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Five turns on celebrities
We've had celebrities locked together in a big house to observe how they deal with sexual tension, and we've banished them to the heat of the Australian Outback, again to see how they handle sexual tension - now Five is planning to give them aphrodisiacs and see how they respond, ...
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NewsRevolver acquires Adult Swim
British home entertainment distributor Revolver Entertainment has acquired the exclusive UK and Ireland home entertainment rights to Turner's adult-oriented animation franchise Adult Swim.
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Granada links up with Network 10
Granada has teamed up with Australian producer Screentime to make an ambitious£6.5m co-production drama about a teenage woman from England who was arrested and sent on the first convict ship to Australia in the late 1780s.
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C4 set to publish terms
channel 4 is expected, within the next two weeks, to become the first broadcaster to unveil its new terms of trade, as its lengthy negotiations with producer's alliance Pact near to a close, writes Glen Mutel.
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Humphreys latest departure at Five
Liam Humphreys has quit as Five's commissioning editor for factual entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.
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ITV axes Planet Wild and The Lab
ITV has axed two of its factual production arms - closing former Carlton operation Planet Wild and London-based regional producer The Lab, writes Paul Revoir.
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New DG to appear before MPs
Incoming BBC director general Mark Thompson will make his first parliamentary defence of the corporation just three weeks after taking up the post when he presents the corporation's annual report to the media select committee.
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NewsInquiry to clear BBC news
an internal BBC review is to declare that its editorial news systems are in need of no major overhaul, despite criticism from Lord Hutton that they were 'defective'.
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NewsTrisha indie may lead to exit from ITV
TV's chat show stalwart Trisha Goddard could leave the network after deciding to launch her own indie.
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NewsFive gets Zara exclusive
Royal rebel Zara Phillips has given her first televised interview to Five, revealing all to newsreader Kirsty Young.
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NewsITV drops kids channel plan
ITV has scrapped launching a digital kids channel and now plans to open up its schedule to Nickelodeon or Disney in return for a CITV branded slot on their channels.
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NewsMurdoch moves to take on Freeview
BSkyb chief executive James Murdoch this week unveiled plans for a 200-channel free-to-air digital satellite package in a dramatic departure from Sky's pay-TV business model.
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Smith named as Ascent UK's md
Former Granada managing director Brenda Smith has been appointed as group managing director of Ascent Media UK, the facilities arm of Ascent Media.
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Technicolor invests£1m in HD projects
Thomson-owned facility Technicolor is spending close to£1m on building a second high-def Spirit telecine suite to cope with a high demand for HD drama and features, writes Rick Dacey.
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Strongroom kits out suite
Audio post facility Strongroom has finished the construction of a new HD protools 5.1 studio and is looking to branch out into video editing.
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Molinare recruits
Molinare has appointed two facility managers to support facility director Kate George. Senior post production manager Richard Knights has been internally promoted to take one of the positions. Richard Hart, previously head of post production at Oasis, takes up the other position on Monday. One of their first tasks will ...
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skin expands team
Skin has selected producer Matthew White to join its core design team. White, previously of Red, MPC and Cinesite, brings TSI's design agency numbers to four. White has been brought in to strengthen the team and to grow Skin's project range. There are plans to expand further towards the end ...
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A bleeping success
TimeDelay.tv supplied the online censoring on ITV's Hell's Kitchen. The unit worked with a five-second delay, which was needed to cut out 5,600 swear words. 'Gordon Ramsay really tested our time delay machine but it coped well and kept the show from straying from Ofcom's regulations,' said TimeDelay's Darryl ...
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VTR looks at sales
Nicholas Wortman has become head of sales for VTR. Previously new business executive for The Hive, Wortman was chosen to head up the sales operations at VTR following the merger of the two companies last month.
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Putte moves to DGP
Anthony Van den Putte has joined DGP from Todd-AO Creative Services where he was head of bookings. Van den Putte will jointly head up bookings with a specific focus on the edit and graphics department.