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NewsPrime targets Clear for takeover
Indian media giant Prime Focus has hit the acquisition trail again buying commercials and graphic design house Clear Post Production through its newly acquired subsidiary VTR plc.
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On the box: Coogan scores again
Five years ago a new Steve Coogan character-based comedy would have been given the usual overhyped trumpet blast that always backfires. Having handed the baton of 'comedy media darling' to Ricky Gervais and Little Britain, Saxondaleslipped out with little ...
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Turner buys Canadian toon Storm Hawks
Turner Broadcasting has acquired new comedy action-adventure series Storm Hawksfrom Canadian animation house Nerd Corp Entertainment. The 52 x 30-minute series is due to air next year on Cartoon Network in the UK, France and the US.
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All digital Slingshot opens doors in Ealing
Slingshot, a new all-digital independent film production and distribution company based at Ealing Studios, has launched. The company will finance, produce, distribute and market a slate of 10 low-budget feature films over the next three years, exploiting digital technology.
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Random House acquires BBC Books
Publisher Random House has acquired a majority stake in BBC Books in a move expected to put jobs at risk. BBC Worldwide will maintain a shareholding in the division, which will continue to license book publishing rights for BBC programmes, and work within the corporation's editorial and commercial policy guidelines. ...
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20th Century Fox to make Hustle movie
Kudos Film & Television drama Hustleis set to move to the big screen after US studio 20th Century Fox picked up the film rights to the BBC1 series. Fox 2000, which has previously produced hit movies such as Fight Cluband ...
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Southern Star bags rights to Little Devil
Australian company Southern Star International has taken the worldwide rights to new ITV comedy/drama Little Devil, as it looks to build a distribution relationship with the show's producer, Talkback Thames.
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Eastern Europe snaps up BBC dramas
BBC Worldwide has licensed over 500 hours of programming to the major broadcasters in eastern Europe, following Discop, the area's largest market for content buyers.
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C4 to list 100 greatest stand-ups
Channel 4 has commissioned three list shows from Visual Voodoo. The four-part The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, greenlit by commissioning editor Andrew MacKenzie, will allow the public to vote for the greatest stand-ups. Meanwhile, C4's Shane Allen has ordered The 50 ...
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Waddell Media looks at angry sports stars
Northern Ireland indie Waddell Media is making a two-hour special, when Sports Stars See Red, looking at 'red card moments' when sports stars have snapped with rage.
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BBC2/4 orders George Clinton doc
Indie Somethin' Else has won a commission from BBC2 and BBC4 to make an hour-long documentary about the 50-year career of R&B star George Clinton. The Clones of Dr Funkenstein - The Story of George Clinton will include new interviews with Clinton, along with other ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Chiara Cipriani
The director of television at The Poker Channel does a lot with very little and is looking for indies that can think commercially as well as creatively and drive more mainstream awareness
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Five swaps state and public school students
Five has greenlit a observational documentary series from Granada Factual which follows three pupils from a public school and three from an inner-city comprehensive as they complete a two week exchange.
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UKTV Food searches for local food heroes
UKTV Food is launching a search for Britain's Local Food Hero 2006 with the help of celebrity chef Gary Rhodes and former politician Edwina Currie.
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BBC1 comes to aid of rural singletons
BBC1 is to play matchmaker for a group of rural singletons, throwing together 16 people from opposite ends of the country and watching the sparks fly for a primetime observational documentary.
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Mansfield's million
GCap Media's former chief executive David Mansfield walked off with a£1.13m payoff after resigning last September, according to the radio group's annual report published this week. The sum was paid by the UK 's biggest radio group by way of compensation to Mansfield who resigned not long after the merger ...
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BBC shows for Folio
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been re-commissioned to make new series for peaktime BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in over 5 million viewers, has ...
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Back to Futurama
Cult animated comedy Futuramais to be brought back three years after being axed for poor ratings. US cable network Comedy Central is to revive the Matt Groening show, which follows a pizza delivery boy who wakes up to discover he is living in the year ...
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America gets Piers
America's Got Talent, the new talent show on which former Mirroreditor Piers Morgan is appearing as a judge, debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC last week. Made by Simon Cowell's indie, Syco, and Fremantle Media, it was the most watched ...
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Wallace joins indie behind E4 Music
Former Sky One director of original programming Jo Wallace has joined Remedy Productions, the indie behind E4 Music.