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Script-writers start company
Two veteran British television comedy writers have set up a shop to develop script ideas and advise companies on TV promotion, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Radio revenue rise
Commercial radio revenue has grown for the sixth successive quarter, according to new figures from the Radio Advertising Bureau. Ad expenditure from April to June 2003 grew 3.3% year-on-year to£144.1m, with household goods manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Lever Faberge Homecare looking for a cheaper alternative to TV ...
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BBC/NBC probe Saddam regime
US Broadcaster NBC and the BBC have co-commissioned a major series from ORTV, which the indie believes will be the 'definitive and landmark' documentary series on Saddam Hussein's rule of Iraq, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Sunrise to buy Mean
Sunrise Radio's£1.5m bid to acquire the Mean Country station has been given the green light by the Radio Authority. A public interest test into the acquisition had to be taken as a merger of the two would contain overlapping local services on the same waveband (AM). But the authority has ...
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Sergeant ordered to lead OSF growth
Oxford Scientific Films, the natural history-focused indie, has hired Leopard Films producer Will Sergeant in an ongoing effort to expand its output, writes Gavin Stamp.
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BBC to dramatise Bakewell murder
The BBC is to press ahead with a drama based on the controversial Bakewell cemetary murder case in which Stephen Downing spent 27 years in prison before being cleared, despite claims by police earlier this year that he was still the main suspect, writes Leigh ...
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Ofcom appoints standards head
Ofcom has appointed Independent Television Commission (ITC) head of factual programmes Chris Banatvala to the key post of head of standards, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Leopard leaps into US market
Indie Leopard Films is preparing to open an office in Washington after receiving two commissions from networks in the US.
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BBC3 hires Anstiss
The BBC has appointed the series producer of Kenyon Confronts as executive producer responsible for current affairs on BBC3. Samantha Anstiss replaces Colin Savage, who has been promoted to development executive, current affairs. Anstiss has produced BBC2's Raising the Roofand ...
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TWG does UBC deal
The Wireless Group has signed a 12-month deal with UBC Media to take a daily showbiz news package in exchange for airtime. Entertainment Newswill broadcast the two-minute bulletin throughout the day across 11 local stations owned by TWG. UBC will then sell advertisers airtime immediately ...
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BBC rural reporter
BBC News has appointed its first rural affairs correspondent in a bid to enhance its coverage of the countryside amid criticism that it failed to cover last year's countryside march adequately. Tom Heap, previously science and environment correspondent, will be charged with providing greater context to countryside stories from his ...
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Big Brother set for russian revolution
Russia is set to become the latest country to be struck by Big Brotherfever after the show's creator Endemol, the Dutch TV producer and distributor, signed a deal to produce a local version. The show will air on Channel 1 - Russia's most watched network ...
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Sonic the hedgehog bounces back on fox
Fox Kids Europe has added three new properties to its library, totalling 144 episodes. Animated series Sonic X, marking the return of Sonic the Hedgehog, has been acquired from TMS Entertainment, adventure series Tutenstein from PorchLight Entertainment and fantasy series ...
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Brainy georgian to win UK education
Celador International has licensed its Brainiestformat, which aims to uncover a nation's most intellectual individuals, to two further territories. MediaCorp TV Channel 5 in Singapore has recorded 13 programmes, while Georgia's Rustavi 2 has also committed to 13 episodes, including a kids version which will ...
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Diana doc gets international airing
Diana: The Night She Died, which aired in the UK on Five in June, has been sold to Canada's CBC by TVF International, who will broadcast it to mark the sixth anniversary of Princess Diana's death. TVF International has also sold the programme to ABC in Australia, NHK in Japan ...
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All-in-one system set for IBC debut
TWI interactive, the digital media and technology arm of Transworld International, has developed what could be the world's first all-in-one digital system for producing and delivering both new media and broadcast content, writes Will Strauss.
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Waterside demise adds to Edinburgh woes
Edinburgh production and facilities company Waterside Television has gone into liquidation resulting in the loss of around 17 jobs, writes Ian White.The company, which majored in corporate and commercials work,
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Reuters touts digital news
Reuters will be the first global news agency to deliver video, scripts and story information to broadcasters in a single integrated digital file when it debuts a new service at the
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Farm's BBC coup
The key production and management team has been put in place for the launch of The Farm Group's new facility, Uncle. Andrew McKerlie, formerly the BBC's relationship manager within factual and learning, joins as general manager, which The Farm called
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Bowie at pictures
As part of the first event of its kind, a David Bowie concert will be broadcast live from Riverside Studios to cinemas across Europe next week. The show will be broadcast in 5.1 surround sound to the Odeon West End in London and theatres in Paris, Munich and Zurich. The ...