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BBC Showcase Q&A's
BBC Showcase: Broadcastnow spoke to key BBC Worldwide executives at its Showcase event in Brighton about how the distributor is coping with the economic downturn, their favourite new shows and what's in store for 2009.
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Folio to follow up Soho Blues for Five
Five has commissioned Folio to make a fast-turnaround follow up to its successful doc series Soho Blues.
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Optomen bolsters top team
Optomen, the indie behind Gordon Ramsay's F Word, has strengthened its senior team by promoting two of its in house producers to editors.
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Cardiff spectrum bid won by Cube
Bafta-winning multimedia company Cube Interactive has won the bid for a new spectrum licence in Cardiff from Ofcom.
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Barbara Slater named BBC Sport director
The BBC has named former international gymnast Barbara Slater as its new director of sport.
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C4/Five in the dark over ITV merger proposal
ITV has approached neither Channel 4 nor Five about its reported proposal for a three-way merger to create a single commercial rival to the BBC, Broadcast understands.
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BBC America signs up for Kudos' Iraq war drama
Kudos Film and Television's BBC1 Iraq drama Occupation is being part financed by BBC America and will star Murphy's Law actor James Nesbitt.
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BBC to bring back Five Days and Criminal Justice
The BBC is to turn Criminal Justice and Five Days into returnable brands by applying their stripped format to new casts and storylines.
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Real Hustle producer to ‘screw' consumers
The team behind The Real Hustle is to give members of the public “the consumer experience from hell” in a new BBC3 series.
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Mackie reunites the Cold Feet team for rom-com
Cold Feet exec producer Andy Harries and director Declan Lowney will be reunited for an ITV -comedy-drama series about six friends negotiating life and love.
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BBC3 gets weighty with diet-and-dilemma docs
BBC3 is to tackle some of the major issues facing young women - ranging from diets and plastic surgery to rehab and abortion.
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Wells and Middleham launch indie start-up
Two former ITV Studios entertainment heavyweights have teamed up to create a new indie for high-end, shiny-floor entertainment shows.
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‘Channel surfing' next big thing for iPlayer
BBC iPlayer is developing an application that will mimic stumbling across shows by channel surfing.
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Home alone show fades
Factual show Boys and Girls Alone got off to a fine start but its audience fell away over its four-week run.
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BBC Sport boss hopeful on Salford
New director of BBC Sport, Barbara Slater, has said she is hopeful that more than a third of the department will make the move to Salford in 2011.
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Being Human to return
BBC3 has commissioned a second series of Touchpaper Television drama Being Human.
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London job cuts on the horizon at Discovery EMEA
Discovery Networks EMEA is to “decentralise” some of its London-based support services, affecting between 20 and 30 staff.
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Lording it in the dance off
ITV skates off with the honours in the battle of the weekend celebrity-based entertainment genre.
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Fremantle ups its game with stake in Ludia
Fans of The Bill could soon be using their Nintendo Wii to walk the streets of Sun Hill after Fremantle Media bought a minority stake in Canadian video game specialist Ludia.