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NewsNBC picks up Teachers spin-off
9.45am:US terrestrial network NBC has reversed an earlier decision and picked up six episodes of Filmore Middle, based on Tiger Aspect's Channel 4 drama Teachers.
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Tessa Jowell: RTS Cambridge keynote address
Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport 7pm 15 September 2005
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NewsPEER POLL: ITV's anniversary
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Will ITV still be a leading player when it celebrates its 60th birthday?
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Telewest 'rules out' private equity bidders for Flextech
Telewest is reportedly only interested in trade buyers for its content arm Flextech - a move that would rule out a private equity group bid.
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UK indies scoop MTV Int orders
UK indies have been given a strong hand in MTV Networks International's autumn line-up, which includes a Tiger Aspect production following a group of virgins on the road to sexual maturity.
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RDF in first-look deal with Maverick
RDF Rights has signed a two-year, first-look development deal with Birmingham-based Maverick Television for the company's international TV and consumer product rights.
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Discovery to make masthead show with IPC
Discovery has teamed up with magazine publisher IPC to make a masthead show based around its home and design magazine Livingetc.
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Format focus: Ruth 66
The latest reality series from Swedish producer Strix sends a group of pensioners off on a road trip to encounter bikers, supermodels and artists.
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Wall to Wall sells hurricane doc to Oz
Indie Wall to Wall has sold the rights to its Oil Stormdocumentary - which months before Hurricane Katrina hypothesised what would happen if a hurricane struck the Gulf of Mexico - to Australia's Seven Network. The two-hour programme was produced for FX in the US and ...
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Top of the Pops sells to South America
BBC music show Top of the Popshas been picked up by Latin American entertainment channel People + Arts, a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery. The programme will be broadcast shortly after its transmission in the UK, with presenter links from Fearne Cotton and guest presenters ...
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Asian radio station in deal with Napster
London-based radio station Club Asia has signed up with online music download service Napster to promote Asian music downloads and streams. Under the deal, Club Asia 963 and 972 AM will act as a
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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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GI shares catalogue with BBC America
BBC America has signed a two-year deal that will allow it to cherry-pick 160 hours of programmes from Granada International's back catalogue of drama and comedy. The deal will give BBC America access to a range of Granada International's back catalogue as well as new programmes. The titles involved are ...
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Sky One lines up coke and Viagra
Sky One is to explore the use of cocaine and Viagra as part of its autumn season.
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Shine makes high-risk property show for C4
Indie Shine is making a new property series for Channel 4 following budding property magnates as they try to make a killing overseas.
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C4 orders more autopsies from von Hagens
Professor Gunther von Hagens is to make a return to the screens as he probes the causes of death for a Channel 4 series made by indie Firefly.
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RDF cooks up foodie faking it for C4
RDF is making a culinary version of its hit format Faking Itfor Channel 4. In Cooking It, contestants will be challenged to turn basic ingredients into mouthwatering dishes good enough to fool a panel of food experts into thinking they are professional ...
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Ex-Clinton spokesman for Sky News
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News. World News Tonightwill see Rubin presenting a weekday 60-minute roundup of the big international stories and will include interviews with key figures on the international stage. The show, which is ...
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Talkback makes history for Five kids
Talkback Thames is making a history show for Five's children's strand Shake. Heroes of Historysees Fran Beauman and Ania Dykczak taking on a different character each week, getting inside their skins by living the life they would have led - mastering horseriding as Joan of Arc, ...
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Collins and Eve in BBC1 fertility drama
Former EastEndersactress Michelle Collins and Waking the Deadstar Trevor Eve are to star in a new BBC1 drama set in the world of fertility treatment. The Family Manfollows four couples struggling with various aspects of IVF treatment, from ...