All News articles – Page 2757
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NewsPilkington quits Virgin Media TV after six years
Virgin 1 and Bravo senior commissioning editor Lucy Pilkington is leaving her post to pursue other projects.
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NewsFuture funding strategy to help Pepper
Future Film’s move into TV production financing (Broadcast 09.10.09) is set to provide a boost to Pepper, the post facility in which it owns a stake.
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Facilities news in brief
News in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 16 October featuring Sequence Post, Visual Impact, Envy, MPC and Prime Focus.
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Ascent wins Dutch film archive clean-up deal
Ascent Media has won a Europewide tender to clean-up and transfer more than 1,250 hours of historic newsreel film from Holland’s film archives.
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UTV invests in tapeless future
UTV has set out its ambition to become a fully tapeless broadcaster by the end of next year.
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NewsRufus Hound fronts Dave monologues
Argumental star Rufus Hound is to hold forth on subjects ranging from the internet to dancing and camping in a series of webonly monologues for comedy multichannel Dave.
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Dubz.tv prepares for agency rebrand
Digital agency Dubz.tv has hired ex-ITV interactive commissioner Siobhan Mulholland to spearhead its rebrand as a ‘strategically driven’, multiplatform content generating agency.
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NewsBravo beefs up schedule with Strongest Man deal
Bravo has struck a deal with IMG Media to secure the exclusive UK rights for the 2009 World’s Strongest Man competition.
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Grimefighters mops up global deals at Mipcom
ITV1 primetime series Grimefighters is to clean up schedules across Europe and Australasia, while a major format deal is close to completion in the US.
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NewsAsia sales for BBCW
BBC Worldwide has sold nearly 500 hours of shows, including The Sarah Jane Adventures, to Asian broadcasters.
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NewsC4 gives all-female sketch show a slot in comedy season
Channel 4 has extended its forthcoming pilots season Comedy Showcase to seven episodes after greenlighting an all-female sketch show from Objective Productions.
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NewsDCD Media secures record $11.7m in deals from US
DCD Media acting chief executive David Green has urged his company and the wider indie market to pitch more shows to US broadcasters after September Films won a company record $11.7m (£7.4m) worth of business.
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NewsFrustrated Henderson to leave Presentable
Gavin Henderson, head of programmes at RDF Media’s Welsh indie Presentable, is poised to leave the company after losing faith in the nations and regions commissioning drive.
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NewsTiger and Darlow ‘orphaned’
Tiger Aspect Productions and Darlow Smithson Productions have been “orphaned” by parent IMG Media after it backtracked on its strategy to diversify beyond sport and put them up for sale.
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Dave comedy to swap UK and US stand-up styles
Phill Jupitus and Flight Of The Conchord’s star Eugene Mirman will swap roles on either side of the Atlantic to perform stand-up in front of a foreign audience in a broadcast pilot for Dave.
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NewsSky on IPTV box from next year
Sky’s movies and Premier League football will be available via an IPTV set-top box from early next year, after the satellite company struck a deal with manufacturer Fetch TV.
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Barraclough leaves Mentorn to set up production company
Mentorn Media head of factual entertainment Dan Barraclough has left to set up his own production outfit, taking executive producer Hannah Wyatt with him.
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NewsBagpuss TV return is blocked by Postgate
Bagpuss is unlikely to return to TV after all, as creator Oliver Postgate’s son does not want a “heartless” new version that could be “tarnished” by “lurid” CGI animation.
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NewsGrade attacks ITV coverage
Michael Grade has hit out at the “febrile” speculation over ITV’s difficulties in recruiting new leaders, insisting that the broadcaster is merely going through the typical “ups and downs” of senior recruitment.
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NewsC4 explores the links between race and science
Channel 4 is to explore the relationship between science and race in a controversial season of documentaries.