More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3946
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Shazam goes to air
Shazam Entertainment is moving into the broadcast sector and claimed it can improve methods for measuring royalties. The audio technology company has become famous for its consumer service which allows music fans to use mobile phones to identify tracks. The firm is to use its technology to integrate into existing ...
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Twins with a difference
The Boy who Gave Birth to his Twin follows the heartrending story of the seven-year-old Kazakhstan boy who was admitted to hospital with a cyst, only for medics to discover he was actually carrying a parasitic foetus that had started life as his twin.
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Disney turns to Jellyfish again
The Disney Channel has used Jellyfish Pictures for the third year running to do its Christmas idents and bumpers, which roll out from 22 December.
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Something old, something new
The 50th BBC Sports Personality of the Year is getting closer. All previous winners can be nominated for the anniversary special, and all are featured in a promo from BBC Broadcast, directed by Jon Dennis. Executive producer Ollie Harnett, BBC creative producer Marcus Jones and Dennis came up with the ...
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Vodafone awards ITN mobile news deal
ITN has been appointed as the strategic news content partner to the Vodafone Live mobile phone service. ITN will provide a video news service covering international, business and showbiz news. The news provider has recently appointed Nicholas Wheeler as ITN managing director of multimedia content, to work on this and ...
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Full Monty writer to pen muslim movie
Channel 4 head of documentaries Peter Dale and Parallax are developing a film scripted by The Full Montywriter Simon Beaufoy that looks at the experiences of Muslims living in the north of England. Spark, which is being directed by Kenny ...
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Ofcom appoints adjudicator for new ITV
Ofcom has appointed David Connolly to adjudicate disputes between advertisers and the newly merged ITV. Connolly is a former vice-chairman of media agency Starcom Motive. He has also worked as joint media director for advertising agency Leo Burnett and spent several years in the sales department at Scottish Television.
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ITV introduces rolling offers sessions
ITV director of television Nigel Pickard is to free up the commissioning process at the channel by introducing 'rolling offers sessions'. Pickard said he would still keep the current system of two offers sessions in April and October, but would allow commissioners greater flexibility to respond to ideas at any ...
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NewsBBC plans sale of Technology arm
The BBC is set to announce plans to sell its commercial technical offshoot BBC Technology in a radical pre-Charter renewal move that could also signal the end of its BBC Ventures group of companies.
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NewsChambers' Five grows up
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers said this week that he wanted to put the channel on a more 'mature' footing by commissioning programmes with 'intelligence' and 'mischievousness'.
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NewsThompson warns indies over extra rights
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has warned that the new broadcaster codes of practice, set to be introduced by Ofcom next year, could hit the number of commissions available for small and medium-sized indies.
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NewsMillionaire to give viewers chance to win
The international gameshow hit Who Wants to be a Millionaire?is to have its format changed for the first time since its launch in 1998.
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ITV gets in quick with rugby specials
ITV is cashing in on the mania surrounding Rugby World Cup star Jonny Wilkinson. A 60-minute special Jonny Wilkinson - The Real Story, from indie 3DD and Wilkinson's management company, SFX Sports Group, will feature exclusive footage of the fly-half as well as interviews with ...
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Allen plans to save£100m
more jobs are to go in the ITV regions after ITV's chief executive designate Charles Allen announced that he plans to make savings of around£100m as a result of the merger between Carlton and Granada.
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LWT focuses on creating formats
LWT has set up a new formats arm at its London base with a view to developing more shows for the US and ITV.
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ITV plans latest daytime drama
ITV1 is set to take another chance with original drama in daytime despite the high-profile flops of Crossroadsand Night and Day.
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Bellamy gets extra powers to keep him at C4
Channel 4 has given head of factual entertainment Julian Bellamy a beefed-up role in a bid to keep him at the broadcaster.
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My Family man to oversee comedy
Fred Barron, the creator of BBC1's hit comedy My Family, is to oversee a new team written series about the life of a twentysomething secretary - his first commission since joining the BBC in April.
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Bennett backs Restoration's second series
The BBC is pushing ahead with a second series of Endemol UK's interactive series Restoration.
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Penk returns to roots and joins Key 103
Controversial DJ Steve Penk is turning his back on London and returning to the Manchester station where he launched his career.