the health conditions associated with excessive drinking.
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NewsBBC launches three apprenticeships
The BBC has launched three apprenticeship schemes as the corporation bids to better reflect the makeup of modern Britain.
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NewsBBC bids on Antiques Road Trip bulk order
STV Productions has been commissioned to make a further four series of Antiques Road Trip for BBC1 and a fourth series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip for BBC2.
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NewsJulia Bradbury preps ITV show
Julia Bradbury has quit BBC1’s Countryfile and is preparing to host an ITV series about Britain’s landscape.
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NewsC4 orders floods doc
C4 has ordered a fast-turnaround doc from Pioneer Productions about the UK’s recent floods.
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NewsC5 orders three crime docs
Channel 5 has commissioned three crime docs from Twofour, Title Role and Crackit Productions.