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NewsBanijay on board Fridge format
Banijay International has tied with UK indie Mendoza Films to serve cookery format This is Your Fridge around the world.
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NewsZodiak USA boss quits; returning to UK
Zodiak USA chief executive Grant Mansfield is leaving the company after just over two years.
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NewsC5 to investigate fat nation
The morbidly obese are to put under the spotlight for a new Channel 5 series.
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NewsZodiak Media gets French reshuffle
Zodiak Media Group is rebranding, made three top level Paris-based appointments, and re-jigged its banking so it is managed from the French capital.
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NewsLucky Day wins trio of orders
Lucky Day has secured three orders from the BBC and Channel 4, comprising one children’s series and two daytime shows.
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NewsFremantle’s Marsh joins Zodiak
Zodiak Media Group has poached Robert Marsh from Talkback Thames to head the UK arm of its digital and branded content division, Zodiak Active.
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NewsComedy Unit founders to step down
The founders of Rab C Nesbitt producer The Comedy Unit are leaving the firm five years after it was bought out by the then RDF Media Group.
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NewsDickinson's Real Deal to get US treatment
History Channel is to adapt ITV1 format Dickinson’s Real Deal for US audiences.
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NewsSowerbutts resurfaces at BBC Books
Paul Sowerbutts, a former exec at Diverse and Zodiak, has resurfaced at Ebury Publishing’s imprint BBC Books.
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NewsZodiak launches Being Human Facebook game
MIPCOM: Zodiak Active has launched a Facebook role-playing game based on BBC3 and Syfy US drama Being Human.
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NewsBwark raids BBC for creative director
Bwark has made its first hire since it was bought by Zodiak Media Group, appointing Simon Wilson as creative director.
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NewsCBeebies picks up reworked version of Waybuloo
CBeebies has acquired a reworking of The Foundation’s popular pre-school show Waybuloo, which is narrated by Come Dine With Me’s Dave Lamb.
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NewsE4 asks contestants to ride the Love Shaft
Singletons will be given a chance to ride the Love Shaft for a new E4 dating show format in one of the channel’s first pre-watershed orders.
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News71 Degrees North goes global
ITV reality show 71 Degrees North has been sold to six new territories by Banijay International.
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NewsBwark joins Zodiak Group
The Inbetweeners producer Bwark has been bought by Zodiak Media Group as the super-indie returns to the acquisitions trail.
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NewsBullseye scores US pilot for I Secretly Hate You format
Bullseye Productions has created I Secretly Hate You, a factual entertainment format that is being piloted by US network A&E and is arousing interest from UK broadcasters.
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NewsSecond chance for Love Thy Neighbour in Spain
Love Thy Neighbour, the reality format that struggled to find an audience on Channel 4 in March, has won a second chance to shine in Spain.
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NewsCameras roll on Tony Marchant’s CBBC drama
Production has begun on the first children’s drama from Tony Marchant, the writer behind The Mark of Cain and Garrow’s Law.
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NewsOnly Connect on iPhone and iPad
Zodiak indie Presentable is developing an app game for iPhone and iPad of its BBC4 quiz show Only Connect, with plans to launch it when the fifth series starts in August.
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NewsBBC3 picks up Scottish sitcom
BBC Scotland comedy Gary: Tank Commander has secured a network slot on BBC3 - the first such move for a Scottish sitcom in seven years.