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NewsGerrie poaches Initial staff for start-up
Former Initial chief executive Malcolm Gerrie has poached two senior staffers from the Endemol-owned producer to form the senior management team of his start-up indie.
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MTV set to form 'super' boyband
MTV Networks International is attempting to resurrect the careers of five has-been boyband members in a new 8 x 30-minute reality series.
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NewsRDF restructures to boost growth
RDF Media Group will next week unveil a major restructure, modelled on the giant advertising group WPP, designed to prepare the AIM-listed company for further expansion.
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Japanese show piloted by C4
Channel 4 is looking at launching a UK version of one of Japan's most popular gameshows to be fronted by Johnny Vaughan as part of its Friday night entertainment line-up.
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Martin backs Arrow
Legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin has thrown his weight behind Chrysalis Radio's bid for the new Liverpool FM licence with its adult rock format, The Arrow.
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NewsMurphy in talks to join TwoFour
Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is in talks to join TwoFour Broadcast, three months after his forced exit from RDF Media Group.
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NewsLeader - Last of the big spenders?
The BBC has shown a lack of judgement in paying top whack for top talent and execs says Conor Dignam, editor
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Kershaw takes up Five's factual remit
Five's controller of science, Justine Kershaw, has been promoted to the channel's newly created post of controller of factual. She will take responsibility for all Five's science, history, factual acquisitions, arts and religious programming.
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NewsITV ratings slump to all-time low
ITV1 slumped to its worst ever all-hours weekly audience share last week as BBC1 capitalised on its World Cup and Wimbledon coverage.
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Hawken joins indie Outline Productions
Helen Hawken, the former Endemol UK senior producer who was instrumental in launching Big Brotheron Channel 4, has joined Outline Productions as an executive producer on the indie's growing batch of new reality commissions.
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NewsFremantle Media first to launch download service
Talkback Thames owner Fremantle Media is to become the first producer to enter the burgeoning UK on-demand market, launching a broadband service by the end of the summer that will allow consumers to pay to download its content direct from the internet.
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NewsBBC chiefs defiant over 'super salaries'
In a tumultous week, the corporation faced a backlash from the press, politicians and unions.
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NewsBBC puts new Chris Langham series on hold
BBC2 has shelved plans for a second series of Bafta-winning comedy Help, while actor Chris Langham faces 15 charges of making indecent images of children.
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NewsEvans' struggling indie joins up with Outline
Chris Evans is folding his loss-making indie, UMTV, into another producer after a string of high-profile flops such as The Terry and Gabby Show, Boys and Girlsand OFI Sunday.
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NewsITV moves to cut children's hours
ITV is to start discussions with Ofcom about massively reducing its children's programming on ITV1, with one of the options being to cut kids output from eight hours a week to just two.
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Red Bee goes back to the 1960s
Red Bee Media has created the promo for UKTV History's 60s Season - a strand featuring original programming such as The Beatles' Decade, with personalities of the time such as Mary Quant explaining how the world changed during the 1960s.
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Skaramoosh engineers promo
Skaramoosh has completed the logo design and promo for Discovery Channel's Industrial Revelations: Best of British Engineering, a six-part series celebrating our greatest engineering icons including Concorde, the Channel Tunnel, the Routemaster Bus and Tower Bridge.
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Smoke & Mirrors speaks for E4
Smoke & Mirrors has created E4's new Espeak idents, which give viewers the lowdown on festivals such as the V Festival and Joust 2006 in a vox pop style.
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Sky wins Premiership mobile rights
BSkyB has confirmed it has won the mobile content rights to Premiership football in partnership with News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sunand News of the World.
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NewsGoogle rolls out UK video service
Google has launched a new online video service allowing consumers to upload their own videos and view content from a selection of television networks and independent producers.