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NewsMSN strikes raft of content deals
MSN is moving its long-form MSN Video player out of beta and ramping up the amount of content it features to 1,000 hours following a string of fresh deals with indies.
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NewsEx ITV boss apointed exec chairman at EMI
Former ITV chief executive Charles Allen has been appointed executive chairman by struggling record label EMI.
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NewsLiving acquires US comedy drama
Living has acquired US comedy drama Drop Dead Diva from Sony Pictures Television (SPT) to bolster its spring schedule.
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NewsCanvas chief in DTG firing line
The friction between Project Canvas and the Digital Television Group (DTG) was ramped up at the trade body’s summit last week.
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NewsMPC simplifies DSLR workflow
MPC’s Data Lab has created a simplified workflow for Canon DSLR footage, pre-empting a move by TV producers to use digital stills cameras to shoot longform video content.
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NewsUK facilities explore opportunities in the UAE
The Bridge Training is confident that UK facilities will win business in the UAE after completing a UKTI-backed film and TV trade mission to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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NewsArts back on ITV agenda as factual edges upmarket
ITV is brainstorming ideas for a new arts strand as it looks to revitalise its factual slate.
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RatingsLambing Live delivers meaty audience
Lambing Live drew its highest share so far last night, with a peak of more than 3m viewers - just a million less than the 4m that tuned into Larry Lamb’s BBC1 show, Famous, Rich and Jobless.
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NewsBBC4 to explore Britain’s relationship with the sea
The Choir frontman Gareth Malone and actor Timothy Spall are to turn their attention to the sea in a major BBC4 season about Britain’s status as an island nation.
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Zig Zag picks up pilots of off-beat Far East formats
Broadcasters in Japan and South Korea have commissioned Zig Zag to make English-language versions of their quirky gameshow formats.
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NewsBBC draws on Hollywood for wildlife action docs
The BBC Natural History Unit is to kick off a new approach to programming with a Hollywood-style look at four predators for BBC1.
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ITVS strikes deal for Hallmark’s TV movie portfolio
ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s Noel Hedges has kicked off his new acquisitions role by securing the distribution rights for Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions’ made-for-television movie portfolio.
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NewsMatch.com ditches dating on BT Vision
Match.com has scrapped its interactive dating service from IPTV platform BT Vision just six months after it launched.
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NewsTen Alps chief calls for online WoCC
The BBC’s Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) scheme should be extended online for the corporation’s planned strategic partnership with cultural institutions, Ten Alps chief executive Alex Connock has argued.
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NewsC4 to step up search for new doc faces
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has pledged to make a “nursery slope” for new factual presenters a key priority in his creative renewal of the channel.
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NewsNorman asks staff: ‘How can we rejuvenate ITV?’
ITV chairman Archie Norman is on a one-man mission to involve staff in his strategic business review as he prepares the network for transformational change.
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NewsHeston to work culinary magic on NHS for C4
Heston Blumenthal will attempt to raise the standards of hospital food as part of a Channel 4 series that builds on his earlier transformation of Little Chef.
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NewsITV tries comedy trio for primetime slots
ITV is trialling three comedy entertainment shows across the network as part of a new push to find primetimeformats.
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NewsBBC to adapt Slater’s childhood memoirs
BBC1 is to give the Billy Elliott treatment to the childhood autobiography of TV chef Nigel Slater in a drama from Ruby Film and Television.