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Nickelodeon buys Barnyard
Nickelodeon has acquired comedy series Back at the Barnyard for its NickToons channel.
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NewsNat Geo Int orders gambling and green inventions series
National Geographic Channels International will follow two renowned green inventors as they help others adopt a cleaner lifestyle in an eight-part series by Renegade Pictures.
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Monkey series recreates cartoon stunts
Scientists will recreate cartoon stunts in a new Monkey series for US cable channel TruTV.
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NewsC4 orders US gender war format
September Films has won its biggest commission to date from Channel 4, an eight-part battle of the sexes reality series based on US format When Women Rule the World.
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NewsHeap quits Entertainment Rights
The chief executive of Entertainment Rights, the company that owns the rights to Postman Pat and Rupert the Bear, has quit with immediate effect.
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NewsRDF lands first La Plante sales
RDF Rights has secured its first raft of sales for Lynda La Plante shows since snatching the rights from rival distributor Minotaur.
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NewsC4 launches online animation channel
Channel 4 has teamed up with the creators of Wallace & Gromit and the talent behind the CGI revival of Pinky and Perky to launch an animation broadband channel.
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Cross-platform content is goal for new indie
Illumina Digital co-founder Joanne Evans and Bafta-winning producer Nadine Marsh-Edwards are joining forces to set up a cross-platform company.
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NewsEndemol takes digital stake
Endemol UK has taken a 40% stake in digital production company Pure Grass Films.
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Talk loses breakfast host
Breakfast show co-presenter Susan Morrison has left Scotland's Talk 107 after her contract expired.
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LBC to host mayoral debate
LBC 97.3 will air a live London mayoral debate next month featuring the three main candidates.
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NewsTributes follow Minghella death
Film and TV writer/director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, less than a week before the premiere of his latest TV project, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
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NewsBBC Trust to examine WoCC
The BBC Trust is to examine if there is real competition under the WoCC (Window of Creative Competition), as well as the scale and regional spread of indies who win commissions under the system.
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Housing sitcom among R4's Unique orders
Radio indie Unique has won a slate of commissions from BBC Radio 4, including a pilot sitcom about estate agents starring comedian David Schneider.
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NewsC4 debuts on iTunes
Channel 4 shows including Skins and Shameless are available on iTunes for the first time from today.
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NewsITV cooks up restaurant show for NBC
ITV's US division is to produce a new restaurant-based reality series for US network NBC featuring British Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White.
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NewsGCap plans local push after buying website
GCap Media will use social networking site Welovelocal.com to reinforce its connection with regional listeners and access new classified revenue streams, according to chief executive Fru Hazlitt.
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NewsDawkins tackles Darwin for C4
Channel 4 is lining up new documentaries from biologist Richard Dawkins and investigative journalist Jon Ronson as part of its specialist factual slate for spring/summer.
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NewsITV1's kids shows hit record low
ITV1's delivery of children's programmes has dropped from 10 hours per week in 2005 to just 2.5 hours a week in 2008.
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NewsThe Fixer becomes unstuck
ITV1's second outing for new drama series The Fixer saw a decline of 22.5% week-on-week in its audience at 9pm with 4.8m (21.3%) for an hour.