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Format focus: Ruth 66
The latest reality series from Swedish producer Strix sends a group of pensioners off on a road trip to encounter bikers, supermodels and artists.
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Wall to Wall sells hurricane doc to Oz
Indie Wall to Wall has sold the rights to its Oil Stormdocumentary - which months before Hurricane Katrina hypothesised what would happen if a hurricane struck the Gulf of Mexico - to Australia's Seven Network. The two-hour programme was produced for FX in the US and ...
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Top of the Pops sells to South America
BBC music show Top of the Popshas been picked up by Latin American entertainment channel People + Arts, a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery. The programme will be broadcast shortly after its transmission in the UK, with presenter links from Fearne Cotton and guest presenters ...
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Asian radio station in deal with Napster
London-based radio station Club Asia has signed up with online music download service Napster to promote Asian music downloads and streams. Under the deal, Club Asia 963 and 972 AM will act as a
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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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GI shares catalogue with BBC America
BBC America has signed a two-year deal that will allow it to cherry-pick 160 hours of programmes from Granada International's back catalogue of drama and comedy. The deal will give BBC America access to a range of Granada International's back catalogue as well as new programmes. The titles involved are ...
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Sky One lines up coke and Viagra
Sky One is to explore the use of cocaine and Viagra as part of its autumn season.
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Shine makes high-risk property show for C4
Indie Shine is making a new property series for Channel 4 following budding property magnates as they try to make a killing overseas.
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C4 orders more autopsies from von Hagens
Professor Gunther von Hagens is to make a return to the screens as he probes the causes of death for a Channel 4 series made by indie Firefly.
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RDF cooks up foodie faking it for C4
RDF is making a culinary version of its hit format Faking Itfor Channel 4. In Cooking It, contestants will be challenged to turn basic ingredients into mouthwatering dishes good enough to fool a panel of food experts into thinking they are professional ...
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Ex-Clinton spokesman for Sky News
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News. World News Tonightwill see Rubin presenting a weekday 60-minute roundup of the big international stories and will include interviews with key figures on the international stage. The show, which is ...
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Talkback makes history for Five kids
Talkback Thames is making a history show for Five's children's strand Shake. Heroes of Historysees Fran Beauman and Ania Dykczak taking on a different character each week, getting inside their skins by living the life they would have led - mastering horseriding as Joan of Arc, ...
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Collins and Eve in BBC1 fertility drama
Former EastEndersactress Michelle Collins and Waking the Deadstar Trevor Eve are to star in a new BBC1 drama set in the world of fertility treatment. The Family Manfollows four couples struggling with various aspects of IVF treatment, from ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Andrea Hamilton
Sky One's new commissioning editor, features and daytime is proud of her Taste, loves The X Factor and is looking for entertaining lifestyle ideas that appeal to men as much as women.
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Panasonic pulls out of next IBC
Panasonic is to pull out of next year's IBC, arguing that the costs of taking part in Europe's biggest broadcasting technology event outweigh the benefits.
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Terrestrial channels sign up for mobile trial
Fourteen of the 16 channels lined up for Arqiva's mobile television broadcast trial, scheduled to begin later this month, have been confirmed, with BBC1 and BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, Channel 4, Five and BBC News 24 all signing up to take part.
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BBC spends£2m on HD upgrades
BBC Post Production has ploughed£2m into HD upgrades of its operations in London, Birmingham and Bristol.
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HD cameras at IBC
The camera wars heated up at IBC this year with Grass Valley launching its new Infinity camcorder, a low-end HD camera aimed at taking on Sony's HDV market. Sony completed its line-up of HD formats with the launch of the HD version of its tapeless XDCAM, positioned between its HDV ...
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Resellers for Nitris
Altered Images, Root6 and Dublin-based Tyrell have been appointed as resellers for Avid's Symphony Nitris, the first time the long-form finishing kit has been offered to third-party dealerships. Symphony Nitris offers real-time uncompressed HD and SD finishing and primary and secondary colour correction.
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Dubbing expands
Glasgow-based audio post facility The Dubbing Theatre has moved to the city's The Waterfront Studios and doubled its capacity because of increased bookings. It now offers five studios with Protools, Avid Audiovisions and Digital performer.