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NewsFrancis heads This Morning
ITV is planning to overhaul its flagship daytime brand This Morningwith a new journalistic edge and revamped on-air look, following the promotion of Anya Francis to the role of editor.
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Talpa TV inks Dutch first-look deal with C4I
John de Mol's Netherlands-based broadcaster Talpa TV has signed a first-look deal with Channel 4 International.
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Format Focus: Extra Extra
A European panel format is attracting interest following a US deal with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest
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Leopard wins big down under with Living commissions
UK indie Leopard Films has made further inroads into the Australasian market, selling a raft of programming to the Living Channel in New Zealand and an original documentary to Australian public broadcaster ABC.
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BT strikes film deal with Momentum
BT has secured a film deal with independent distributor Momentum Pictures for access to titles including Lost in Translation and O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Lazarus takes on DVD sales
London-based business consultancy Lazarus Consulting has been appointed the UK agent for Edel Music, which releases DVDs across Europe.
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Regan to Target entertainment post
Target Entertainment has appointed former Living TV commissioning editor Steve Regan as its new head of entertainment and factual entertainment. He effectively replaces the former managing director, Ed Forsdick, who defected in March to run Ant and Dec-owned indie Gallowgate Productions. Reporting directly to Target chief executive Alison Rayson, Regan ...
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Barrymore turned down quiz show
Michael Barrymore's New Zealand-based agent said the star turned down the offer to present new Challenge TV quiz show Take It or Leave It, contrary to claims that he had not been hired over fears of negative publicity. Karen Kay said Barrymore rejected the offer ...
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Download team films Love Island footage
ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...
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Woolfe poaches Jones from Living
Sky One, Two and Three director of programmes Richard Woolfe has hired Living TV executive Steve Jones to become Sky One's commissioning editor for entertainment. As commissioning editor at Living TV, Jones was responsible for ordering and executive producing series including Extreme Makeoverand ...
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Consortium rivals C4 bid
Chrysalis, UTV and SMG are set to enter an agreement to make a joint consortium bid for the new DAB national commercial radio multiplex, rivalling Channel 4's bid for the platform.
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Celebrities roadtest diets for BBC2 show
Vic Reeves, Liza Tarbuck and Colin Jackson have signed up for a BBC2 programme which aims to test whether what you eat can really affect who you are.
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Bennett-Jones: BBC neglects older talent
Talent agent and Tiger Aspect chairman Peter Bennett-Jones has warned the BBC that it faces wasting established talent because of its obsession with youth.
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NewsLeader: Junk food fight
Broadcast editor Conor Dignam looks at the real effect of banning junk food ads
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NewsVicar of Dibley hangs up cassock
Long-running BBC1 sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, starring Dawn French, is being brought to its conclusion after 12 years, with a two-part Christmas special.
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NewsSharman unveils slate of factual commissions
Alison Sharman has unveiled her first major raft of factual commissions since becoming director of factual and daytime at ITV.
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NewsJunk food ad ban 'threatens kids TV' warns Pact
Producers' group Pact has warned that a ban on TV junk food advertising before 9pm would wipe out children's programme production for commercial channels and is calling for a£50m fund to bolster the industry.
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NewsHit hires Dunsford to advise on Euro launch
Hit Entertainment has hired Wayne Dunsford - the former BBC executive responsible for launching the corporation's Food channel globally - to work on its international children's channel launch.
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NewsWAGs to run clothes shop on TV
The queens of chav-chic and shopping, England's footballers' wives and girlfriends (WAGs), look set to compete against each other off the pitch, selling designer gear in a new series from Off the Radar productions.
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NewsSix Degrees to air on ITV1 primetime
ITV1 is to launch its first primetime US series in nine years - a drama from Lostcreator JJ Abrams described as a cross between Thirtysomethingand Cold Feet.