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NewsBBC Showcase to be biggest yet
BBC Worldwide’s annual Showcase event, which is moving to Liverpool for the first time, is set to become its biggest to date.
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RatingsJunior Doctors dips to 800k
TUESDAY: BBC3 ob doc Junior Doctors drew its lowest audience to date in the face of stiff competition from C4’s Gypsy Weddings.
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NewsLuton extremists to feature in C4 doc
English Defence League co-founder Tommy Robinson and Sayful Islam, who has disrupted the homecoming parade of British troops, are to feature in a new Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsBBC confirms 3D Olympics broadcast
The BBC is to broadcast three key events from the London Olympic Games in 3D.
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NewsDarlow to make Concordia film
Darlow Smithson Productions is producing a new documentary about the Costa Concordia disaster for Discovery Networks International.
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NewsBBC warns over spikes in Olympic web use
The BBC has provided ISPs and mobile operators with a “heat map”, which will alert them to an anticipated huge spike in traffic around “four or five” London 2012 Olympics events.
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NewsHellish high school show heads to Syfy
A supernatural comedy about a teen who unleashes hell in his high school has been acquired by Syfy.
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NewsE4 acquires Suburgatory
E4 has acquired the broadcast rights to new ABC comedy Suburgatory, bolstering its line-up of American sitcoms.
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NewsUKTV seeks fresh comedy Gold
UKTV’s Gold is to inject millions into original content for the first time as it adds a raft of commissions to its “crown jewels” archive schedule.
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NewsC4 to rework SFTW as Sunday Brunch
Channel 4 has effectively picked up axed BBC2 magazine show Something for the Weekend, after commissioning Princess Productions to make a Sunday morning series.
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NewsShock investor plans growth at DCD Media
DCD Media is set for a major overhaul that could coincide with a surprise investor’s plans to turn the super-indie into a multimedia player.
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NewsCRR set to stay for Comms Act
ITV is unlikely to be handed relief from its advertising trading restrictions, the Contract Rights Renewal scheme (CRR), in the government’s new Communications Act.
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NewsUKTI looks for indie input into three-year plan
UK Trade & Investment is embarking on a tour of UK indies, film-makers and games developers as it pulls together a fresh three-year plan to ensure it is spending intelligently.
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NewsBBCW teams with HBO for atomic bomb drama
Jane Tranter’s LA division of BBC Worldwide Productions is working with HBO to develop a high-profile dramatisation of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
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NewsComedy Blaps delivers first C4 TX pilot
The Rubberbandits is the first Comedy Blap to earn a broadcast pilot for Channel 4 following a successful online debut.
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NewsC4 boosts fact ent commissioning with two hires
Channel 4 has bolstered its fact ent commissioning team, responsible for some of the broadcaster’s biggest hits – including Big Fat Gypsy Weddings – with two appointments.
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NewsEmbarrassing apps push self-diagnosis
The second series of Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic will be supported by a set of groundbreaking mobile apps that draw on audio watermarking.
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NewsUKIE lobbies for relaxation of laws around crowd funding
The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) is planning to lobby the government to relax laws surrounding crowd funding, making it potentially easier for indies to finance projects.
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NewsSky Living looks to give concerned celebs a platform
Sky Living is considering a strand called Cause Celeb in which celebrities explore a different cause or issue that is important to them personally.
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NewsPratchett off to Borneo for BBC2
Fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett is to travel to Borneo and track down an orangutan king as he contemplates the meaning of mankind’s existence for a new BBC2 documentary.