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MIP-TV NEWS ROUND-UP - Granada sells drama to HBO
UK distributors reported brisk business at Mip-TV last week, with Carlton International selling more than 40 hours of documentary programming and a raft of drama productions.Carlton's successes included 32 Inspector Morse
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Fox buys Initial's Miami 7 from Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has sold Initial Kids' 13 x 30-minute musical comedy series, Miami 7, to the Fox Family Channel in the US, for transmission this autumn, writes David Wood.The UK distributor
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STE links up with Antelope and NHK for Golf Doc
Scottish Television Enterprises (STE) has teamed up with Antelope and Japanese public service broadcaster NHK to make a high-definition TV-formatted 60-minute documentary on the history of golf. Called The Old Course,
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Cosgrove Hall's Animal Shelf wins Fox showing
Award-winning animation company Cosgrove Hall Films has struck a three-year deal with the Fox Family Channel for its pre-school animation, The Animal Shelf (right).In a deal secured in Cannes this week
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NBD sells concert package at MIP-TV
NBD Television (NBDtv) struck distribution deals across its comedy and music programming packages at Mip-TV last week. Acquisitions by Spanish content provider Mediapark, Canal 9 in Spain and Italy's RAI Sat
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NewsRatings Hell for ITV1's Kitchen
The return of ITV1's cookery show Hell's Kitchencould only serve up a lukewarm ratings dish of 3.6m viewers, a share of 17.1% in a 9pm slot. [ALL]
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Warner Bros to distribute Turner and CNN docs
Warner Brothers International Television is to take on the worldwide television distribution of all current and future documentary and reality programming produced by Turner Original Productions and CNN Productions, as well
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Granada Australia takes on Waiting at the Royal
Granada Media International (Australia) has acquired its first two projects for distribution. Waiting at the Royal is a TV movie telling the story of how four women confined in a maternity
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RDF pre-sells Sky Edward and Sophie wedding doc
RDF International, the distribution arm of UK indie RDF Television, pre-sold 60-minute Sky TV documentary Edward and Sophie - The Making of a Modern Marriage to a number of territories at
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Hallmark sells epic production The Tenth Kingdom
US distributor Hallmark Entertainment has sold its 10-hour production The Tenth Kingdom to Germany's RTL, Italy's Mediaset and Spain's Telecinco following a deal announced at last week's Mip-TV. The Tenth Kingdom
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Smart Alex
Talented, glamorous, hungry and extremely ambitious - is Alex Connock a media mogul in the making? Hilary Curtis meets the man behind 10 Alps.
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Ray Fitzwalter On why the decision to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for Manchester United could mark a turning point
The decision to block Rupert Murdoch's takeover of Manchester United could prove to be a watershed for football, for broadcasting, even perhaps for the Blair government.Football, or the most prominent part
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Opportunity knock-off?
The failure of Hughie Green's action against a New Zealand TV station for allegedly copying Opportunity Knocks showed how difficult it is to prove plagiarism. Will a new code make it any easier, asks Tim Dams.
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OPINION - The Times gets it wrong on Dyke
Greg Dyke has not yet been summoned to Broadcasting House to be grilled by the BBC's board of governors for the director general's job but already the Murdoch press is conducting
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OPINION - Off message Mathew Horsman
There are lies, damn lies and digital take-up rates. That sums up the view of many in the broadcasting industry following the announcements in recent weeks by On Digital and BSkyB
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GENRE AUDIT - New Labour, no laughs?
Just when it seemed that political satire had died out with the Tories, TV's funnymen are starting to find fertile ground under Labour. Tim Dams opens a three-page report.
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NewsMurdoch: premium rate phone-ins are grubby
BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch has said that the satellite broadcaster decided against launching premium-rate phone quizzes on its channels because they felt 'pretty sleazy'. [ALL]
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Sein language
British comedy shows can learn from their US counterparts. And if you don't like Seinfeld, argues comedy scriptwriter Graham Lineham, then you can't be watching enough of it.
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Comedy - The Business Page - Circuit training
Coaxing comedy talent out from the clubs onto the screen is a fraught business, as Jane Marlow discovers, while gameshows, another genre featured at the Montreux Golden Rose, have a greater international appeal.
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PROGRAMME-MAKER ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY STAGE: JON THODAY, AVALON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Avalon executive producer Jon Thoday's association with Jim Tavare began in a club on the London comedy circuit when he was more or less known as 'the man who does the