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    Rock Hammer ends three-year Ten Alps deal

    2008-10-15T17:20:32Z

    East Midlands-based indie Rock Hammer has broken away from Ten Alps after its three-year production deal with the super-indie ended.

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    Jazz FM to be played in all Pizza Express restaurants

    2008-10-15T17:20:41Z

    The relaunched Jazz FM has signed a major sponsorship deal with Pizza Express for the station to be played in all 300 of the chain's restaurants.

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    Objective's Perrin will be traditional sitcom

    2008-10-15T17:25:41Z

    Objective Productions' forthcoming update of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin will jettison the bulk of the classic comedy's characters and the ongoing storyline in which the main character faked his own death.

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    Millionaire to Kabul

    2008-10-15T18:14:44Z

    Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has become the first entertainment format to be legitimately sold into Afghanistan, according to 2waytraffic International managing director Ed Louwerse.

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    Endemol signs gameshow from Passion

    2008-10-15T18:17:06Z

    Passion Distribution has signed a pan-territory format deal with Endemol for BBC3's Fashion Strip.

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    Comings and goings at UKTV acquisitions

    2008-10-15T18:19:35Z

    UKTV is shaking up its acquisitions team with two appointments and the departure of acquisitions executive Michael Whelan.

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    TwoFour tackles boozy Brits abroad

    2008-10-15T18:21:28Z

    TwoFour Broadcast has won a major commission from Bravo that will delve into the rising epidemic of binge-drinking Brits abroad.

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    RDFR deal with Scott Satin

    2008-10-15T18:21:41Z

    RDF Rights has signed a multiple content and development deal with US producer Scott Satin Productions, further consolidating the distributor's presence in the country.

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    ITV Global Ent promotions

    2008-10-15T18:24:12Z

    ITV Global Entertainment has promoted Tobi de Graaff to director of global TV distribution.

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    Harcourt-Cooze secures sweet deal with C4

    2008-10-15T18:26:35Z

    Eccentric chocolatier Willie Harcourt-Cooze is to return to Channel 4 for a Christmas special and a series that aims to introduce a better class of chocolate to the UK.

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    Mistresses for BBC America

    2008-10-15T18:26:43Z

    BBC America has picked up series one and two of BBC1 drama Mistresses for broadcast on the US cable and satellite network.

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    Firecracker bear series for Animal Planet

    2008-10-15T18:29:41Z

    Animal Planet has commissioned Firecracker Films to make a full series based on its Five documentary The Man Who Lives with Bears.

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    Lyons criticises Ofcom over PSB review

    2008-10-15T18:36:20Z

    BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has criticised the scale of expectation that the public service broadcasting review has placed on Channel 4 and has ruled out backing any formal commercial deal between C4 and BBC Worldwide.

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    BBC woos Yentob for DG of North job

    2008-10-15T18:42:03Z

    Alan Yentob is being courted by BBC bosses to become the “DG of the North” - but negotiations have been complicated by his opposition to the decision to move arts strand Imagine to Scotland.

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    Shows on the move

    2008-10-15T18:49:24Z

    Full list of BBC shows on the move as part of the corporation's biggest ever shake-up of network programming from the nations and regions.

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    Specialist hubs

    2008-10-15T19:00:05Z

    The new blueprint aims to build different creative “hubs”, much as the Natural History Unit has done in Bristol, in each nation and key region.

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    Commissioning roles

    2008-10-15T19:03:02Z

    As revealed by Broadcast, these “creative hubs” will be underpinned by five new commissioning posts in the nations.

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    BBC hands flagship shows to regions

    2008-10-15T19:08:22Z

    Casualty is poised to relocate to Wales and Question Time will head to Scotland as part of the BBC's biggest ever shake-up of network programming from the nations and regions.

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    DAB listening on the rise

    2008-10-16T08:27:00Z

    Rajars: DAB take-up increased 32% year-on-year in the last three months, with nearly a third of UK adults now claiming to live in households with a DAB set.

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    LBC posts best ratings in 4 years

    2008-10-16T08:44:17Z

    Rajars: LBC News' decision to scale back its rolling news coverage has paid off, with the London-based station posting its best Rajar figures in four years.