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NewsTVF closes doc deals
French public broadcaster France 2 has acquired South Africa doc Dear Mandela after striking a deal with TVF International.
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NewsDirectors Cut appoints Ben Lee as online editor
Directors Cut Films has appointed Ben Lee to the role of online editor.
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Re:fine fills key positions
Content processing firm Re:fine has appointed Vicky Wise to the newly created role of projects manager.
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Chris Steele joins Quantel for revolutionQ roll out
Quantel has appointed Chris Steele to the role of senior product manager in its broadcast division.
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Deltatre adds Civolution software to Diva player
Watermarking firm Civolution’s SyncNow ACR technology has been integrated into Deltatre’s Diva video player.
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NewsKleparski replaces Khan as Molinare post manager
Molinare has appointed Todd Kleparski as post-production manager.
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NewsSky Atlantic to air Sopranos tribute
Sky Atlantic is pulling its planned schedule tomorrow night to air four episodes of The Sopranos, following the death of star James Gandolfini.
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NewsComedy Central eyes UK hits
Comedy Central is set to spend millions on UK multi-camera comedies as it eyes the production of four to five new series each year.
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NewsAl Jazeera plans UK doc push
Al Jazeera English is planning a major drive on UK commissioning and is understood to want to air two original 60-minute docs every week.
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NewsBBC tackles ‘climate of fear’
Human rights barrister Dinah Rose has admitted that she was surprised by the climate of fear at the BBC, in her first public comments on the BBC Respect at Work Review, which was published in May.
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NewsOfcom backs Sky Sports BT ads ban
Ofcom has ruled that Sky broke no regulations in refusing to carry adverts for BT Sport on its Sky Sports channels.
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NewsNat Geo on the hunt for UK indie projects
National Geographic is looking for tens of new projects from UK indies as part of its latest commissioning round, and has ordered an eight-part series about dwarfism from Dragonfly Film & TV.
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NewsEdit producer role comes under scrutiny at Doc/Fest
The increasing power of the edit producer was again under the spotlight at a heated Directors UK session debate at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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NewsJeff Pope to make Lord Lucan biopic for ITVS
Jeff Pope’s next factual drama project for ITV will be a biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished after his children’s nanny was murdered.
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NewsEuro demand for UK docs
International networks including France Télévisions, Germany’s ARD and HBO Europe are increasing the number of hours they commission from British indies as they ramp up their global co-production ambitions.
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NewsITV checks in for B&B sitcom
Sherlock producer Hartswood Films is to make an ITV comedy drama about a 1980s-inspired bed and breakfast in Margate.
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NewsHardie: ‘no need for 24-hour news on TV’
ITN chief executive John Hardie has branded rolling TV news channels “old fashioned” in the era of online news.
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NewsC4 orders six First Cut docs
Channel 4 has commissioned six hour-long docs for its First Cut strand from up-and-coming directors including Alex Brooker: Man v Fat’s Eddie Hutton-Mills.
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NewsNetflix heads back to Hemlock Grove
Netflix has ordered a second series of Eli Roth’s horror series Hemlock Grove.
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NewsITV tests paid mobile content
ITV has begun testing viewers’ appetite to pay for ad-free content on mobile as the final pillar in part one of its digital transformation.