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Bravo to show real-life Fight Clubs
Scream Films has landed a deal to make Fight Night: White Collar Boxing for Bravo. The 15 x 30-minute series follows a number of rookie and professional white collar boxers, including Britain's first openly gay fighter known as the Pink Pounder, as they train and ...
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History Channel looks at life after demob
The History Channel has commissioned Oxford-based indie Red Admiral to produce Demob Happy. The hour-long documentary will tell the story of how Britain returned to peacetime following the surrender of Germany and later Japan in 1945. Produced by Red Admiral's Gail Downey, the programme ...
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Smooth operations lined up for R2 shows
Radio indie Smooth Operations has picked up a raft of commissions from BBC Radio 2. These include a six-part series on the history of comedy, a four-part series on plagiarism in music titled Same Old Song and a two-part programme to mark the 80th birthday ...
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C4 looks at what people do to get on TV
Channel 4 commissioning editor of factual entertainment Andrew MacKenzie has ordered a two-hour documentary I'll Do Anything to Get on TV from At It Productions, the company behind C4 youth strand T4. The programme will trace how members of the public have made it onto ...
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SMG puts£1.3m into boosting OB
SMG Broadcast and Event Solutions, the production resources arm of SMG, has spent£1.3m bolstering its outside broadcast capabilities to help it compete with the quality of Sky Sports.
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Macquarie Communications snaps up NTL Broadcast
NTL Broadcast is to be sold to an Australian consortium led by the Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG) for£1.27bn.
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Farrell wins RTS award for Men of Iron
The Farm's senior colourist Aidan Farrell led the way for the facilities sector at last week's RTS Craft and Design Awards, picking up his second trophy in four years.
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Triangle nabs Dixon
Triangle Post Production has poached compositor Paul Dixon from BBC Broadcast. Dixon worked on the title sequence for the BBC's Olympics coverage, which was shortlisted in the RTS Craft and Design Awards last week. He replaces Joe Billington who left to work for hardware and software developers Discreet. Triangle has ...
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Dunstall On Ascent
Award-winning titles, idents and branding designer Roisin Dunstall has left Blue to join Ascent Media's One Post. Her credits include on-air promos for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery and title sequences for The Bill and Dates from Hell. ...
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Collins finds Oasis
Editor Andy Collins will join Oasis Television this month. Collins worked for BBC Resources for 15 years where he worked on the Olympics and Paralympics in Athens. Upcoming jobs include the opening sequence for Match of the Day , BBC promos and an undisclosed BBC ...
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Parry on the move
Colourist Jamie Parry has joined Manchester post-production facility Sumners. Parry spent seven years at Granada where he worked on, among other things , The Forsyte Saga, Clocking Off, Phoenix Nights and Son of God. Parry joins as senior colourist ...
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Editworks expands
Light entertainment editing specialist Editworks is moving into the documentary and drama markets. Former St Anne's Post sales manager Dean Watkins has been appointed head of business development at the Noho post house - known for its work on productions such as Who Wants to ...
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Metrostar to make Flextech spin-offs
Flextech has struck a deal with brand licensing company Metrostar to launch a range of merchandising spin-offs of its key shows.
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All3Media does Serious business
Distributor All3Media International has scored further worldwide sales for children's environmental adventure strand Serious... as a fourth series is greenlit by the BBC.
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Fifa and BBC team up for World Cup doc
The BBC and BBC Worldwide are to team up with Fifa for a documentary series charting the history of the World Cup to coincide with the next finals in Germany in 2006.
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C4 News to air from Africa
Channel 4 News will broadcast live from Africa for a week next July to mark the 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland.
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A Touch of Frost reaches Russia
Granada International has sold all 11 series of ITV crime series A Touch of Frost to Russia. Over 70 hours of the drama, starring David Jason as Detective Inspector Jack Frost, has been bought by Russian terrestrial channel Center TV. It will begin screening it ...
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BBC worldwide keeps hold of boat race
BBC Worldwide has signed a new six-year deal to continue representing the rights to the annual Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race. The new arrangement was brokered by Korer Media and includes international broadcast and other audiovisual media rights. In 2004, BBC Worldwide licensed the boat race to 98 counties.
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Sky One takes seventh series of Pokemon
Sky One has picked up the seventh season of Japanese animation Pokemon from US distributor 4Kids Entertainment. The 52-episode series, Pokemon: Advanced Challenge , introduces new characters in Teams Magma and Aqua to the perennial cast. Sky One currently airs ...
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Yates to be Playboy TV international MD
Playboy TV International has promoted Jeremy Yates to managing director following the departure of William Campbell earlier this month. Yates was director of channels and digital media but will now hold responsibility for managing and developing Playboy TV's UK businesses. These include seven networks, the newly built digital broadcast centre ...