More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3403
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NewsBurchill essay adapted for BBC2
Manchester-based indie Scarlet Television has adapted an essay by journalist Julie Burchill on
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NewsBT staffs-up for TV push
BT is beefing up its headcount ahead of the launch of its new TV over broadband service next summer, poaching staff from The Hallmark Channel and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
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NewsO'Connor favourite to replace Horrocks
The BBC is set to start interviewing potential replacements for former current affairs commissioner Peter Horrocks' job, with BBC news executive Karen O'Connor emerging as the leading candidate.
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NewsThe critics: Love Soup & The Unteachables
Two new series - the latest romantic comedy to arrive on BBC1, Love Soup- and The Untouchables, C4's new reality offering, sparked the interest of the critics yesterday.
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NewsGCap sheds two more directors
GCap Media has released another two directors, just a week after the departure of chief executive David Mansfield.
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NewsHoney, we've got a second series!
Honey We're Killing The Kids- the BBC3 series that shows how unhealthy lifestyles will affect youngsters later in life - has been recommissioned for a second series.
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NewsID snares Rainbow distribution deal
ID Distribution has struck a significant agreement with US cable broadcaster Rainbow Media Holdings for global distribution rights to over 400 hours of its programming.
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NewsNew MD for NBC Europe
NBC Universal Global Networks has appointed Olivier Gerolami as its managing director for Europe.
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NewsScorsese's Dylan doc attracts only 1.8m
The first part of Martin Scorsese's long-awaited documentary, Arena: No Direction Home - Bob Dylan, found only a modest audience last night with 1.8 million (8.4%) tuning in.
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NewsComment: Hard times in toon town
Over 700 movers and shakers from Europe's animation industry descended on the Danish city of Kolding last week on the hunt for the next Bob the Builder.
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NewsMinotaur still going strong at ten
Flextech-owned Minotaur International will celebrate its tenth anniversary at next month's Mipcom with the launch of over 150 hours of new programming, including six new 90-minute films in SMG's ITV crime franchise Rebus.
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NewsGraham Norton heads 12 Yard slate
With broadcasters turning their attention away from big outdoor reality events, London-based producer and distributor 12 Yard is taking a new slate of entertainment formats to Mipcom.
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NewsOff the Fence launches UK docs
Amsterdam and Bristol-based factual producer and distributor Off the Fence is headlining its documentary Mipcom slate with The Day that James Dean Died.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Animal Planet commissions OSF special
US network Animal Planet has commissioned Sydney and London-based Southern Star to produce an hour-long special, Lyndal's $70K Lifeline Challenge.
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BVITV launches Roger Bannister TV movie
London-based Buena Vista International TV (BVITV) has picked up the ESPN produced TV movie Four Minutes, which tells the true story of how British medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier in 1954.
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Electric Sky expands sales team
Independent factual distributor Electric Sky has appointed Claudia Weber as sales manager, covering the US, Canada, German speaking Europe, DVD/Home Video and non-theatric sales.
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Motion Gallery names new sales director
BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales business of BBC Worldwide, has poached ITN Archive sales director Linda Reeve.
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NewsBBC 7/7 coverage under fire
Ofcom has criticised the BBC for using graphic images of victims of the July 7 terror attacks in London.
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NewsTotally Frank to make Mipcom debut
New girl group Frank are set to make their international debut at Mipcom, where Channel 4 International will launch the new 26-part teen drama Totally Frank.