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Phipps switches to Sky News from ITV
ITV Evening News programme editor Nick Phipps has been poached by Sky News to executive produce its flagship Live at 5 strand. Phipps will replace outgoing Live at 5 editor Mark Calvert, who has been appointed editor of Five News, which Sky will produce from ...
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Moving Picture company likely to be sold
ITV is to dispose of a large number of its non-core assets in a bid to make further savings from its merger process. Post-production house The Moving Picture Company, which provided effects for the recent Troy blockbuster, is close to being sold off. The company ...
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Endemol pools global creative talent
Endemol has set up a global creative team, which will bring together the company's top creative and commercial executives from around the world, to develop ideas and business opportunities. Endemol's executive director of programming and licensing, Mike Morley, who will now also be executive director of creativity, will lead the ...
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Ulster TV and ITV end row over sales
Ulster Television (UTV) has settled its dispute with ITV plc over claims that the merged company is selling on hit shows to ITV2 too cheaply. The Northern Irish broadcaster, which pays towards shows on ITV1 but has no stake in ITV2, had complained that the digital channel was not paying ...
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New Casualty series to be 48 episodes
The BBC is to again extend the length of its long-running Saturday-night hospital series Casualty - this time by another two episodes. The new 48-edition run will launch on 11 September with a two-episode weekend special starring former EastEnders actress ...
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NewsThe BBC states its case
The BBC this week unveiled its manifesto for securing a new Royal Charter, pledging to be more accountable, more transparent and to introduce a new public service test for every BBC service.
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NewsE4 and Endemol deal creates 300 jobs
More than 300 jobs are to be created in Bristol after Big Brother producer Endemol signed a deal with E4 to produce 300 hours of new shows - the digital channel's largest ever investment in original programming.
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NewsHat Trick and Shed ditch plans to wed
The proposed£20m takeover of Footballers' Wives producer Shed by Hat Trick, maker of Have I Got News for You , has collapsed.
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BBC orders Hiroshima A-bomb docu-drama
BBC1 has ordered docu-dramas that will recreate the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the life of Genghis Khan.
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Five will unwrap Mummy
The bandaged face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest will be revealed in a new documentary for Five.
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Sky in talks over ITV3
BSkyB is in discussions with ITV about making the recently merged company's forthcoming ITV3 channel a pay offering in a bid to keep it off rival platform Freeview.
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C4 News deal ends after six months
Channel 4 News and indie Real Life Media have ended their£400,000 two-year deal for the broadcaster's northern news bureau just six months into the agreement.
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C4 casts net beyond TV in search for new chief
Speculation continues about who will take the top job at Channel 4, with suggestions that head-hunters Spencer Stuart is looking hard at candidates working outside television production and broadcasting.
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ITV puts footie cash into drama
ITV is to pump an extra£5m into drama and entertainment programming this autumn using money saved by losing the Premier League football highlights to the BBC.
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Grade's Charter renewal speech
'Ladies and gentlemen we live in a somewhat cynical world. Someone once said that every ten years, come Charter Renewal, the BBC gets the old time religion. Can't think who it
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NewsSky One and Paramount in co-pro deal
Sky One has entered into a co-production deal with Paramount for new sci-fi series The 4400.
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NewsSky and BBC in talks over 'Freesat'
BSkyB has said it is actively talking to the BBC about the corporation becoming a joint venture partner in its new free-to-air satellite offering.
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NewsBBC unveils Charter renewal plans
The BBC yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled its manifesto for securing a new Royal Charter, pledging to be more accountable, more transparent and to introduce a new public service test for every BBC service.
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NewsBBC to air Scottish World Cup qualifiers
Scotland's crucial away World Cup qualifying games against Norway, Slovenia, Belarus and Moldova have been signed up by BBC Scotland.
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NewsRDF expands Wife Swap format in USA
RDF Media is expanding its Wife Swap franchise on US network ABC before the original format is even aired in a bid to combat a similar show being launched by rival broadcaster Fox.