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NewsFamily Guy-style puppet comedy heads to BBC3
BBC3 has commissioned an adult puppet comedy pitched as “Avenue Q meets Family Guy”.
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NewsHigh exec salaries outrage staff
BBC staff have come out in defence of controllers who gave gifts on expenses - but have hit out at the size of their pay packets.
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Renegade to turn drinking doc into returnable strand
Renegade Pictures is to turn its one-off BBC3 documentary Drinking with the Girls into a returnable strand that examines how women deal with key issues at different stages of their lives.
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NewsGrand Designs presenter embarks on Grand Tour
Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud is to take a break from home renovation for a European travelogue series for Channel 4.
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NewsBBC faces up to public scrutiny
BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has described the publication of expenses and salaries as a “step change” in the corporation’s attempts to lead the way for public institutions to be more transparent.
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NewsDrama producers point to ‘systemic’ failures at BBC
Leading drama figures have called on the BBC’s most senior managers to stop hiding behind drama controller Ben Stephenson and use their power to tackle a “systemic” failing in drama commissioning.
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NewsKudos and Generator form Northern Irish JV
Kudos Film & Television has teamed up with Northern Ireland film indie Generator Entertainment to form a new joint venture TV production company in Belfast.
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NewsFive beats off Sky to win rights to FlashForward
ABC’s sci-fi drama FlashForward, primed as a successor to its hit genre-bending show Lost, is coming to Five.
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NewsBBC Wales: the next Salford
The BBC is planning a new drama village in Cardiff Bay that is likely to become the cornerstone of a “Salford for Wales”.
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NewsGreenlit gets first BBC order with cop comedy
Foyle’s War producer Greenlit Rights has won its first BBC commission: a “relationship-driven” comedy drama about a pair of police detectives.
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NewsC4 adds religion to Lee’s specialist factual portfolio
Channel 4 has axed the post of commissioning editor of religion and ethics following Aaqil Ahmed’s defection to the BBC.
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NewsNorth East’s £3m injection
Indies are to be invited to pitch for up to £3m in development and production grants from a new content fund to encourage long-term sustainable productions in the North East.
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NewsDRG sells Collision in US
Digital Rights Group has sold ITV1’s upcoming drama Collision to five broadcasters, including PBS in the US.
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Icon Films to tell story of US airmen’s Borneo rescue
Bristol-based documentary-maker Icon Films is to make The Airmen and the Headhunters, a one-off doc about a team of US airmen rescued by Borneo tribesmen during World War II.
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NewsSugar cleared to continue Apprentice
The BBC Trust has given Sir Alan Sugar the greenlight to continue his role in The Apprentice after taking a government position but criticised his publicity stunt with Ed Balls.
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NewsIt's Me or the Dog goes global
Outright Distribution has sold the US version of Channel 4 reality show It’s Me or the Dog to a plethora of international broadcasters, including Network 10 in Australia.
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Below the Radar to profile recession and assassination
Northern Irish indie Below the Radar will profile the assassination of a Royal and recession hit Citizens Advice Bureaus in Northern Ireland in two new programmes.
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NewsSetanta slots to be sold
Canis Media has been appointed to sell the Setanta Sports-owned EPG slots on the BSkyB platform following the the collapse of the Irish broadcaster’s UK operation last month.
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NewsBBC Wales may be 'only news option' by 2010
Welsh MPs have warned the government that viewers in the nation may have no alternative choice of English-language news by next year.
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NewsShed Media announces board changes
Shed Media has promoted financial and commercial director Jonathon Kemp to chief financial officer as part of a number of board changes.