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    September's US star rises with£5m double order

    2008-10-01T18:07:37Z

    September Films will follow a family-run pest control business in America's deep south after winning a company record of $8.8m (£4.9m) worth of business from two US networks.

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    Target the US, Shed urges UK indie sector

    2008-10-01T17:23:04Z

    Shed Media chief executive Eileen Gallagher has urged UK indies to make inroads in the US after the super-indie generated more than a third of its£12.6m gross profit in the first half of the year from US broadcasters.

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    Whale drops Talk claim

    2008-10-01T17:14:21Z

    Ex-Talk Sport presenter James Whale has dropped his legal action over his dismissal from the broadcaster earlier this year. Whale, whose contract was terminated after he urged listeners to vote for Boris Johnson in the London mayoral election, said he did not have the money to pursue the unfair dismissal ...

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    BBC orders kids radio

    2008-10-01T17:10:48Z

    BBC Radio 7 has ordered a long-running radio spin-off of CBeebies TV series Harry and Toto. Harry and Toto Radio is a 42 x 10-minute preschool show by children's indie Handle and Spout.

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    Rebranding for Capital

    2008-10-01T17:08:00Z

    Capital Radio has undergone its fifth rebranding in under three years and will now be known as 95.8 Capital FM - London's Number 1 Hit Music Station.

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    RDF Rights sells two docs to the US

    2008-10-01T17:04:58Z

    Virgin 1 series Caribbean Cops and an upcoming C4 documentary about the right to bear arms have been picked up for broadcast in the US.

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    HBO vampire drama heads to FX UK

    2008-10-01T16:57:49Z

    Fox-owned digital channel FX has strengthened its relationship with HBO by buying the UK rights to two more dramas from the US cable channel behind The Wire.

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    T4 contract up for grabs

    2008-10-01T16:57:46Z

    Channel 4 is putting the multimillion pound contract for youth strand T4 out to tender for the first time in six years as part of its efficiency drive.

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    Cosgrove Hall boss quits

    2008-10-01T16:52:52Z

    Cosgrove Hall Films managing director Anthony Utley has resigned to pursue “a new challenge”.

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    Karen Taylor set for German makeover

    2008-10-01T16:51:56Z

    BBC3 sketch show Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor is to be remade for Germany's largest broadcaster, RTL, after a successful pilot broadcast last month.

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    Property special for C4

    2008-10-01T16:43:49Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a feature-length credit crunch special of IWC Media's property series Location, Location, Location.

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    C4 orders more Wogan

    2008-10-01T16:39:22Z

    Channel 4 has ordered 60 episodes of daytime quiz show Wogan's Perfect Recall following a four-week pilot.

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    ITV1 to chart singing priests' rise to fame

    2008-10-01T16:29:30Z

    Three singing priests from rural Northern Ireland who landed a£1m recording contract with Sony BMG will star in a one-off documentary for ITV1 in the run-up to Christmas.

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    BBC adapts Jacqueline Wilson for Christmas

    2008-10-01T16:26:46Z

    Juliet Stevenson is to star in a BBC film adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's teen novel Dustbin Baby, about a girl whose life is a blur of social workers and care homes.

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    BBC4 doubles audience under Hadlow

    2008-10-01T15:42:58Z

    BBC4 has seen its audience effectively double under the outgoing controller Janice Hadlow.

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    BBC HD makes Euro debut

    2008-10-01T14:37:59Z

    BBC Worldwide Channels is expanding into Scandinavia with the launch of four thematic stations.

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    Timeline: Janice Hadlow

    2008-10-01T13:12:01Z

    The career to date of Janice Hadlow, the newly appointed controller of BBC2.

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    ITV4 scores biggest ever audience

    2008-10-01T13:11:09Z

    ITV4 scored its highest ever audience for any programme last night as Manchester United's game against Alborg averaged a hefty 1.7m (8.50%) from 7.30pm.

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    Goodbye SMG... Hello STV Group

    2008-10-01T13:08:39Z

    SMG has officially rebranded as the STV Group plc from today (1 October).

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    Tranter criticises single drama 'fetishisation'

    2008-10-01T12:50:35Z

    BBC head of fiction Jane Tranter has issued a parting shot against the “fetishisation” of single drama.