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NewsLiving hit Four Weddings has US makeover for TLC
Living’s Four Weddings is eloping to the US to be remade for cable network TLC.
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NewsOptomen serves Heston’s Feasts to global buyers
Channel 4 food show Heston’s Feasts has been sold to a raft of international broadcasters by Optomen International, with the potential for a new version to be produced in France.
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NewsMentorn bolsters Mipcom portfolio by adding BBC World News content
Mentorn International has signed a three-year distribution deal with BBC World News to take its weekly programming and back catalogue to the international market.
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Morrisons fund CITV series
CITV has struck a deal with supermarket Morrisons to produce a new fully-funded 10 x 20-minute factual series called Farm Camp.
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RatingsBBC2 traveller beats C4 Tour
BBC2 launched a new travelogue to compete with Channel 4’s Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour on Sunday, but otherwise much of the week was in established patterns.
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RatingsFighting for attention
Violet Elizabeth Bott screamed and screamed until she was sick, but still William Brown would take no notice.
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RatingsQuest debuts on Freeview with 82,000 peak
Discovery’s new Freeview channel Quest made a slow but steady start on its launch yesterday, with a peak of 82,000 tuning in to a documentary on the search for Noah’s Arc.
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NewsSky nets NCIS spin-off
Sky1 has picked up the rights to CBS US police procedural drama NCIS: Los Angeles, the first spin-off from the popular NCIS.
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NewsNow Coolabi agrees "Chorion deal is over"
Coolabi has finally confirmed what Chorion says has been the case for weeks: the talks to buy Chorion’s crime division are over.
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RatingsUnited's win gives ITV1 ratings victory
The Champions League debut of German team Wolfsburg against Manchester United scored a peak of 6.7m (30%) for ITV1 last night, blasting away the competition.
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NewsFacilities briefs 2 October 2009
Facilities news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 2 October 2009 including Big Buoy, Bubble and The Farm.
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NewsLife on Mars director launches filmmaker search
Golden Globe-nominated director Bharat Nalluri is fronting a nationwide search to find the UK’s most talented professional or aspiring filmmakers.
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Broadcast at 50 party
The great and good of the TV industry gathered at The Hospital club in Covent Garden to celebrate 50 years of Broadcast.
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NewsLiving snares Cougar Town
Living has acquired US comedy Cougar Town, featuring Courtney Cox as a newly single woman on the prowl for younger men.
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NewsC4 strikes deal for two CBS shows
Channel 4 has snapped up CBS shows The Good Wife and Accidentally on Purpose for its digital channels.
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NewsNorth East strategy shapes up with STV/ITV execs
Screen agency Northern Film & Media has hired former STV and ITV Productions executives to help develop the creative industries across the North East.
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NewsBBC gives go-ahead for second pregnancy series
BBC3 has greenlit an extended eight-part second run of Underage And Pregnant from Mentorn Media.
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NewsC4 to mark tsunami anniversary
Channel 4 is to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami with a feature-length documentary that edits amateur footage of the disaster.
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NewsChannel fined £80,000 over Comedy Awards phone-in scandal
Channel TV has been fined £80,000 by Ofcom for its part in the phone-in scandal that saw Ant and Dec wrongly given a 2005 British Comedy Awards.
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NewsBradshaw and Starkey clash over Marr interview
Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has stepped up his criticism of Andrew Marr’s interview with Gordon Brown, lambasting an “error of judgement” that was “part of the trivialisation and degradation of our political discourse”.