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NewsLion's Find My Past heads to Travel Channel
US cable network Travel Channel is remaking Lion Television’s British genealogy series Find My Past.
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NewsMajor TV dramas face disruption in pay dispute
Bectu has threatened to derail production on dramas including Call the Midwife and Doctor Who if a long-running pay dispute is not resolved.
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NewsUS network Pivot boards Fortitude
US cable network Pivot has come on board Sky Atlantic’s big-budget drama Fortitude as a coproducer after striking a deal with Sky Vision.
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NewsMipTV boosts Educating’s appeal
Channel 4 and Twofour’s Educating… franchise is set to be remade in several new territories after Shine International held a producers’ workshop at last week’s MipTV.
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NewsDragonfly boss Simon Dickson departs
Simon Dickson is to leave Shine-owned indie Dragonfly Film and TV after three years at the business.
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NewsThe Village set for US remake
Peter Moffat’s BBC historic drama The Village is to be remade in the US by Sundance and Paramount TV.
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NewsCBBC revs up Mario Kart-style racer
CBBC is launching a Mario Kart-style racing game featuring characters including Hacker and Dodge and Wolfblood’s Rydian.
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NewsXbox partners C4 on Humans
Xbox has become a co-production partner on a major British TV project for the first time, joining Channel 4 to back Kudos Film & Television’s remake of Swedish sci-fi series Real Humans.
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NewsFremantle & Vice serve up Munchies
MipTV: Fremantle Media digital chief Keith Hindle has revealed that the super-indie’s online food channel with Vice will offer an antidote to the “mounds of tired, anachronistic celebrity chef and cook-off shows”.
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NewsBBC2 plots Kew Gardens series
Raymond Blanc is to transform an area of Kew Gardens into a fruit and vegetable allotment for a BBC2 series.
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NewsEmily Dalton named MD of Darlow Smithson
Darlow Smithson Productions has promoted Emily Dalton to managing director to replace Ben Bowie, who is leaving to pursue a new venture.
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NewsEmbarrassing Bodies preps Angry Birds-inspired game
Maverick TV is preparing to launch an Angry Birds-inspired game and live mental health checker to support the fourth series of Embarrassing Bodies: Live From The Clinic.
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NewsStephen Garrett to leave Shine Group
Kudos Film and TV chairman and Shine Pictures executive chairman Stephen Garrett is to leave the company after 23 years to pursue new opportunities in scripted drama.
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NewsBBC1 shuts down Waterloo Road
BBC1 has announced that it will close the school gates on classroom drama Waterloo Road after 10 series.
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NewsEndemol acquires Artists Studio
Endemol has acquired Artists Studio, the Gub Neal-owned drama indie behind BBC2 hit The Fall.
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NewsThe Voice to return in two-year deal
BBC1 has wrapped up a deal to keep broadcasting The Voice UK for another two years.
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NewsBroadcast opens International TV Forum
Key execs from BBC Worldwide, Shine, All3Media, Channel 5 and Sky will be speaking at Broadcast’s inaugural International TV Forum, which launches in June.
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NewsBaby Cow, Big Talk and Shed break into US
Baby Cow, Big Talk and Shed Media have secured series from a range of cable networks as UK indies continue to make substantial gains in the US.
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NewsCelebrity Juice producer joins BBC
Celebrity Juice and Sweat The Small Stuff producer Ed Sleeman is to join the BBC’s entertainment commissioning team and take on the BBC3 brief left by Sean Hancock.
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NewsShine chief warns of VoD scripted content ‘bubble’
The current level of investment in acquisitions from VoD providers such as Netflix is unsustainable, Shine Group chief operating officer Tim Robinson has warned.