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UK indie to make Renaissance drama for Canal+
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Belfast's Yellowmoon is adding a surround sound dubbing theatre to its Holywood post-production facility.
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STV turnover drops£40m
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
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
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
Cuts already made at the main terrestrial broadcasters and what to expect next.
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Cost of The Wright Stuff is slashed
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
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.