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NewsFD leaves VTR
VTR's finance director, Peter Samengo-Turner, has left the company to work in the financial sector after 11 years at the company. He has been replaced by Prime Focus' vice-president, strategy and business development, Anshul Doshi, who joined VTR's board of directors last month.
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Tapeless at Flextech
Flextech has completed the switch of its linear channels to tapeless playout two weeks before the planned date of 18 July, with the move of Living TV to Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. FTN, Bravo, Challenge, Living TV2, Trouble and associated timeshift channels are now being played ...
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Evolutions posts Sunday Service
Evolutions is working on the online and audio post for Radar Productions' Christian O'Connell's Sunday Service, a new 10 x 60-minute entertainment programme. The show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, is similar to O'Connell's radio show, with one-off features, regular items and ...
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Jump shows impact of sport
Jump has created the titles and graphics for BBC's Sport Relief 2006. The graphics were inserted in real environments with contact information on billboards and roadwork signs lighting up to show how the surrounding environment affects the way people live. Commissioned by BBC executive producer ...
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Edinburgh puts technology centre stage
The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.
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On the box: African escapades
The story of Mark Thatcher and the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea failed to sustain its pace while C4's Sugar Rush was rude and slick, says Cassian Hall
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Redback to make Real Jackal doc for ABC
Indie RedBack has signed a deal with the ABC Network to co-produce a two-hour documentary on one of the world's most famous identity thieves, to be presented by Martin Bashir.
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Francis heads This Morning
ITV is planning to overhaul its flagship daytime brand This Morningwith a new journalistic edge and revamped on-air look, following the promotion of Anya Francis to the role of editor.
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Talpa TV inks Dutch first-look deal with C4I
John de Mol's Netherlands-based broadcaster Talpa TV has signed a first-look deal with Channel 4 International.
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Format Focus: Extra Extra
A European panel format is attracting interest following a US deal with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest
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Leopard wins big down under with Living commissions
UK indie Leopard Films has made further inroads into the Australasian market, selling a raft of programming to the Living Channel in New Zealand and an original documentary to Australian public broadcaster ABC.
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BT strikes film deal with Momentum
BT has secured a film deal with independent distributor Momentum Pictures for access to titles including Lost in Translation and O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Lazarus takes on DVD sales
London-based business consultancy Lazarus Consulting has been appointed the UK agent for Edel Music, which releases DVDs across Europe.
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Regan to Target entertainment post
Target Entertainment has appointed former Living TV commissioning editor Steve Regan as its new head of entertainment and factual entertainment. He effectively replaces the former managing director, Ed Forsdick, who defected in March to run Ant and Dec-owned indie Gallowgate Productions. Reporting directly to Target chief executive Alison Rayson, Regan ...
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Barrymore turned down quiz show
Michael Barrymore's New Zealand-based agent said the star turned down the offer to present new Challenge TV quiz show Take It or Leave It, contrary to claims that he had not been hired over fears of negative publicity. Karen Kay said Barrymore rejected the offer ...
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Download team films Love Island footage
ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...
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Woolfe poaches Jones from Living
Sky One, Two and Three director of programmes Richard Woolfe has hired Living TV executive Steve Jones to become Sky One's commissioning editor for entertainment. As commissioning editor at Living TV, Jones was responsible for ordering and executive producing series including Extreme Makeoverand ...
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Consortium rivals C4 bid
Chrysalis, UTV and SMG are set to enter an agreement to make a joint consortium bid for the new DAB national commercial radio multiplex, rivalling Channel 4's bid for the platform.
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Celebrities roadtest diets for BBC2 show
Vic Reeves, Liza Tarbuck and Colin Jackson have signed up for a BBC2 programme which aims to test whether what you eat can really affect who you are.
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Bennett-Jones: BBC neglects older talent
Talent agent and Tiger Aspect chairman Peter Bennett-Jones has warned the BBC that it faces wasting established talent because of its obsession with youth.