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New MacIntyre indie to make follow-up
Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre is setting up his own indie and has already bagged his first commission. MacIntyre is launching Dare Films with Michael Simkin and Will Aslett, who produced his 2002 BBC series, Wild Weather. Its first greenlight comes from Five and is a six-part ...
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Five wins rights to Pimp My Ride UK
Five has bagged the terrestrial rights to MTV car makeover hit Pimp My Ride UK. The 6 x 30-minute spin-off of the MTV US format is presented by hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood and involves a crew of mechanics taking rusty old bangers and modifying them into ...
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Crick moves to TLC
Discovery's US non-fiction entertainment channel TLC has poached Zig Zag Entertainment's Ed Crick to the role of director of UK development. Taking up his post immediately, Crick will work to identify, acquire and deliver new series formats and specials for TLC. He will be based at Discovery's London office and ...
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Blindfolded by C4
Channel 4 should not be embarrassed that More4 offers entertainment of a cerebral rather than a carnal nature.
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A flair for nurturing talent
Nicknamed by ex-boss Lorraine Heggessey Mrs Fix-it, Sally Debonnaire has moved to Avalon where she hopes to get back to the creative side of things.
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Tangled web of rights
With the rapid rise of download technology, broadcasters and producers agree the old model of primary rights is outdated. Now the fur is flying over how valuable online rights should be divided.
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Hitting the spot
Men's channel Bravo is hoping its hefty investment in Ultimate Fighting Championship, a brutal mixed martial arts contest, will pay off by creating cult viewing which lifts the channel out of its niche.
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Making drama out of history
The autumn schedule is awash with a royal flush of monarchical drama - but how much of a dramatic licence should programme-makers use when portraying well-documented historical figures? Meg Carter looks at the key ingredients and skills needed for producing historical drama.
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Me and Greg Dyke's mum
Dawn Airey finds herself uncomfortable with the level of compulsion involved in the government's digital switchover plan.
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Exploring new territory
On the eve of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Danny Cohen considers what the genre has to do to compete with technological change and expanding choice.
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NewsBBC editing move to cost facilities£18m
One of the BBC's biggest production departments, factual and learning, has announced plans to take 75% of all post work in-house by 2007, in a move that could cost the UK facilities sector up to£18m in revenues.
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NewsCreation of a cable giant
NTL and Telewest tied the knot this week in a landmark merger aimed at boosting the pair's ability to take on rivals BSkyB and BT.
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NewsITV could drop News for lads channel
ITV is considering pulling the ITV News Channel off Freeview in a bid to keep lads channel Men and Motors on the digital terrestrial platform.
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NewsPickard stays as head of ITV1 programming
Nigel Pickard has told ITV chiefs that he is staying on as ITV1's director of programmes, despite the restructure at network centre two weeks ago that brought in Simon Shaps above him.
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NewsPlowman to set up BBC comedy board
Jon Plowman, the BBC's head of comedy entertainment, is to take over as head of the corporation's in-house comedy department, and has set up a new board to develop programmes.
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Sex Traffic producer heads for Kudos role
Granada producer Derek Wax, the man behind multi-award winning drama Sex Traffic,is joining Spooksproducer Kudos Film and Television as an executive producer.
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CBBC orders London bomb drama
Hat trick is to make a children's drama documentary about the 7 July London bombings - the first UK television drama to be made about the tragedy and the indie's first commission for CBBC.
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Endemol teams up with MobiTV for mobile channel
Endemol UK has teamed up with mobile broadcasting platform MobiTV to launch the Reality TV channel on Orange's telecoms network.
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New-look This Is Your Life brings red book back to TV
SMG TV Productions is set to revive classic entertainment show This Is Your Life, following a deal with rights holder Click TV, which is part of Portman Film and TV, the company majority owned by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright.
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EC OKs product placement
The European Commission (EC) is set to give the greenlight to product placement, creating a potential multimillion pound industry.