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Celador radio arm secures BBC orders
Celador Productions' radio arm has won five new commissions from the BBC, for Radio 2 and Radio 4, including the first radio play from Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
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Tiger's Forman dies suddenly
Tiger Aspect director Charlie Forman, whose credits include BBC2's Country House and A Seaside Parish, has died in a motorcycle accident in Uganda, aged 31.
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C4 ditches Princess
Channel 4 has pulled the plug on a Liverpool Street Productions documentary following Princess Michael of Kent as she tries to sell her 17th-century home, Nether Lypiatt Manor. The broadcaster had concerns that the princess had negotiated with the production company to have full editorial control over the final product, ...
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Popworld expansion
Former ITV director of licensing Martin Lowde has been appointed as the chief executive of Popworld. Its four shareholders - Channel 4, UBC Media, Freedom Media and Simon Fuller - have tasked Lowde with developing the Popworld brand and driving commercial success around the world, both on and off air. ...
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Spain buys sitcoms
BBC Worldwide has sold a number of full series of classic comedies to a Spanish TV channel. TV Valencia has bought a 'Britcom package' from Worldwide, which gives it the right to the whole series of Blackadder, Bottom, Allo Allo and Yes Minister. The open-licence deal adds up to 45 ...
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C4 to air madge doc
Channel 4 and E4 have acquired exclusive UK broadcast rights to the new Madonna documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret. The Lucky Lou Production - created and executive produced by Madonna - chronicles the recent Re-Invention tour. It will premiere on C4 on Thursday 1 December at 9pm ...
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Unions threaten ITV with strike on pay
Unions have told ITV that they want an above-inflation pay rise for next year or they will start industrial action. The joint claim from Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Amicus comes after a number of ITV workers went on strike earlier this year, affecting shows such as Coronation ...
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Kavanagh stands in as BBC3 controller
BBC3 scheduler Damian Kavanagh is to take over as temporary controller of the channel while a replacement for outgoing controller Stuart Murphy is sought. Murphy will leave on Friday, 25 November, to join Wife Swap producer RDF Media as creative director. Kavanagh, head of planning and scheduling for the channel, ...
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Bay radio and TLRC celebrate FM wins
Ofcom made two FM licence awards this week, handing the 300,000-strong Swansea licence to local consortium Swansea Bay Radio, while the The Local Radio Company (TLRC) clinched its 30th FM radio licence with the 30,000-strong Northallerton franchise in North Yorkshire.
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World Cup spearheads BBC's HD push
The World Cup and high-end documentaries such as Planet Earth are set to lead the BBC's charge into high definition when it trials the technology next year. The corporation announced this week that it would broadcast peaktime HD programmes on BBC1 on cable and satellite from mid-2006. It has started ...
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Bakhurst favourite for head of News 24
Ten O'Clock News editor Kevin Bakhurst is being tipped as a candidate for the new job of controller of News 24, following a major shake-up by BBC head of TV news Peter Horrocks. Horrocks announced this week that he would replace the editorships of the 1pm and 6pm bulletins with ...
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Interview: Paul Jackson - The Jackson file
The man at the helm of a revitalised Granada USA, Paul Jackson, tells how he has pulled off a string of commissions, the latest of which is But Can They Sing?, in the highly competitive US market.
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Postcards from America
A US office is becoming essential for producers who are looking to sell programmes across the pond. Colin Robertson went to meet the UK producers who’ve set up in New York and LA to find out if the US really is the land of opportunity.
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Making digital add up
Last week's Westminster Media Forum discussed the question of whether switching off the analogue signal is an essential plank of our digital future or a waste of taxpayers' money.
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Comment: Richard Hopkins - Selling salsa to Uncle Sam
Pitching Strictly Come Dancing (complete with Brucie's bad gags) to the Americans was a mission that proved as nail-biting as the contest itself, recalls Richard Hopkins.
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In My View: Nigel Pickard - Risk and reward
Broadcasters will always have ups and downs, but that only adds to the thrill of backing a winner, says ITV's Nigel Pickard.
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Profile: Danny Cohen - An eye on the wider world
Channel 4's self-effacing documentaries chief Danny Cohen has proven range, but could this rising star really be the next Mark Thompson? By Jessica Hodgson.
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Black hearts, body parts
Is the increasingly dark and dingy world of TV desensitising us to reality? Steven D Wright takes a long hard look at himself.
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Structuring the void
Scriptwriting gurus Robert McKee and Syd Field point out that structure, conflict, storytelling and character are the central ingredients of any drama - but how can these elements be applied to the documentary process? Jane Marlow quizzes four acclaimed documentarians on the art of their craft.
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Leader - Carrots and sticks
Lasting worries about the element of compulsion in, and the funding of, digital switchover are quite legitimate, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.