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NewsOfcom backs Sky Sports BT ads ban
Ofcom has ruled that Sky broke no regulations in refusing to carry adverts for BT Sport on its Sky Sports channels.
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NewsApple TV scoops Sky News
Sky News is to begin streaming via Apple TV devices after the broadcaster struck a deal with the technology giant.
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NewsC4 orders six First Cut docs
Channel 4 has commissioned six hour-long docs for its First Cut strand from up-and-coming directors including Alex Brooker: Man v Fat’s Eddie Hutton-Mills.
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NewsNetflix heads back to Hemlock Grove
Netflix has ordered a second series of Eli Roth’s horror series Hemlock Grove.
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NewsDynamo makes digital debut
UKTV is to air the first episode of the new series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible online ahead of its TV debut.
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NewsC5 hunts fact ent commissioner
Channel 5 has kicked off its hunt for a new factual entertainment commissioner following the departure of Ian Dunkley.
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NewsSky Atlantic to air Sopranos tribute
Sky Atlantic is pulling its planned schedule tomorrow night to air four episodes of The Sopranos, following the death of star James Gandolfini.
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NewsBBC takes Red Bee deals to 2017 as overhaul continues
The BBC has extended Red Bee Media’s contracts to provide playout, metadata and interactive services by 18 months, to give it more time to overhaul the way it broadcasts and publishes content.
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NewsEricsson set for global push into broadcast
The head of Ericsson’s broadcast division has underlined the company’s aims to push further into the sector.
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NewsJeff Pope to make Lord Lucan biopic for ITVS
Jeff Pope’s next factual drama project for ITV will be a biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished after his children’s nanny was murdered.
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NewsEuro demand for UK docs
International networks including France Télévisions, Germany’s ARD and HBO Europe are increasing the number of hours they commission from British indies as they ramp up their global co-production ambitions.
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NewsHall offers reassurance over undercover trips
The BBC has reassured education groups that it does not use academic trips as a cloak for undercover journalism following the controversy over the Panorama North Korea documentary.
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NewsGreenbird takes a stake in indie start-up Rumpus
Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin’s production network Greenbird has taken a stake in a start-up led by comedy and factual entertainment producers Iain Wimbush and Emily Hudd.
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NewsNat Geo on the hunt for UK indie projects
National Geographic is looking for tens of new projects from UK indies as part of its latest commissioning round, and has ordered an eight-part series about dwarfism from Dragonfly Film & TV.
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NewsITV tests paid mobile content
ITV has begun testing viewers’ appetite to pay for ad-free content on mobile as the final pillar in part one of its digital transformation.
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NewsEdit producer role comes under scrutiny at Doc/Fest
The increasing power of the edit producer was again under the spotlight at a heated Directors UK session debate at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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NewsComedy Central eyes UK hits
Comedy Central is set to spend millions on UK multi-camera comedies as it eyes the production of four to five new series each year.
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NewsBBC tackles ‘climate of fear’
Human rights barrister Dinah Rose has admitted that she was surprised by the climate of fear at the BBC, in her first public comments on the BBC Respect at Work Review, which was published in May.
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NewsITV checks in for B&B sitcom
Sherlock producer Hartswood Films is to make an ITV comedy drama about a 1980s-inspired bed and breakfast in Margate.