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NewsCecilia Beacon to leave Fox UK
Cecilia Beacon, director of broadcasting and marketing at Fox UK, is leaving the pay-TV broadcaster after 12 years.
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NewsBBC factual commissioning team: family tree
Click to view the BBC’s new-look factual commissioning team structure.
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NewsDrifters writer: BBC3 online move ‘robbing’ new generation of talent
The decision to move BBC3 online is “robbing an audience and new generation of talent of a creative outlet” according to the writer of comedy Drifters.
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NewsAmazon heads Back To The Present
Amazon has acquired a Back To The Future-themed documentary after striking a deal with Vivendi-owned distributor Can’t Stop Media and Studiocanal.
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NewsNetflix prepares to tackle Vice News
Netflix is preparing to push into offering youth-skewing news and current affairs programming, putting the subscription service on a collision course with Vice News.
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NewsGlobal ambition for Mr Robot
Sam Esmail, creator of the US hacking drama opens up about the Amazon deal for one of cable’s hottest shows
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NewsBigballs eyes US and Asia with £7m investment
Digital producer Bigballs Media (BBM) is to expand further into the US and enter the Asian market after securing £7m of investment from Liberty Global and VC firm e.ventures.
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NewsBritish Gas funds second C4 Short
Phil Spencer is to front Channel 4’s latest advertiser-funded short – a six-part property format funded by British Gas.
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NewsWatch sends The Call Centre boss to India
Liberty Bell is sending the star of The Call Centre to India for Watch, months after it hired the exec producer of the BBC3 show.
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NewsSupergirl heads to Sky 1
Supergirl is to land on Sky 1 after the channel swooped for the rights to the Warner Bros-distributed drama.
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NewsStudioCanal backs Inbetweeners indie
StudioCanal has launched a production company led by a team including The Inbetweeners’ Spencer Millman and Simon Bird and overseen by Red Production Company founder Nicola Shindler.
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NewsDerren Brown unveils Vaudeville Prods
Derren Brown has unveiled a production company to take creative control of his future TV projects.
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NewsChannel 5 cooks up weekend format to rival Saturday Kitchen
Channel 5 is to go head-to-head with BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with a two-hour live magazine show for Saturday mornings.
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NewsBBC on brink of The Voice recommission
The Voice UK is on the brink of being recommissioned for BBC1.
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NewsKim Longinotto to receive Grierson award
The Grierson Trust has named filmmaker Kim Longinotto as the recipient of the BBC Trustees’ Award.
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NewsOfcom raps Comedy Central for trailer watershed blunder
Comedy Central has been rapped by Ofcom after broadcasting risqué trailers before the watershed over several months.
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NewsC4 eyes Richard Osman nostalgia quiz
Richard Osman is to front a Channel 4 quiz show pilot that tests star guests’ knowledge of 1980s and 90s pop culture.
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NewsClarkson & co begin filming Amazon show
Jeremy Clarkson and his former Top Gear colleagues have begun filming their new series for Amazon, kicking off with a race between three of the world’s fastest supercars in Portugal.
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NewsPeople Just Do Nothing wins double order
BBC3 has ordered another two 6x30-minute series of Roughcut Television’s pirate radio mockumentary People Just Do Nothing.
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NewsEastEnders hires first transgender actor
EastEnders has become the first UK soap to cast a transgender actor in a continuing role with the hire of 21-year-old Riley Carter Millington.