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    UK indie to make Renaissance drama for Canal+

    2009-02-27T09:59:02Z

    UK producer Helion Pictures is to work with the man behind HBO's prison drama Oz on a new historical drama for Canal+ in France.

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    Simpsons to make TV history

    2009-02-27T09:09:51Z

    The Simpsons is set to enter its third decade on air with an order for two more seasons from US network Fox.

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    BBC orders more Great British Menu

    2009-02-27T08:20:35Z

    Some of the UK's top chefs will cook for the country's war heroes in a fourth series of Optomen TV's Great British Menu.

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    Endemol preps US shows

    2009-02-27T08:16:02Z

    Endemol's UK and US heads have co-devised three US network entertainment shows as part of a global strategy to pool resources for international formats.

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    Boomerang flies in the face of downturn

    2009-02-27T08:11:58Z

    Boomerang Plus, the Welsh indie behind Channel 4 series Freesports on 4, posted a strong first-half profit of£754,000, up from£48,000 last year.

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    Electric Sky picks up Bourne doc

    2009-02-26T18:00:25Z

    UK distributor Electric Sky has acquired the rights to a recent Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary.

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    Johnson rejects C4 merger with rivals

    2009-02-26T14:52:46Z

    Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has said he would rather see the channel fully privatised than suffer the “part privatisation by stealth” of a merger with a rival broadcaster.

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    Horrocks to lead BBC World Service

    2009-02-26T13:11:13Z

    Head of the BBC multimedia newsroom Peter Horrocks has been named as director of the BBC World Service.

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    Yahoo's Linwood gets BBC CTO job

    2009-02-26T12:06:03Z

    The BBC has appointment former Yahoo! senior vice president of engineering John Linwood as its new chief technology officer.

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    Project Canvas lined up for 2010 launch

    2009-02-26T11:44:52Z

    The BBC hopes Project Canvas set-top boxes will hit the shops next year, making the plan to offer viewers easy access to the internet and on-demand services via their television sets more tangible than ever before.

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    ITV News buys 68 Sony Z5 cameras

    2009-02-26T11:34:55Z

    ITV News is hoping to widen the scope of its news coverage by equipping reporters with full camera and editing kits.

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    Technology and facilities briefs 27 February

    2009-02-26T11:30:42Z

    Briefs featuring The Mill, JCA, The Coach House Studioes and Wohler from Broadcast magazine dated 27 February 2009.

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    Mullaney deal rescues DGP

    2009-02-26T11:25:46Z

    Former Oasis Television managing director Gareth Mullaney has bought post facility DGP from its administrators.

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    Yellowmoon to add 5.1 suite

    2009-02-26T11:11:52Z

    Belfast's Yellowmoon is adding a surround sound dubbing theatre to its Holywood post-production facility.

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    STV turnover drops£40m

    2009-02-26T11:07:07Z

    Scottish broadcaster STV plc has declared it is a “lean and mean” operation that can weather the economic storm in its preliminary results this morning, despite group turnover falling by£40m to£145m for the year.

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    Ent Rights in the last throes

    2009-02-26T11:02:24Z

    The future of crisis-hit Entertainment Rights should be resolved shortly after the Postman Pat owner revealed it expects to sell off its assets shortly.

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    Carter invites views on the future of Scottish TV

    2009-02-26T09:53:02Z

    Scottish broadcasters have been invited to air their views on the future of broadcasting at a summit next month.

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    Terrestrial job cuts

    2009-02-26T09:17:05Z

    Cuts already made at the main terrestrial broadcasters and what to expect next.

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    Cost of The Wright Stuff is slashed

    2009-02-26T09:09:20Z

    Princess Productions agreed to slash the cost of The Wright Stuff by about 40% to ensure that Five would re-order the long-running show.

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    Five set to axe third of staff

    2009-02-25T18:30:54Z

    Five will reveal plans for savage job cuts on Thursday 5 March - the day after ITV is expected to announce a major new round of redundancies of its own.