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NewsPenny Dreadful scoops three Bafta Craft awards
Penny Dreadful picked up three awards at the British Academy Television Craft Awards, with the Sky Atlantic drama triumphing in the Production Design, Make Up & Hair Design and Original Music categories.
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NewsMentorn hires former Betty head of features
Mentorn Media has hired former Betty head of features David Emerson as head of formats and features, as well as making three other appointments.
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NewsBBC closes 217 newsroom jobs
BBC News has agreed voluntary redundancy deals with 176 staff following consultation with the broadcasting unions, while a further 41 senior managers and overseas staff will also leave.
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NewsITV committed to live Sound of Music event
ITV remains committed to celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music amid suggestions that it was originally eyeing an Easter TX date for the live extravaganza.
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NewsRemarkable managing director steps down
Remarkable Television joint managing director Colette Foster is to step down after eight years with the company.
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NewsDiscovery to examine Churchill's secret weapons
The British bazooka and the limpet mine are among Winston Churchill’s secret military inventions to be explored in a documentary from Discovery and Sky Vision.
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NewsBT and Aspera to offer file transfer service
BT has partnered with Aspera to offer a new subscription-based file transfer service.
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NewsCamera firms show kit for shooting live UHD content
NAB 2015: Manufacturers including Sony, Panasonic, Grass Valley and Canon launched kit for shooting live Ultra High Definition content at the NAB trade show in Las Vegas as the range of equipment suited to studio and sport productions begins to mature.
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NewsEricsson expands access services operation to US
NAB 2015: Ericsson has launched a closed captioning service in the United States.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: ITVBe's impact on ITV2
Female-skewing channel takes viewers away from ITV2, but helps grow ITV’s overall audience.
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NewsTop Gear executive producer resigns
Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman has resigned from the BBC a month after Jeremy Clarkson’s contract was not renewed.
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NewsBBC3 move delayed until 2016
Plans to move BBC3 online have been pushed back until 2016 as the corporation waits for a decision on its proposals from the BBC Trust.
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NewsJay Hunt’s entertainment pledge
Jay Hunt has reassured the entertainment community that Channel 4 will not marginalise the genre after rolling the department into its factual entertainment team.
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NewsJohn Bishop scores BBC1 variety show
John Bishop is to a host a BBC1 Saturday night variety show from Hackney Empire.
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Newsi-D lands first commission from C4
Vice Media’s fashion magazine i-D has landed its first TV series, weeks after hiring Ravi Amaratungara as its head of video.
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NewsBBC Studios battle lines drawn
The BBC has been warned by some of the UK’s biggest production companies that it will face fierce opposition to plans to commercialise its in-house production division unless it puts its biggest shows up for tender.
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NewsITV2 takes a hit from ITVBe
The launch of ITVBe has helped the ITV family grow its share of audience – but has put a sizeable dent in the ratings of sister channel ITV2.
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NewsNetflix turns to natural history
The producer of Netflix’s first major natural history series has lifted the lid on how his company secured a slice of the subscription VoD service’s £2.15bn content budget.
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NewsC4 News creates GIF wall
Channel 4 has launched a news site that features short stories supported by shareable animated GIFs.
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NewsC5 follows Kellie Maloney transformation
Initial is to follow the transformation of boxing promoter Kellie Maloney as she physically becomes a woman in a one-off film for Channel 5.