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Living grows output with Haunted spin-offs
Living TV is growing its in-house produced output with two Most Haunted spin-off shows.
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Emap moves into call TV
Emap is moving into call TV with the launch of a live daily branded block on music channel The Hits.
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New indie to use links with sports stars
A former Goldman Sachs executive has launched a television production company to provide new revenue streams for high-profile sporting clients of his -financial services business.
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NewsDes Lynam spells new start
Channel 4viewers gave a warm reception to Des Lynam as the new presenter of Countdown.
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Diverse develops
Celador development executive Anna Richardson has joined Diverse to oversee development of features programming. Richardson has worked in front of and behind the camera, hosting shows including BBC1's Maternity Hospital and developing popular series including C4's You Are What You Eat. Recent Diverse productions in the genre include BBC2's The ...
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Broadcasting house loses architect
The group developing BBC Broadcasting House has ditched the architect in charge over 'creative differences'. The BBC, along with builders Bovis Lend Lease and developers Land Securities, decided not to continue working with architectural firm MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP), headed by Sir Richard MacCormac. He had mapped out the second ...
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Blaze develops us version of CD:UK
Blaze Television has signed a deal with US multichannel operator DirecTV to produce an American version of ITV1 pop show CD:UK. DirecTV has picked up a 60-minute show for 52 weeks with an option for a further two years. CD:USA will launch at 11am on Saturday mornings from January and ...
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ITV on the acquisition trail
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said this week he was close to making a series of acquisitions. 'We will grow organically through our existing business and also through acquisitions of which we will be announcing some imminently. We will look to distribute our content over all available platforms,' he ...
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World Service changes under discussion
Broadcasting unions will sit down with BBC bosses next week to try to reduce the number of World Service staff set to be axed. Around 230 are expected to go as a result of the World Service's plans to set up a£19m-a-year Arabic TV channel, its first TV station. In ...
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BBC3 controller: contenders line up
The BBC is gearing up to interview for the BBC3 controller's job, with Living TV's Richard Woolfe, BBC factual entertainment head David Mortimer and BBC1 scheduler Liam Keelan all understood to be on the list. Head of entertainment Wayne Garvie is also tipped as a strong candidate. Meanwhile the BBC ...
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Casting a shadow over reality TV
A good reality show depends on just the right mix of participants, whether celebrities or 'real people'. But how easy is it to find them now that the boom in the genre has made us all media-savvy - and are the burgeoning number of casting agencies a boon or a ...
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NewsInterview: John Yorke & Lucy Richer - Drama's double act
BBC drama's John Yorke and Lucy Richer are on a roll with the successful return of the Mitchell brothers and series such as Spooks and Hustle. They tell Geoff White about what they gained by moving from C4 to the BBC.
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Profile: Mark Browning - Programming from the Heart
Mark Browning has steered Heart 106.2 clear of rival Capital through a change of personnel and a clear understanding of his target Londoners.
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Who will be the winners in 2012?
One of the themes at this year's Promax is future-proofing for 2012. So what will the media landscape look like then? Broadcast asks five industry figures to predict the trends and technologies that will affect TV's marketers and creative directors and the new skills and knowledge that will be needed ...
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Downloading the future
Soon we'll be able to download TV programmes in the same way we can songs and albums, says David Docherty, so what future is there for conventional broadcasters?
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Putting people first
Daisy Goodwin questions whether the super-indie is the best environment for nurturing talent.
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Can they be trusted?
Michael Grade has promised the launch of any new services by the BBC will be scrutinised more closely, but commercial rivals remain concerned about the corporation's expansionist tendencies, writes Jenny Smith.
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Sky pushes its limits
By buying Easynet, Sky has become the first TV company to move into telecoms - but can it make the culture clash work in its favour?
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Show me the money
With the death of traditional advertising, UK broadcasting needs alternative ways of making money - and soon.
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NewsShaps to overhaul ITV commissioning
ITV director of television Simon Shaps is planning a radical overhaul of ITV's commissioning system, creating three new genre 'ministries' and hiring around eight more commissioners.