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NewsBravo buys Blade spin-off series from Warner Bros
Bravo has acquired Blade: The Series, a scripted drama based on the hit movie trilogy about a warrior fighting his way through a shadowy underworld of vampires.
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Production base for Turner in UK
Turner Broadcasting is to set up a London-based development unit to develop original animated comedy outside the US for the Cartoon Network.
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ITV wins Uefa rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the Uefa Cup in a deal understood to be worth over£20m. Covering the 2006-7 to 2008-9 seasons, the agreement will give ITV exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of the tournament. ITV, which fought off ...
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Universal TV
Universal Music has launched its own TV production company. Globe Productions will operate as a standalone division focused on creating new TV formats and developing on-screen platforms for its roster of artists, who include Scissor Sisters and Jamie Cullum. Ideas will be developed in-house but the company is open to ...
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Parfitt: teen tsar
Controller of BBC Radio 1 Andy Parfitt has been handed the role of 'teen tsar', charged with reaching out to 12 to 16-year-olds. Parfitt, who looked into how the BBC serves children and teens for the Creative Futures review earlier this year, will head a small team briefed to work ...
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Nick Knowles in jail
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of the UK's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha. Behind Bars, which is produced by CityHospitalmaker Topical Television, ...
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Setanta wrestles PGA Tour golf from Sky
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from this January and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel. The Irish sports group, which recently picked up two live Premier League rights packages, has brokered a six-year deal to air the PGA Tour competition in ...
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BBC Worldwide builds on LA success
BBC Worldwide is to capitalise on the success of its Los Angeles production arm by opening more overseas production offices - with an announcement on locations expected within a month. The corporation's LA office makes Dancing with the Starsfor ABC, the international format of ...
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Young to host Desert Island Discs
Five news presenter Kirsty Young has been named as the new host for BBC Radio 4's long-running series DesertIsland Discs. Young, who is currently on maternity leave from her role anchoring Five News, will take over the show at the ...
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CBS chief to keynote at RTS conference
Les Moonves, CBS's president and chief executive, is to give the keynote speech at this year's RTS London conference. Moonves has spearheaded a revival in CBS's fortunes with shows such as Survivor, Cold Case and the CSIbrand and will give ...
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NewsInterview: Jeff Ford - C4's buying power
Jeff Ford, the man behind C4's latest acquisitions from the LA Screenings
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Comment: Welcome to my world
The resolved rights battle will be pivotal for the UK's digital future, says Pact's Alex Graham
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NewsProfile - Adrain Chiles: The man from the Midlands
Adrian Chiles, the face of BBC1's new 7pm magazine pilot
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NewsITV plans push into US syndication
ITV is planning a push into the US syndication market as part of plans to up its profits from Granada America, the company's stateside operation.
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Voice of Homer's boss gets Radio 4 role
The voice behind Mr Burns, Homer's boss in The Simpsonhas landed a starring role in a comedy series for BBC Radio 4. In Not Today Thank You, Harry Shearer will play Nostrils, a man who convinces himself he is ...
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NewsBBC1 inches ahead in World Cup contest
BBC1 has established only a slender lead over ITV1 in the battle for World Cup viewers.
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Teachers' TV recruits
Brook Lapping Education, a division of Ten Alps, is offering two internships to work on Teachers' TV. Designed as an entry-level introduction to the TV industry, the scheme will offer the trainees an 11-month contract. One position will most likely be for a news trainee, working on the weekly Teachers' ...