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NewsITV rebrands Emmerdale
Emmerdale has undergone a major rebrand as part of plans to modernise the ITV1 soap.
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NewsGeordie Shore sparks online buzz
MTV reality show Geordie Shore, produced by Lime Pictures, has established a strong social media buzz following its debut this week.
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NewsSomethin’ Else wins 2012 Legacy project
Channel 4 Education and youth communication agency Livity have appointed Somethin’ Else to produce a series of films to support somewhereto, their online project to find vacant spaces that young people can take over.
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NewsVirgin Media puts Millionaire app on Tivo
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has become the first TV show app to launch on Virgin Media’s connected TV service Tivo.
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NewsBox TV orders Pop Up Pop Quiz
Channel 4 and Bauer Media joint venture Box TV is producing an outdoor quiz show set on a giant inflatable set.
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NewsSpurlock to host Current series
Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock is to front a 5 x 60-minute series 50 Documentaries To See Before You Die for Current TV.
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NewsStar hosts Demand 5
The Daily Star website has begun hosting Channel 5’s VoD service Demand 5 as owner Richard Desmond seeks to increase tie-ups between his media businesses.
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BBC4 and TVF back festival doc strand
BBC4 and TVF International are backing the first documentary strand at philosophy and music festival How the Light Gets In.
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NewsGreenlight round-up: BBC1 and BBC3 unveil new shows
This week BBC1 has revealed a slate of new drama while new BBC3 controller Zai Bennett has comedy on the agenda.
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News27 May '11
“We got no closer to understanding why some of those who are abused go on to be abusers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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BBC's Allen joins ISD
Multichannel broadcaster Ideal Shopping Direct has hired former BBC executive Marc Allen to “inject industry credibility” into its four retail channels.
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NewsBBC caught in six-day week row
Bectu and Directors UK are fighting an “unmistakable” increase in “exploitative” six-day-week freelance contracts being issued by BBC Vision Productions.
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NewsBBC scraps multiplatform commissioners
The BBC is scrapping the role of multiplatform commissioners and cutting ten more jobs from BBC Vision as part of its restructure of BBC online.
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NewsBig name drama set for BBC1
William Boyd and Sally Wainwright are both writing 9pm BBC1 dramas as part of a 25-hour slate designed to “challenge what popular mainstream drama is on the channel”.
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NewsBennett sets out BBC3 stall
A new Sharon Horgan comedy, a British Hurt Locker “but with laughs”, and a season tackling unemployment are among the first commissions by new BBC3 controller Zai Bennett.
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NewsUKTV weighs options as four execs move on
UKTV is reassessing its top-level structure following the departure of four high-profile executives in three months.
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NewsBBC4 budget at risk as DQF reaches next stage
BBC4’s £55m commissioning budget faces a major squeeze, with the channel running more repeats and less original content, as part of the latest proposals to emerge from the BBC’s Delivering Quality First initiative.
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NewsMixed Syco fortunes for Fountain Studios
Fountain Studios has lost the final of The X Factor to an arena but is set to secure a deal to host ITV1’s million-pound roulette gameshow Red Or Black?.
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NewsBBC Wales’ Wenger to join Film 4 team
One of the execs behind the latest incarnation of Doctor Who and the resurrection of Upstairs Downstairs has been poached by Channel 4’s movie division Film 4.
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NewsMTV orders Firecracker pilot on troubled teens
Firecracker Films is to build on the success of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings by producing an ob doc pilot about troubled teens and their mothers for MTV.