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NewsDispatches seeks digital partner to help engage audiences
Channel 4 current affairs strand Dispatches has issued a tender for a digital company to work alongside the strand’s production companies and help engage new audiences.
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NewsCITV: bring funding or miss out on projects
CITV is hunting for a live-action scripted series and a challenge series, but has warned indies they must bring third-party funding to projects.
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NewsBoundless to secure two-year extension for The Apprentice
BBC1 is reaffirming its commitment to The Apprentice, with YouView chairman Lord Sugar on the brink of signing a two-year extension to front the show.
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NewsS4C to unveil first kids’ playalong game
Welsh broadcaster S4C is to launch the UK’s first second-screen playalong game aimed at children.
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James Grant buys Industry Media in bid to diversify
Talent and management agency James Grant Group has acquired business affairs consultancy Industry Media as it continues to diversify its business.
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NewsITV1 adapts ‘forgotten’ novel
ITV1 is to adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘forgotten’ romantic novel The Making Of A Marchioness into a single period drama.
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NewsBremner and Bellingham to front ITV daytime shows
ITV daytime has lined up Rory Bremner and Lynda Bellingham to front two daytime formats as part of a raft of 70 hours of commissions.
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NewsAnimation UK leader: lower tax break threshold
Animation UK chairman Oli Hyatt has called on the industry to push hard for tax breaks for shows that are “mostly animated”.
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NewsRussia’s Channel One set to return to Fort Boyard
Fort Boyard is returning to Russia after a six year hiatus at the same time as the kids’ version of the show wins a major recommission.
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NewsCineflix sells 400 hours into CEE
More than 400 hours of programming from Cineflix Rights’ catalogue has been sold to Central and Eastern Europe territories following Natpe Budapest.
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NewsC4 develops Million Pound gesture app
Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop is in line to become the first gameshow to pilot the ability to play along via a gesture-based connected-TV app.
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ITV Sport and Ladbrokes to offer live betting
Visitors to the ITV Sport website are able to gamble on events without leaving the site following a deal with bookmaker Ladbrokes.
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CPL hires RDF‘s Sutcliffe to head up development
CPL Productions has poached RDF Television head of development Lynn Sutcliffe and is poised to secure the future of Sky 1 panel show A League Of Their Own until the end of 2013.
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NewsNick Grimshaw to replace Chris Moyles
T4 presenter Nick Grimshaw will replace Chris Moyles as the host of the Radio 1 breakfast show later this year.
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NewsChris Moyles to leave Radio 1 breakfast show
Chris Moyles is to step down as host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in September.
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NewsFood Network beefs up output
Food Network UK is ramping up its on-air hours from four hours per day to a full-time output on Freeview.
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NewsRaw wins order for Investigation Discovery and History Television
Raw TV will produce a dramatic documentary series examining how people are coerced into carrying out unthinkable acts by criminals or abusive family members.
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C4 and PBS offer portal to WWII with October doc
More than 100,000 hours of secret recordings of German prisoners of war from World War II will be the basis of a one-off special for Channel4 and PBS Channel 13 in the US.
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NewsSonita Alleyne and Aideen McGinley appointed BBC Trustees
Sonita Alleyne and Aideen McGinely have been appointed to the BBC Trust.
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NewsS4C to close HD channel
Welsh language broadcaster S4C has dropped its HD channel as part of cost saving measures introduced due to budget cuts.