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RDF Rights seals deal to distribute Macqueen films
RDF Rights has signed a deal to distribute the first slate of films from former C4 head of documentaries Angus Macqueen’s indie Ronachan Films.
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Green Inc and CTVC strike deal on development
Belfast factual entertainment indie Green Inc and London-based documentary producer CTVC have formed an alliance to develop projects.
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NewsMorgan emulates Cowell with production venture
Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has set up his own independent production company in a bid to follow in the footsteps of his TV mentor Simon Cowell.
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NewsSky Real Lives picks up Little Couple
Sky Real Lives has acquired US reality series The Little Couple from Endemol’s Worldwide Distribution.
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NewsProspect Pictures composes Chopin and Elgar docs
Prospect Pictures will reveal the lesser-known sides of classical composers Chopin and Elgar in two 90-minute docs for BBC4.
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NewsRamsden exits as Cheetah wins dieting show
Cheetah Television has won a Channel 4 dieting commission but lost creative director Sara Ramsden, who is leaving after five years to go freelance.
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NewsCBeebies head counts himself out of kids’ role
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington has ruled himself out of the running for BBC Children’s controller - leaving Nickelodeon UK boss Howard Litton and CBBC head of drama and acquisitions Steven Andrew as frontrunners.
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ITV signs three-year deal for Crime Thriller Awards
ITV3 has secured the Crime Thriller Awards for another three years, after signing a deal with Specsavers, Cactus TV and the Crime Writers Association.
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Rondo cooks up fourth food show for S4C
Welsh indie Rondo Media will serve up a fourth schools cookery show with chef Dudley Newbery for S4C.
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New Tricks locks down two more series for BBC1
Popular BBC1 drama New Tricks will run until at least 2011 after the broadcaster ordered two further series.
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NewsBBC1 kick-starts football magazine for all regions
BBC1 is launching a local Football League magazine show with different versions across England, and is inviting indie producers to pitch for three of the seven production contracts.
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NewsBBC boss hits back at Murdoch
Mark Thompson has launched a return attack on James Murdoch, savaging his MacTaggart as “desperately out of touch” with the views of the audience.
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NewsMark Thompson's letter to staff about the BBC's future
BBC director-general Mark Thompson’s email to corporation staff regarding the future of the BBC.
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NewsTrust review set to shrink BBC
The BBC Trust has fired the starting gun on a process which is likely to see the BBC rein in the size and scope of its activity – said by a senior BBC exec to be “as big as Creative Futures”.
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NewsBBC Trust chairman's open letter to licence fee payers
Michael Lyons’ open letter to licence fee payers issued on 9 September, 2009.
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Redmond to deliver Cambridge lecture on children's TV
Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, is to consider the future of children’s television in a lecture at the forthcoming RTS Cambridge Convention.
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NewsBritish producers help Emirates NHU get off the ground
British wildlife film-makers have spread their wings into Abu Dhabi with a commission to produce a local natural history series about the Arabian Continent.
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NewsBlighty to premiere Morris dancing mockumentary
UKTV has secured the first-run rights to upcoming British cinema release Morris: A Life with Bells On.
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NewsITV's hopes to rejoin FTSE 100 fall short
ITV has to wait a while longer to rejoin the FTSE 100, after hopes it could be in line for a promotion back to blue-chip status fell short today.
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NewsAnimator aims copycat claim at BBC
A graphic designer has accused the BBC of copying his characters for its Kerwhizz cartoon - a claim the corporation has denied.