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NewsFox joins Steadfast
Former Mentorn boss Charles Thompson has poached another Mentorn executive to join the creative team of his new indie, Steadfast Television. Ben Fox joins as executive producer for the Apace Media-backed indie. Steadfast has also signed Oliver Manley, former head of development at Ronin Entertainment, as a development executive.
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Optimistic LA move
Optimistic Entertainment will open a Los Angeles office in a move to boost US business. It will be headed by Carolyn Maze, managing director of Optimistic's production arm, who is already recruiting US staff. The company aims to build on its commission from E! Entertainment, for which it produces a ...
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Job changes at ITV
Jane Turton, ITV Productions' director of business affairs for factual, entertainment, daytime and international production, has a new role at network centre. She becomes director of rights and business affairs, ITV Channels, overseeing programme licensing, and reporting to Simon Shaps. Meanwhile, ITV Channels commercial director Jonathan Rogers has been made ...
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Unions in talks over News Channel cuts
The National Union of Journalists and Bectu will go to arbitration service Acas today (Thursday), to try to resolve a dispute with ITN over compulsory redundancies at the ITV News Channel. Talks had broken down between the parties after the joint unions wanted to ensure there would be no compulsory ...
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True North wins daytime animal order
Indie True North has secured its first daytime order from the BBC, with a series about people who protect the nation's wildlife and pets. The Leeds-based company will make a 20 x 45-minute run of Animal 24/7, featuring the work of wildlife crime officers, RSPCA ...
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ITN Multimedia to supply MSN channel
ITN Multimedia has signed a deal with MSN to supply news and entertainment programming for its new video channel MSN Video, which launches in mid February. Content includes On This Day in History, 60-second video vignettes of historical events that happened on a particular day, ...
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Leader - Formidable force of Four
C4 is Broadcast's channel of the year and is making a strong case for support to maintain its PSB status, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Top models return to Living TV
Living TV has ordered a second series of wannabe models show Britain's Next Top Modelas well as a new spin-off show.
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Sky Sports to air awards highlights
Indie RME has landed a commission to produce two Sky Sports highlights shows for forthcoming awards events. It is making hour-long highlights shows of both the inaugural Football League Awards on 5 March and the Sports Industry Awards on 27 April. The shows will air in primetime in the days ...
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Hunt orders third missing persons series
BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a third 10 x 45-minute series of Missing, a Leopard Films series which follows the work of Hackney Police Missing Persons Unit. The new series will be stripped across two weeks on BBC1 in May.
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Supernanny in more conquests
Three more territories have signed on to produce local versions of hit Ricochet format Supernanny.
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Tiger Aspect wins US heist co-commission
Tiger Aspect has scored a co-commission from the US and UK Discovery Channels to produce a feature length documentary about a $100m heist.
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NBC takes the axe to long-running drama hits
Channel 4 drama The West Winghas been axed by US broadcaster NBC in a turbulent week for American dramas.
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Format focus: Survival of the Richest
The latest US commission for RDF Media/ IWC Media could be heading for UK screens soon.
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Norman wins American role at GI
Granada International veteran John Norman has been promoted to senior vice-president, international sales for the Americas, reporting to new director of sales Tim Mutimer. Based in Los Angeles, Norman will take charge of all sales to the US and oversee programme sales to North and South America. Tania Ussher will ...
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HBO may launch UK premium channel
US broadcaster HBO is considering the launch of a premium channel in the UK as part of a larger overseas strategy covering six new markets. The US producer behind The Sopranosand Curb Your Enthusiasm(left) is looking to expand into France, ...
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ITV invests in Final Cut for factual and drama
ITV Productions North looks set to follow the BBC into in-house editing by spending£150,000 on five Final Cut Pro (FCP) edit systems.
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Millionaire losses
Celador's ill-fated Who Wants to be a Millionaire?live tour lost its parent companies over£1m. Investment firm InvestinMedia, which owns 49% of Celador parent Complete Communications Corporation, revealed that last summer's series of live Millionairecompetitions turned in a loss of£1.042m. InvestinMedia ...
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Pop proms get exec
The BBC has appointed former Radio 1 executive Lorna Clarke to head its£6m Alternative Proms initiative. The event - which is billed as a pop music version of the classical concert series - was one of the beneficiaries of the£355m a year savings resulting from BBC director general Mark Thompson's ...
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Flying TV's helicopter follows the whale
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV supplied the continuous coverage of the whale stranded in the Thames last Saturday. Flying TV's helicopter, GPIXX, filmed the action using an Ikegami camera in a nose-mounted Cineflex gyro mount. A directional antenna installed in the helicopter pointed the signal at a ground receive site ...