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VideoVIDEO: New Worlds, Channel 4
Click to view the trailer for New Worlds, Company Pictures’ period drama follow-up to The Devil’s Whore for Channel 4.
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NewsITV News marks Budget Day with online spin-off
ITV News is preparing to launch its first live web show to coincide with Budget Day.
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NewsBBC2 reveals 50th anniversary plans
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse will take a sideways glance at BBC2’s output as part of a raft of programming celebrating the channel’s 50th anniversary in April.
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NewsShed signs joint venture deal with De Mol’s Talpa
John de Mol’s Talpa Media has struck a joint venture deal with Shed Media Group to make its long-awaited UK debut.
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NewsIndies blame broadcasters over diversity
The indie sector believes that broadcasters’ refusal to take risks on new production staff and onscreen talent is holding back diversity in the TV industry.
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NewsBox TV revamps business to halt audience decline
Music TV business Box TV is repositioning itself as a multiplatform brand as it battles to address declining audience figures.
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NewsChalkboard scores backing
A trio of international production companies have invested in fledgling UK indie Chalkboard TV.
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NewsKeshet hires Nourmand to boost UK business
Israeli producer Keshet is beefing up its UK business with the hire of former DCD Media boss Sammy Nourmand.
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NewsUK indies eye Chinese deals
More than 20% of UK indies are looking to break into Asia, with the majority targeting China for growth, according to Broadcast’s 2014 Indie Survey.
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NewsSony launches NI indie with Secret Fortune duo
Sony Pictures Television is partnering with Secret Fortune creators Kieran Doherty and Matt Worthy to launch a Northern Irish indie.
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NewsC4 lowers gavel on auction doc
Channel 4 is heading back to Chelsea with a documentary series about a famous auction house.
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NewsUKTV draws up manifesto for indie relations
UKTV is launching a commissioning charter as it seeks to cement its position in the indie community.
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NewsSky strikes deal with US network FX
Sky has struck a co-development deal with US cable network FX as it looks to create comedies to sit alongside the likes of Louie and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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NewsIndies lobby Trust on quotas
The bosses of some of the UK’s biggest indies used a high-level meeting with the BBC Trust to make the case for changing the corporation’s commissioning quotas during charter renewal negotiations next year.
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NewsIfans to star in S4C adaptation of Under Milk Wood
Welsh broadcaster S4C has commissioned a film version of classic radio drama Under Milk Wood that will star Rhys Ifans.
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NewsBBC3 orders sitcoms prior to online move
BBC3 is lining up a sitcom set in a young offenders’ institution and has recommissioned three of its biggest comedies as it begins to increase its online experimentation.
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NewsLeila Monks leaves Zig Zag to set up consultancy firm
Leila Monks is leaving Troy producer Zig Zag to set up her own production and distribution consultancy firm, Antidote Media. Monks will be replaced at Danny Fenton’s indie by former MTV executive Matt Graff, who will become commercial director.
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NewsSky takes international rights in Roughcut deal
Sky has struck a deal with Ash Atalla’s Roughcut TV that combines development for its channels with international rights.
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CriticsTV Critics: W1A; Line of Duty; Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
“This mockumentary needs a bit more ‘mock’.”
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RatingsLine of Duty bows out on high
BBC2 enjoyed a good night on Wednesday as Line of Duty ended with a series high audience and Twenty Twelve successor W1A got underway with 1.6m.