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NewsBBC4 orders drama about Dispatches kidnap
BBC4 has ordered a single drama telling the story of the Taliban’s kidnap of award-winning journalist Sean Langan while he was making a Channel 4 Dispatches in Pakistan.
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NewsShine TV hires C4 commissioner
Shine Group has made another high-profile appointment, poaching a Channel 4 commissioner to head a new division at Shine TV.
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NewsC4 appoints Jay Hunt strategy advisor
Channel 4 has appointed former Question Time editor Edward Havard to the newly created role of channel executive, to support chief creative officer Jay Hunt.
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NewsBBC FM creates £1m fund for tech innovations
BBC Future Media has established a £1m Innovation Fund to give creative thinking at the broadcaster a shot in the arm.
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NewsC4 gives True Stories original order boost
Channel 4 will commission 10 True Stories documentaries from next year, more than double the number when the international documentary strand aired on More 4.
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NewsShooting Stars’ Angelos wins full C4 series
Channel 4 has ordered a sitcom from new talent Terry Mynott and a studio-based comedy from Dan Skinner playing his comic character Angelos Epithemiou.
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NewsHeggessey and Pulse call time on partnership
Pulse Films has put plans to expand via acquisitions on ice, and Lorraine Heggessey has ended her spell advising the company.
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NewsFremantle’s Marsh joins Zodiak
Zodiak Media Group has poached Robert Marsh from Talkback Thames to head the UK arm of its digital and branded content division, Zodiak Active.
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NewsBBC's Wonderland strand stalls
Commissioning for BBC2 documentary strand Wonderland is being paused to deal with a backlog of films being delivered late.
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NewsBBC comedy exec joins Avalon’s Edinburgh office
Avalon Television has expanded its presence in Scotland after appointing a former Have I Got News For You and Room 101 producer.
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NewsCampaign to save BBC Birmingham gathers momentum
The campaign to save BBC Birmingham has gathered pace, with 11 MPs signing up to an early-day motion to try to fend off the cuts.
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NewsSTV Productions restructures executive team
STV has reshuffled its production division’s senior management and hired former Zeppotron executive Gary Chippington to lead its entertainment output.
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NewsGarden doc to follow family mediator team
The Garden is developing a BBC3 documentary series that will follow a team of mediators as they attempt to prevent children from running away from home.
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NewsMacIntyre revisits gangster family for Crime network
Donal MacIntyre is directing a six-part series about the organised crime family the Noonans for the Crime & Investigation Network.
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NewsCLAC crash could affect clients under HMRC probe
TV freelancers rushing to make disclosures as part of the Christopher Lunn & Company (CLAC) investigation could face delays in securing records after the accountancy firm’s IT systems crashed.
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NewsRed Bee research reveals discontent among viewers
Three-quarters of the UK audience claim they cannot find anything to watch on live TV on a weekly basis because they are overwhelmed by an excess of content and platforms.
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NewsDCD sells The Slap to US and Canada
DCD Rights has secured sales of Australian drama The Slap to broadcasters in the US and Canada.
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NewsBBCW recruits Misselbrook for US scripted push
BBC Worldwide has hired Entertainment One sales executive Tom Misselbrook as part of its ongoing scripted programming push into the US.
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NewsPrime Suspect US on hold
NBC has pulled the US adaptation of Prime Suspect from its mid-season schedule following a run of low ratings.
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NewsLack of knowledge led to breaches, says BBC exec
A senior executive at BBC Global News has admitted “a lack of knowledge, or genuine confusion” over editorial guidelines could have contributed to a series of breaches of code.