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NewsSpeculation mounts over RDF backers
All3Media and Cyrte Investments, the investment vehicle owned by John De Mol, are being tipped as the most likely backers for the RDF management buy out bid.
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NewsExcelsior takes ITV to court
A Touch of Frost indie Excelsior Group Productions has issued a multi-million pound claim against ITV in the High Court of Justice today (24 April) over unpaid royalties.
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NewsMBO offer for RDF
RDF, the indie behind hit Channel 4 show Wife Swap, may be taken private after a consortium including its management team made an indicative cash proposal for all of the company's shares.
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NewsClements to join STV in the autumn
Update: Former IWC creative director Alan Clements will join STV as director of content, it has confirmed.
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NewsRDF and Clements settle dispute
RDF Media and Alan Clements have settled their long-running dispute, with the former IWC creative director now free to join a competitor from 15 September this year.
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NewsTV critics 24 April '08
'... this felt like a history lesson for the Facebook generation'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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NewsITV1 between a Rock and a hard place
ITV1's troubled drama series Rock Rivals came to a close last night with a meagre 2.4m viewers (9.9%) in its high profile 9pm slot.
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BT Vision to air new films
BT's on-demand service BT Vision is to offer movies including Atonement and The Bourne Ultimatum on Picture Box, a subscription channel developed with Universal Pictures.
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ITV archive shows on iTunes
ITV is to offer archive shows including Inspector Morse and Cold Feet on Apple's iTunes.
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Full launch for Blinkbox
TV and film download and social networking site blinkbox.com has added an ad-supported TV channel that will screen entire episodes of shows.
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Zattoo gets 2m downloads
Two million people have downloaded the Zattoo multichannel media player ahead of its full UK launch.
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South Asian VoD set to launch in UK
A video-on-demand service for the UK's 2.2 million South Asians, featuring content from broadcasters such as Star, Sony and Zee TV, is set to launch by the end of this year.
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NewsMultiplatform distribution is media's 'biggest challenge'
Distribution models, funding and creativity are the biggest challenges for broadcasters seeking to work across different platforms and with other media companies, according to a survey commissioned by Broadcast.
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NewsSky One to resurrect sci-fi classic Blake's 7
Sky One is planning a remake of iconic British science fiction series Blake's 7.
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NewsNew festival will map the digital age
Broadcast and sister titles Screen International and Shots are coming together to launch The Media Festival, an event which will bring the digital content industries of TV, film, online, gaming, mobile, music and advertising together.
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NewsBBC3 orders body double doc
Prospect Pictures is to produce a revealing portrait of the world of body doubles in a new one-off ob doc for BBC3.
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NewsC4 funding dilemma splits TV industry
Broadcast readers strongly believe Channel 4 should have to provide public service broadcast programming in the digital era - but are divided over whether it should get more access to public funds than its commercial rivals.
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NewsBBC factual chief joins new Disney nature unit
BBC factual boss Keith Scholey is leaving the corporation to make natural history feature films - starting with a project for Disney.
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Celeb MasterChef line-up
Michael Buerk, Denise Lewis, Andi Peters and Julia Bradbury will battle it out for the Celebrity MasterChef title this summer.
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NewsTough ad market will push us into the red, admits C4
Channel 4 expects programme costs to stabilise this year after escalating by 3% in 2007, but has warned that a tougher advertising market will move the broadcaster into the red.