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NewsBBC2 follows Tube hit with spotlight on Planners
BBC2 is looking to follow the success of ob doc series The Tube with an eight-parter lifting the lid on life as a council planning officer.
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NewsHat Trick eyes audio watermarking after app success
Hat Trick Productions’ Facejacker iPhone app, which used innovative audio watermarking technology, has been downloaded 70,000 times since its launch in February.
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NewsSteve Hewlett sets up indie Genie Pictures
Former Panorama editor and media commentator Steve Hewlett has set up an independent production company with director James Cohen.
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NewsC4’s Comedy Blaps to feature Dr Brown
Dr Brown, the creation of mime artist and clown Phil Burgers, will feature in the next set of Channel 4 Comedy Blaps – the broadcaster’s online comedy shorts initiative.
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News4Talent targets areas of youth unemployment
Channel 4’s division aimed at helping young entrants into the creative industries is to stage networking events in six areas of high youth unemployment around the country in a bid to attract fresh talent.
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NewsYahoo! has £1m for VoD series
GroupM Entertainment is to invest more than £1m in original digital video content in partnership with online portal Yahoo!.
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NewsObjective magics up first order from Discovery
Objective Productions, known for producing illusionist Derren Brown’s shows, has won its first order from Discovery Networks International to make a global series which combines magic with science.
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NewsITV eyes Catch Phrase revival
ITV is in talks to bring back classic gameshow Catch Phrase for the first time in 10 years as it seeks to continue a strategy of reviving successful formats.
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NewsHammond to front Saturday night prank show
BBC1 is lining up Richard Hammond to head a team of actors and comedians who will play pranks on members of the public for the Saturday night slot vacated by Total Wipeout.
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NewsAlbury steps down from RTS
Royal Television Society chief executive Simon Albury is stepping down after 12 years.
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NewsZodiak reviews future of Only Connect indie
The future of Only Connect producer Presentable hangs in the balance as parent company Zodiak Media assesses its viability.
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NewsP&G mulling TV after signing Olympic mums
Procter & Gamble is thought to be mulling broadcast opportunities around the exclusive access it has secured to a number of mothers of British athletes set to take part in this year’s Olympic Games.
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NewsPeretti probes obesity for BBC2
BBC2 has greenlit a 3 x 60-minute Jacques Peretti documentary series for Fresh One investigating the history of obesity.
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NewsBarge Pole scores first US sale
Timothy Spall’s indie Barge Pole Productions has sold a Channel 5 documentary about train robber Ronnie Biggs to US syndicator American Public Television (APT).
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NewsMore territories take ITV Studios’ dating format
ITV Studios format Come Date With Me is to be remade for audiences in Canada, Sweden, the Ukraine and Latvia.
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NewsMidwife delivered across Europe
Hit BBC1 drama Call the Midwife has been snapped up by broadcasters across Europe, following sales to the US and Australasia.
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NewsDPP hails workflow ‘revolution’
Production companies and post production facilities need to adopt slicker workflows if they are to reap the rewards of file-based technology, according to the Digital Production Partnership (DPP).
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NewsNews UGC start-up appoints Mannion as non-exec
Former ITV News editor-in-chief David Mannion has thrown his weight behind online video startup Newsflare, which allows the public to sell video clips to broadcasters and news organisations via a smartphone app.
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Curnow takes on VFX role at Prime Focus
Prime Focus has recruited Barney Curnow to the newly created role of VFX supervisor.
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RatingsSilk sheds 300k viewers
BBC1 legal drama Silk continued to pull a strong audience but could not match last week’s debut.