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NewsMaverick, Sony and Forbidden trial proxy workflow
Maverick TV has teamed up with Forbidden and Sony to trial a new proxy-based workflow for a fourpart Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsProduction firms not up to speed on file delivery
The production community does not fully appreciate the extra demands that the shift from tape to file will place on delivery, according to an expert panel at this week’s BVE trade show.
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NewsEricsson's Red Bee deal green-lit
Ericsson’s proposed acquisition of Red Bee Media has been given the go-ahead by the Competition Commission.
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; Festivals, Sex and Suspicious Parents; Inside No 9; Outnumbered
“An early contender for home-grown drama of the year.”
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NewsRed Arrow buys US indie Half Yard
The consolidation of the US production market has continued with Red Arrow buying reality and fact ent indie Half Yard Productions.
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NewsStella renewed for fourth series
Stella is coming back for a fourth series after Sky1 recommissioned the Tidy Productions comedy.
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RatingsInside No 9, First Dates and Suspects dip to lows
Inside No 9, First Dates and Suspects dipped to series lows on Wednesday - while Outnumbered returned to form.
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NewsBBC Brit orders first original series
BBC Worldwide’s male-skewing international channel BBC Brit has ordered Mud, Sweat and Gears as its first original commission.
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NewsBBC charter renewal talks set for 2015
Formal charter renewal negotiations are unlikely to begin in earnest until after the general election in 2015, it has emerged.
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NewsCohen: Match of the Day must be more diverse
BBC director of television Danny Cohen is set to make Match of the Day the next target of his diversity mission after banning all-male comedy panel shows.
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NewsBBC Store gets greenlight from Trust
The BBC’s plans to launch a download-to-own portal for archive programming have taken a step forward after being approved by the BBC Trust.
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NewsBBC signs Agatha Christie deal
The BBC has signed a deal with the Agatha Christie estate to return the author to the “pantheon of truly great British writers” on the 125th anniversary of her birth through a range of new dramas.
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RatingsBrits not a hit with viewers
Where was the parent-jarring madness? Gone, it seems, are the days of rock stars mooning or machine-gunning on the Brit Awards stage, or an anarchist band hurling water over the deputy prime minister.
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NewsDixon departs RTE for BBCW
George Dixon is to join BBC Worldwide to oversee commissioning across its international channels after leaving Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.
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CriticsTV Critics: Bluestone 42; Storyville; The Storms That Stole Christmas
“The banter is caustic, the cameraderie is palpable and the slapstick is explosive.”
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RatingsInspector George Gently ends on high
Inspector George Gently bowed out on a series high, locking out competition from the drama at White Hart Lane on ITV.
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NewsITV buys Danish indie United
ITV has acquired Danish indie United as it continues to snap up global production companies.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.
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RatingsKnox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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RatingsLow launch for Moone Boy
As a nipper, I lived opposite Cardiff City striker and local hero Johnny Vincent, and then in Northampton in the same street as cricketing wizard Mushtaq Mohammad. So when Sky 1’s Moones stumbled across Irish World Cup hero Patrick ‘Packie’ Bonner’s house while on holiday, I understood.