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NewsFormer Clear Cut MD takes sales role at Forscene
Former Clear Cut Pictures managing director Max McGonigal has joined the management team of Forscene, Forbidden Technologies’ cloud-based editing platform.
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NewsTwofour lands ITV property format
Twofour is bidding to reinvigorate the home renovation format with an ITV daytime makeover show that cuts out ‘the boring building stuff’.
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NewsBBC hires comedy commissioner
CPL producer Alex Moody has joined the BBC comedy commissioning team and will take an active role in the broadcaster’s diversity push.
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NewsRTS Young Technologist Award open for entries
The Royal Television Society has opened its annual search for the industry’s brightest young technologists.
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NewsFremantle & Discovery back sport start-ups
Traditional TV firms have continued to push into digital sports content with FremantleMedia investing in a football-based start-up and Discovery backing a rugby SVoD service.
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NewsWork begins on Catastrophe series three
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan have started work on a third series of their hit Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
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NewsRevealed: the crunch talks over Bake Off's future
The BBC and Love Productions are set for crunch talks over The Great British Bake Off in the coming weeks, with ITV and Channel 4 thought to be ready to pounce if a deal cannot be agreed.
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NewsBake Off winner lands BBC1 series
The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is to present a two-part travel cookery show for BBC1 tracing her culinary roots.
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NewsFlintoff and Hornby to lead new era at Optomen
Former Channel 4 colleagues Tina Flintoff and Nick Hornby are to take over at Optomen, as Pat Llewellyn steps down from the All3Media indie after 22 years.
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NewsGordon Ramsay launches indie
Gordon Ramsay has launched a production company, Studio Ramsay, and immediately struck a joint venture agreement with All3Media to produce unscripted and scripted shows.
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NewsChewing Gum creator: TV is too exclusive
Chewing Gum creator Michaela Coel has criticised the exclusivity of the TV industry after being named 2016’s breakthrough talent at the Bafta craft awards.
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NewsBBC defends Chris Evans’ behaviour
The BBC has leapt to the defence of Chris Evans, arguing that a report about the presenter’s aggressive behaviour towards junior production staff is “completely untrue”.
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NewsCelebrity Storage Hunters to return to Dave
UKTV is bringing back Celebrity Storage Hunters after the one-off Christmas special became its highest-rated show of 2015.
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NewsCarrie Britton joins Indie Training Fund
The Indie Training Fund (ITF) has appointed BBC Comedy talent acquisition executive Carrie Britton as managing director.
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NewsBlumenfeld plans £3m indie network
Veteran TV producers Remy Blumenfeld and Justin Bodle have revealed plans for a £3m production network to help establish 10 indies.
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NewsDrop in visitors but NAB adds more companies and floor space
NAB 2016: There was a slight drop in the number attendees at this year’s NAB despite an extra 85 companies exhibiting at the show.
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NewsDock 10 retains contract for The Landing
Dock 10 will continue to operate post-production services inside The Landing at Media City in Salford after being awarded a new contract by Salford City Council.
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NewsTV carbon emissions rise 37%
Carbon emissions in the TV industry rocketed by more than 37% last year to 12.9 tonnes of CO2 per hour of broadcast content, according to Bafta-backed sustainability consortium Albert.
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NewsBafta Television Craft winners unveiled
Russell T Davies, Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan were among the off-screen talent recognised at the Bafta Television Craft Awards last night.
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NewsBBC targets 50:50 gender split
Women will form 50% of the BBC’s overall staff and leadership team by 2020 as part of a raft of diversity targets which also include its first LGBT target.