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BBC4 orders WW1 drama
BBC4 has ordered a drama about the first black officer to lead British troops during World War I.
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NewsEndemol limbers up to enter sports market
Endemol is to make a surprise move into the sports market with the launch of a London-based division.
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Cactus lands series with Hairy Bikers
The Hairy Bikers are to front a major stripped daytime series for BBC2 that will be made by Cactus TV instead of their long-time producer, Big Bear Films.
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NewsTimewatch editor forms indie JV with Impossible
Primeval producer Impossible Pictures is to launch a new indie specialising in history and science in partnership with Timewatch editor John Farren.
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NewsBBC1's Saturday line-up develops a ratings hole
Merlin and Strictly Come Dancing may have pulled in suitably large audiences for BBC1, but Hole in the Wall made a slightly wobbly debut in the channel's new Saturday line- up.
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UKTV Style homes in on fantasy trio
UKTV Style will help a host of famous faces find their dream home as part of a celebrity spin-off of its Fantasy Homes franchise.
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RDF operating loss triples year on year
RDF Media Group increased its revenues by more than 10% in the six months to 31 July - but its operating loss more than tripled to£824,000.
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Woolcock develops hip-hop musical for C4
Film-maker Penny Woolcock is to return to Birmingham for a gritty hip-hop musical for Channel 4.
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NewsTV producers should ‘ape movie industry'
TV producers will have to ape the piecemeal funding model of the film industry in order to survive, Ingenious Media founder and chief executive Patrick McKenna has warned.
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NewsNo Place Like Home moves to ITV daytime
ITV is resurrecting one of its most successful peaktime factual shows from last year as a stripped daytime format.
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RDF to distribute Factory
RDF Rights (RDFR) has picked up the international distribution rights to US male-skewed channel Spike TV's first original comedy.
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NewsStudio Lambert to sell third party hits to US networks
Stephen Lambert indie Studio Lambert plans to work with other UK factual entertainment producers to get their formats remade in the US.
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NewsBlessed to front reversioned Banzuke
Virgin Media TV channel Challenge has signed up Brian Blessed to front a Japanese entertainment series it has acquired.
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NewsBussche to lead Gaga sales arm
Former Fox and Endemol executive Peter van den Bussche is to return to the UK to launch a distribution arm for Belgian producer Gaga Media.
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C4 announces shows from Radio HaHa talent search
Channel 4 Radio has unveiled three commissions from its 4Talent Radio HaHa talent search scheme, including a comedy take on superheroes.
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NewsAbsolute orders£5m breakfast revamp
Absolute Radio is to spend more than a third of its£15m investment in the station on its new-look breakfast show.
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NewsFirst Cuts software puts editing on ‘auto pilot'
A new sub-£200 piece of software that generates a first edit of a documentary by itself is set to divide the editing community.
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Thomson launches slo-mo system
Thomson will hope to put a dent in EVS's dominance of the outside broadcast slow-motion market when it releases a new instant replay controller and media server later this year.
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NewsWatson becomes transmission adjudicator
Ofcom has appointed former NTL broadcast managing director Alan Watson as the official adjudicator for broadcast transmission services in the UK.
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NewsKnights Templar go into battle for Five
Five's Trial of the Knights Templar amassed a sizeable army of 1.6m viewers (7.2%) at 8pm, making it one of the channel's most watched documentaries so far this year.