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    Geena Davis: Commander in Chief will return

    2006-07-03T10:35:00Z

    Actress Geena Davis has revealed that axed US White House drama Commander in Chiefwill come back as a TV movie, after admitting the show had been beset by production problems.

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    Langham named best actor as UK dominates in Monte Carlo

    2006-07-03T10:30:00Z

    The UK scooped ten awards at the 46th Monte Carlo Television Festival on Saturday night, including a Golden Nymph for Bafta-winning actor Chris Langham.

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    Alleged sexual assault on Australian Big Brother

    2006-07-03T09:35:00Z

    Endemol is embroiled in another Big Brotherscandal after an alleged sexual assault took place in the Australian house, resulting in police questioning and calls from senior MPs for the controversial reality show to be axed.

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    Granada International hires head of formats

    2006-06-30T10:05:00Z

    Granada International (GI) has poached a 20th Century Fox director to head up its worldwide formats business, taking responsibility for series including Dancing on Iceand Nanny 911.

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    Turner buys Canadian toon Storm Hawks

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    Turner Broadcasting has acquired new comedy action-adventure series Storm Hawksfrom Canadian animation house Nerd Corp Entertainment. The 52 x 30-minute series is due to air next year on Cartoon Network in the UK, France and the US.

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    Southern Star bags rights to Little Devil

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    Australian company Southern Star International has taken the worldwide rights to new ITV comedy/drama Little Devil, as it looks to build a distribution relationship with the show's producer, Talkback Thames.

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    Eastern Europe snaps up BBC dramas

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has licensed over 500 hours of programming to the major broadcasters in eastern Europe, following Discop, the area's largest market for content buyers.

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    America gets Piers

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    America's Got Talent, the new talent show on which former Mirroreditor Piers Morgan is appearing as a judge, debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC last week. Made by Simon Cowell's indie, Syco, and Fremantle Media, it was the most watched ...

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    Bravo buys Blade spin-off series from Warner Bros

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    Bravo has acquired Blade: The Series, a scripted drama based on the hit movie trilogy about a warrior fighting his way through a shadowy underworld of vampires.

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    BBC Worldwide builds on LA success

    2006-06-29T08:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide is to capitalise on the success of its Los Angeles production arm by opening more overseas production offices - with an announcement on locations expected within a month. The corporation's LA office makes Dancing with the Starsfor ABC, the international format of ...

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    Interview: Jeff Ford - C4's buying power

    2006-06-29T08:00:00Z

    Jeff Ford, the man behind C4's latest acquisitions from the LA Screenings

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    ITV plans push into US syndication

    2006-06-29T08:00:00Z

    ITV is planning a push into the US syndication market as part of plans to up its profits from Granada America, the company's stateside operation.

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    Rosencrantz buys Justice for Living TV

    2006-06-29T08:00:00Z

    Living TV's new director of programmes, Claudia Rosencrantz, has drafted in her former ITV colleague Mark Sammon to the role of commissioning editor and made her first three big-budget programming buys.

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    RDF Media lines up 80s teen stars for sitcom

    2006-06-29T08:00:00Z

    RDF Media is developing an improvised sitcom with 1980s heart-throbs Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, as its US production arm begins its move into drama and comedy genres.

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    BBC Worldwide clocks£89m profit

    2006-06-28T12:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide - the corporation's commercial arm - has hit its target of doubling profits in two years to£89m, fuelled by growth in its programme sales and home entertainment businesses.

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    Pocoyo scores hat-trick in Iberia

    2006-06-26T16:00:00Z

    Granada International's pre-school co-production Pocoyo(52 x 7-minutes) has been acquired by Spanish public broadcaster TVE, as well as pay-TV channel Boomerang and Portugal 's RTP.

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    Mercury racks up sales for Animal X

    2006-06-26T16:00:00Z

    UK distributor Mercury Media has secured a deal with Norway's TV2 for its 10-part series on crypto-zoology Animal X: The Natural Mystery Unit.

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    BBC Motion Gallery strikes mobile deal

    2006-06-26T16:00:00Z

    BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales arm of BBC Worldwide, has struck a deal with content aggregator Media Gateway to distribute BBC archive content to mobile phone and internet users in Europe and the Middle East .

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    Bob the Builder goes interactive

    2006-06-26T16:00:00Z

    Hit Entertainment has struck a deal with US games-on-demand network TVHead to develop interactive games based on a number of its hit characters, including Barney, Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder and ...

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    Sloan and Sweeney headline Mipcom speaker line-up

    2006-06-26T16:00:00Z

    MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan and Disney's Anne Sweeney are among the high profile US keynote speakers lined up for this October's Mipcom programme market in Cannes .