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Living orders Jeff Brazier pilot
Living has ordered an hour-long factual entertainment pilot with Jeff Brazier, the father of the late Jade Goody’s children.
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NewsLiving boosts its on-demand service
Living is to increase its TV on-demand offering with the introduction of Living Player via the Virgin Media cable platform.
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BBC4 Walks format to go global
BBC4 is to expand its Walks format into a global travel strand with three 4 x 30-minute series.
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NewsStudio Lambert’s B&B swap given green light by C4
Channel 4 is to invite Britain’s B&B owners to test each other’s hospitality in a series from Studio Lambert.
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More 4 lands UK rights for HBO’s ‘huge’ comedy
More 4 has picked up the UK rights to the latest HBO hit comedy drama, Hung.
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NewsBBC tracks web ‘buzz’ of shows
The BBC is trialling a web service that highlights its most talked about programmes by monitoring the internet buzz around them.
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NewsBig Brother axe to free up £50m for C4
Channel 4 will free up around £50m of its programming budget in 2011 by bringing Big Brother to an end next year.
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NewsSTV to boost drama - without ITV
STV plans to acquire more dramas from the likes of RTE and gradually develop more drama in-house after opting out of airing almost all of ITV’s autumn drama line-up.
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NewsMeadows to make TV debut with This Is England sequel
Shane Meadows is to make his first foray into television with a sequel to his award-winning film This Is England for Channel 4.
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NewsChannel 4 unveils autumn slate
Royal drama and documentaries, the modern police force, European and American road trips, 3D spectaculars and the climate crisis all feature in Channel 4’s autumn season.
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NewsRTL hit by slump as Five reports loss
RTL Group’s bottom line was dented by a £19.3m write down at UK terrestrial Five and said it expected no improvement in advertising markets in the second half of the year.
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NewsDavina to front Sky 1 dance series
Sky 1 has secured two major coups for its autumn schedule by signing Davina McCall as host of new entertainment series Just Dance and giving Waterloo Road star Angela Griffin her own chat show.
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NewsSky 1 acquires US comedy Modern Family
Sky 1 has kick-started its new comedy strategy by acquiring US comedy Modern Family.
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NewsTen Alps moves into Singapore
Ten Alps has acquired Singapore-based indie Uproar Asia Productions, marking its first move to expand into the Far East and Asia.
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NewsBBC4 aims to ‘broaden palette’
As part of BBC4’s attempts to enhance its drama offering, the channel is eyeing works of fiction that could be adapted for television.
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JimJam expands into Indonesia
JimJam, the pre-school kids channel operated by Hit Entertainment and Chello Zone, is to launch in Indonesia.
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NewsFramestore shuts DI department
Framestore has closed its loss-making DI department, a move that leaves 23 members of staff looking for work.
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Watchdog goes to Unit
Apple-based Soho finishing house Unit has secured the contract to post-produce the new series of the BBC’s Watchdog.
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NewsPerrin leaves UKTV for Shine
UKTV’s director of entertainment commissioning, Lisa Perrin, is leaving the broadcaster to join Shine TV.
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NewsMy Hero director dies at 54
Comedy director John Stroud, best known for BBC1 sitcom My Hero, has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54.