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NewsBBC makes commissioning change
The BBC has unveiled the first major change to its commissioning structure following the review into its content supply arrangements, with the creation of four new commissioning areas in factual.
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NewsThe Man Who Broke Britain gets 2.4m
BBC2 one-off The Man Who Broke Britain managed a peak of 2.4 million (11%) but faced the might of Five's Hollywood blockbuster The Specialist.
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NewsPearson shuts down Penguin TV
Penguin Television, the TV production division of the Pearson-owned publishing group, is set to close after only one year in business.
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NewsAnglia Studios face closure
Around 20 jobs are facing the axe at ITV's Anglia Studios because the company has failed to find any new work following Trisha Goddard's defection to Five.
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NewsMPC sale nets ITV£52.7m
ITV has finally offloaded its post production facility The Moving Picture Company to French technology group Thomson.
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NewsThomson takes on BBC strategy brief
BBC director of policy and legal Caroline Thomson is to take on the added portfolio of strategy and distribution following the departure of its current head Carolyn Fairbairn.
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NewsBroadcast Awards: Channels and Indies
Terrestrial and multichannel brands will slug it out for the title or the Channel of the Year at the 2005 Broadcast Awards in January with a shortlist of six channels.
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NewsI'm a Celebrity spin-off hits 6.7m
ITV1 cashed in on the popularity of reality show I'm a Celebrity as a spin-off show peaked with 6.7 million (34%) at 10.05pm.
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The good, bad and ugly
The combined share of multichannel viewing looks set to grow by some 11% this year, outstripping both BBC1 and ITV1 for the first time as the two main terrestrial channels continue to lose viewers year on year.
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Leopard snaps up ex-Talkback factual chief
Ruth Wrigley, the former head of factual entertainment for Talkback Thames, is to join indie Leopard Films as its first head of entertainment.
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MTV MD given Paramount Comedy brief
MTV Networks UK & Ireland managing director Michiel Bakker is to take control of the UK Paramount Comedy channels.
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ABC1 up on Telewest
ABC1, the UK entertainment channel owned by Walt Disney, will be available to Telewest digital TV customers as of Friday, 10 December. The US channel that includes in its portfolio shows such as Home Improvement and General Hospital , will ...
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Bhopal hoax probed
The BBC has launched an investigation after it was tricked into broadcasting a live interview with a man who falsely claimed to be a spokesman for chemicals giant Dow Chemical and offered compensation to the victims of the Bhopal disaster. Deputy director general Mark Byford has ordered a report into ...
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Maverick hirings
Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television has appointed two non-executive directors to the board. They are Sally Luton, the chief executive of the Arts Council West Midlands, and Richard Burdett, planning director of 4Creative and former Flextech vice-president of marketing.
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Grade's idea for AGM
BBC chairman Michael Grade has proposed creating a 'virtual AGM' for viewers and listeners as part of further changes to the corporation's governance system. Grade said interactive technology could be used to link up viewers and governors across the country and also include an element of voting on key issues, ...
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Yipp gets C4 order about living with cancer
YIPP Films is to follow up its award-winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off with a Channel 4 film exploring the friendship of two men brought together through chemotherapy.
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C4 film probes US racists
Leopard Films is making a film for Channel 4 following an American attorney's quest to bring down a white supremacist group by getting most of its members served with the death penalty.
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Discovery H&L orders for i2i
Indie i2i Television has been greenlit to make five series for Discovery Home & Leisure.
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Bravo to show real-life Fight Clubs
Scream Films has landed a deal to make Fight Night: White Collar Boxing for Bravo. The 15 x 30-minute series follows a number of rookie and professional white collar boxers, including Britain's first openly gay fighter known as the Pink Pounder, as they train and ...
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History Channel looks at life after demob
The History Channel has commissioned Oxford-based indie Red Admiral to produce Demob Happy. The hour-long documentary will tell the story of how Britain returned to peacetime following the surrender of Germany and later Japan in 1945. Produced by Red Admiral's Gail Downey, the programme ...