More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3413
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NewsUTV scraps The Wireless Group brand
Ulster Television (UTV) is to scrap The Wireless Group brand following its purchase of the TalkSport owner earlier this summer.
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NewsITV woos Omaar for 7/7 special
Rageh Omaar, the reporter famed for his coverage of the war in Iraq, is set to turn his sights closer to home for his next ITV project.
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NewsITV and Sky retain Champions League
ITV and Sky have retained the rights to UEFA Champions League Football for a further three years.
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NewsNigella signs to BBC2
Nigella Lawson is to front her first show for the BBC after her ITV daytime show for ITV1 flopped.
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NewsNat Geo lines up hurricane doc
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster.
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NewsBBC America buys up ITV content
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.
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NewsOfcom bans Make Poverty History ads
Ofcom has banned the Make Poverty History campaign from advertising on UK television and radio.
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NewsBBC signs Touchpaper deal
BBC Worldwide has signed a development deal with Touchpaper Television, the drama producer recently acquired by RDF Media.
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NewsParthenon adds PBS titles to slate
Factual producer and distributor Parthenon Entertainment is continuing its expansion drive in the run up to Mipcom, with the addition of nine hours of PBS programming to its catalogue.
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NewsNGTI picks up Katrina doc
As America continues to come to terms with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, London-based National Geographic Television International has picked up an hour-long programme on the causes and effects of the devastating natural disaster.
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All3Media format execs quit
All3Media International's director of international format sales Justus Verkerk will leave the company ahead of Mipcom this October to start his own independent formats distribution outfit.
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NewsDecode launches Aardman copro
Aardman Animation's first TV co-production is set to launch at Mipcom ahead of its debut on Canada's Teletoon this November.
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NewsC4I pushes Two Sides TV special
Channel 4 International is heading to Cannes with a new animated special from the veteran producer of Yellow Submarineand The Snowman.
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NewsPeak to promote Muffin the Mule at Mipcom
Derbyshire-based kids entertainment outfit Peak Entertainment is bringing BBC kids classic Muffin the Muleto Mipcom, ahead of the character's 60th anniversary in 2006.
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NewsBBC brings Charlie & Lola to Cannes
BBC Worldwide will be looking to tie up further deals for Tiger Aspect's 26-part pre-school series Charlie & Lolaat Mipcom, following its launch on Playhouse Disney in the US earlier this year.
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NewsClinton aide lands Sky News show
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News.
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News5.5m see ITV1's greatest shows
ITV stole the show on Saturday night with its special ITV's 50 Greatest Shows, which attracted 5.5 million (26.2%) over 3 hours, coupled with another strong performance for The X Factor.
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NewsGreen Green Grass kicks off with 9.1m
The Green Green Grass, BBC1's spin-off sitcom from Only Fools and Horses, got off to a cracking start averaging an impressive 9.1 million (41.6%) on Friday.
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NewsCaborn to meet TV cricket campaigners
Sports minister Richard Caborn has agreed to meet with a high profile group campaigning to keep live cricket on terrestrial TV.
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NewsBBC drama to probe IVF treatment
Former EastEndersstar Michelle Collins and Waking The Deadactor Trevor Eve are set to star in a new BBC1 drama about the world of fertility treatment.