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NewsGreenlight round-up: ITV stocks up new commissions
ITV has had a busy week commissioning a raft of new programmes including a ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark-style’ game show.
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NewsAmberfin's Devlin given SMPTE award
The Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has awarded Amberfin chief technology officer Bruce Devlin the David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award.
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NewsFoundry launches Katana
The Foundry has release Katana, its new look development and lighting tool.
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NewsCiTV acquires teen music shows
CITV has acquired the first two series of Nickelodeon live-action kids’ shows Big Time Rush and Victorious.
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NewsVera producer to help aspiring writers
Northern Film & Media is to give aspiring writers the chance to attend a workshop with the producer of ITV1 drama Vera.
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NewsBedell: X Factor criticism is ludicrous
ITV director of entertainment Elaine Bedell has praised The X Factor’s revamped judging panel for attracting younger viewers and branded criticism of the show “ludicrous”.
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NewsRajar round-up (Q3 2011)
Broadcast’s round-up of the latest radio audience figures, including at-a-glance tables for the biggest stations, shows and digital listening numbers.
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NewsNutopia series is Bellamy’s Discovery prototype
Julian Bellamy is launching Discovery Networks International’s “globalised TV” strategy with its biggest commission to date – a five-hour, multi-million pound series on the world’s greatest inventions.
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NewsBBC4 to lose history and science programming
BBC4 documentaries like Wellington Bomber, Spitfire Women and The Secret Life of the National Grid are to be a thing of the past as the channel is stripped of its history budget.
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NewsITV follows up Kosher doc and tackles unusual kids
ITV1 is to explore unusual behaviour in children for a new documentary series, and has turned Strictly Kosher – its film about a Jewish community in Manchester – into a two-part series.
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NewsCosgrove Hall resurrected
The Bafta Award-winning animator behind Dangermouse, Wind in the Willows and Count Duckula has risen from the ashes two years after it went out of business.
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NewsVirgin Media: Tivo attracts 75,000 new subs
Virgin Media has netted 222,000 subscribers to its connected TV service Tivo - with a third of them new to the cable TV operator.
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NewsClaudia Lewis returns to Talkback
Claudia Lewis is to return to Talkback Thames to oversee Channel 4 show Four Rooms just months after defecting to Mentorn Media.
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NewsTarget founder steps down
Alison Rayson is to step down as chief executive of Target Entertainment, the distribution business she founded in 1998, and has appointed a new managing director to take the reins.
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NewsITV1 orders Stephen Fry drama
Stephen Fry’s indie is to make the first Ian Rankin thriller to air on ITV1 since Rebus more than four years ago.
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NewsBeing Human team cast spell on witches drama
After vampires, werewolves and ghosts, the team behind Being Human is working on a female-skewing comedy-drama about witches.
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NewsITV orders ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ gameshow
ITV1 has ordered a “Raiders of the Lost Ark-style” gameshow, set in a giant 24-room maze, that challenges contestants to memorise the answers to questions in order to escape with up to £200,000 in prize money.
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NewsTrue Vision wins Poor Kids spin offs
True Vision has won a string of spin-off developments and commissions from its critically acclaimed BBC1 film Poor Kids.
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NewsSkillset reveals radio gender imbalance
Women working in radio are significantly under-represented at senior levels, particularly as they get older, according to a report produced by training body Skillset.
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NewsCLAC founder attacks HMRC for wasting millions
The founder of embattled TV accountancy firm Christopher Lunn & Company (CLAC) has accused HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of wasting millions of pounds on an investigation “without foundation”.