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NewsThe Mill plans expansion in wake of Barclays deal
The Mill has outlined plans for further international growth following its sale to Barclays Private Equity in a deal that values the business at £119m.
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NewsNBCU’s Beale to head ITVS global formats
NBC Universal’s Mike Beale is to become ITV Studios’ new international formats supremo as the production arm targets overseas expansion.
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NewsChatty Man top for Twitter interaction
The fifth series of British comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man attracted between 500 and 700 tweets per episode addressed directly to the @chattyman account, and marked an uplift in use of the #chattyman hashtag.
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NewsBBC looks to take R4’s Act Your Age to TV after pilot
The BBC is hoping to transfer Radio 4 comedy panel show Act Your Age to television and is producing a non-broadcast pilot.
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NewsBBC axes Vision jobs before DQF cuts hit
The BBC has cut 187 jobs from its in-house departments in the past six months - none of which are part of the impending 20% savings to come from Delivering Quality First.
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NewsFarmer Doherty in tie-up with Jamie’s Fresh One
Jimmy Doherty, the TV farmer poached by Channel 4 from the BBC, is setting up rights-based company Guppy Productions in association with Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One.
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NewsAbraham targets maintaining C4 audience share
David Abraham has rallied Channel 4 commissioners, telling them the broadcaster is aiming to maintain its 7% audience share for 2011 even without Big Brother.
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NewsThe Cube returns to ITV1
The Cube has been recommissioned for a fourth series on ITV1, with Objective Productions set to start filming later this year.
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NewsAllsopp to take on craft fair pros in series for C4
Channel 4 has ordered a Kirstie Allsopp-fronted series in which the presenter is pitted against country fair craft experts.
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NewsC4 orders three more runs of Million Pound Drop
Channel 4 is to air 29 further episodes of The Million Pound Drop Live this year after awarding producer Remarkable Pictures a three-series deal.
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NewsInside Nature’s Giants wins longer run on C4
Channel 4 animal autopsy show Inside Nature’s Giants is to return for a 10-part run, its longest to date, with the experts taking part in more adventure-style settings.
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NewsESPN on the brink of 3D Cup final deal
ESPN is on the brink of agreeing a deal with Sky to screen the FA Cup final in 3D.
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NewsRoss returns to BBC1 for comedy show
Jonathan Ross is to appear on BBC1 once more, as one of a number of contributors to a new comedy list show to air on the channel this summer.
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NewsBroadcasters and indies rally against relaxing IP laws
The UK’s biggest commercial broadcasters and Pact have argued that relaxing intellectual property (IP) laws could “seriously undermine” investment in content.
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NewsBBC 'set to drop So You Think You Can Dance'
The BBC could be set to axe its Saturday night show So You Think You Can Dance unless the series pulls in more viewers, according to reports.
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NewsAuthors complain over "sneering" BBC
Iain M Banks, Michael Moorcok and Adam Roberts are among some 85 authors to have written to the BBC complaining about its “sneering derogatory tone” towards genre fiction.
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NewsThe Killing, Essex up for Bafta Audience Award
BBC4’s Danish crime drama The Killing has been nominated alongside ITV2’s constructed reality show The Only Way Is Essex for this year’s YouTube Audience Award, which will be announced at the Bafta Awards on 22 May.
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NewsESPN to air ad-free FA Cup final
ESPN is to broadcast the FA Cup Final without advert breaks as part of 12 hours of coverage dedicated to the match.
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NewsBurns departs NGC
National Geographic Channel (NGC) executive vice president of global content Steve Burns is leaving the business within the next few weeks.
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NewsSky hands Cassy director of 3D role
Sky has appointed John Cassy to the newly-created position of director of Sky 3D and promoted James Hunt, currently head of programming at Sky Arts, to director of the channel.