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NewsSky: free-to-air drama is getting bland
RTS CAMBRIDGE: BSkyB chief operating officer Mike Darcey has predicted that free-to-air drama will become increasingly bland as it chases audiences, compared to edgier programming on pay TV.
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NewsBradshaw may scrap BBC Trust before Charter Review
RTS CAMBRIDGE: The row between the BBC Trust and the government intensified late yesterday evening, with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw suggesting he could scrap the Trust before the next Charter Review.
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NewsAscent closes in on ITN encoding deal
Ascent Media is to digitise more than 40,000 hours of ITN’s news back catalogue as part of a deal announced at IBC.
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NewsBBC signs up to gaming project
The BBC, Channel 4 and producers such as Endemol have signed up to a new online matchmaking initiative that aims to foster collaborations between the TV and film industries and games producers.
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Lazarus redundancy hits MySpace TV plans
MySpace’s UK web TV ambitions look set to be curtailed after the company made its senior director of business development for Europe redundant.
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NewsPitt oversees Screen England united front
The nine regional screen agencies have joined forces as Screen England, and recruited docs veteran Ruth Pitt and former Channel 4 head of corporate relations John Newbigin to head the new operation.
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NewsParthenon hires Hit’s Shanks for first MD position
Parthenon Entertainment has appointed Hit Entertainment exec Mike Shanks as the company’s first managing director.
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NewsHarperCollins parades titles for licensing bids
Publisher HarperCollins has signed a groundbreaking licensing deal that will see 120 of its bestselling titles added to a ‘dating agency’ site designed to match indies with titles.
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NewsBBCW makes inroads into Europe with output deals
BBC Worldwide has made fresh distribution headway into central and eastern Europe and strengthened its foothold in Scandinavia after concluding five significant output deals.
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NewsBBC Radio looks into indie sector commissioning
BBC Radio is conducting an internal review of its relationships with the indie sector, which is to be followed by a separate BBC Trust consultation in the new year.
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NewsBBC cuts My Family budget; orders two new series
BBC1 has cut the budget for My Family by 15%, and commissioned a 10th and 11th series of the sitcom.
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NewsBall poised to overhaul ITV
ITV insiders are bracing themselves for Tony Ball to rip up the rule book if he is appointed as chief executive of the commercial broadcaster.
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NewsBBC eyes online docs archive
The BBC is considering creating a permanent online portal to house full-length documentaries as part of its plan to revolutionise how it uses its archive.
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NewsExec anger as Talkback is handed Webber’s Wizard
BBC entertainment execs are up in arms following the corporation’s surprise decision to hand the production of BBC musical talent format The Wizard Of Oz to indie Talkback Thames.
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NewsC4: new boss, same problems
Channel 4 is poised to fast-track its hunt for a new chief executive to resolve the uncertainties that have dogged it for the last two years over its future funding, size and scope.
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NewsC4 plans fresh push in NI
Channel 4 has tasked three commissioners with finding returnable series from Northern Irish indies in a bid to reverse the “endemic” lack of commissions from the nation.
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Shine exhumes corpses for BBC2’s History Cold Case
BBC2 has ordered a history series from Shine Television, billed as “Time Team for dead bodies”.
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NewsIMG Entertainment secures 9/11 doc
IMG Entertainment has secured the worldwide rights to distribute Darlow Smithson’s Channel 4 documentary 9/11: Phone Calls From The Towers, excluding Eire, UK and US.
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NewsITV1 goes for Hat Trick’s Dinner Date
Hat Trick Productions is moving away from its comedy roots with a dating-meets-cookery show pilot for ITV1.
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NewsRedmond: BBC and C4 must work together
RTS CAMBRIDGE: Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond has called for BBC and Channel 4 to be merged as a single “creative content provider” in a bid to save teen television.