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48th Monte Carlo TV Festival
The full list of winners from last night's 48th Monte Carlo TV Festival
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NewsProfile: Ron Jones - Tinopolis' unknown quantity
Tinopolis' takeover of TV Corporation has put its chairman, Ron Jones, in charge of the UK's sixth largest indie - and he is relishing the challenge.
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Music at the touch of a button
With new technology transforming the way production music is delivered, libraries are fast becoming the first choice for cost-effective soundtracks. Simon Meekreports on the download revolution.
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Monte Carlo TV Festival: The winners
The full list of winners from last night's 48th Monte Carlo TV Festival.
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Top models return to Living TV
Living TV has ordered a second series of wannabe models show Britain's Next Top Modelas well as a new spin-off show.
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Sky Sports to air awards highlights
Indie RME has landed a commission to produce two Sky Sports highlights shows for forthcoming awards events. It is making hour-long highlights shows of both the inaugural Football League Awards on 5 March and the Sports Industry Awards on 27 April. The shows will air in primetime in the days ...
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Hunt orders third missing persons series
BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a third 10 x 45-minute series of Missing, a Leopard Films series which follows the work of Hackney Police Missing Persons Unit. The new series will be stripped across two weeks on BBC1 in May.
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Supernanny in more conquests
Three more territories have signed on to produce local versions of hit Ricochet format Supernanny.
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Tiger Aspect wins US heist co-commission
Tiger Aspect has scored a co-commission from the US and UK Discovery Channels to produce a feature length documentary about a $100m heist.
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NBC takes the axe to long-running drama hits
Channel 4 drama The West Winghas been axed by US broadcaster NBC in a turbulent week for American dramas.
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Format focus: Survival of the Richest
The latest US commission for RDF Media/ IWC Media could be heading for UK screens soon.
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Norman wins American role at GI
Granada International veteran John Norman has been promoted to senior vice-president, international sales for the Americas, reporting to new director of sales Tim Mutimer. Based in Los Angeles, Norman will take charge of all sales to the US and oversee programme sales to North and South America. Tania Ussher will ...
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HBO may launch UK premium channel
US broadcaster HBO is considering the launch of a premium channel in the UK as part of a larger overseas strategy covering six new markets. The US producer behind The Sopranosand Curb Your Enthusiasm(left) is looking to expand into France, ...
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ITV invests in Final Cut for factual and drama
ITV Productions North looks set to follow the BBC into in-house editing by spending£150,000 on five Final Cut Pro (FCP) edit systems.
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Millionaire losses
Celador's ill-fated Who Wants to be a Millionaire?live tour lost its parent companies over£1m. Investment firm InvestinMedia, which owns 49% of Celador parent Complete Communications Corporation, revealed that last summer's series of live Millionairecompetitions turned in a loss of£1.042m. InvestinMedia ...
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Pop proms get exec
The BBC has appointed former Radio 1 executive Lorna Clarke to head its£6m Alternative Proms initiative. The event - which is billed as a pop music version of the classical concert series - was one of the beneficiaries of the£355m a year savings resulting from BBC director general Mark Thompson's ...
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Flying TV's helicopter follows the whale
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV supplied the continuous coverage of the whale stranded in the Thames last Saturday. Flying TV's helicopter, GPIXX, filmed the action using an Ikegami camera in a nose-mounted Cineflex gyro mount. A directional antenna installed in the helicopter pointed the signal at a ground receive site ...
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Michael Grade has kicked off his tenure at ITV by vowing to give new shows a chance to shine and warning he will waste no time in dropping long-established but underperforming shows.
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C4 factual under fire
Channel 4 factual executives are destroying creativity with their constant interference in the commissioning process, according to a leading independent producer, writes Colin Robertson.
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Bosses criticise entry-level pay
Broadcasters who pay paltry wages to researchers and runners are narrowing the diversity of people in television, two of the industry's most senior executives have admitted, writes Colin Robertson.