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NewsRaw wins order for Investigation Discovery and History Television
Raw TV will produce a dramatic documentary series examining how people are coerced into carrying out unthinkable acts by criminals or abusive family members.
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NewsNick Grimshaw to replace Chris Moyles
T4 presenter Nick Grimshaw will replace Chris Moyles as the host of the Radio 1 breakfast show later this year.
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NewsFood Network beefs up output
Food Network UK is ramping up its on-air hours from four hours per day to a full-time output on Freeview.
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RatingsMillionaire edges out Line of Duty
BBC2 drama Line of Duty held its total audience of more than 3m impressively, but was pipped to the post at 9pm by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
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NewsS4C to close HD channel
Welsh language broadcaster S4C has dropped its HD channel as part of cost saving measures introduced due to budget cuts.
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NewsBBC hives off news services
The BBC is planning a major restructure of its Global News division in a move that will split its commercial and non commercial activities.Broadcast understands that the corporation is preparing to hive off two money-making services, BBC World News and the international version of the BBC News website, into a ...
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NewsSonita Alleyne and Aideen McGinley appointed BBC Trustees
Sonita Alleyne and Aideen McGinely have been appointed to the BBC Trust.
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Panoramic ball camera to make debut at IBC
IBC 2012: A unique camera kit that can be thrown into the air to capture panoramic still images will be demonstrated at IBC.
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NewsBBC uses crowd-sourcing to test value of metadata
BBC Research & Development is examining the results of an experiment investigating whether crowd-sourcing can help it make more effective use of metadata.
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NewsGrass Valley focuses on value
Grass Valley is to target the more cost sensitive segments of the broadcast sector, as it moves away from systems integration and focuses on providing “internet enabled architecture”.
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NewsRussia’s Channel One set to return to Fort Boyard
Fort Boyard is returning to Russia after a six year hiatus at the same time as the kids’ version of the show wins a major recommission.
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C4 and PBS offer portal to WWII with October doc
More than 100,000 hours of secret recordings of German prisoners of war from World War II will be the basis of a one-off special for Channel4 and PBS Channel 13 in the US.
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NewsCineflix sells 400 hours into CEE
More than 400 hours of programming from Cineflix Rights’ catalogue has been sold to Central and Eastern Europe territories following Natpe Budapest.
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NewsC4 develops Million Pound gesture app
Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop is in line to become the first gameshow to pilot the ability to play along via a gesture-based connected-TV app.
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ITV Sport and Ladbrokes to offer live betting
Visitors to the ITV Sport website are able to gamble on events without leaving the site following a deal with bookmaker Ladbrokes.
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NewsITV1 adapts ‘forgotten’ novel
ITV1 is to adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘forgotten’ romantic novel The Making Of A Marchioness into a single period drama.
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NewsBremner and Bellingham to front ITV daytime shows
ITV daytime has lined up Rory Bremner and Lynda Bellingham to front two daytime formats as part of a raft of 70 hours of commissions.
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CPL hires RDF‘s Sutcliffe to head up development
CPL Productions has poached RDF Television head of development Lynn Sutcliffe and is poised to secure the future of Sky 1 panel show A League Of Their Own until the end of 2013.
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NewsDispatches seeks digital partner to help engage audiences
Channel 4 current affairs strand Dispatches has issued a tender for a digital company to work alongside the strand’s production companies and help engage new audiences.
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NewsCITV: bring funding or miss out on projects
CITV is hunting for a live-action scripted series and a challenge series, but has warned indies they must bring third-party funding to projects.