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Flextech secures The Amazing Race for Living TV 2
Flextech has picked up the exclusive UK rights to Jerry Bruckheimer's Emmy award-winning CBS reality show The Amazing Raceas part of a trio of deals with Buena Vista International Television.
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NewsTop Up eyes E4 replacement
Top Up TV has drawn up a short-list of channels to replace E4 on its premium Freeview offering, with comedy channel Paramount said to be the preferred choice.
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NewsAmazing Race heads to Flextech
Flextech has picked up the exclusive UK rights to Jerry Bruckheimer's Emmy award-winning CBS reality show The Amazing Raceas part of a trio of deals with Buena Vista International Television.
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NewsCommunity Channel goes interactive
The Community Channel is launching a new interactive service to mark the Year of the Volunteer.
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NewsHolmes joins Sky News
Former GMTV anchorman Eamonn Holmes is joining Sky News to host its breakfast show Sunrise.
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Rowden rises at Sky
Sky One has promoted Sam Rowden to head of acquisitions and co-productions (factual) as the channel looks to work more with UK and inter-national programme-makers. Formerly head of reality and daytime acquisitions in charge of drama and comedy genres, Rowden will now focus on developing co-production opportunities with British, Canadian, ...
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Telewest and NTL inch closer to merger
Telewest and NTL moved a step closer to a long-awaited merger, this week after it emerged that Telewest has appointed a financial advisor for negotiations.
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Challenge ups stakes with poker series
Challenge has acquired PartyPoker.com: The Poker Den, the channel's first live card game series for its new casino strand Players. Made by indie Matchroom in association with website PartyPoker.com, the 12 x 180-minute series will be broadcast from a basement in east ...
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NewsSky One kicks off sports doc series
Sky One is to inject more sports programming into its schedule with a new long-running documentary strand, which will include profiles of some of sport's biggest stars.
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Five weighs up multichannel options
Five is looking to launch a crime channel or a female-skewed lifestyle channel, as it gears up to make its first step into multichannel television.
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BBC creative director takes over at Community Channel
The Community Channel has hired the former creative director at BBC learning, Nick Ware, as its new channel controller.
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Sky poaches Discovery exec for factual role
Sky One has poached Discovery Channel executive Emma Read to become commissioning editor for specialist factual.
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NewsEmap launches FHM TV
Lads' mag FHM is to launch a music TV channel on Friday featuring the sexiest female bums in music and videos for viewers to air-guitar along to.
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Pitching chance for new channels
Budding entrepreneurs are being invited to pitch their channel start-up idea to an industry panel at next month's Broadcast Digital Channel Conference.
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NewsNTL takes all Flextech and UKTV content
NTL has strengthened its relationship with rival Telewest after signing up to carry all 27 channels from Flextech and UKTV arms.
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NewsSky to make job cuts
BSkyB is to make job cuts after weekend reports suggested it was to shed up to 1,000 staff.
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NewsNew channel to showcase Yorkshire talent
A new digital satellite channel promoting the TV and film work of people from Yorkshire and Humber, is set to be broadcast across the UK and Ireland after securing a slot on the Sky Digital platform.
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NewsC4 buys feted Hitler biopic
Channel 4 has boosted its line-up for its soon-to-launch digital channel More4 by snapping up the first-run rights to celebrated German film Downfall.
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NewsTelewest buys Sit-Up TV
Telewest has bought TV retailer and movie channel operator Sit-Up TV, in a deal worth over£194m.
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NTL in bid to woo Freeview customers
NTL is putting more channels into its cheapest TV package to help it compete with BSkyB and Freeview for low paying customers.