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NewsThe Lying Game acquired by 5*
Channel 5 has picked up the exclusive rights to new US drama series The Lying Game as well as comedy drama Gilmore Girls for digital channel 5*.
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NewsPact chair to advise Keo
Pact chair Debbie Manners has joined Keo Films as a non-executive director to work with the senior management team and drive further growth.
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NewsSequence and Wise Buddah link up
Picture post house Sequence and audio specialist Wise Buddah have joined forces to offer a full postproduction service.
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NewsYearly ratings plummet
This year’s ratings reveal some major headaches for the commercial PSBs: Channel 4 is on course to miss its 7% share target, Channel 5’s gamble on Big Brother has not paid off and ITV1’s 2010 ratings renaissance is over.
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NewsAvid updates Interplay toolset
Avid is boosting its media asset management toolset with updates to its Interplay system that it says will ease the pressure of delivering content to multiple screens.
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NewsSky Atlantic ups content push
Sky Atlantic has commissioned its highest-profile UK content yet, including an adaptation of Robert Wilson’s Javier Falcón novels and two landmark series on Britain from Jane Root’s Nutopia and Morgan Spurlock.
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NewsHunt: C4 restructure will boost creativity
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has revealed the thinking behind her commissioning restructure and explained the spate of recent departures from the broadcaster.
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NewsShine to launch indie staffed by youngsters
Shine Group is launching a new production company that will be staffed by young content makers from non-traditional TV backgrounds.
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NewsBBC pushes case for diversity
Results of a major research project for the Cultural Diversity Network are to be published next year.
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NewsSky Atlantic to air 'Glee for grown-ups'
Sky Atlantic has scored exclusive UK TV rights to NBC’s new “Glee for grown-ups” drama Smash.
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NewsEdgar-Jones takes Sky entertainment reins
Sky has snapped up former Big Brother executive producer Phil Edgar-Jones to become head of entertainment just a few weeks after he quit Running Bare.
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NewsR1 plans first scripted comedy in 12 years
BBC head of radio comedy Jane Berthoud wants to bring scripted comedy back to Radio 1 for the first time in more than 12 years, Broadcast understands.
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NewsZig Zag goes to Hollywood for push into ent
Zig Zag Productions is targeting a major push into entertainment after hiring former Sky 1 and Living commissioner Clare Hollywood.
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NewsDaybreak deputy ed to leave
Less than a week after taking up the mantle of Daybreak editor and David Kermode has already made his mark – overseeing the departure of deputy editor Paul Connolly.
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NewsC4 crime pilot to use footage supplied by public
Channel 4 is piloting a format that is like an updated version of Crimewatch and which will call on viewers and members of the public to contribute their own amateur footage of crime or anti-social behaviour.
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NewsHealey seeks answers in first major BBC3 series
BBC3 has handed immersive doc specialist Cherry Healey her first major series, in which she will examine the challenges faced by women in modern Britain.
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NewsReef and ITN win rights to develop shows on V&A
Reef Television and ITN Productions have won the right to develop programme ideas based on the Victoria & Albert Museum’s forthcoming exhibitions and permanent collection.
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NewsSilver River puts retired people to work for BBC1
The BBC is to explore the effects of the country’s ageing workforce in a constructed experiment documentary that follows 2010’s The Day The Immigrants Left and this year’s The Street That Cut Everything.
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NewsC5 orders Mentorn series on extreme events
Channel 5 has ordered a four-part series from Mentorn that looks at extreme events and near-misses.
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NewsSky appoints Tansey
Sky’s group brand marketing director Robert Tansey has been appointed executive director of Sky Creative.