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BBC reveals new team to commission knowledge
Producers are anticipating a fresh impetus behind religion and arts programming at the BBC, after the corporation revealed its new knowledge commissioning line-up.
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TMi presenters to front CBBC Skate Nation
CBBC has ordered a Strictly Come Dancing-style show for teenage roller and inline skaters, fronted by TMi’s Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes.
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Pinkham and Strachan host new Five shows
Five has handed presenters Natalie Pinkham and Michaela Strachan new shows as it builds on its blue-light and wildlife output.
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Rajars drive call to arms on digital switch date
Senior radio figures are hoping the surge in digital listening in last week’s Rajars will “force the government to realise it is the platform of the future”.
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Princess picks ex Optomen staffer for fact ent role
Princess Productions has hired Kelly Webb-Lamb to the new role of editor of factual entertainment.
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Green Inc appoints trio to boost factual side
Green Inc, the Irish indie founded by Patrick Kielty and Stephen Stewart, has made three appointments as it puts more emphasis on factual entertainment.
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Hollywood picks global vet series for Sky 1 debut
A UK vet will swap British cats and dogs for exotic animals from different continents as part of Clare Hollywood’s first original commission for Sky 1.
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Passion acquires global rights to CGI disaster doc
Passion Distribution has picked up the global rights to C4/Discovery co-production Catastrophe.
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NewsBBC moving 13 news roles to the North
BBC News is to bolster its presence in the North by moving around 13 posts and creating at least three new jobs in Salford.
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Canvas on track for launch in 2010, says Huggers
BBC technology chief Erik Huggers has said Project Canvas is still aiming to launch in the first half of next year – insisting it is “appropriate” for the corporation to lead the way in developing an open standard.
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BBC bosses reject C4's call to curb acquisitions
BBC chiefs today flatly rejected a demand from Channel 4 that the corporation should stop buying American programmes, insisting it helped to keep the costs of making British programmes down.
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C4's Sex Education Show rated and slated
Channel 4 shows The Hospital and The Sex Education Show v Pornography divided audiences last month, with viewers singling both shows out for praise and scorn.
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Canvas partners hit back at critics
Project Canvas’s partners, the BBC, ITV and BT, have fought back against critics of the IPTV joint venture, saying that the initiative will transform the TV industry.
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BBC pays libel damages to West Ham duo
The BBC has paid undisclosed libel damages to West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola and first-team coach Steve Clarke after a contributor claimed on Radio 5 Live they were planning to take over at rival club Chelsea.
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Grey's Anatomy star cast in BBC hospital drama
Grey’s Anatomy’s Kevin McKidd is to star in another medical drama – a BBC production that transplants Greek classic The Odyssey to a British city hospital.
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UKTV unveils Good Food rebrand
UKTV has licensed the Good Food name from shareholder BBC Worldwide and will use it for its tenth and final channel rebrand when it replaces UKTV Food next month.
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Katy Brand returning to ITV2 for third series
Comedian Katy Brand will be returning to ITV2 this autumn with a third instalment of Katy’s Brand’s Big Ass Show.
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Nat Geo snaps up BBC Photography series
Outright Distribution has sold BBC2 documentary series Genius of Photography to National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) as part of a raft of other post-MipTV sales.
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ITN Source partners with EMI music publisher
ITN’s archive footage site ITN Source has partnered with EMI’s music publishing site Play Production in a bid to create a one-stop-shop for clients wishing to licence a video clip and suitable music at the same time.
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Wedding TV plans original content push
Wedding TV will look to build its original entertainment slate following signing a deal with brand and content partnership specialist site Brandirector.com.