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Saga ratings go up
The two Saga Radio stations in the Midlands have pulled in an extra 80,000 listeners over the quarter. Saga 105.7FM, which covers the West Midlands, boosted its listeners by 65,000 to report a total audience of 424,000 while Saga 106.6FM in the East Midlands has won another 15,000, taking it ...
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Pembrokeshire reach
Radio Pembrokeshire has claimed the greatest weekly audience share of any commercial or BBC radio station. The station, which covers Pembrokeshire and West Carmarthenshire, attracted only 57,000 listeners but it picked up a weekly reach of 66% meaning that two-thirds of the county's residents listen to the station every week.
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Paradise Hotel heads to Israel
Mentorn reality series Paradise Hotel is being adapted for Israel following a deal secured by Tele-vision Corporation International.
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MTV calls on Murphy for ?dance idol' show
Big Brother and Fame Academy series producer Sean Murphy has been drafted in by MTV to work on a new 'dance idol' series.
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Fatboy Slim show goes down under
Fatboy Slim is to see his radio show launch across Australia in a one-year deal between UBC Media-owned G-One and syndication group MCM Entertainment. The weekly two-hour show - Fatboy Slim's Brighton Beach Mix - will be syndicated on radio stations across the five Australian state capitals for a year ...
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Format focus: Amish in the city
A reality show about people who normally shun modern life may have its critics, but it's also a ratings winner.
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Granada Sells wildlife shows to AB Sat
Granada International has sold more than 40 hours of wildlife shows to new German satellite channel AB Sat. When the channel launches this autumn, it will carry wildlife programmes such as Savage Planet (above), Savage Seas and ...
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Toonami to air animated star wars
The new animated Star Wars series is to be screened on Turner-owned cartoon channel Toonami next year in a bid to generate interest in the forthcoming Star Wars movie. The animated series, which is also a co-production between Cartoon Network ...
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Challenge picks up Property Rescue
Challenge, the Flextech-owned entertainment channel, has picked up the rights to a new series of Property Rescue and commissioned UK-specific links for the first time. The show, made in New Zealand by Touchdown TV, follows a team of experts as they transform a property that ...
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Minotaur seals BBC deal for Irish drama
Minotaur International has secured deals with the BBC for a new thriller from Ireland's RTE and licensed two Lynda la Plante dramas to ZDF in Germany. BBC3 will screen four-part drama Proof this month, which is produced by Subotica Entertainment and features three central characters ...
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Distraction sells Ciao Darwin format
Distraction Formats has sold primetime entertainment format Ciao Darwin to broadcasters in Poland, Hungary and Lebanon. SBS' Hungarian channel TV2 will launch the series in September, while TVN in Poland will begin production later this summer. Lebanon-based pan-Arabic network Future TV has yet to release broadcast plans. The format involves ...
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Tait to join BBC board of governors
Downing Street has taken steps to make the BBC's board more relevant, bringing in a leading City lawyer and former ITN editor-in-chief Richard Tait.
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Sky One serves up pop factual
Sky one has lined up a raft of new popular factual shows including a history spin-off of Brainiac: Science Abuse and a travelogue featuring Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor.
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Living hires Jones
Living TV has appointed freelance producer Steve Jones as commissioning editor. Reporting to director of programmes Richard Woolfe, Jones, who has worked on Trisha and The Big Breakfast , replaces Jane Millichip who quit to join RDF. He will work ...
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Sky takes on MOTD
BSkyB is taking on the BBC's soon-to-launch Match of the Day with a new interactive service that will give Sky Sports subscribers access to highlights for every Premiership match played that day. Football First , which launches on Saturday 14 ...
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Lulu and O'Leary sign up for R2
BBC radio 2 has revamped its weekend line-up, commissioning shows fronted by Lulu and Dermot O'Leary.
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Jowell meets Bectu
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has agreed to meet broadcasting union Bectu to discuss its fears about the sale of BBC Technology. Jowell will meet union representatives before the government makes a decision on the proposed sale of the technology offshoot to German firm Siemens. The meeting is expected to take ...
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BBC3 series charts ?Harvey Nichols of the north-east'
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a documentary series set in a department store from the director behind the channel's recent film trilogy on model Jordan.
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Soundtrack launch
The Soundtrack Channel, a 24-hour multichannel service dedicated to TV and film soundtracks, is to be rolled out in the UK. The Los Angeles-based channel, which is already available in 40 countries, has teamed up with UK mobile phone and interactive TV company Amplefuture to launch a British version on ...
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World reorganises
World Productions, the indie behind dramas such as No Angels and This Life , has promoted Roderick Seligman to the new role of managing director as part of a succession plan by company founders Tony Garnett and John Heyman. Seligman, ...