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    MediaCity owners pin hopes on ITV U-turn

    2009-04-07T18:46:31Z

    MediaCityUK owner Peel Media is still hopeful of persuading ITV to move to the Salford site despite the broadcaster ruling out a deal last month.

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    MPs revive top-slicing threat

    2009-04-07T18:41:07Z

    MPs and peers reignited the PSB funding debate this week, rejecting media secretary Andy Burnham's favoured partnership between Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide and putting licence fee top-slicing back on the agenda.

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    C4 plans Bible follow-up to history of Christianity

    2009-04-07T18:40:05Z

    Channel 4 is to follow up Christianity: a History with a series of personal interpretations of the Bible.

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    Shine makes TV quiz for BBC1

    2009-04-07T18:24:54Z

    BBC1 has commissioned Shine Television to make a Buzzcocks-style quiz show about TV.

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    BBC forces producers to cut talent budgets

    2009-04-07T18:16:59Z

    The BBC is compelling producers to pass on budget cuts to on-screen talent, by demanding a minimum pay reduction for some shows' presenters and actors.

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    Virgin's Webb takes charge of IDS

    2009-04-07T17:55:34Z

    Virgin Media TV managing director Jonathan Webb has been handed the newly created role of executive director and will take on overall responsibility for its advertising sales house IDS.

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    Watch snaps up ITV pilot show

    2009-04-07T17:53:44Z

    UKTV's Watch has ordered a hidden camera show, originally piloted for ITV1, in which children under five do adult jobs such as running a café.

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    Coltrane steps back into police role for ITV thriller

    2009-04-07T17:44:59Z

    Cracker star Robbie Coltrane is to return to ITV crime drama in a new thriller told from three different perspectives.

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    Tombs heads to BBC for strategy position

    2009-04-07T17:13:53Z

    Former Paramount Comedy exec Matt Tombs has joined the BBC as a business strategy executive within entertainment production.

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    Princess MD Scott extends tenure at Shine

    2009-04-07T17:02:34Z

    Princess Productions co-founder and managing director Sebastian Scott has inked a new contract with super-indie owner Shine Group to stay on for a further 12 months.

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    RDF hires Stanford-Smith for animation

    2009-04-07T17:00:03Z

    RDF Media Group has hired Parthenon Kids founder Karina Stanford-Smith to lead a major push into animation.

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    BBC4 unveils landmark Christianity series

    2009-04-07T16:56:21Z

    BBC4 is to examine the beginnings of Christianity and what it means to be a part of the religion in a new “landmark” series lined up for the autumn.

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    Percy warns of funding crisis for high-end docs

    2009-04-07T16:55:17Z

    Award-winning film-maker Norma Percy has warned that high-end documentary makers are facing a funding crisis as cash from broadcasters, particularly in America, dries up.

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    Russia to air Hudson plane crash doc

    2009-04-07T15:11:23Z

    Darlow Smithson Production's (DSP) fast turnaround documentary Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash has been sold to Channel One in Russia.

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    Parthenon wins myth series commission

    2009-04-07T14:13:28Z

    Parthenon Entertainment has won its biggest series commission to date, a 13 x 30-minute series for National Geographic Channels International that will debunk the myths surrounding famous historical figures.

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    Target takes Josef Fritzl doc global

    2009-04-07T14:02:38Z

    Target Entertainment has sold Sky 1 documentary Josef Fritzl: Story of a Monster to eight broadcasters around the world.

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    Antonioni quits ITV brands role

    2009-04-07T13:56:42Z

    ITV Global Entertainment's commercial brands director Gustavo Antonioni has left the broadcaster after taking voluntary redundancy.

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    Sky 1 acquires Stargate Universe

    2009-04-07T13:54:22Z

    Video: Sky 1 has snapped up the latest edition of the Stargate franchise, SGU: Stargate Universe, starring British actor Robert Carlyle.

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    DLT to take C4 execs to the US for drama

    2009-04-07T13:51:25Z

    The indie behind My Family is flying a pair of Channel 4 executives out to Los Angeles to thrash out ideas for a drama penned by a US writing team.

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    C4 to aim Yo Gabba Gabba! at teens

    2009-04-07T13:37:40Z

    Channel 4 hopes to turn preschool show Yo Gabba Gabba! into a cult hit with students after buying it from RDF Rights for the T4 strand.