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Peppa pig snapped up by five and nick jr
Five and Nick Jr have snapped up Contender Entertainment children's animation show Peppa Pig. The first 14 episodes of the 52 x 5-minute series, which was debuted at MIP Junior in October, will be given their UK premiere on Five from the end of ...
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Granada sells wildlife shows to ZDF
Granada International has sold a package of wildlife shows to German public broadcaster ZDF. The slate of titles includes Wildlife Greats and Killer Squid as well as Built for the Kill, a Granada Wild Production for National Geographic Channel International. The deal follows the sale of a raft of factual ...
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Sixth prime suspect picked up in russia
The sixth instalment of ITV crime drama Prime Suspect has been picked up by Russia's Channel One. It is the latest in a series of sales of the Granada/WGBH Boston co-production, shown on ITV1 last year. Prime Suspect - the ...
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Halmi to be honoured for achievement
Robert Halmi Sr, chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year's MipTV market in Cannes. The veteran producer has over 200 made-for-TV movies, series and miniseries to his credit. He has also picked up 97 Emmy Awards and 13 Golden Globes for ...
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Brainiac pilot being made for us channel
Granada's Sky One science series Brainiac is to be made into a non-broadcast pilot for US channel The WB. The pilot will be managed out of Granada's LA office by head of production Sam Zoda. The executive producer is David Franzke, whose credits include MTV show ...
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Novel joins pocoyo animation show
Novel Entertainment has teamed up with Carlton International and Spanish animation company Zinkia Entertainment to develop and produce pre-school co-
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The BBC's licence to bill
Charter review must address the future of the licence fee in the digital marketplace.David Elstein did the industry a favour this week by outlining a radical broadcasting policy that would first dismember and then destroy the BBC. It was the kind of intelligent, coolly rational argument that one might expect ...
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ITV fails in bid to woo Rageh Omaar
A secret plan by ITV News to poach BBC 'scud-stud' reporter Rageh Omaar has ended in failure after the two sides could not agree a deal, it emerged this week. Omaar is currently a freelance at the BBC since his contract expired. Now Channel 4 is understood to be making ...
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Rival RDF shows compete for RTS award
Indie RDF Media will be battling against itself in the forthcoming Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Two of its shows, Holiday Showdown for ITV1 and Wife Swap for Channel 4, have been shortlisted together in the features and factual entertainment ...
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BBC inks fresh three-year deal with RFL
The BBC has signed a new three-year deal with the Rugby Football League (RFL) to show live coverage of the Powergen Challenge Cup from next year. The tournament will take place in the summer with the final in August. The BBC has also signed a four-year deal with the RFL ...
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Mills lines up to take over Cox slot at R1
BBC Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox is to be replaced by Scott Mills when the drivetime presenter takes maternity leave at the end of May. Mills will swap his weekend afternoon slot for the weekday position and fellow R1 DJ Edith Bowman will cover on Sunday afternoons. In addition, R1 ...
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BBC4 gets extra£10m to make drama
The BBC has confirmed an extra£10m annual boost for BBC4 to allow it to produce more homegrown drama, comedy and science programmes. The extra cash will take BBC4's overall budget to£40m. BBC3 by comparison has a budget of£97m. BBC4 controller Roly Keating said he was keen to develop more drama ...
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Back to Reality (Five) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The producers have tried to synthesise what only emerges gradually in mor successful formats.'...
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The Impressionable John Culshaw (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'Culshaw, who made his name on the BBC's Dead Ringers, is a hugely gifted mimic.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'You knew it was going to be fun watching Claire Short make a dork of herself on a reality show, but not this much ...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'[A] cross between Celebrity Faking It and When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum.' ...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Gerard O' Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'As programme ideas go, My Week in the Real World has enormous merit.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'A weird hybrid - Grange Hill meets Faking It meets Question Time.'...
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RatingsFamily Business fails once again
BBC1's drama Family Business failed again to break the 3 million mark last night (25 February) with just 2.7 million (12%) as Channel 4 and ITV1 streak ahead in the ratings.
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The Carlton carve-up
As Carlton's HQ closes its doors and many of the company's staff are passed over for jobs at ITV plc in favour of their Granada counterparts, Paul Revoir and Colin Robertson ask if the merger was a whitewash