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Rantzen to front BBC2 death special
BBC2 and BBC Learning have commissioned Endemol UK to make a 90-minute special about medical care for dying people. Esther Rantzen will present How to Have a Good Death, which will be based on a national survey on the way we deal with death and dying. ...
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Granada to make ITV2 parenting series
Granada has been commissioned by ITV2 to make a new parenting series, in which a tough-talking teen coach is drafted into the family home to transform tearaway teens. You Have 'Em(working title) sees the parents pack their bags while their teenager is asleep and leave a ...
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C4 orders three minute wonder shows
Channel 4 has commissioned Endemol UK to make three short programmes for its Three Minute Wonderslot. Endemol will be making 3 x 3-minute shows about articulacy featuring vocal coach Bruce Wooding and his attempts to help a group of young people learn to communicate. The programmes ...
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C4 and Pepsi team up for pop show
Channel 4 is giving viewers the chance to stage a gig with their favourite pop act with a series wholly funded by soft drinks giant Pepsi.
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Zig Zag boosts output with US commissions
Zig Zag Productions has increased its US output with£2m worth of commissions from Discovery and TLC.
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Boorman back on road for Sky One
Sky One has secured exclusive rights to broadcast a follow-up to road trip series Long Way Round, which saw Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman go on a 20,000-mile motorcycle journey around the world. For the follow-up, Boorman has teamed up with BMW rider Simon ...
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RDFR picks up strangest village rights
RDF Rights has acquired the rights to the documentary The Strangest Village in Britain, which aired as part of Channel 4's Only Humanstrand. Produced by Landmark Films, the programme looked at the village of Botton, which provides a refuge for people with ...
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Five adds dinosaur show to Milkshake
Five has bought Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaursfrom Canada's CCI Entertainment for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. The 26 x 5-minute series, based on the books by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds, was produced in association with Collingwood O'Hare and Silver ...
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RTE orders DIY dads from Green Inc
Irish broadcaster RTE has ordered a series of Touchdown Television's DIY Dadsfrom Belfast-based producer Green Inc. The show sees fathers with home improvement skills compete in a series of building and makeover challenges to find the best DIY dad in the country. Green Inc, which holds ...
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BBC Worldwide cuts it in Finland
BBC Worldwide has sold all four series of hairdressing drama Cutting Itto MTV3, Finland's main commercial broadcaster. The deal is believed to be the first time BBC Worldwide has sold multiple series of a single programme at the same time.
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Format focus: Next!
A US speed-dating show doles out dollars for every minute contestants can last on a date with a picky partner.
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Europe's UBF buys CTV OB for£15m
CTV Outside Broadcasts has been bought for a fee believed to be around£15m by European resources group United Broadcast Facilities (UBF).
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Inmedia Communications sells to Arqiva
Arqiva, the company formerly known as NTL Broadcast, has bought Inmedia Communications from the Carlyle Group for£68.5m.
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Clear buyout goes ahead saving 32 jobs
Inferno artist Simon Huhtala has completed the buyout of visual effects house Clear, saving 32 jobs.
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Pumpkin opening
Bristol Film Studios has set up shop in the south-west at the£2m Pumpkin Studios run by regional producer Phil Barry. Former Discovery and Avante channel producer Colin Burgess has joined the studios as studio director. The company has been set up by Barry, Burgess and Visual Impact sales director Richard ...
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Aardman's new kit
Bristol-based Aardman Animation, famous for the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Runand many other hit films, has bought a Pyramix system from Merging Technologies' UK distributor Total Audio Solutions. The system will be used for track laying for broadcast productions and will ...
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Solid State move
Audio manufacturer Solid State Logic vice-president Phil Wagner has stepped up to become the company's new president. Wagner will be responsible for business across North America where Solid State Logic has a strong presence. The promotion followed the recent change in management that was brought on by the takeover of ...
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BBC in Nat Geo deal
BBC Broadcast has been signed up by the National Geographic Channel to provide it with access services for the next five years. The contract will cover National Geographic's subtitling and audio description com-mitments as set down by Ofcom last summer. BBC Broadcast will provide the services that cater for the ...
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Playhouse's summer feeling
The Playhouse Disney Channel is launching new idents for its summer season, produced by in-house executive producer Annabel Phelps and director Chris Heary. Heary shot the idents outside to help capture the feeling of summer and the sense of freedom and enjoyment that pre-schoolers get from playing outside. The campaign ...
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The Hits idents come alive
Emap Performance Design has redesigned its channel identity package for music channel The Hits. The brand wanted to be big, friendly and fresh in expressing its essence, 'Such a good feeling!', to its 16- to 34- year-old market. The idents aim to express how The Hits can fill the world ...