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NewsLion hires BBC development exec
Emma Lorenz, the BBC head of channel development behind BBC3’s Life and Death Row and forthcoming BBC1 doc The Met, is to join Lion Television as director of development.
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NewsMaverick boss: get talent to use Twitter
Getting talent to tweet about their programming can help significantly boost VoD views but does not provide a silver bullet for ratings success, according to Maverick Television digital boss Dan Jones.
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NewsShine Now VoD launches on Roku set-top boxes
Shine Group wants to give more international consumers direct access to its content on a variety of digital platforms after launching VoD service Shine Now.
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NewsTalkback unveils fresh senior management team
Talkback has assembled a new-look senior management team after naming Leon Wilson as its permanent managing director.
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NewsShine launches Roku channel
Shine has launched a VoD channel on streaming service Roku that offers access to shows including Educating Essex and Got To Dance.
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NewsRichard III reinterment to air live on C4
Channel 4 is to broadcast the reburial of Richard III live from Leicester Cathedral after the former King’s descendants lost a High Court battle to have him laid to rest in York.
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NewsC4 heads back to The Island
Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of survival show The Island with Bear Grylls, although it is yet to decide if it will return as an all-male format.
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NewsNorth One & Maverick to share Farringdon offices
All3Media stablemates North One Television and Maverick Television are preparing to move into shared offices in Farringdon.
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NewsThe Voice hunts digital exec
Shed Media is hunting for a digital executive producer for BBC1’s The Voice UK following the online success of the previous series.
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NewsCelebrity Juice producer wins first commission for new indie
Celebrity Juice producer Dan Baldwin has won his first commission for Hungry Bear Media - a viral content panel show for E4.
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NewsC4 sets up commercial development team
Channel 4 is creating a new commercial development team headed up by Channel 5 exec Emma Derrick.
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NewsJay Hunt: The Island is not sexist
Jay Hunt has hit back at claims that male-only survival show The Island with Bear Grylls is “inherently sexist”.
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NewsITV orders 1930s Borstal series
Wall To Wall Television is to throw young offenders into a 1930s Borstal-style regime for ITV.
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NewsDiscovery & Liberty buy All3Media
A round-up of Broadcast’s coverage of Discovery and Liberty Global’s £550m acquisition of All3Media.
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NewsDiscovery eyes All3Media pipeline
Discovery’s ground-breaking deal to buy All3Media will give it a massive pipeline of content to exploit via second runs on its channels around the world.
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NewsDiscovery & Liberty Global agree deal to buy All3Media
Discovery and Liberty Global have agreed a £550m-plus deal to acquire super-indie All3Media.
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NewsNat Geo orders World War II docs for global slate
National Geographic Channels International has commissioned two big-budget World War II documentaries as part of its latest slate of global programming.
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NewsZodiak hires formats chief
Zodiak Media has hired former Endemol exec Grant Ross as its new formats chief.
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NewsLifetime to remake Child Genius in US
US cable network Lifetime is to remake Channel 4’s Shed Media-produced documentary series Child Genius.
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NewsChannel 5: the industry reacts
TV industry executives anticipate Channel 5 will benefit from extra commissioning spend and a clearer structure following its acquisition by Viacom.