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NewsChannel 5 calls in the RSPCA
Channel 5 has ordered a 10 x 30-minute documentary series from Middlechild Productions that follows a group of RSPCA workers who protect dogs from abusive owners and unscrupulous breeders.
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NewsSky in PSB talks over retransmission fees
BSkyB is hoping to hammer out commercial agreements with each of the public service broadcasters in a bid to defuse the row over retransmission fees.
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NewsNick Grimshaw halts R1 breakfast show slide
Rajar: Nick Grimshaw halted his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show slide as Radio 4 pulled in a record 11m weekly listeners.
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SNK Studios merges with Red Apple Creative
Tottenham Court Road-based audio post and voiceover recording facility SNK Studios has merged with neighbouring production company Red Apple Creative.
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NewsThe Garden lands first C5 order
The Garden Productions has landed its debut commission from Channel 5, an ob-doc series following a family-run bus service in Yorkshire.
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NewsStewart Purvis joins C4 board
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has been appointed to the Channel 4 board as part of a shake-up following the departure of Tony Hall to the BBC.
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NewsUniversal eyes US serials
Pay-TV broadcaster Universal Channel is to acquire more first-run serialised programming from the US following its brand refresh.
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NewsRory Kinnear plays Lord Lucan for ITV
ITV has confirmed that Jeff Pope is to pen a major biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished in the 1970s after his children’s nanny was murdered.
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NewsKatz makes first Newsnight hires
Incoming Newsnight editor Ian Katz has hired Channel 4’s head of home news as part of a senior management shakeup.
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NewsITV4 bags Duck Dynasty
ITV4 has picked up Duck Dynasty - the hit US show made by the broadcaster’s recently acquired US indie Gurney Productions.
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NewsBBC3 to debut all comedy on iPlayer
BBC3 is to premiere all of its scripted comedy on iPlayer from next month as the corporation ramps up its online first strategy.
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NewsC4 orders nightclub toilet doc
Channel 4 is to open the door to the toilets of a Crawley nightclub for a one-off fixed-rig documentary.
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NewsNutopia behind C4 & PBS Algerian terrorist doc
Nutopia and the Bafta-winning director behind Our War are making a doc about the terrorist attack on Algeria’s In Amenas gas facility for Channel 4 and PBS in the US.
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NewsDCMS to abolish retransmission fees
The government plans to abolish retransmission fees and has set out plans to preserve the prominence of PSB broadcasters in a wide-ranging policy paper.
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NewsTreadwell-Collins returns as EastEnders boss
Dominic Treadwell-Collins is to return as executive producer of EastEnders after a three-year absence.
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NewsITVS revenues hit £395m to offset ad decline
ITV’s production arm grew by over 10% in the first half of the year to head off a fall in advertising revenue and help the company’s pre-tax profits leap to £270m.
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NewsBT Sport set to strike Virgin Media carriage deal
Virgin Media is poised to close a deal to carry BT Sport’s three sports channels on its cable TV platform, making them available to a further 4m potential customers.
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NewsDCMS aims to protect PSB content on digital platforms
The DCMS will set out measures to protect the prominence of PSBs on new content platforms in the long-awaited Communications Act strategy paper this week.
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NewsC4 commits to Kavos after casting controversy
Channel 4’s teen Brits abroad doc What Happens In Kavos is to return for a second series despite producers Dragonfly being reprimanded over “deeply inappropriate” casting references.
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NewsBig dog Tim Westwood bows out of Radio 1
Hip hop DJ Tim Westwood is leaving Radio 1 after 20 years as part of a schedule shake-up.