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NewsTate in ITV comedy
ITV1 has signed up BBC comic Catherine Tate to star in a one-off comedy drama called The Bad Mother's Handbook. The comedy will be based on the novel by Kate Long, which tells the story of a year in the lives of three women. It ...
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Road Wars to return for fourth outing
Sky One has commissioned indie Raw Cut Television to produce a fourth 2 x 60-minute series of crime reality show Road Wars. The new series, which is currently in production, will be delivered to the broadcaster in August.
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Gervais a winner at Rose d'Or fest
Ricky Gervais was the toast of the Rose d'Or Festival in Switzerland last weekend, with the comedian handed an honorary award and his BBC2 comedy Extrasnamed the world's best sitcom.
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Octagon in tennis deal
Sports production and marketing specialist Octagon CSI has signed a deal with the ATP, the men's professional tennis tour, to develop, produce and sell programming using its archive.
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Indie shows picked up by BBC America
BBC America has acquired six UK titles made by independent producers to add to its lifestyle programming slate. The line-up is headed by 9 x 60-minute episodes of Channel 4 series Gordon Ramsay's F Word,produced by Optomen Television.
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TWI ramps up non-sport programming
TWI has picked up the international rights to some 75 hours of new programming from other producers, as it continues to ramp up its catalogue of non-sports programming. In addition, the IMG-owned company is planning to distribute around 25 hours of new programming from recently acquired producer Darlow Smithson, and ...
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TSI makes 18 redundancies in restructure
Covent Garden-based facility TSI made 18 of its 86 staff redundant last Friday (28 April) as part of a company restructure, according to its managing director, Simon Peach.
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Sony slo-mo camera
Sony launched its HDC-3300 Super Slo Motion camera system at this year's NAB. The camera is designed to offer three times speed slow-motion effects in full HD resolution.
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MacBook unveiled
Apple has unveiled its 17' MacBook Pro notebook computer which delivers up to five times the performance of the PowerBook GV.
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Lola nomination
Lola's VFX work on the BBC drama Supervolcanohas been nominated for an award in the visual effects category of the 2006 Bafta craft awards. Lola produced over 200 visual effects shots for the show for BBC1 and Discovery.
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Honey to mem
Media group Medal Entertainment & Media plc (MEM) has appointed Pinewood Studios' marketing director (TV) of two years, Diana Crystal Honey, as business development consultant.
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Journalist jobs to go in BBC radio cull
As many as 50 radio journalists are to be axed from the BBC in the next six months, as the corporation gears up for a radical restructure of its radio newsgathering operation.
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Profits up for BSkyB
BSkyB has reported record operating profits in its financial year to date, up 15% to£660m for the nine months ending 31 March 2006, boosted by strong growth in revenues from its TV gambling service Sky Bet.
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Trust in media rises
Almost half the UK's population trust the media more than the government, according to a poll by the BBC and Reuters. The survey, conducted with US think-tank The Media Centre, found 47% of Britons trusted the media more than their government, lower than the international figure of 61% but up ...
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Fry talks up salary
Stephen Fry has waded into the BBC salary leak scandal, claiming he earns more presenting QIthan the£245,000 Jeremy Paxman is paid for University Challenge -but adding they both deserve such rates.
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Ultimate Force a Casualty of BBC onslaught
ITV1 slumped to its second worst all-hours share ever last Saturday as Ultimate Forceproved to be less than fighting fit.
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Sarpong to continue with T4 'into 2007'
June Sarpong has signed a contract with Channel 4 to continue presenting teen weekend strand T4 'into 2007', dousing speculation she was about to leave for the BBC.
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Kids programming will remain on BBC2
Saturday morning kids programming on BBC2 is to become a permanent fixture after the trial schedule swap between BBC1 and BBC2 was deemed a success by BBC1 controller Peter Fincham.
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In My View - Listen to the children
Kenton Allen is shocked that one in four young people don't watch the BBC
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NewsHBO and BBC2 back Kudos to make tsunami drama
HBO Films has come on board to co-produce a major BBC2 TV drama on the Boxing Day tsunami, with Hollywood actors Tim Roth and Toni Collette lined up to star.