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MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Entertainment
Like it or not, the global credit crunch is likely to be the topic of conversation among TV execs at this year's MipTV.
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MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Drama
It's been a rocky two years for drama production on both sides of the Atlantic.
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MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Kids
The children's TV market is arguably the most competitive of all and broadcasters will be hunting as hard as ever for the next playground hit.
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4iP looks at faster commissions
Channel 4 and innovation funding body Nesta have devised a range of contract models designed to simplify and speed up the commissioning process for low-budget web projects.
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Multimedia briefs 27 March 2009
Multimedia news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 27 March featuring BBC online, Babelgum, iPlayer and Balls of Steel.
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Farm to add third Soho Square Pro Tools suite
The Farm Group is to add a third Pro Tools audio studio to its Soho headquarters.
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Pepper spices up sound studio
Law & Order UK post-facility Pepper is looking to bolster its feature film business with a£300,000 audio upgrade and the addition of three new senior creative staff.
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Hawking to crack cosmos for Discovery
Darlow Smithson Productions has secured Stephen Hawking to front a major Discovery Channel series that aims to do for the universe what David Attenborough has done for natural history.
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Ionoco wins gameshow deal
Computer systems developer Ionoco has been named as the preferred technology supplier for 12 Yard Productions' gameshow format The Colour of Money.
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FME buys 20% share of Wide-Eyed
Wide-Eyed Entertainment, the CGI-specialist indie set up by Impossible Pictures founder Jasper James, has sold a 20% stake in the company to Fremantle Media Enterprises (FME).
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Bedell to select ITV team
The process of reshaping ITV's entertainment commissioning team began this week with new director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell and director of television, channels and online Peter Fincham holding interviews from 26 March.
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No more Boys & Girls but C4 eyes parenting shows
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has ruled out a second series of the controversial Boys and Girls Alone, describing it as a “one-off stunt”.
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BBC1 Twins series enters nature or nurture debate
BBC1 will push the boundaries of the nature/nurture debate in a landmark series about twins.
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News Q&A: Steve Macallister
Steve Macallister is managing director of BBC Worldwide sales and distribution.
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Mentorn cuts to chase in cop show ‘coup' for Fox
Mentorn USA has been commissioned by US cable network Fox Reality Channel to make a “high adrenaline” police car chase series.
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Mediaset to make pilot of RDF's Perfect Recall
Channel 4 daytime quiz Perfect Recall is being remade for a foreign market for the first time after RDF Rights sold the format to Mediaset in Italy.
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ITV Global to offer Saturday Night Takeaway spin-off to rivals
ITV wants to turn the flagship Win the Ads segment of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway into a standalone show - but hopes to sell it to a rival UK broadcaster.
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Way clear for Shed MBO after chair steps down
Shed Media's failed MBO could be back on the agenda after one of the key opponents to the price of the bid, non-executive chair Katherine Innes Ker, stepped down last week.
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Hungary: Westernised market
MipTV 09: With 4 million TV homes, Hungary is one of the most westernised markets in the region.