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C4 set to co-pro new Aussie soap
Channel 4 has teamed up with the maker of Australian soap Home and Away to co-produce a new teen soap.
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Basil brush heading for the US
Entertainment Rights is hunting for partners to bring children's character Basil Brush to US audiences. The company, which also owns the rights to Postman Pat, said the popular fox puppet would probably remain English with a supporting US cast. Entertainment Rights is meeting with studios and is unlikely to produce ...
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Skinner's Shane taken by Paramount
Paramount Comedy 2 has acquired Frank Skinner's ITV1 sitcom Shane and will screen the first series next year. The 7 x 30-minute comedy series, produced by Avalon Television, features Skinner as a wise-cracking minicab driver whose career and family life is slowly disintegrating. It will ...
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BBC Gnome rights go to Southern Star
Southern Star International has secured the international distribution rights to new BBC pre-school animated show Gordon the Garden Gnome. The 52 x 11-minute series, which follows the daily adventures of a garden gnome and his friends, is produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment and narrated ...
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More planet rock for Biography channel
The Biography Channel has picked up a further batch of Planet Rock profiles for a forthcoming music month. The deal, with Ireland-based indie Monster Distributes, will see profiles on musicians such as Moby, Air and Beyoncé air in October. The batch of 14 episodes marks ...
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Target poaches Celador's Eastaff
Celador International director of consumer products and marketing John Eastaff has been hired by distributor Target Entertainment. He will look to raise the profile of Target's portfolio, which includes Footballer's Wives and Bad Girls , as well as seeking opportunities ...
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Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing
Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...
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Thames signs up talent for ITV sitcom
Thames TV has assembled an established team of comedy talent including the writer of Murder Most Horrid for a new ITV1 sitcom.
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PlayStation inspires BBC weathermen
The BBC has turned to PlayStation-style technology to update its weather bulletins with a 3-D service that lets forecasters zoom around the country as if they were playing a computer game.
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Yentob undecided
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has still not decided whether to front the forthcoming BBC1 series A Picture of Britain , despite having been asked by channel controller Lorraine Heggessey in May. The 6 x 60-minute series, which will look at the relationship between different ...
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Ten Alps animation
Ten Alps, the indie part-owned by Bob Geldof, has won funding for its first animation series. Red Welly, the indie's CGI division, has received the money for pre-school show Scooba Zooba from the European Union Regional Development Fund. It will fund scripts, storyboards and a ...
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New Lion Scot head
Colin Cameron, who quit as the BBC's head of network development for nations and regions last month, is to head Lion Television's Scottish division. Cameron, who had been at the BBC for over 30 years, will take up his new role at the All3Media-owned indie on 1 September. His BBC ...
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Kirby seeks£2bn of savings at BBC
The man brought in by the BBC to help slash£2bn in costs over the next three years said he has identified four main areas where savings can be made.
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Flora funds IWC to make C4 health show
Indie IWC Media has entered the world of advertiser-funded programmes for the first time with a five-part series for Channel 4.
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Mandabach targets UK
Caryn Mandabach, the veteran US producer behind The Cosby Show and Roseanne , is scoping out opportunities in the UK after quitting US indie Carsey Werner Mandabach (CWM).
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BBC3 to stage live opera in railway station
BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.
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Ofcom raps today
BBC Radio 4 show Today has been rapped by Ofcom after it ran a story about defence contracts which claimed that doing business with the Saudi Arabian government required offering sweeteners for diplomats and staff. Saudi embassy officials in London complained that the piece was ...
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New chart battle
Virgin Radio is launching a download chart three days before BBC Radio 1. The SMG-owned station has signed a deal with online music service Napster to provide a rundown of its 20 most popular tracks. It will launch the new chart at 7pm on Sunday (29 August). R1's chart, based ...
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Galaxy to air Mobo
The Galaxy Network has secured live broadcast rights to the urban music Mobo Awards for the fifth year running. The commercial youth dance network, owned by Chrysalis, will report the winners as they are announced at the Royal Albert Hall on 30 September. Galaxy will also sponsor the best single ...