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NewsSky Vision inks indie deals
Sky Vision will boost its portfolio of popular factual and entertainment programmes with two first-look deals with UK indies.
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NewsBBC4 and R2 tune in to Nashville
BBC4 will head to Nashville for a Friday night country music season in partnership with BBC Radio 2.
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NewsBBC cuts LA Screenings cost
The BBC has cut the amount it spends on attending the LA Screenings by 44% over the past seven years – but it still managed to spend more than £13,000 visiting an event that rarely leads to a purchase.
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NewsC4’s Singer gets almost 15% of viewers voting
Channel 4 has hailed the launch of real-time voting show The Singer Takes It All as a “massive success” after it registered a record proportion of viewers taking part.
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NewsLive television viewing drops 4%
Live television viewing fell below four hours per person per day for the first time since 2009, according to Ofcom’s Communications Market Report.
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NewsITV boards Slow Train Through Africa
IWC Media has won a new factual commission from ITV which follows Griff Rhys Jones as he travels through Africa via train.
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NewsLittle Dot hires C4 tech boss Bob Harris
YouTube producer Little Dot Studios has hired former Channel 4 chief technology officer Bob Harris as a technology advisor.
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NewsFreddie Flintoff embarks on chip van adventure for Sky 1
Freddie Flintoff is teaming up with tree-hugging extreme cyclist Rob Penn to travel the country in an eco-friendly mobile chip van for Sky 1.
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NewsCarnival appoints senior execs
Downton Abbey indie Carnival Films has appointed two new senior executives to aid its international production drive.
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NewsVirgin Media TV revenue slips £4m
Virgin Media revenue from its TV subscribers has fallen by £4m year-on-year in the three months to 30 June after it shed almost 15,000 subscribers.
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NewsITV orders Delivery Man full series
ITV has beefed up its comedy slate by ordering a full series of Monicker Pictures-produced The Delivery Man after a pilot.
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NewsRTS London line-up revealed
21st Century Fox chief Chase Carey is to deliver the international keynote speech at this year’s RTS London Conference.
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NewsYesterday goes behind the Iron Curtain
UKTV’s Yesterday is to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with an international co-production about its construction from Sky Vision Productions.
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NewsFox withdraws $80bn Time Warner offer
21st Century Fox has withdrawn its $80 billion offer to buy Time Warner.
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NewsC5 snags Batman prequel Gotham
Channel 5 has snagged Batman prequel Gotham, one of the hottest US series to launch at this year’s LA Screenings.
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NewsWall to Wall prepares C4 time-travel format
Wall to Wall is to produce a major “celebrity time-travel” gameshow series for Channel 4 which will be stripped across a week in 2015.
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NewsCohen orders Top Gear review
The BBC has conducted an internal review of Top Gear programme following the accusations of racism which were levelled at the BBC2 programme earlier this year.
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NewsKosse to reignite relationships at Film 4
The opportunity to work closely with the UK independent film sector was the chief reason David Kosse accepted the head of Film 4 role according to the incoming US executive.
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NewsZeppotron co-founder joins Objective
Zeppotron co-founder Ben Caudell is leaving the business after 14 years to join Objective Productions as its head of comedy.