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NewsExperts advise teens on sex in Betty series for C4
Channel 4 is to offer teenagers expert advice on their sex lives in a specially created walk-in clinic.
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NewsAll3Media appoints former CBS president
All3Media has bolstered its international team with the appointed former CBS president Nancy Tellem as US non-executive director.
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NewsSources cool on ITV / All3Media deal reports
City sources have poured cold water on the suggestion that ITV could attempt to buy super-indie All3Media.
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NewsAll3Media pushes to seal VoD deals in US
All3Media is planning a major push on sealing video-on-demand (VoD) content deals in the US as it looks to boost its digital revenues.
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NewsITV2 eyes moving hit Essex format around country
The Only Way could be Merseyside, Glasgow or Manchester for ITV2 as it mulls transferring its reality soap concept to other UK locations.
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NewsStudio Lambert to produce Betty formats in US
Studio Lambert, the indie behind Undercover Boss, has signed a partnership deal with Freaky Eaters producer Betty to adapt its formats in the US.
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NewsBBC to create digital ‘laboratory’
The BBC is planning to modernise how it develops scripted content by creating a “laboratory” designed to test out the next generation of digital and TV formats.
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NewsITV2 Essex show offers barcodes for extra content
Viewers of ITV2 reality series The Only Way Is Essex will be able to download mobile content using barcodes that will feature in the show itself.
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NewsSam Mendes to work on BBC Shakespeare season
Sam Mendes, Jane Campion and Sir David Hare have been signed up by the BBC’s controller of drama Ben Stephenson to work on dramas for its autumn/winter season.
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NewsAll3Media boss slams Google
Steve Morrison, chief executive of super-indie All3Media, has hit out at Google for failing to share search revenue with content owners.
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NewsMaverick wins Disney fashion order
Disney Channel has ordered a run of short-form fashion shows from Maverick Television.
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News"Unprecedented" demand crashes Seven Days site
The launch of Channel 4’s ambitious multi-platform reality show Seven Days was dealt a blow on its first night as its website crashed due to “unprecedented numbers” accessing the site.
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NewsIndies break new ground with first Canvas projects
Endemol, Maverick, Mint Digital, So TV and Somethin’ Else are among the companies developing projects for IPTV service Project Canvas, which will launch as YouView next year.
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NewsAll3 boss hits out at TV licence fee freeze
All3Media chief executive Steve Morrison has warned that “playing” with the BBC licence fee would be tantamount to “pulling a pin out of a grenade” in the UK production sector.
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NewsWayne Garvie heads to All3Media
Wayne Garvie is to leave BBC Worldwide to become All3Media’s managing director of international production.
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NewsAll3 completes £40m Optomen deal
All3Media has completed its acquisition of indie Optomen in a deal believed to be worth up to £40m.
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NewsHollyoaks set for Top Model crossover
Channel 4 has lined up a special edition of Hollyoaks featuring contestants from this year’s series of Living’s reality show Britain’s Next Top Model.
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NewsAll3Media to complete Optomen deal this week
All3Media could complete a £40m takeover of Optomen Television this week as the companies enter advanced negotiations.
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NewsObjective’s O’Connor moves to LA to spearhead US charge
Objective Productions managing director Andrew O’Connor has moved to the US, where he will head up the company’s push to break into the market.
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NewsC4 to put model agency under the spotlight
Channel 4 is to extend the fixed, multi-camera set-up of The Family and One Born Every Minute to a model agency’s office - with Maverick lined up to produce.