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NewsMore4's adult entertainment has a seductive first night
More4's high-profile drama A Very Social Secretary managed to seduce viewers, helping the channel to a successful launch night.
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Vallely steps in
BBC2 channel executive Dominic Vallely has made a temporary move to become executive editor for entertainment commissioning and will deal with the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Strictly Dance Fever, as well as The Apprentice. The shows were being overseen by Fenia Vardanis, who left the job in September to ...
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Quick moves at ITV
ITV has appointed head of programme strategy communication Sally Quick to become the new editor of night-time and branded content. Based at Gray's Inn Road and reporting to controller of off-peak Steven Andrew, she will commission shows for late night as well as ad-funded programmes for across the schedule. She ...
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FX picks up comedy
The FX channel has boosted its comedy slate by buying a pair of sketch shows from Comedy Central. It has picked up the first two seasons of Chappelle Show, written and hosted by Dave Chappelle, for its Comedy Thursdays slot. It will air on FX from January next year. The ...
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Sky airs Star Wars
BSkyB has signed a major content agreement to show the entire Star Wars saga in 2006. Sky has bought exclusive UK TV rights from Lucas Films and Twentieth Century Fox for the films and will air them from August 2006 to coincide with the start of the pay-TV window for ...
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Latin Pop Idol next
Talent show Pop Idol is heading to Latin America. This is the 30th territory the format has been sold to. Indie Fremantle Media has partnered with Sony Entertainment Television (SET), one of Latin America's leading cable entertainment channels, to make Latin American Idol (working title). The show will begin airing ...
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Turner is back on TV with Housewives
Anthea Turner, the former GMTV presenter whose career hit the skids following a disastrous appearance in OK! magazine, has resurfaced with a new reality show for BBC3. RDF Media's 8 x 60-minute series Perfect Housewives (working title) will see the former Blue Peter presenter attempt to educate the nation's incompetent ...
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Five ups spend and axes The Farm
Five is increasing its programme budget to more than£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers has confirmed. He said the budget for 2006 would be up at least£10m from the£190m signed off for this year, taking the budget to 'substantially more' than£200m. However, he said the extra cash would ...
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Wood leaves the street for Mersey TV
Coronation Street producer Tony Wood has confirmed he is joining Mersey Television as creative director. The former ITV head of continuing series, who spent two years running the broadcaster's flagship soap, is set to take up the newly created post in the new year. Based at the group's Liverpool production ...
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Ex Sky boss launches DTT service
Former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami is launching a DTT service offering Freeview channels and on-demand specialist content. Aggregator TV will be based on a Freeview box with broadband connection and PVR capabilities. Goswami has teamed up with former ITV director of channels Chris Griffin and Chris Goodhall, previously of ...
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Right on target
With Alison Rayson at its helm, distributor Target has expanded into production and after doing Peter and Jordan's wedding for ITV2, the aim is a primetime terrestrial commission.
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What producers can't do
If I'm such a great producer, how come I can't manage my own life, wonders Steven D Wright.
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It's not a dirty business
Amid suggestions that BBC shows are being sinisterly penetrated by product placement, Steve Read claims that paid placements are an honourable business - and good for TV.
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Why big isn't bad
Lorraine Heggessey on why those who say the rise of super-indies will lead to bland programmes are wrong:
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Can he make stuff happen?
After restructuring his department, the BBC's new head of comedy, Jon Plowman, is taking on one of the most difficult slots in TV: a new peaktime BBC1 comedy.
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NewsIt's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless.
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Making your market
The scramble to find next season's potential hit TV show is underway once again this month at Mipcom. Jane Marlow looks at the ingredients for a successful sale and tracks the global route to market of three top shows.
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The BBC's digital pay-off
Never mind the outrage, the government must give the BBC a generous licence fee settlement if it is to lead digital switchover.
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NewsJowell probes BBC licence fee claims
The government has hired a major firm of accountants to probe the financial thinking behind the BBC's bid for an inflation-busting licence fee rise.