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NewsTarget Entertainment in sales talks
Target Entertainment, the international distributor of Fifi and the Flowertots, is up for sale just 18 months after being bought by Metrodome.
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NewsC4 acquires Black Cab Sessions
Channel 4 has picked up online music format The Black Cab Sessions USA, which has been adapted into a longer form for TV.
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NewsBafta to screen Stephen Lawrence film
Bafta is holding a special screening of the recent Panorama Special – Stephen Lawrence: A Time For Justice next month, in aid of the charity set up in his name.
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NewsNuttall returns to BBC as marketing chief
Lindsay Nuttall is returning to the BBC to head up marketing for drama and flagship channel BBC1.
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NewsZig Zag to produce Whitney Houston doc
The downward spiral of US singer Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday, will be chronicled via a fast turnaround doc from Zig Zag Productions and US magazine The National Enquirer.
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NewsAnimation tax break lobby grows
Animation UK has signed up a further three companies to its lobby group, which is calling for tax breaks for British animators.
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NewsPolice Interceptors sold into Europe
Channel 5 series Police Interceptors has been sold into Europe and Australia by Target Entertainment.
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Ofcom upholds Atvod's Viacom ruling
Ofcom has upheld a decision from VoD regulator Atvod that Viacom is responsible for the editorial of its catch-up services on Virgin Media.
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NewsMidwife exec to head drama for BBC Scotland
Chris Aird, executive producer of BBC1 hit Call the Midwife, has been appointed head of drama for BBC Scotland.
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NewsRIG plans online radio sales hub
Industry trade body Radio Independents Group is to announce a proposal to launch an online content sales hub for programmes.
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News6 Music signs Serafinowicz
Comedian, writer and actor Peter Serafinowicz is to present a series of six shows in Adam & Joe’s old slot on BBC 6 Music.
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NewsBBC3 reboots Snog, Marry, Avoid
BBC3’s make-under show Snog, Marry, Avoid is being refreshed for its fifth series with comedian Ellie Taylor as presenter.
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NewsRadio 4 hunts 'New Elizabethans'
BBC Radio 4 is kicking off a hunt to find the 60 public figures who have had the greatest impact on life in the UK during the Queen’s reign to mark the Diamond Jubilee and create “a radio portrait of our age”.
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NewsEntertainment One halts sale plans
Peppa Pig distributor Entertainment One has pulled the plug on a potential sale and is instead focusing on acquisitions.
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NewsDCD Media acquires Sequence Post
DCD Media has acquired the brand, assets and senior management of post facility Sequence.
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VTR North to open Manchester facility
VTR North has revealed plans to open a new 3,000 sq ft post house in Manchester.
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NewsAndrew Davies to adapt Les Misérables
Andrew Davies is working on a £10m adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables for drama co-production specialist Lookout Point, which is also planning to revive Lawrence of Arabia.
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NewsVirgin Media beats 1bn VoD views in 2011
Virgin Media beat its forecast of 1 billion VoD views during 2011 by 4.5 million, with ITV1’s Coronation Street the most-watched show of the year.
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NewsCivolution begins C4 watermarking trial
Channel 4 is preparing to take its first steps into audio watermarking, having started working on a trial with Civolution.
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NewsITV plans Space: 1999 revival
ITV Studios’ US arm is planning to remake Gerry Anderson’s cult series Space: 1999.