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Bafta names BBC film best of British
The BBC-backed feature film My Summer of Lovelanded the best British film award at this weekend's Bafta Film Awards.
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Sony eyes Jackson for Euro role
Sony Pictures Television International is looking to poach Granada America chief Paul Jackson to beef up its European production clout.
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The Brits entertain 7m
The glitz of the annual Brit Awardsbrought a peak audience of 7 million (31%) to ITV1 at 9.30pm.
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MTV launches Advance Warning Europe
MTV is to roll its US new music show format Advance Warninginto Europe.
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SMG rebuffs Alli Virgin radio bid
SMG has rejected a£100m bid for its Virgin Radio business from a private equity group led by Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli.
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Playboy TV fined£25,000
Ofcom has slapped a£25,000 fine on softcore sex channel Playboy TV for broadcasting graphic sex.
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C4 sets up£10m new ideas fund
Channel 4 has stepped up its search for innovative programming by launching a new dedicated£10m fund.
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Brown asks TV execs to back Year of Volunteer
Mark Thompson, Andy Duncan and Charles Allen were among a number of senior TV executives who met chancellor Gordon Brown this week to help raise the profile of the government's Year of the Volunteer initiative.
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PEER POLL: BBC1
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Would BBC1 benefit from a change in controller?
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Who should rule the BBC?
Charles AllenITV supports a strong BBC and the renewal of the Charter. But it has long been clear to the industry that the BBC governors' dual role as management and regulatory board does not work. The events of the past two years have proved that beyond doubt and now Lord ...
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8.8m support England game
England's lacklustre performance on the pitch in a friendly tie against Holland still brought in the viewers to BBC1 with a peak audience of 8.8 million (36.1%) at 9pm.
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Wall to Wall wins US order from FX
Wall to Wall has won the first commission to be awarded outside the US from cable network FX with a documentary-style drama similar to its BBC one-off Smallpox.
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Biggest Loser heads for Living TV
Living TV has picked up US format The Biggest Loserfrom Reveille productions, the producer behind the US version of The Office.
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House finds home at Hallmark
Hallmark has bought the multichannel rights to US medical drama Housefrom NBC Universal International Distribution. The show features British actor Hugh Laurie in the lead role as Dr Gregory House, 'a brilliant but anti-social diseases specialist'. Due to debut in April, the 16 x 60-minute series ...
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C4I to co-pro science doc with Kabel 1
Channel 4 International has signed Germany's Kabel 1 as a co-production partner for science special Extraterrestrial, a 100-minute documentary being made by Big Wave Productions for C4 and National Geographic US. Other deals include sales of Pioneer Films' Krakatoato ZDF in Germany ...
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Most Identical sells to Spain's TV3
Television Corporation International has sold Mentorn's factual format Most Identicalto Spanish network TV3. The show, which hunts for the nation's most identical set of twins, will be produced by Madrid-based Four Luck Banana and will run over three one-hour episodes. The format and completed show, originally ...
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Airborne hires ID to push bra doc
Airborne TV has appointed ID Distribution to handle international sales of documentary ...
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Airey tops bill at this year's Miptv
Dawn Airey, managing director of Sky Networks, is to deliver the keynote speech at this year's MipTV programme market in Cannes. Her speech, titled 'Fast Forward to TV 2015', will focus on the growing importance of new technologies such as PVRs. It will also examine new emerging business models. This ...
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BBC worldwide feeds BBC food to norway
BBC Worldwide has signed a new carriage deal with UPC Norway to take its three-year-old cable channel BBC Food. The move adds over 31,000 households to the channel's reach, which now totals 1.7 million across Africa and Nordic Europe. The channel features celebrity chefs and airs programmes such as ...
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Format focus: Eat Yourself Whole
After a glut of fat-fighting shows comes a programme which looks at alleviating medical conditions through diet.