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Format focus: All star record breakers
You know celebrity reality shows are far from finished when Guinness World Records TV gets in on the act.
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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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Fremantle signs deal with Goodwin indie
Daisy Goodwin, the format creator behind How Clean Is Your House? and Sex Inspectors, has signed a distribution and production deal with Fremantle.
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Chan joins firefly
Indie Firefly has poached Channel 4 commissioning editor Angela Chan just nine months after she joined the broadcaster. Chan is to quit her role in C4's news and current affairs department, where she has worked on Unreported World and Dispatches. She will start in November as executive producer at Firefly ...
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Betty appointment
Indie Betty has appointed director Alannah Richardson as executive producer to boost its features and formatted documentary output. Richardson was previously a freelance producer and director, although she worked with Betty on the ITV1 documentary Love in a Foreign Climate and was series producer for the first series of Spendaholics. ...
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Clifton confirmed
Pete Clifton has been confirmed as head of BBC interactive, and will take over the running of the corporation's news website, as well as the news division's interactive and broadband elements. Clifton has been overseeing the post since May, when former head Richard Deverell left to become chief operating officer ...
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Twofour tie-up
Twofour Broadcast and Australian production company Landmark Television have struck a format and co-production deal. Landmark is already developing Twofour's format Family Firm for TVNZ, and Twofour is pitching several Landmark formats to UK broadcasters. The two companies are also developing a global lifestyle series for Discovery Asia and Discovery ...
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ID sells Nigella
Nigella Lawson's 20-episode ITV daytime talk show has been sold to cable broadcasters RAISat in Italy and XYZ in Australia through ID Distribution. The company has also shifted forthcoming US cable show Nigella Feasts, a co-production between Pacific Productions London and Pabulum.
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Little Britain bolsters BBC3 share
BBC3 comedy Little Britain has been the undoubted ratings hit for the channel while Stuart Murphy has been in charge, writes Jon Rogers.
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The BBC's 'talent drain'
The BBC has real reason to fear losing some of its best programme-makers, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Rejigged Sky News begins with Sunrise
BSkyB kicks off its new-look Sky News on Monday (24 October) at 6am with new signing Eamonn Holmes and Lorna Dunkley presenting Sunrise. The channel will unveil a new multimillion-pound studio and revamped programming schedule. Other new signings include James Rubin, the former chief spokesman for Bill Clinton, who will ...
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Beazley confirmed as Lush successor
Jon Beazley has been appointed BBC executive editor for entertainment commissioning after a month of caretaking the post. Beazley, who while mainstream entertainment commissioner handled such programmes as Test the Nation, was widely tipped for the post. He is expected to take up the job with immediate effect and will ...
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Second signing for Setanta from Sky
Setanta Sports has poached a second executive from Sky Sports. Simon Green, general manager, Sky Sports Online, follows Trevor East, former Sky Sports deputy managing director, who joined Setanta in July as director of sport. Green will start next month and work mostly on business outside the UK. He could ...
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Sky Premiership exclusive draws to close
BSkyB's monopoly of live Premiership football rights inched closer to an end this week as the Premier League moved towards an amicable agreement with the European Commission. After 'constructive' talks with Richard Scudamore, the league's chief executive, the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said she would give herself until Friday ...
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At It cracks US with TLC orders
At IT Productions has secured its first US series commissions with a brace of shows for Discovery-owned cable network TLC.
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Interview: Jon Blair - The trophy hunter
You may not have heard of Jon Blair, but with a shelf groaning under the weight of awards this is not because his documentaries lack quality but rather because his work speaks for itself. By Belinda Archer.
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Sky faces a new game
The EC's competition commission has made it clear it wants a second pay-TV broadcaster to take a share of Premiership football rights. But just how damaging will losing exclusivity be to Sky?
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In my view: Losing faith in BBC spin
The BBC should be made to step into line with other public institutions, argues John Hambley, and face up to the reality that public funding is likely to go down not up.
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What life's like for TV's freelancers
From protests about unpaid work experience to job cuts at the BBC, freelancing has rarely been as newsworthy as it is now. In an effort to understand what makes an increasingly large part of the workforce tick, Will Strauss analyses a major piece of research and finds that not all ...
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Opinion: Informing the unformed
Surprisingly, many TV execs seem to frown on letting their own kids watch the box, but their high-mindedness is misplaced