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NewsBBC1 to animate Gruffalo
BBC1’s is planning an animated version of the bestselling children’s book The Gruffalo as the centrepiece of its Christmas schedule.
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NewsSunset + Vine strikes tennis deal
Sunset + Vine has extended its contract for the coverage of the Eastbourne and Birmingham tennis tournaments up to 2013.
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NewsBBC Vision "front-loads" cuts
BBC Vision is to make 7.5% in efficiency savings this year, as it front loads its five-year cost cutting plan.
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NewsiPlayer guru honoured at Broadcast Digital Awards
BBC future media controller Anthony Rose was honoured with the Individual Achievement Award for his “ground-breaking” work on the BBC iPlayer at last night’s Broadcast’s Digital Awards.
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NewsBlakeway wins Nobel commissions
Blakeway Productions has won a double commission for two shows on this year’s Nobel Prize awards.
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NewsBBC comedy chief quits for Sky
The BBC’s comedy chief Lucy Lumsden is leaving the corporation after 11 years to join Sky.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsBBC plans strategy to fight top-slice threat
The BBC’s top management was locked in meetings to discuss the fall out from Digital Britain on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a last-ditch attempt to stave off top-slicing - but the mood among rank-and-file staff was very different.
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NewsC4 drives into future with BBCW and kids content
Channel 4 is on the brink of entering the next phase of its evolution after the government backed a tie-up with BBC Worldwide and called for it to put renewed emphasis on content for older children and multiplatform delivery.
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NewsIndies vie for a place on news consortia scheme
Indies and broadcasters are already jostling to take part in the three independent news consortia pilot schemes, proposed in the Digital Britain report, which will provide regional news on ITV1.
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NewsAirey hits back at critics: ‘Five is not in tatters’
Five chief executive Dawn Airey has hit back at critics who suggest the Digital Britain report means a bleak outlook for the broadcaster, insisting: “Five is not in tatters”.
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NewsTarget backer plans fund of £150m for production
A fund of up to £150m is being planned by the financial asset management company that backs Target Entertainment to help indies bridge production funding gaps.
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NewsEndemol pitches Seinfeld marriage format for UK
Endemol will pitch Jerry Seinfeld devised show The Marriage Ref to UK broadcasters after picking up the global rights to the new format.
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NewsCelebrity life-share leads ITV2’s autumn schedule
Actress Scarlett Johansson will invite Fearne Cotton to experience her Hollywood lifestyle in a shadow-a-celebrity series for ITV2 this autumn.
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NewsUS gears up for remake of Britain’s Worst Driver
Mentorn’s Britain’s Worst Driver format, which aired on Five in the UK, is to be remade in the US.
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NewsFive widens online reach in ground-breaking deal
Five has signed a syndication deal with online video platform Brightcove that will allow full-length episodes of its programmes to be embedded in third-party websites.
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NewsGovernment shift online to bolster indies by £200m
Pact chief executive John McVay has estimated the government’s drive to move its services predominantly online could be worth more than £200m to the indie sector.
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NewsScottish indies to protest at STV indie status
Scottish indies will meet with Pact this week to voice their concerns about Digital Britain proposals to grant indie status to the production arm of ITV franchise holder STV.
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NewsC4 sends producer Wild for sole survivor doc
Channel 4 will cross a frontier in survival programming by dropping a TV producer into the Canadian wilderness for 12 weeks with just a camera and a backpack.
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NewsTen Alps in move to tap Asian content market
Super-indie Ten Alps is finalising plans to set up a base in Asia after ruling out plans to buy any more UK producers.