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NewsJeff Pope pens Rhys Jones murder drama
Jeff Pope is to explore the aftermath of the tragic killing of 11-year old schoolboy Rhys Jones in a four-part factual drama for ITV.
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NewsAttenborough: too much cooking on TV
TV has become saturated with cooking and gardening shows, according to former BBC2 controller David Attenborough.
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NewsBBC and ITVS changes hit Northern drama
Drama in the north came under the spotlight this week, with ITV Studios disbanding its northern drama hub and BBC head of drama for the north Hilary Martin moving to the indie sector.
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NewsTUPE clouds tender process
Question marks over TUPE staff transfers and whether BBC Studios will include a production margin loom over the BBC’s first round of tendered shows.
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NewsChannel 4 resolution edges closer
The future of Channel 4 is edging closer towards resolution after culture secretary Karen Bradley publicly outlined options for the first time and revealed that she hopes to come to a decision in the “near-ish future”.
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NewsBBCW & Cohen eye £50m drama deal
BBC Worldwide is closing in on an estimated £50m funding deal with Danny Cohen’s Access Entertainment to supercharge its drama pipeline.
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NewsDoc duo launch indie to ‘blur lines’ with drama
The award-winning directors of The Murder Detectives and My Son The Jihadi have joined forces to launch a production business that aims to blur the lines between drama and documentary, and have already picked up two commissions from Channel 4.
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NewsBBC serves up Saturday Kitchen tender
The BBC is tendering long-running weekend cooking format Saturday Kitchen – a £5m deal unconnected to the scrapping of in-house guarantees.
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NewsThe Crown creator predicts bigger drama budgets
The Crown creator Peter Morgan believes the convergence of TV and film is set to accelerate and has predicted that drama series’ budgets could swell to many hundreds of millions of pounds.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: The Great British Bake Off
Click to see how well the Love Productions show has fared on the BBC.
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NewsBlakeway hires new MD
Zinc Media-owned indie Blakeway has appointed producer Lucy van Beek as managing director.
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NewsSister Pictures hires Humans exec
Humans producer Chris Fry has joined his old boss Jane Featherstone as an executive producer at Sister Pictures.
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NewsProduction Services boosts Technicolor's revenues
The Technicolor group’s revenues rose significantly in the third quarter of its 2016 financial year, with its Production Services division playing a major role.
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NewsDRG inks Thoroughly Modern deal
Modern Times Group-backed distributor DRG has inked a two-year first-look deal with fledgling indie Thoroughly Modern Media.
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NewsAdstream founders secure Honeycomb funding
Honeycomb, the TV and video advertising management platform started by James Carpenter and Richard Carter, the founders of Adstream, has raised £3m in Series A investment funding.
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NewsDistributor Holdan hires brand manager
PEC managing director Dan Wheeler has quit the company to join equipment distributor Holdan as its brand manager.
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NewsFormer Technicolor duo set up media services facility
Two former Technicolor colleagues have opened a media services facility backed by ES Broadcast, the equipment sales and rental firm.
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NewsNat Geo opens doors to UK producers
US cable network National Geographic is looking for British producers to follow up its big-budget Mars mission and is already in development with a major UK-originated unscripted project.
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NewsLime embraces WhatsApp after Hollyoaks success
Lime Pictures is to embrace messaging service WhatsApp and story curation platform Wakelet across its programme slate after a successful Stand Up To Cancer-related campaign.
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NewsViceland US courts indies
Viceland in the US is opening its doors to independent producers for the first time as it eyes a move into formats.