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Blue illustrates Nazi mentality
BBC Broadcast's brief to post house Blue for UK History's six-part Inside the Nazi Statewas to shed light on the mentality of those who supported the Nazis. Blue came up with a reconstruction of a Nazi throwing a brick into of a Jewish bakery, but played ...
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BDH projects onto crime screen
Animal Crime Sceneseries producer Hilary Jeffkins commissioned designer Steve Burrell from agency BDH to work on opening titles and content graphics for the BBC natural history unit's new whodunnit animal series. Burrell created a large transparent crime screen onto which graphics and footage are projected using movie ...
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Hall drives BBC4 cowboy comedy
Award-winning comedian Rich Hall is to make his first comedy drama series, a cattle-driving road movie-style story from Open Mike Productions for BBC4.
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Brown fronts Riots for Bravo
Former Loadededitor James Brown is fronting a show for Bravo exploring some of Britain's more notorious riots, writesSusan Thompson.
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Fulfords director turns camera on Princess Michael for C4
Princess Michael of Kent is to get the F***ing Fulfordstreatment for a Channel 4 documentary which follows her attempts to sell her family home.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Mark Wild
The commissioning editor of Animal Planet International gets excited by baby humpback whales, wishes he could steal Springwatch and is on the lookout for something on illegal practices in the animal world.
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ITV3 documentary revisits Brideshead
ITV3 has commissioned Free@Last TV to make an hour-long documentary about the Granada classic Brideshead Revisitedto air ahead of a complete rerun of the 1980s series later this year. Interviewees will include former cast members, series producer Derek Granger, and directors Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Charles Sturridge. ...
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Film profiles couples united by tragedy
Sky One and Michael Attwell Productions have co-produced United By 9/11, a documentary about people brought together in various ways by the attacks on the World Trade Centre. The 90-minute special, due to air in the autumn, will feature couples who have met through bereavement and ...
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Two Hats snaps up Shake commissions
Five has commissioned two series and recommissioned a third for its weekend Shakestrand, aimed at 6 to 13-year-olds. Demolition Dad, a 13 x 11-minute series from Two Hats Film and Television in association with Here's One I Made Earlier, will start on ...
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Sky One orders Zig Zag health series
Sky One has commissioned a series from Zig Zag in which unhealthy or workaholic members of the public will be told by experts when they are expected to die and then given four weeks to increase their life expectancy. Change the Day You Diewill see volunteers ...
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ITV goes down Tarrant's way again
ITV has extended the second series of Chris Tarrant vehicle Tarrant's Wayacross the entire ITV network. ITV editor of daytime Nick Thorogood has recommissioned an 8 x 60-minute series. The first series of 30-minute episodes went out on ITV London only. The programme follows Tarrant and ...
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BBC puts£3m into Midlands local news service
The BBC is to spend£3m piloting an 'ultra local' news scheme in the West Midlands.
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BB triumphs in C4's record week
The final of Big Brother 6, cricket and the start of the US drama Lostall helped to -propel Channel 4 to its equal best ever weekly share performance of 13.7%.
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Evington out after TWG Ulster merger
The Wireless Group (TWG) group programme director John Evington has left the company following its acquisition by Ulster TV.
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Heart gets bigger
Former GCap station 106 Century FM will take the Heart brand name from 26 August, following its purchase by Chrysalis. GCap was forced to sell the station to allow the GWR and Capital merger to go ahead, under Ofcom rules. Chrysalis paid£29.5m for the station and has commit-ted a further£500,000 ...
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Bectu Acas move
Broadcasting union Bectu is considering going to industrial arbitrator Acas after the collapse of negotiations with Talkback Thames over employees on The Bill.The union wants to form a 'bargaining unit' for the show to represent all employees and negotiate standard contracts for them. But the talks ...
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Gibbon promotion
Channel 4 Newshas promoted Gary Gibbon to be its new political editor. Currently political correspondent, he takes over from Elinor Goodman who is retiring. Gibbon has worked for the ITN-produced Channel 4 Newssince 1995 and has reported on numerous high-profile stories including the Hutton inquiry. He ...
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OFT OK for SDN deal
ITV's£134m acquisition of Freeview multiplex owner SDN has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading following a two-month investigation. ITV massively boosted its DTT presence by acquiring SDN in May from United Business Media and S4C Digital Media, giving the terrestrial broadcaster control over 10 channels on multiplex A, ...
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BBC rapped over vice
A BBC daytime series that covered prostitution, pornography and drug abuse has been rapped by media watchdog Ofcom. The regulator said scenes showing brothel workers, intravenous drug-taking, and sex toys - shown as part of the Britain'sStreets of Vicein February - were 'unremitting' and unsuitable for broadcast ...
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ITV news holds back de Menezes pics
ITV Newswas forced to hold back exclusive pictures of the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes because of their graphic nature. ITV Newseditor in chief David Mannion said Tuesday night's exclusive report, which was picked up by all the national papers the following day, was the ...