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NewsLionsgate signs Bonafide first-look deal
Lionsgate has struck a first-look deal with The Last Post indie Bonafide Films as the Mad Men producer looks to expand its television footprint in the UK.
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NewsC5 factual commissioner to depart
Channel 5 factual commissioner Ninder Billing is leaving the broadcaster to return to production.
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NewsTwitter preps first European live broadcast
Twitter has agreed its first European live streaming deal – partnering with Sky Sports News to provide coverage of football’s transfer deadline day.
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NewsBig Light hires BBC drama exec
BBC Drama creative director Katie McAleese has joined Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions.
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NewsEditShare appoints Twine as director of software strategy
Howard Twine has returned to storage and media management systems firm EditShare as director of software strategy.
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NewsOxford Film & TV preps Hirst doc
Oxford Film and Television is to produce a documentary about Damien Hirst’s forthcoming art project Treasures From The Wreck of the Unbelievable.
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NewsxG Technology completes $16m Vislink deal
US-headquartered wireless communications firm xG Technology has completed its acquisition of Vislink Communication Systems for $16m (£12.8m).
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NewsOoona, Screen and Cavena to launch subtitling app
BVE 2017: An online subtitling application developed by three subtitling technology firms will be launched at BVE in February.
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NewsBBCS wins Question of Sport tender
BBC Studios has won the £4m tender to make A Question of Sport – the first show to be put up for grabs after the broadcaster scrapped its in-house guarantee.
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NewsGordon Ramsay returns to ITV
Gordon Ramsay is returning to ITV with a “hard-hitting” documentary series and a daytime cookery quiz, as well as a hosting stint on The Nightly Show.
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NewsEndeavour lands bumper run
ITV has ordered an extended fifth series run of Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour.
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NewsNetflix delves Inside British Vogue
Netflix has picked up the US rights to BBC documentary series Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue after striking a deal with distributor Drive.
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NewsIndie Summit: speakers announced
Mark Linsey, Kim Shillinglaw, Sara Geater and Mel Leach are among the high profile speakers at Broadcast’s Indie Summit in March.
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NewsThe CW buys Sky's Hooten & The Lady
US cable network The CW has picked up Sky 1 action drama Hooten and The Lady from Sky Vision, marking one of the distributor’s biggest scripted US deals to date.
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NewsSky: Discovery demands £1bn for channels
Sky has revealed that Discovery is demanding £1bn for its portfolio of channels as the carriage row between the two media giants ratcheted up a level.
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NewsMaxine Watson joins Twenty Twenty
Twenty Twenty has appointed BBC documentaries commissioner Maxine Watson as director of programmes.
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NewsEvening Standard editor joins Today programme
London Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands has been hired as editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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NewsScreenchannel hires former C4 commissioner
Screenchannel Television has appointed former Channel 4 commissioning editor Katie Boyd as its first creative director.
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NewsRealscreen: entertainment and politics dominate DC
Realscreen Summit was marked by the issue of indie sustainability and discussion of how the stormy political climate would impact unscripted television.
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NewsDiscovery: commissioning threatened by carriage row
Discovery has warned that it could be forced to cut commissioning a result of its “unprecedented” carriage row with Sky.