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Granada Int to fund co-pro trio
Granada International has ploughed cash into three co-production deals as part of an attempt to broaden its relationship with UK indies and international broadcasters.
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Sky One's Baker splits top acquisitions role
Sky One controller James Baker has made his first appointments, creating two acquisitions posts.
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Nat Geo sells built for the kill to Five
National Geographic Channel has sold the first series of Built for the Killto Five. The 6 x 30-minute series, produced by Granada Wild, will be screened from 13 January. The show deconstructs the minutes and seconds leading up to a kill in the wild in ...
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Wall to Wall's ancient egyptians airs in US
Indie Wall to Wall is set to make its US debut on TLC with its£6m documentary miniseries Ancient Egyptians. The 4 x 60-minute series, which mixes true stories with dramatic reconstructions, will air on the Discovery-owned network before the end of the year. Originally broadcast ...
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My Dad The Rock Star heads for Asia
Nickelodeon has secured the TV rights in several major territories for animated series My Dad the Rock Star. The deal, with Canada's Nelvana, will see the 26 x 30-minute series screened on Nickelodeon UK and Asia from January before rolling out on M6 in France ...
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Fireworks sells mice drama to Discovery
Discovery UK and Ireland has acquired a factual drama special from distributor Fireworks International. Woodmouse - Life on the Run, which has also been taken by ZDF Germany, follows two mice as they struggle to survive the Icelandic winter. Fireworks has also secured deals for ...
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Format Focus
In Unique's hit format for Ireland's RTE, celebrity guests play the role of head chef at a real restaurant and have to endure feedback from diners
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Autumn launch for CiTV channel
ITV will launch its dedicated CiTV multichannel offering by autumn next year.
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Granada gives Roberts drama
Granada has handed outgoing Coronation Streetproducer Kieran Roberts a new role at the company as head of drama in Manchester.
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C4 deal brings Price-drop.TV onto Freeview
Shopping channel Price-drop.tv has taken one of the remaining slots on the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, after it agreed a deal with Channel 4 to use its 'gifted' space on the service.
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Jobs freeze at BBC
BBC news has instigated a recruitment freeze as it attempts to make budgetary savings, although job cuts have been ruled out. The division - which is also having to redeploy around 40 staff from BBC3's axed Liquid Newsshow - is currently preparing its budget for ...
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Ferrari to campaign
Nick Ferrari, LBC's new breakfast show presenter, will introduce a series of public campaigns to the London radio station when he replaces Jane Moore on 5 January. Ferrari, who currently presents a mid-morning weekday show on the speech station, added that he will not tone down his controversial style and ...
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ITV fills key post
A Carlton executive has been appointed number two at the planned merged ITV sales division. Carlton Sales managing director Gary Digby will become sales director, reporting to managing director Graham Duff. Granada Enterprises deputy managing director Simon Lent becomes Digby's deputy.
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Bectu keeps old tie
Bectu members have voted to keep the union's ties with the Labour party following the first ballot of its kind by a British union. On a high turnout of 30.7%, 72.8% of members voted to keep the link with Labour - heeding advice from the union's executive - with 27.2% ...
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Plain-speaking C4
Channel 4 News has won a Plain English Award. Guy Ker, Channel 4 News's managing director, accepted the award on behalf of the programme. A spokesman for the Plain English Campaign said the gong recognised Jon Snow's interviewing and 'political editor Elinor Goodman's efforts to explain the murky world of ...
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BBC2 to kick off football weekly
BBC2 is to jump on the football bandwagon by launching its first magazine-style show dedicated to the sport as part of a range of factual commissions from indies.
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Sky's Baker orders teen horror show
Sky One controller James Baker has greenlit his first drama since taking over in October with a major new teen horror series from Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine Entertainment.
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Waddell scores two
Northern irish indie Brian Waddell Productions has been commissioned to make two one-hour documentaries for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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Kylie tops Five musical line-up
Five is to screen a new documentary on pint-sized pop princess Kylie Minogue as part of a series of one-off music shows.
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BBC radio dramatises Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins is to be adapted for radio for the first time as part of BBC Radio 4's winter line-up. Juliet Stevenson will star as Mary Poppins in the dramatisation of PL Travers' classic story which will air on 3 January in the Saturday play ...