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Nissan pays for travel series
Car manufacturer Nissan has paid for a 26 x 30-minute travel and motoring series which it plans to offer free to broadcasters in exchange for branding and adverts for its 4x4 vehicles around the show. The advertiser-funded series is being produced by Pro Active Television and distributed by its sister ...
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TWI takes cookery show down under
TWI has sold its daytime series Chef v Britain, which kicked off on ITV1 this week, to Australian broadcaster Nine Network. The 15 x 30-minute cookery challenge show, presented by Claire Sweeney and TV chef Gino d'Acampo, features members of the public going head to head ...
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Granada makes sales in eastern Europe
Granada International has sold a raft of TV movies including Dangerous Watersand Dead Will Tellto RTL Klub in Hungary as part of a series of eastern European deals. Pro TV in Romania has acquired a package of 24 TV movies, ITC and ...
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Lion ramps up operations for US assault
Lion TV has expanded its operations in the US, opening a new office in California and promoting one of its executive producers to run its New York base. Tracy Green has been appointed to head the new Santa Monica office, developing original programmes and selling UK formats to the US ...
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Discovery co-production comes alive
Discovery Networks is co-producing Darlow Smithson's new survival docu-drama series Alive(working title) with Channel 4 and Granada International. The 10 x 60-minute series mixes interviews with people who have had near-death experiences and dramatic reconstructions of the events. Production is already underway and transmission is set ...
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Low, common and loving it
With genteel classics replaced by raucous entertainment shows, the American public is learning to love the populist face of British TV.
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BBC Broadcast sells for£166m
BBC Broadcast will be sold to an Australian consortium led by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) for£166m - a price underpinned by£500m of BBC contracts - once the government greenlights the deal next month.
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Molinare installs£150,000 Mac edit set-up for Tour
Molinare is helping Venner TV to bring Lance Armstrong's epic bid to win his seventh consecutive Tour de France to the public by installing a£150,000 purpose-built non-linear Apple edit set-up.
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Clear jobs cut
As funds fail to materialise VFX house Clear has been forced to make emergency cuts after promises of funding for its planned telecine suite fell through.
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Bell's rapid ascent
Ascent Media Network Sevices Europe (AMNSE) has appointed Catherine Bell as vice-president of operations. Bell, former head of traffic and presentation for Satellite Television Asian Region (Star), will report directly to AMNSE senior vice-president, Bob Gentry. AMNSE is currently recruiting a vice-president of engineering.
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Full stream ahead
Senior producer Lauretta Horrocks has been promoted to production manager at interactive design and DVD authoring company Stream. Horrocks will head a team of six producers at the Ascent Media company. A Stream spokesman said that the appointment filled a new role and was not a direct replacement for anyone ...
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Going for gold
Winners at Promax last week included broadcast creative agencies Devilfish and Angelfish, who picked up eight gold awards for work for Flextech, Reality TV and Five, and Bruce Dunlop Associates who notched up a total of 12 awards across the BDA Group.
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C4 ends Countdown era
Channel 4 will tomorrow (Friday) screen the last Richard Whiteley-fronted episode of Countdownas part of an afternoon dedicated to the channel's longest serving face.
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BBC 'indie champion'
CBBC head of entertainment Anne Gilchrist is to become the BBC's first children's TV 'indie champion'. She will become executive editor, independents and events, commissioning children's programmes solely from the indie sector. She has been responsible for commissioning some of CBBC's most high-profile shows, from Blue ...
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Dead famous sold
Dead Famous, Living TV's paranormal series made by Twofour Productions, has been sold to A&E's Biography Channel US. Following a deal brokered by distributor Minotaur, A&E has taken the full first series, which sees presenters Gail Porter and Chris Fleming on the trail of deceased Hollywood legends including Marilyn Monroe, ...
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BBC on course
BBC journalists will have to pass new training courses in order to be promoted within the corporation. As part of its response to the Neil report on its journalistic standards, the BBC has dropped the Neil committee's recommendation for a bricks-and-mortar college, opting instead for a 'virtual college' of training ...
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Online archive fear
A BBC project to make its archive available online has been criticised by an MP, who fears it could spark a new trade in illegal downloads. Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, said he plans to investigate the cor-poration's plans for its Creative Archive - a publicly ...
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Firefly appointment
Indie Firefly has promoted company production manager Francesca Newby to the newly created post of head of production. Newby will manage the company's workload and will report to managing directors Magnus Temple and Nick Curwin. Firefly is currently making three programmes for Channel 4's forthcoming Psychoseries ...
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O2 deal will take ITV live onto mobiles
ITV is poised to sign a deal with O2 that would see it become the first terrestrial channel to be broadcast live on mobile phones.
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British hopes boost tennis ratings
Coverage of the first week of the Wimbledon tennis tournament has served up an extra 300,000 viewers for BBC1.