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S4C chooses Pro-bel
Welsh broadcaster S4C has placed an order with switcher and router manufacturer Pro-Bel for new presentation switchers. The system will be used for S4C's digital service, which goes out on both Freeview and Sky. In addition, S4C has bought a router which will be used on its analogue terrestrial service. ...
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TWG backs Ashford fm bid for licence
The Wireless Group is hoping to bolster its regional presence by backing a local radio station's bid for a new FM licence. Ashford FM has been campaigning for a new licence for the area since early 2000, which is now likely to be advertised by new super-regulator Ofcom next year.
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Chambers to outline Five's future plans
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has joined the line-up of speakers at this year's Broadcast Commissioning Conference. Chambers will talk about Five's approach to commissioning and its plans for the future at the event, held at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel from 25 to 26 November. For tickets or further ...
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Animation entries
The British Animation Awards is calling for entries. The fifth year of the event will be held at a new location, The Shaw Theatre in Bloomsbury. The awards will feature five new categories - best TV/film graphics, best music, best use of sound, best comedy and the writer's award. There ...
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Sanctuary recruits
Sanctuary Post has hired four staff members this week. Simon O'Connor and Simon Kotowicz both join as senior Avid DS and Flame operators, with backgrounds in all genres of TV. In the graphics department, Peter Dunphy will be doing 2D and 3D DVD design. His credits include menus for ...
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Ricochet scores with Super Nanny
Indie Ricochet has been commissioned to make a formatted documentary series looking at parents and their struggle to balance work and childcare as part of a slate of new commissions, writes Glen Mutel.
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Asquith back with teen drama
Channel 4 is to take another hard-hitting look at teenage sex and bullying with a new factually based drama from film-maker Daisy Asquith, hot on the heels of Sunday's (16 November) controversial Pleasureland.
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ITV hunts for real Basil Fawlty
A light-hearted look at people who claim to be real-life Basil Fawltys working in Torquay's hotel industry is one of the highlights of ITV Westcountry's schedule for winter, writes Paul Revoir.
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Short films for festive Eastenders
UK Gold has commissioned BBC Fictionlab to make 18 x 5-minute films to air in its EastEnders at Christmas themed weekend on 20 and 21 December, which will screen the best of the BBC1 soap's festive editions. Each short will set the scene for the year of the Christmas EastEnders ...
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Princess makes superflirt for Five
Indie Princess Productions has been commissioned to make a one-off factual entertainment show for Five based on the book Superflirt. The 60-minute programme, commissioned by Five controller of youth and music Sham Sandhu, will explore ways that body language can be used to snare a potential partner. It will be ...
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Wise buddah wins radio 1 hip-hop order
Mark Goodier's indie, Wise Buddah, has won its first commission for BBC Radio 1 since it ceased production of the station's line-up of specialist music shows last year. R1 DJ Zane Lowe will front Caught by the Fuzz, looking at the career of British-born New ...
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Sky one tell full story of Blaine fast
American illusionist David Blaine's recovery from his 44-day fast in which he was suspended in a Perspex box near Tower Bridge in London is to be documented in a one-off film for Channel 4 and Sky One. Blaine's friend film director Harmony Korine has made the 60-minute David Blaine: Above ...
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RTL to produce German My Hero
BBC comedy My Herois set to be made for viewers in Germany after the corporation's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, tied up a deal with RTL, writes Michael Rosser.
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Dutch reformat Granada shows
Former Granada controller of factual sales and acquisitions Malcolm Allsop, who recently joined Amsterdam-based TeVe Media Group, is to adapt a range of Granada formats for the Dutch and Belgian markets.
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Prime Suspect heads for eastern europe
Granada International has made a hat-trick of new sales of hit Helen Mirren drama Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. The two-part miniseries, which pulled in 9.4 million viewers when it aired on ITV1 a fortnight ago, has been sold to Prava I Provedi in ...
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EC awards chatsworth cartoon subsidy
The European Commission has granted television company Chatsworth a subsidy of more than£240,000 for a£1.9m children's animation series. Space Luniesis a
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US looks to BBC library for JFK footage
BBC Library Sales has clinched several new licensing deals as broadcasters prepare to commemorate the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination. Footage from its CBS news archive will be used for a BBC3 documentary on the Kennedy dynasty as well as a BBC News production, JFK: ...
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Action Time quiz shows to middle east
Action Time has sold a number of quiz show formats to indies across Europe and the Middle East. Spain's Boca Boca picked up the rights to The Trapwhile Emite Productions will develop a series of 3Play. Medyapim will produce music quiz ...
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Lux resurfaces in Celador MD role
Former Channel 4 head of entertainment group Danielle Lux has been appointed as managing director of Celador Productions, the maker of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.