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Abbey sells shows to Israeli kids channel
Abbey Home Media has sold a brace of pre-school series to Israeli kids channel Hop TV. Wide Eye, made by King Rollo Films, is a 26 x 10-minute series set in a magical forest. It has now been sold to more than 30 countries. Hop ...
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Format Focus: A Chef in the Family
In this reality show, another offering from Scandinavian format specialist Strix, a top chef joins a family to show them new and exciting alternatives to their daily fare.
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Shine takes on ITV's 5pm slot
ITV1 is pinning its hopes on a new 30-part series about house buying from indie Shine to pull its 5pm slot out of the doldrums.
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Coach trip is C4 order of the day
Channel 4 head of daytime Adam MacDonald has begun the process of reshaping the broadcaster's early afternoon schedule by ordering a new 30-part travel series.
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Davies to star in ITV road movie
ITV has commissioned Zenith Entertainment to make a 90-minute comedy drama, billed as 'the ultimate road movie - on foot'.
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Bravo to show men doing stupid things
Bravo has commissioned indie Bullseye Television to chart the rise of Jackass -style stunts performed and filmed by groups of young men. World of Stupid will examine the global trend for masochistic stunts spawned by the MTV show. Bravo commissioning ...
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Peter Duncan takes son on trip for Five
Former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan has been commissioned by Five to make a travel documentary starring his son. Five controller of children's programmes Nick Wilson has ordered the 30-minute documentary Arthur's Trip from indie Here's One I Made Earlier. ...
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C4 to air more tales from river cottage
Channel 4 commissioning editor, features Emma Westcott has commissioned a follow-up to River Cottage for the autumn schedule. Beyond River Cottage follows another year in the life of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he attempts to convert a series of ramshackle barns ...
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Frost to do occasional interview series
The BBC has commissioned an occasional interview series featuring Sir David Frost after confirming his long-running Sunday morning show Breakfast with Frost is to end. The Frost Interview - part of a new three-year deal signed by Frost with the ...
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BBC1 brings the Rotters' club to life
The creators of Auf Weidersehen, Pet , Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, have been commissioned to adapt best-selling novel The Rotters' Club for BBC1. The book, by Jonathan Coe, tells the story of a group of Birmingham teenagers in ...
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VTR restructure pushes out Cadle
The VTR Group is undergoing a major restructure in which Dave Cadle has been replaced as Blue's managing director by Danny Whybrow, former managing director of The Machine Room.
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Outpost Digital opens HD site in move to Noho
US Facility house Outpost Digital is opening a purpose-built HD facility in Gresse Street, north of Oxford Street in London, so it can compete in both short-form and long-form markets.
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Saunders joins Evolutions
Evolutions Television has taken on Saunders and Gordon founder Robin Saunders as dubbing mixer to staff its new audio suite as it pursues short-form business.
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Wright picks Skin
Max Wright has turned down the role of creative manager at Discovery Networks to join design agency Skin as copywriter/director. Wright joins from Bruce Dunlop Associates where he was a creative manager for the Hallmark Channel's promo output. He also worked across projects for Simple, Ford and Land Rover. Wright ...
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Molinare hiring
Compositor Stuart Highsted has joined Molinare from M2. Highsted, who has previously worked on rebranding for MTV and Discovery, joins the Fouberts Place facility to drive its new HD Nitris. Managing director Mark Foligno said: 'Stuart's been brought in to bolster our high-end visual effects and CGI team as we ...
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The Mill upgrades
Visual effects company The Mill is centralising its workflow by upgrading its 26 Flame, Smoke, Inferno and Backdraft systems and is purchasing a new Smoke. The new versions give the systems multi-resolution capabilities, which make it easier to deal with projects that have been shot across a range of formats. ...
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IBC award to Turner
International media mogul Ted Turner has been awarded the IBC International Honour for Excellence award in recognition of his skill in exploiting the potential of media technology advancements within broadcast delivery. Turner's CNN was the first news channel to become a 24-hour service and was a pioneer of the video-on-demand ...
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Two Way names CTO
Two Way TV has appointed Simon Teppet as its new chief technology officer. Teppet leaves his position of vice president of technology, interactive services division at Chello Broadband. He was previously head of new media technology at Sky. Two Way TV's previous CTO, Richard Kydd, left to join NTL as ...
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Blue finishes Blakeway's Diana
Blue has finished work on Diana for Blakeway Productions. The 90-minute documentary, a follow-up of Blakeway's The Queen's Story of 2002, examines the impact on the royal family of the princess's death and the constant posthumous revelations. Online editor Clive Mattock completed the online, colourist ...
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Farm Group posts Love for Ealin
The Farm Group has completed post on The Great Love Swindle for Ealing Studios. In the six-part series four self-proclaimed expert daters compete to get a woman to say 'I love you'; However, the women are actresses briefed to make their lives hell. The titles ...