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NewsC4 beefs up Sunset + Vine deal
Channel 4 has extended its production contract with Sunset + Vine to cover its newly acquired American Football rights package.
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NewsChannel 4 orders celeb skiing show
Splash producer Twofour is to produce a stripped Channel 4 show in which celebs will compete in winter sports.
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NewsThis Morning leads ITV online revamp
ITV has kicked off an overhaul of its website – starting with the relaunch of its This Morning section.
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NewsBBC payoffs: all you need to know
Click to read all the stories surrounding the BBC payoff scandal to have emerged this week.
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NewsEmily Mortimer & Ray Winstone series head to Sky Vision
Sky Vision has acquired the international rights to Emily Mortimer’s new comedy series Doll & Em and Ray Winstone-fronted drama Moonfleet.
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NewsThompson accuses Patten of misleading MPs
Former director general Mark Thompson has accused BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten of “fundamentally misleading” MPs over corporation payoffs at a Commons select committee hearing.
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NewsNick UK buys Extreme Babysitting
Nickelodeon UK has acquired Canadian live action kids series Extreme Babysitting.
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NewsBBCW hikes UK content fund
BBC Worldwide is to up its spend on UK content to £200m over the next 12 months, the bulk of which will be spent with UK indies.
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NewsBBC3 returns to Islamist doc
BBC3 has commissioned a landmark follow-up documentary to My Brother The Islamist after the film’s subject Richard Dart was jailed in April for plotting terrorist attacks in the UK.
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NewsBBC payoffs: a grim picture
Tony Hall strained to get on the front foot in the row over senior management payoffs this week after the corporation published a deluge of further damning figures.
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NewsRights: the debate goes on
Consider the title of next week’s RTS Cambridge Convention in full: ‘Whose Side Are You On? Quality Content – Who Pays? Who Decides? Who Profits?’
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NewsFilms to series trend hots up
US network executives are mining the feature film world for ideas to take to the small screen
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NewsBBC Trust sets out case on Byford payoff
Mark Thompson will face tough scrutiny by MPs at next week’s Public Accounts Committee hearing after Lord Patten’s bid to shed light on controversial payoffs to Mark Byford and Sharon Baylay.
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NewsBBC to publish annual payoffs review
The BBC is to publish a senior management payoffs review as part of its annual report in a bid to win back public trust over poorly governed severance deals.
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NewsBBC claws back Bennett's £687k payoff from Worldwide
The BBC paid for Jana Bennett’s £687,333 BBC Worldwide redundancy package out of the licence fee but later recovered the cost, according to new revelations about the corporation’s payoffs.
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NewsSnakes in the City slithers to Nat Geo
National Geographic Channels International has acquired five docs, including Snakes in the City from factual producer Earth Touch.
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NewsMentorn serves up Australian AFP for Good Food
Good Food has commissioned John Torode’s Australia, a new ad-funded series produced by Mentorn Media.
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NewsCBBC extends Science Fiction shorts
Kite Entertainment has landed a CBBC commission for a science-based comedy series featuring a mixture of puppetry and animation.
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NewsITVS forms new US division
ITV Studios has created an umbrella group in the US to bring together all of its recently acquired production companies.
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NewsTrue Blood to end next year
Vampire drama True Blood, which airs on Fox in the UK, is to end after its seventh season.