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Animate! winners get C4 slots
The Channel 4-backed digital animation scheme Animate! has awarded funding to six filmmakers whose shorts will now air on C4 later this year, writes Penny HughesThis year's winners are experimental film-makers
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Bragg looks at moral issues
Granada controller of arts Melvyn Bragg is to depart from his role as presenter of ITV 1's The South Bank Show and front a new series exploring moral dilemmas, writes Steve Aston
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Nigella goes al fresco
Self-styled domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is taking her culinary wand out of her kitchen with a new show for Channel 4, writes Penny HughesForever Summer with Nigella (working title), an 8
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Talent to make enhanced Villa for Sky One
Talent Television has been commissioned by Sky One deputy director of broadcasting and production Kate Marsh to make a fourth series of dating show The Villa.The new 8 x 60-minute
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Channel 4 buys MTV's take on Ozzy's family
Channel 4 is finalising a deal to buy MTV's much-vaunted The Osbournes, the fly-on-the-wall US show about heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional family.The show, which has already
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National Geographic show to air globally
National Geographic Channel is joining up with its sister stations internationally to show landmark series Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost Empire.The 60-minute programme, which promises new revelations about the
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Infonation goes to the edge for discovery
Indie Infonation has sold its award-winning science series The Edge to Discovery Networks Europe (DNE).DNE has picked up the second 12 x 30-minute series and will air it on Discovery
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Fox captures cockroach with superpowers
Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has bought the television rights to the animated series RoboRoach.The 26 x 30-minute co-production between Germany's RTV Family Entertainment and Canada's Portfolio Entertainment features Rube, a cockroach
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Green to appear in Box TV drama for BBC
Actor Robson Green, who Broadcast revealed last week has ended his exclusive contract with ITV, is set to appear in indie Box TV's six-part BBC drama Trust, which begins shooting this
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CITV to serve up animated Tofu Family
ITV has bought 52 x 11-minute episodes of French kid's animated series Tofu Family from Saban International Paris.The series, which follows the adventures of two children and their environmentally aware
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Willis to leave UK for Boston
Former Granada bigwig joins WGBH in the States as vice-president of national programming
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Celador launches radio drive
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? producer appoints first ever head of radio
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Output deal will bring Shrek to BBC 1
Agreement between corporation and DreamWorks SKG heralds first terrestrial outing for Oscar-winning animation
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NUJ points the finger at BBC over bullying
Union's deputy general secretary says BBC's measures to combat problem are 'clearly failing'
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TV is boring, claims report
Half of respondents to new study say there was nothing memorable about last show they watched
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Brass Eye is surprise flop at Bafta awards
'Insensitive' show passed over in favour of mainstream comedies
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Peters ends brief spell at September Films
Head of documentaries to leave indie at end of the month
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Gaunt unveils Kelly follow-up
Kelly and Her Sisters film-maker to make new documentary about kids on a South-London council estate