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NewsChannel 5 makes head of digital channels redundant
Channel 5’s Kate Barnes has been made redundant after the broadcaster decided to close its head of digital channels role.
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NewsC4 unveils next generation of 4oD features
Catch-up service 4oD is to allow users to download content on to their phones to watch when they have no internet connection.
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NewsRed Arrow Entertainment posts €1.4m loss
Red Arrow Entertainment made a loss of €1.4m (£1.11m) in the third quarter of 2012 on the back of its acquisitions spree - but its turnover more than doubled.
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NewsC4 orders pilots for 4Funnies
Derek star David Earl will play a small-town taxi driver spending his nights trying to relate to the world through his passengers in a comedy pilot for Channel 4.
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NewsTransparent follows plastic surgery gone wrong for C5
Channel 5 has commissioned Transparent Television to make a two-part documentary about attempts to correct plastic surgery that has gone wrong.
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Warner heads to Scandinavia for Good Food
UKTV pay channel Good Food has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute cookery travel series from Rockabox Media, fronted by chef Valentine Warner.
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NewsJapan’s Wowow eyes co-pros
Japanese pay-TV broadcaster Wowow is looking to strike co-production deals with UK indies across a raft of high-profile factual and lifestyle programming.
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NewsRed Production Company puts up the For Sale sign
Scott & Bailey producer Red Production Company is the latest indie to consider selling to a bigger group.
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NewsHMRC strikes deals as CLAC crisis nears end
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has begun cutting deals with the thousands of TV freelancers caught up in the Christopher Lunn & Company (CLAC) tax crisis.
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NewsVFX house Cinesite turns to production with travel series
Visual effects house Cinesite has made its first move into production, selling a travel and adventure series to Discovery Networks.
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NewsCelebrity Juice creators launch ‘ideas factory’
The co-devisers of Celebrity Juice have established a company that will operate in the space between commissioning and production.
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NewsBBC to clamp down on freelancer status
Thousands of BBC freelancers including on-screen talent could be forced to take staff contracts after the corporation launched an ‘employment test’ as part of its campaign to tighten up its tax arrangements.
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NewsBrown quits BBC drama to plot Neal Street expansion
Nicolas Brown, the BBC’s director of UK drama production, is following John Yorke into the indie sector and will join Sam Mendes’ indie Neal Street Productions next year.
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NewsYahoo! orders food and money series with Group M backing
A further two original web series have been ordered for Yahoo! with funding from Group M Entertainment.
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NewsAtomized helps Dispatches with social media push
Channel 4’s Dispatches is to be marketed using specially created social media content overseen by Atomized Entertainment.
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NewsCity Index Trading Academy
All3Media’s brand content agency Kameleon has created a real-time financial trading gameshow for spread betting and CFD trading firm City Index.
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NewsC4 to offer parents help at bedtime with new live series
Channel 4 is close to commissioning a major factual series examining the problems parents in the UK face in getting their children to sleep.
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NewsE4 sitcom reunites Inbetweeners girls
Bwark Productions is reuniting three female stars of The Inbetweeners Movie for an E4 comedy series about young women who have recently left university.
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NewsTern TV explores classical theatre for BBC4 series
Tern TV has won two BBC factual commissions including a 3 x 60-minute series about classical civilisation for BBC4.
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NewsDSP to make real-life crash drama for BBC3
Factual producer Darlow Smithson Productions is making a two-part drama for BBC3 based on the biggest killer of girls under the age of 21: their boyfriends’ driving.