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NewsThe Saint set to be resurrected by major Canadian producer
A Canadian production company is remaking iconic ITV thriller The Saint but has yet to approach UK broadcasters about the project.
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NewsFiver to tempt a younger audience with US shows
Fiver has acquired a hat-trick of US shows, including the recent reboot of Knight Rider, as part of a drive to attract a younger audience to the digital channel.
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NewsRamsden exits as Cheetah wins dieting show
Cheetah Television has won a Channel 4 dieting commission but lost creative director Sara Ramsden, who is leaving after five years to go freelance.
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NewsBBC1 kick-starts football magazine for all regions
BBC1 is launching a local Football League magazine show with different versions across England, and is inviting indie producers to pitch for three of the seven production contracts.
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NewsMorgan emulates Cowell with production venture
Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has set up his own independent production company in a bid to follow in the footsteps of his TV mentor Simon Cowell.
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NewsThe Culture Show’s Morgan to drive BBC production training
The Culture Show editor Eddie Morgan is stepping down from the BBC2 show to become head of the college of production within the new BBC Academy.
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NewsTwofour and Shiver win factual orders from ITV
A series on the troops who take supplies to frontline soldiers in Afghanistan will be contrasted with a docu-soap about the busy holiday season in the Lake District in two factual commissions set for ITV1.
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NewsTake Me Out heads for Japan
Fremantle Media has sold its dating format Take Me Out to Japanese broadcaster TBS, just weeks after selling the show to ITV.
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NewsWhitechapel to return to ITV
Rupert Penry-Jones will return to the East End of London for ITV1 next year, starring in a second series of Whitechapel.
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New Tricks locks down two more series for BBC1
Popular BBC1 drama New Tricks will run until at least 2011 after the broadcaster ordered two further series.
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Rondo cooks up fourth food show for S4C
Welsh indie Rondo Media will serve up a fourth schools cookery show with chef Dudley Newbery for S4C.
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ITV signs three-year deal for Crime Thriller Awards
ITV3 has secured the Crime Thriller Awards for another three years, after signing a deal with Specsavers, Cactus TV and the Crime Writers Association.
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NewsProspect Pictures composes Chopin and Elgar docs
Prospect Pictures will reveal the lesser-known sides of classical composers Chopin and Elgar in two 90-minute docs for BBC4.
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RDF Rights seals deal to distribute Macqueen films
RDF Rights has signed a deal to distribute the first slate of films from former C4 head of documentaries Angus Macqueen’s indie Ronachan Films.
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NewsSky Real Lives picks up Little Couple
Sky Real Lives has acquired US reality series The Little Couple from Endemol’s Worldwide Distribution.
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Green Inc and CTVC strike deal on development
Belfast factual entertainment indie Green Inc and London-based documentary producer CTVC have formed an alliance to develop projects.
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NewsCBeebies head counts himself out of kids’ role
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington has ruled himself out of the running for BBC Children’s controller - leaving Nickelodeon UK boss Howard Litton and CBBC head of drama and acquisitions Steven Andrew as frontrunners.
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NewsTrust review set to shrink BBC
The BBC Trust has fired the starting gun on a process which is likely to see the BBC rein in the size and scope of its activity – said by a senior BBC exec to be “as big as Creative Futures”.
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NewsIBC kicks off with major acquisitions
This week’s IBC exhibition in Amsterdam will be alive with talk of mergers and acquisitions after reports that both Avid and Blackmagic Design have completed buy-outs of fellow manufacturers.
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NewsBBC boss hits back at Murdoch
Mark Thompson has launched a return attack on James Murdoch, savaging his MacTaggart as “desperately out of touch” with the views of the audience.