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Talent TV wins R4 current affairs order
Indie Talent TV has won its first current affairs commission from Radio 4. Talent is to make Mr Ambassador- a 2 x 15-minute programme based around the personal essays of the EU's ambassador to the US, John Bruton. The commission, from Radio 4's commissioning editor for ...
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Target takes over Jordan and Peter show
Target Entertainment is set to produce a follow-up to ITV2's hit show Jordan and Peter: Laid Bare, with Can Associates, the company run by the celebrity couple's agents. The deal comes after the previous co-producer of the show, Spun Gold, clashed with the pair's agents on ...
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Peter Williams traces wartime lovers
Six wartime love stories are to be retold in a regional series being made by indie Peter Williams Television for ITV Meridian. The indie has researched a group of second world war love affairs for the 6 x 30-minute series with the help of the Imperial War Museum,
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European deal for Paradise Hotel
Paradise Hotel, Mentorn's beachside reality show, is set to be made for viewers in Belgium and the Netherlands following a deal with SBS.
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RDFR pays annual fee for Blast! Films product
RDF Rights has inked a two-year distribution deal with Blast! Films giving it first look at all international TV and consumer product rights.
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Love cosies up with Target
Love Productions, the indie set up by former Maverick managing director Richard McKerrow, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Target Entertainment.
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Fremantle gains dinosaur show
Fremantle Media has signed up the rights to Prehistoric Park, the new Jurassic Park-style ITV1 natural history show from the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Format focus:Intervention
After makeovers and diet shows galore, TV turns its attention to alcoholics and drug addicts.
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Orion TV auction shows sold on
Orion TV has shifted its ITV daytime hits Bootsale Challenge(pictured) and Trading Treasuresto broadcasters in Denmark and Australia. Denmark's TV2 Charlie has taken 30 episodes of each show while Australia's How To network has taken 30 episodes of ...
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Century sells Feltham sings to Australia
Century Films has sold its Bafta-winning documentary Feltham Singsto Australian broadcaster SBS, as part of a trio of deals. Australian public broadcaster SBS has also acquired Pornography The Musical, the indie's 2003 Channel 4 film, which looked at the UK's porn industry, ...
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BBC bags golf's british open until 2011
The BBC has secured the rights to The Open until 2011, after extending its deal with golf's world rules and development body, the R&A. The new five-year deal, which starts at the end of the BBC's existing deal in 2006, includes TV rights to the Walker Cup and the live ...
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PBS to show Tern's fishing documentary
Scottish indie Tern Television has negotiated its first international deal with US broadcaster PBS, selling its documentary on the Scottish fishing industry. Gutted, which follows a year in the lives of fishing families in Fraserburgh, will be shown on PBS's Wide Anglein ...
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Avalon hires fox exec to head us arm
Avalon, the UK indie and PR firm behind Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, has named Fox Television Studios executive David Martin as president of its US operations. Martin will develop original scripted comedy and dramas using the company's comedy formats and talent. He has been with Fox ...
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Salmon poaches ex-BBC children's drama head
TV Corp's new chief executive, Peter Salmon, has made his first hiring, snapping up the BBC's former head of children's drama Elaine Sperber.
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NewsITV1 fails to deliver knockout blow
The return of boxing to the ITV1 schedules, after effectively a 10-year hiatus, did not manage to punch its weight against BBC1.
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Thompson defends move to Manchester
BBC director general Mark Thompson has told Parliament the BBC will press ahead with plans to move to several key departments to Manchester despite protests by staff.
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NewsBBC: 'naive' over Springer backlash
The BBC governor who rebelled against the screening of Jerry Springer - The Operahas said the corporation's managers were 'naive' in underestimating the effect the programme would have on faith groups.
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Ofcom pay up...
Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter was paid£414,463 in the past financial year. His basic salary of£267,500 was boosted by a£53,500 bonus and a£66,875 pension allowance. Chairman David Currie earned a total of£178,443, his salary of£152,777 topped up by a£25,666 pension allowance. Other top earners included senior partner for competition and ...
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NewsJowell to face MPs
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is to face a cross-party probe into the government's plans to switch the country to digital television by 2012. The Commons media select committee is to question the minister this autumn about how and when analogue television will be switched off. The government has still not ...
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Canis expands
Canis Media Group, the multichannel firm set up by former BBC executive Ed Hall, has bought My Phone TV from West-Midlands based Gems TV. Currently a retail channel selling mobile telephones and airtime packages, Hall intends to broaden My Phone TV's content to include fitness and home accessories. The channel's ...