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NewsSkillset's biggest grant to train "next gen" leaders
Skillset has made its biggest ever training grant to help a creative leaders develop the skills to face TV’s most pressing issues, such as the emergence of multiplatform delivery and falling production budgets.
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NewsWithnail star slams "boring" drama
Actor Paul McGann has launched a blistering attack on the UK drama industry, claiming it no longer deals with a broad range of subject matter or has “the bravery to tackle things that might be riskier”.
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NewsSky plans £1.5m rebrand
BSkyB is to carry out a £1.5m rebrand in an effort to position itself as a warmer and more customer-friendly brand.
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ITV Studios launches in Spain
MIPCOM: ITV Studios has opened a new production centre in Madrid and has hired a managing director to run it – with a two pilots already commissioned.
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NewsNBC Universal in content and branding push
MIPCOM: NBC Universal is to launch a global push to acquire and order original, exclusive and first-run content, and to put its emphasis on five channel brands, led by Universal Channel.
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NewsChannel TV calls for police action on awards scandal
Channel TV has called for a criminal investigation into the British Comedy Awards phone-in scandal, after members of the TV production team “deliberately” changed the 2005 People’s Choice Awards from Catherine Tate to Ant and Dec.
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NewsBoyle quits Mock the Week
BBC2’s topical panel show Mock the Week will return for two more series – but without outspoken panellist Frankie Boyle.
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NewsBBC staff vote on Salford move
The BBC is to begin recruitment for around 800 jobs at BBC North after almost half of London-based rank-and-file staff agreed to the move to Manchester.
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NewsBradshaw and Starkey clash over Marr interview
Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has stepped up his criticism of Andrew Marr’s interview with Gordon Brown, lambasting an “error of judgement” that was “part of the trivialisation and degradation of our political discourse”.
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NewsChannel fined £80,000 over Comedy Awards phone-in scandal
Channel TV has been fined £80,000 by Ofcom for its part in the phone-in scandal that saw Ant and Dec wrongly given a 2005 British Comedy Awards.
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NewsC4 to mark tsunami anniversary
Channel 4 is to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami with a feature-length documentary that edits amateur footage of the disaster.
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NewsBBC gives go-ahead for second pregnancy series
BBC3 has greenlit an extended eight-part second run of Underage And Pregnant from Mentorn Media.
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NewsC4 strikes deal for two CBS shows
Channel 4 has snapped up CBS shows The Good Wife and Accidentally on Purpose for its digital channels.
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NewsLiving snares Cougar Town
Living has acquired US comedy Cougar Town, featuring Courtney Cox as a newly single woman on the prowl for younger men.
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Broadcast at 50 party
The great and good of the TV industry gathered at The Hospital club in Covent Garden to celebrate 50 years of Broadcast.
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Morrisons fund CITV series
CITV has struck a deal with supermarket Morrisons to produce a new fully-funded 10 x 20-minute factual series called Farm Camp.
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NewsAussie Masterchef to air in UK
Australian MasterChef will make its UK debut on Watch after UKTV acquired the rights from Shine International.
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NewsHolden becomes singer and showgirl for ITV1
Mammoth Screen has been commissioned to make its first factual show - a 3 x 60-minute documentary for ITV1 called Amanda Holden: Fantasy Lives - in conjunction with ITV Studios.
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NewsBBC hires Merton for Hollywood and Euro cinema docs
Comedian Paul Merton is to front his first factual show on BBC2 in one of two commissions drawing on his love of cinema.
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NewsBBC seeks out indies for hour-long Wonderlands
The BBC is to extend the length of its Wonderland docs from 40 minutes to an hour and open the strand to indie producers for the first time.