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NewsRowland resurfaces at Red Fig
Mark Rowland, the former managing director of Television Corporation International, has joined interactive service provider Red Fig to spearhead a strategy of global expansion.
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NewsPoliakoff scripts three films for BBC
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the sweeping history of the 1980s and 90s.
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NewsLRC builds North West presence
The Local Radio Company, the recently floated group run by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatly, has spent£1.2m doubling its stake in a Lancashire radio operator.
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NewsBBC entertainment sets up regional fund
The BBC has created a new£100,000 fund to help boost entertainment programming from regional indies.
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NewsHytner quits ITV
ITV has lost one of its key executives after high street bank Barclays poached the broadcaster's marketing director Jim Hytner.
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NewsBig Brother contestant slams Endemol
Big Brother contestant Emma Greenwood has slammed producers Endemol for making money out of her distress
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NewsUBC lifts profits
UBC Media, the group that is developing Channel 4's first radio venture, has posted encouraging results for the year to 31 March.
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NewsAcquisitions boost Ten Alps profits
Bob Geldof's indie Ten Alps Communications acquisition strategy has lifted profits by almost 70%.
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NewsAll3Media clinches Lion deal
All3Media, the media group run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, has closed its deal to buy Lion TV.
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NewsCops probe Big Brother
The police are today investigating the outbreak of violence at the Big Brother house following complaints from members of the public.
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NewsStrike action looms at BBC
Broadcasting union Bectu and the National Union of Journalists are set to call for an industrial action ballot against the BBC after the unions rejected a 2.7% pay offer.
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NewsNew editor for This Morning
Granada has appointed a new editor for its This Morning , promoting Debra Davidson to the job.
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NewsPEER POLL: Indie quota
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the 25% independent quota be scrapped?
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NewsC4 publishes its terms of trade
Channel 4 today became the first broadcaster to publish its new terms of trade, which set out the standard terms of business for the broadcaster's commercial negotiations with the independent production sector.
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Sky's free market move
BSkyB's decision last week to launch a free satellite offer is largely about the refuseniks, who up to now have proved impervious to Sky TV's multichannel charms.
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.
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Bomber Ace takes flight for C4
channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make a follow-up to Spitfire Ace with a series in which relatives of second world war veterans are put through their paces manning a Lancaster bomber, writes Glen Mutel.
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O'Leary indie unleashes Parent Trap on BBC3
Dermot O'leary's indie Murfia is making a show for BBC3 in which young people are followed around by their parents at work, in the pub and on dates, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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C4 commissions band aid documentary
Channel 4 editor, religion Aaquil Ahmed has ordered a 90-minute documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? - the UK's largest selling single ever, which raised over£100m for famine relief. The film, produced by indie Class Films, features interviews with key participants including ...
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My hero back in autumn for fifth run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a fifth series of comedy My Hero from indie Big Bear Films. Production on the 10 x 30-minute run, which will again star Ardal O'Hanlon as a secret superhero, has just begun, with broadcast due in the autumn. It is directed by John Stroud, ...