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NewsFremantle Media unveils new gaming division
Fremantle Media will develop online games based on shows such as Hole in the Wall as the first initiative from a division charged with creating new revenue streams.
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NewsITV hails Britannia High as 360 landmark
ITV has heralded a new era of 360-degree commissioning as it gears up to launch a ground-breaking array of multiplatform content around teen musical drama Britannia High.
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NewsBrydon's Arbie wins BBC4 pilot
Rob Brydon's fledgling indie Arbie is to produce a comedy drama pilot for BBC4 about a wealthy Russian family living in London.
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NewsAll3M acquires Illumina Digital
All3Media has made its first new media acquisition, snapping up multiplatform producer Illumina Digital.
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NewsHatton to host Nuts TV chat show
Ricky Hatton is to host a live weekly chat show on Nuts TV in the channel's highest profile commission to date.
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NewsITV to revive C4's classic Graham Taylor football doc
ITV is to air an extended version of the landmark Graham Taylor documentary that went out 14 years ago on Channel 4 and has ordered a new film featuring the former England manager.
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CBeebies nets birthdays
CBeebies has launched a birthday service on the CBBC website that allows users to email personalised films, similar to the channel's birthday greetings slot.
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NewsRichards: Ofcom won't be swayed by ITV
Ofcom will not be swayed by ITV's attempts to “paint an apocalyptic scenario” about its future, the regulator's chief executive Ed Richards has warned.
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MTV exec joins Maverick
MTV UK and Ireland director of development Jilly Pearce has joined Maverick Television as an executive producer.
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NewsSpeech: Ed Richards, Ofcom, 17 Sep '08
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards speech to the Royal Television Society on 17 Septmber, 2008, titled Taking the Next Steps Forward.
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NewsBBC1 hands Hammond Saturday night Wipeout
Richard Hammond has landed his first Saturday night presenting job on BBC1, hosting the corporation's version of assault course gameshow Wipeout.
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NewsOfcom: C4's PSB future is a ‘pressing priority'
Ofcom has rejected a BBC-only PSB model as unworkable and has revised its remaining PSB options to protect the “pressing priority” of funding Channel 4.
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NewsZig Zag on hunt for ‘American Winehouse'
Zig Zag Productions has won a commission worth more than $4m to go in search of an “American Amy Winehouse”.
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ID renews its first-look deal with Colonial
The new deal will extend their collaboration into next year and will see more than 20 hours worth of programming delivered for international distribution over the next year. ID will be taking a number of Colonial's titles to Mipcom in October.
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RDF Rights seals 2-year deal with Betty
RDF Rights has handed Liz Warner's indie Betty an exclusive two-year development deal.
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NewsHistory Channel and Five pick up Black Gold
Fremantle Media Enterprises (FME) has sold its new US oilworkers series Black Gold to Five and The History Channel in the UK.
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Meltdown Monday hits all but a few
The collapse of Lehman Brothers on “Meltdown Monday” meant most companies in the Broadcast Sharewatch fell this week.
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NewsKrempelwood delivers AFP deals in first week
Advertiser-funded programming (AFP) and sponsorship start-up Krempelwood has sealed deals to deliver sponsors for up-coming shows from Sony Pictures Television International, BBC Worldwide, Universal Music and UKTV.
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NewsTwoFour wins first comedy order
TwoFour has won its first comedy commission - a Paramount Comedy pilot from two of the writers of BBC's The Wrong Door.
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Lion to explore classroom life in Damascus
BBC4 is to look at life in four Damascus classrooms in the latest series of its Open University foreign schools strand.