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NewsThe critics: Love Soup & The Unteachables
Two new series - the latest romantic comedy to arrive on BBC1, Love Soup- and The Untouchables, C4's new reality offering, sparked the interest of the critics yesterday.
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NewsGCap sheds two more directors
GCap Media has released another two directors, just a week after the departure of chief executive David Mansfield.
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NewsHoney, we've got a second series!
Honey We're Killing The Kids- the BBC3 series that shows how unhealthy lifestyles will affect youngsters later in life - has been recommissioned for a second series.
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NewsID snares Rainbow distribution deal
ID Distribution has struck a significant agreement with US cable broadcaster Rainbow Media Holdings for global distribution rights to over 400 hours of its programming.
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NewsNew MD for NBC Europe
NBC Universal Global Networks has appointed Olivier Gerolami as its managing director for Europe.
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NewsScorsese's Dylan doc attracts only 1.8m
The first part of Martin Scorsese's long-awaited documentary, Arena: No Direction Home - Bob Dylan, found only a modest audience last night with 1.8 million (8.4%) tuning in.
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NewsComment: Hard times in toon town
Over 700 movers and shakers from Europe's animation industry descended on the Danish city of Kolding last week on the hunt for the next Bob the Builder.
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NewsMinotaur still going strong at ten
Flextech-owned Minotaur International will celebrate its tenth anniversary at next month's Mipcom with the launch of over 150 hours of new programming, including six new 90-minute films in SMG's ITV crime franchise Rebus.
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NewsGraham Norton heads 12 Yard slate
With broadcasters turning their attention away from big outdoor reality events, London-based producer and distributor 12 Yard is taking a new slate of entertainment formats to Mipcom.
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NewsOff the Fence launches UK docs
Amsterdam and Bristol-based factual producer and distributor Off the Fence is headlining its documentary Mipcom slate with The Day that James Dean Died.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Animal Planet commissions OSF special
US network Animal Planet has commissioned Sydney and London-based Southern Star to produce an hour-long special, Lyndal's $70K Lifeline Challenge.
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BVITV launches Roger Bannister TV movie
London-based Buena Vista International TV (BVITV) has picked up the ESPN produced TV movie Four Minutes, which tells the true story of how British medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier in 1954.
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Electric Sky expands sales team
Independent factual distributor Electric Sky has appointed Claudia Weber as sales manager, covering the US, Canada, German speaking Europe, DVD/Home Video and non-theatric sales.
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Motion Gallery names new sales director
BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales business of BBC Worldwide, has poached ITN Archive sales director Linda Reeve.
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NewsBBC 7/7 coverage under fire
Ofcom has criticised the BBC for using graphic images of victims of the July 7 terror attacks in London.
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NewsTotally Frank to make Mipcom debut
New girl group Frank are set to make their international debut at Mipcom, where Channel 4 International will launch the new 26-part teen drama Totally Frank.
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NewsTarget secures Bounty
Target Entertainment has picked up animation studio Silver Fox Films' 26 x 11-minute series Bounty Hamsterfor international distribution.
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NewsUS DVD deal for Contender's Peppa Pig
Following its launch on Cartoon Network's new Tickle U pre-school block in the US, Contender Group's animated series Peppa Pighas been picked up by Lions Gate Family Entertainment for a home video launch in autumn 2006.
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NewsNick UK picks up Decode's Sadie
Nickelodeon UK has picked up a further 26 episodes of Decode Entertainment's live action series, Naturally Sadie.