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NewsSky Arts commissions major portrait competition
Sky Arts has teamed up with the National Portrait Gallery and the British Library to launch a six-part series that will attempt to discover the UK’s best portrait painter.
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NewsSir Tom Stoppard pens Pink Floyd play for R2
Sir Tom Stoppard has written an original BBC2 play celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
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NewsMytherapy unveils online ‘look’ store
Post facility Mytherapy has launched an online ‘look’ store for post houses, production companies, DoPs, graphic designers and VFX artists.
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NewsDock 10 and Infostrada roll out cloud-based services
Dock 10 and Infostrada have entered into a joint venture to provide cloud-based production and distribution services to the UK broadcast industry.
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NewsFilms of Record recruits Mentorn’s Neil Grant
Neil Grant is leaving Mentorn Media after six years to join Films of Record, to help broaden its factual output.
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NewsSony adds some Crackle to the VoD market
SPT’s executive vice-president of digital networks tells Peter White about its UK plans
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NewsYouView to add pay TV channels to EPG
YouView is planning to beef up its EPG to include linear streamed pay-TV channels such as the Disney Channel, Sky Sports and UKTV.
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NewsApple ditches C4 Education’s Sweatshop app
Apple has removed the Channel 4 Education-funded mobile game Sweatshop from its App Store after claiming it was “uncomfortable” with the game’s themes.
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NewsBBC handling of harassment complaints ‘not good enough’
The BBC has admitted that its handling of harassment complaints made by one of its journalists, who is thought to have killed himself last year, was “not good enough”.
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NewsDiscovery sets launch date for TLC
Discovery-owned entertainment channel TLC is to make its long-awaited debut in the UK and Ireland at the end of April, as first reported by Broadcast last month.
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NewsVice strikes first 4Music series deal
4Music is planning to kick off a late night strand following its acquisition of a “sex, drugs and rock & roll” series from multiplatform publisher Vice.
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NewsNetflix orders series from The Matrix creators
Netflix has commissioned a sci-fi drama from The Matrix creators Andy and Lana Wachowski and Babylon5 creator Joe Michael Straczynski.
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NewsInvestigation Discovery orders Waco doc
Investigation Discovery will mark the 20th anniversary of the Waco Siege, the stand-off between the FBI and a cult, with a one-off documentary.
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NewsChristine Bleakley heads to James Grant
ITV talent Christine Bleakley has left her management agency Avalon to be represented by James Grant.
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NewsFreeview hits 11m homes milestone
Freeview is being used as the primary TV service in 11m homes, its highest ever figure, further to the completion of digital switchover.
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NewsBroadcast Fives 2013 tournament
Get involved with the annual Broadcast fives tournament and help raise over £100,000 for the Vision Charity.
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NewsGroupM poaches DCD's Hammond
DCD Media managing director Tim Hammond has left the super-indie after less than a year to join GroupM Entertainment.
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NewsThe Syndicate writer slams iPlayer premieres
Kay Mellor, the writer of BBC1’s The Syndicate, has claimed that she “wouldn’t be happy” if her work was made available online before airing on television.
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NewsShiver swoops for Exposure editor
ITV Studios factual arm Shiver has hired Mike Blair, the current affairs editor who oversaw the Jimmy Savile Exposure film, as an executive producer.