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NewsBBC serves up Saturday Kitchen tender
The BBC is tendering long-running weekend cooking format Saturday Kitchen – a £5m deal unconnected to the scrapping of in-house guarantees.
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NewsJeff Pope pens Rhys Jones murder drama
Jeff Pope is to explore the aftermath of the tragic killing of 11-year old schoolboy Rhys Jones in a four-part factual drama for ITV.
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NewsThe Crown creator predicts bigger drama budgets
The Crown creator Peter Morgan believes the convergence of TV and film is set to accelerate and has predicted that drama series’ budgets could swell to many hundreds of millions of pounds.
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NewsBlakeway hires new MD
Zinc Media-owned indie Blakeway has appointed producer Lucy van Beek as managing director.
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NewsSister Pictures hires Humans exec
Humans producer Chris Fry has joined his old boss Jane Featherstone as an executive producer at Sister Pictures.
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NewsNat Geo opens doors to UK producers
US cable network National Geographic is looking for British producers to follow up its big-budget Mars mission and is already in development with a major UK-originated unscripted project.
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NewsViceland US courts indies
Viceland in the US is opening its doors to independent producers for the first time as it eyes a move into formats.
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NewsVice plots global expansion
Vice is set to close almost a dozen global distribution deals for linear channel Viceland in the next 12 months and expects to strike agreements with Sky’s pay-TV rivals in the UK.
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NewsBBC and ITVS changes hit Northern drama
Drama in the north came under the spotlight this week, with ITV Studios disbanding its northern drama hub and BBC head of drama for the north Hilary Martin moving to the indie sector.
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NewsBBCW & Cohen eye £50m drama deal
BBC Worldwide is closing in on an estimated £50m funding deal with Danny Cohen’s Access Entertainment to supercharge its drama pipeline.
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NewsDoc duo launch indie to ‘blur lines’ with drama
The award-winning directors of The Murder Detectives and My Son The Jihadi have joined forces to launch a production business that aims to blur the lines between drama and documentary, and have already picked up two commissions from Channel 4.
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NewsAMC boards C4 drama Loaded
Walking Dead broadcaster AMC has boarded Keshet UK and Hillbilly Television’s Entourage-style comedy drama Loaded for Channel 4.
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NewsBBC unveils £12m Songs of Praise tender
Retaining loyal BBC1 audiences should be a key aim of indies hoping to land a £12m contract to produce Songs of Praise, according to the BBC’s tender document.
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NewsEleventh Hour teams with Luti
New Blood indie Eleventh Hour Films has teamed up with Luti Media to develop a slate of dramas.
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NewsStudio Lambert eyes entertainment
Studio Lambert is moving into shiny floor entertainment for the first time with the launch of a label run by a former series producer of The X Factor and Celebrity Big Brother.
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NewsITV plans Late Late-style show dry run
ITV is setting up a two-week dry run of its multi-million pound late-night stripped comedy show.
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NewsKing's Speech indie preps horror format
King’s Speech indie Bedlam Productions is developing and co-producing a southeast Asia-set horror anthology series to be presented to buyers for pre-sale at next month’s American Film Market.
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NewsWellcome bursary opened up to TV
The recipient of a £30,000 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship bursary is to be unveiled at a 23 November event.
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NewsFraser hunts public films for Yaddo
SVoD documentaries service Yaddo is to commission 125 documentaries from members of the public over the next 12 months.
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NewsAll3Media forges Lynda La Plante ties
Lynda La Plante is set to start developing projects with All3Media after the super-indie picked up the rights to 124 hours of the writer’s crime drama catalogue.