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NewsChildren's: The buyers: Frank Dietz
Head of acquisitions and co-productions, Super RTL, Germany
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NewsChildren's: The buyers: Jean-Loeck van Kollenburg
Head programme buyer, Z@ppelin, the Netherlands
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NewsChildren's: The buyers: Jan-Erik Wieselburg
Acquisitions executive, children's/youth, SVT/The Barnkanalen, Sweden
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NewsCook leaves T4 behind to launch cross-platform indie
Former T4 producer Richard Cook has left his role as executive for youth and music at Eyeworks UK to form his own indie.
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NewsWedding bells for Heaviest Man
Five is to revisit its World's Heaviest Man documentary by heading back to Mexico to see him get married.
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NewsKids iPlayer to tackle web watershed problem
The BBC is to solve the online watershed conundrum by launching a children's version of the iPlayer.
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NewsGrade demands end to ITV indie quota
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has branded its 25% indie quota an “utter nonsense” and demanded it be scrapped.
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NewsRTS Speech: Grade throws down PSB guantlet
ITV has thrown down the gauntlet to Ofcom - either ease its regulatory burden or risk losing it as a public service broadcaster.
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New joint MDs at Kudos
Kudos Film and Television director of drama Simon Crawford Collins and commercial director Daniel Isaacs have taken over from Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett as the Shine-owned indie's joint managing directors. Featherstone becomes creative director, and Garrett becomes executive chairman, leading strategic and international development. He also runs Shine Pictures, ...
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NewsTarrant signs for ITV1 cash quiz
ITV director of television Peter Fincham has secured Chris Tarrant to host 12 Yard's ITV1 gameshow The Colour of Money.
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Buyers' Guide: Hot Picks
As viewers seek an entertaining escape from reality during tougher times, buyers will be targeting light-hearted content and shiny floor shows. Maria Esposito looks at what’s on offer at Mipcom.
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Zig Zag eyes orders from BBC and ITV
Zig Zag Productions has hired two “big hitters” from the BBC and ITV as part of a strategy to win more commissions from the two largest broadcasters.
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NewsImpossible founder quits to start WEE
Impossible Pictures co-founder Jasper James has left the Primeval producer to set up a media firm backed by Red Vision VFX, the company behind the Headcases CGI.
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NewsAll3M names Wrigley ent boss
All3Media has appointed Ruth Wrigley as its first group-wide entertainment executive to help its indies fast track Saturday night entertainment formats.
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NewsStudio Lambert to send bosses undercover for C4
Channel 4 is planting bosses in the workplace in a factual format from the team behind the first series of The Secret Millionaire.
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NewsUKTV bids to ‘do a Dave' with launch of Blighty
UKTV's next attempt to “do a Dave” will see it rebrand UKTV People as Blighty.
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NewsBuyers' Guide: Entertainment
Ten years on, the global appetite for Big Brother and its brand of increasingly twisted reality shows may finally be waning.