All News articles – Page 1987
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NewsA+E Networks UK hires former Viacom exec
A+E Networks UK has hired former Fox and Viacom exec Remi Abayomi as its senior director of broadcast.
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NewsTalkTalk signs 500k YouView subs
TalkTalk has signed up 100,000 new customers to its YouView service in the last four weeks - taking its total base to 500,000 homes within a year of launch.
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NewsChelsea Flower Show rooted at BBC
The BBC has signed a new four-year deal with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to cover the Chelsea Flower Show and other related events.
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NewsBBC1 heads back to Animal Frontline
True North has secured a second series of BBC1’s daytime RSPCA inspector doc Animal Frontline.
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NewsThe Wombles picked up by C5
Channel 5 has snapped up the remake of The Wombles for its kids strand, Milkshake.
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NewsHulu orders comedy from Lionsgate
US VoD service Hulu has commissioned Deadbeat, a comedy series from Lionsgate and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
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NewsAmazon orders Electus kids series
Amazon Studios has ordered a kids pilot from Ben Silverman’s Electus, marking one of the fledgling VoD provider’s highest-profile children’s series to date.
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NewsOfcom launches major study into TV violence
Ofcom has commissioned a major piece of research into viewers’ attitudes to violence on television – as Hollyoaks was rapped for a pre-wateshed fight scene that featured a character being killed by a speeding train.
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NewsCanada's Tricon launches kids division with Irish series
Canadian producer and distributor Tricon is launching a kids division and has acquired international rights to Irish animated series Wildernuts.
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NewsAmazon orders drama from X-Files creator
Amazon has ordered a pilot of apocalyptic drama The After from The X-Files creator Chris Carter.
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NewsBeyond eyes digital acquisitions
International producer and distributor Beyond International is looking to acquire digital media companies and boost its third party catalogue following a 13% revenue growth.
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NewsTLC set to lose Happily Divorced
US cable network TV Land has cancelled sitcom Happily Divorced, which airs on TLC in the UK.
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NewsSyfy pilots 12 Monkeys remake
US cable network Syfy has ordered a TV remake of Terry Gilliam’s 1995 feature film 12 Monkeys.
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NewsMan Down up for Christmas special
Channel 4 has ordered a Christmas special of Greg Davies sitcom Man Down before the first episode has aired.
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NewsUTV’s pre-tax profits dive to £6m
TalkSport owner UTV suffered a “slow” first half of 2013 as its pre-tax profits sunk nearly 43%.
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NewsHall promises ‘bonfire of the boards’
Tony Hall has promised a “bonfire” of the BBC’s management boards after learning lessons from the way the world’s biggest technology companies operate in Silicon Valley.
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NewsYentob predicts end of in-house quotas
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has suggested that the corporation may scrap its in-house commissioning quota in the next five years.
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NewsBen Stephenson defends The Fall
BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson has defended BBC2’s The Fall - arguing that its mix of crime, sex and sexuality touched a nerve in ways that many crime dramas tend to ignore.
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NewsBBC to reinvent 'conventional whodunit'
BBC drama chief Ben Stephenson is looking for ways to reinvent the “conventional whodunit” with some serialised elements.
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NewsChannel bosses answer indie critics
TV’s four most powerful controllers have joined the prickly debate about relations between indies and commissioners, and revealed how they believe the status quo can be improved.