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NewsItaly buys Guinness' Ultimate Records series
Guinness World Records TV (GWR) has sold flagship series Ultimate Guinness World Records to Italian pay channel GXT.
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Sumners makes kids outlaws
Sumners has created the titles for SMG TV's Uncle Dad, a 7 x 30-minute children's comedy about a hellish family dumped on their mad Uncle Roy. The titles show children becoming modern-day outlaws with spaghetti western alter egos, combining 2D and 3D animation with live ...
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Runway success
Fremantle International Distribution (FID) has sold the Heidi Klum-hosted US reality series Project Runwayinto 21 countries. The deals make the 10 x 60-minute fashion reality series, with a 120-minute finale and 60-minute follow-up special, one of the UK distributor's most popular properties. Remade as ...
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Format Focus: Operacion Triunfo
The long-running Endemol Spanish talent format which was used as the basis for Fame Academy is set to be revived internationally after being picked up in the US.
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Screentime renews two Russian deals
UK-based distributor Screentime Partners has notched up two key renewal deals with Russian broadcasters. Music and entertainment channel Muz TV has commissioned 26 further episodes of the Japanese relationship format Fidelity Test, which gives contestants the chance to find out how likely their partner is ...
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Record sales for Oscar night coverage
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) licensed Sunday night's Academy Awards to the highest number of territories ever. New agreements were concluded with 7 Vietnam, TNT across Latin America, Canal+ France and Wowow Japan, taking the total number of countries screening the Oscars to over 200. BVITV has doubled the international ...
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Pilot's Globe Trekker travels the world
UK travel indie Pilot Productions has sold 26 episodes of its series Globe Trekker to Discovery's US Travel Channel. The series, now in its 12th season, also airs on PBS in the US. The company has also licensed almost 200 hours of the ...
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History unveils ad-funded Hidden House series
The History Channel UK has commissioned its biggest project to date - a six-figure advertiser-funded series described as the Who Do You Think You Are?for houses.
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Sky signs Richardson for species show
Sky One has lined up actress Miranda Richardson for its second series of Final Chance to Save, the 4 x 60-minute documentary series highlighting the plight of some of the world's most famous species. Made by Tiger Aspect Productions for a July broadcast, Richardson will ...
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Timewatch to make HD Romans doc
BBC2's Timewatchstrand has made its first foray into high definition filming with a documentary called The Mystery of the Headless Romans. The programme is being made in-house by BBC history and is about the discovery of 30 headless corpses of ...
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Maverick to investigate race relations
Maverick is to investigate the state of race relations in Britain for a More4 documentary, 30 years after the launch of the Race Relations Act. Ghetto Britain(working title) is to be presented by Dr Robert Beckford - the theologian and academic who presented ...
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Talent to explore mind control for ITV
ITV1 is hoping to groom the next Derren Brown with a show exploring relationships using mind control. All in the Mindstars Jez Rose, one of the country's foremost mind-readers, who plans to use psychological techniques to probe the nature of sex, love and attraction. Made ...
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RDF chief calls for fewer indies
RDF chief executive David Frank has claimed there are too many independent producers in the UK and that fewer companies could do the same job 'better and cheaper'.
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NewsPlanet Earth proves unstoppable ratings beast
BBC1's ambitious natural history series, Planet Earth, got off to a cracking start, drawing the highest audience for a natural history programme since 2001.
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Specialist programming is the key to selling IPTV
Specialist programming and fewer adverts will be the key selling points of TV over broadband (IPTV), according to research published by management consultancy firm Accenture.
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Touch expansion
Separating Twins indie Touch Productions has appointed department heads for popular factual, features and multichannel in a move which it said will drive expansion.Andrew Anderson has joined the Bath-based indie as head of features, having previously worked at Talkback Thames on programmes such ...
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Foulser to stay on
Sunset + Vine chief executive Jeff Foulser has decided to remain with the company following the takeover of its parent company TV Corp by Tinopolis. Foulser, along with TV Corp chief executive Peter Salmon, was one of the key executives Welsh indie Tinopolis was keen to retain after the protracted ...
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White paper on BBC future expected
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is expected to publish its white paper on the BBC's future on Monday (13 March). The document is expected to be largely similar to the green paper published a year ago, suggesting that BBC governors are replaced by a trust answerable to licence ...
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Gray returns to ITV after four years
Duncan Gray has been lured back into the ITV fold by new director of comedy and entertainment Paul Jackson. Four years after leaving the broadcaster's production arm, Granada, Gray returns as controller of entertainment - the same title he held at Granada. For the intervening years Gray has been working ...
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Galloway to host TalkSport phone-in
Celebrity Big Brother pussycat George Galloway is continuing his media career with a new phone-in show on national radio station TalkSport. The Respect Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow will host a two-hour show from 8pm to 10pm on Saturday and Sunday evenings, starting ...