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Five takes on another C4 executive
Five has poached another Channel 4 acquisitions executive, appointing Vanessa Brookman as deputy director of acquisitions. Currently deputy editor of US series for C4 and E4, she will join Five next month and report to Jay Kandola, who Five poached from C4 last month after its own head of acquisitions, ...
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Greer and Gervais head to Edinburgh
Germaine Greer and Ricky Gervais have been confirmed for headline events at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. Greer has agreed to give the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the festival, while Gervais and The Office co-writer Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Mark Lawson. This year's event runs from 26 to ...
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Purnell becomes broadcasting minister
James Purnell, a former BBC executive turned MP, has been named the new broadcasting minister. Purnell, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, has been promoted from the whips office to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, where he will report to media secretary Tessa Jowell. He effectively replaces Lord McIntosh, ...
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Pathe wins rights to sell Bafta winner
Pathe has picked up the rights to sell a feature-length version of Bafta-winning BBC2 documentary The Power of Nightmares. Writer-director Adam Curtis trimmed the three-hour, three-part series by 30 minutes for the Cannes International Film Festival. Curtis - the only British director nominated for the official ...
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What's the point of Sky One?
Despite mutterings about poor ratings for key shows, Sky One's controller, James Baker, is confident that pursuing a strategy of buying and making edgy, talked-about shows will persuade the punters to sign up for the Sky platform.
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How to look in all the right places
With an apparently inexhaustible demand for serious history programming as well as for clip shows and top 10s, the people who track down old footage are more important than ever.
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ITV's digital return
The£134m acquisition of SDN has put ITV on a strong footing in the digital arena, giving it the chance to become as big a player as the BBC. But will new channels continue to fuel its turnaround? By James Curtis.
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All is not lost for radio
GCap's disappointing results aside, there is no reason why on-demand technology shouldn't be able to deliver higher audiences for radio
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The indie comeback king
Mick Pilsworth wants to make his mark after the failed 2002 MBO of Chrysalis by taking his indie onto AIM and looking to acquire smaller producers
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Skills equal success
The industry is in danger of losing its talent to other sectors because it isn't investing in skills development. National Skills Day is a step in the right direction, writes Clive Jones.
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Controlling interests
As the BBC plans to scrap its 'two tick' commissioning system to become more like other terrestrials, is the move towards making channel controllers more hands-off to be welcomed, asks Peter Keighron.
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The Apprentice: the sequel
I've really been surprised by the BBC lately. On two counts. First, a triumph - Casanovagrabbed me by the waistcoat and rocked my world for three all-too-short weeks. Second... well, a missed opportunity. In a world of multichannel rating gazumping I'd have thought every artistic and ...
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Making digital compute
With awareness of digital switchover at worryingly low levels, SwitchCo had better pull its finger out.
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NewsStrike to hit BBC
The BBC is facing nationwide strikes by thousands of workers after the three major unions voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.
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NewsBBC doc looks at tsunami
BBC1 is to dive deep under the waves of the Indian Ocean for a multimillion-pound programme which will attempt to uncover exactly what triggered last year's devastating Asian tsunami.
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NewsITV restages Gunpowder Plot
ITV is to build an exact replica of the old Houses of Parliament and then blow it up for a new show looking at what would have happened if the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot had been a success.
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NewsTV Wrap to 'out' 30 indies
Pressure group TV Wrap will this Friday hand Pact a report naming 30 indies it claims have exploited freelance workers.
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NewsPilger plans cinema release for next film
Campaigning journalist John Pilger is positioning himself to be Britain's answer to Michael Moore by lining up his next film for a cinematic release.
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NewsFlexton wins brief for Extreme show
Scream Films has lost out on a lucrative contract to make the second series of Extreme Makeover UKfor Living TV, after its head of entertainment, Paul Flexton, quit to set up his own indie and poached the show.
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Channel 4 hires Jamie producer for docs role
Channel 4 has handed the series producer of its hard-hitting Jamie's School Dinnersprogramme a factual commissioning job.