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NewsArora to focus on out of London indies
The BBC’s indie champion Krishan Arora has been moved out of his existing role to focus on the production community outside London.
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NewsThompson "incredibly angry" at Times leak
BBC director general Mark Thompson has told staff he is “incredibly angry” about how the corporation’s strategy review leaked to the Times, and promised a “full investigation” to find out who was responsible.
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Avid adds to Interplay options
Avid has used the acquisition of German asset management company Blue Order to expand its Interplay product family.
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NewsC4 orders autism musical series
Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.
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NewsRefine grabs OTF deal
Refine has secured a three-year deal to provide content storage and repurposing services to factual distributor and producer Off The Fence (OTF).
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NewsEurope to take on UK in archive awards scrap
European producers are well represented in the shortlist for this year’s Focal International Awards, with French and Spanish companies both included in the prestigious Factual production category.
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NewsFreesat and Freeview prepped for catch-up services
A DTG working group has finalised details of an Internet TV standard that will allow every free-to-air HD receiver in the UK to have an IP connection and free-to-air catch-up capability.
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NewsITV calls time on Blue Murder
ITV1 crime drama Blue Murder has been dropped after five series on the channel, to make way for new properties.
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NewsITV's Bristol studios sale falls through
ITV has gone back to the drawing board after a £5m deal to sell its Bristol studios fell through.
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NewsBBC lines up more George Gently
The BBC has begun filming on two feature-length episodes of Inspector George Gently – the first to be filmed in north-east England.
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NewsSky bullish on 3DTV launch
BSkyB director of product development Brian Lenz used his presentation at last week’s DTG Summit to outline the broadcaster’s confidence in stereo 3D.
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NewsMPC picks Levi to replace Method-bound Jones
MPC has hired industry stalwart Julian Levi as executive producer to represent MPC Film after Drew Jones decided to join Ascent Media owned Method Studios as a film executive producer.
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NewsDTG announces latest D-Book update
The Digital Television Group (DTG) will release an update of its D-Book later this month that will provide the specification for providing catch-up services on Freeview HD.
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NewsHowling: Half UK can watch World Cup in HD
Freeview managing director Ilse Howling is confident that half of all UK homes will be able to get HD services on Freeview by the time the football World Cup kicks off in June.
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NewsTaylor to run BBC in-house entertainment
Katie Taylor has won the race to succeed Jon Beazley as head of BBC in-house entertainment.
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NewsSaturday Kitchen criticised for swearing - again
Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.
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Sky's Michael Wilson to host Jazz FM series
Jazz FM has launched a new weekly magazine show hosted by former Sky business editor Michael Wilson.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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NewsFilm4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin
Channel 4 is to launch its HD version of Film4 exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.
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NewsSky News plans female faces for Women's Day
Sky News will have an all female production and broadcasting team on Monday 8 March to mark the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day.