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Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Shepperton has announced plans to create the UK’s ‘live-work’ TV community in a proposed extension to its existing site.
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NewsC4 looks good naked
How to Look Good Naked did the business for Channel 4 last night, returning with a substantial 3.4m viewers (14.3%), its highest ever audience.
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NewsMPs: licence fee cash should be split to save kids TV
The government is facing the first political challenge to force the BBC to share some of its licence fee with other broadcasters to keep children’s programmes on the air.
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NewsCompany to make BBC1 criminal comedy series
Anthony Head and Warren Clarke will play two old-time crooks leaving Spain to move to a sleepy Devon fishing village in a comedy drama series for BBC1.
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NewsTV Critics 14 November 2007
TV critics' verdict on programmes - including Baddiel and the Missing Nazi Billions on BBC1 - broadcast on 14 November 2007
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NewsBebo to offer free TV content clips
Bebo’s repositioning as an entertainmentbased online community took a major leap forward this week with broadcasters and production companies signed up to provide thousands of hours of programming free of charge to the network’s 40 million users.
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NewsSoho to host stereoscopic HD post suite
Broadcast graphics and visual effects facility Concrete and Shepperton’s Axis Post, part of hire firm Axis Films, have joined together to launch the first stereoscopic HD post-production suite in Europe.
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NewsOfcom: Lords will be consulted over ITV news cuts
ITV could face even more political opposition to its plans to cut back on regional news after Ofcom reassured members of the House of Lords that it will listen to their concerns.
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NewsShaps hails new era in ITV drama
ITV director of television Simon Shaps has announced a new era in the broadcaster’s relationship with drama producers as it continues its drive to modernise its output in the genre.
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NewsWaddington quits IMG to run his own consultancy
Alastair Waddington, the head of the UK’s biggest indie, is to leave IMG Media after 13 years.
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NewsITV signs up MPW
ITV has signed celebrity chef Marco Pierre White in a golden handcuffs deal which will see him working exclusively for the broadcaster until 2010.
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NewsC4 to outsource to Red Bee
Channel 4 plans to outsource its transmission, broadcast engineering and production services to Red Bee Media in a move that will save 10% to 15% of its channel operations budget.
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NewsSurvey finds London-centric focus
Companies outside the M25 feel they are routinely discriminated against when it comes to commissioning, according to a Broadcast survey.
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NewsHorrocks points to early BBC newsroom benefits
BBC newsroom head Peter Horrocks is braced for industrial action over the cuts within BBC news, but has insisted the majority of staff support the corporation’s fledgling multi-media newsroom.
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NewsBorder viewers primed for analogue shutdown
Digital switchover body Digital UK has begun advising residents in the Scottish Border region in anticipation of switching off the analogue signal in the region in November 2008.
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NewsBBC2 boosted by top rating fact ent trio
BBC2 shows such as Autumnwatch, Long Way Down and the ever-popular Top Gear have made a significant impression with viewers in recent weeks.
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NewsGecko wins two orders for hard-hitting docs
Gecko Productions is to produce a doc about homeless ex-services personnel for BBC1.
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NewsBBC3 comedy gets US greenlight
Comedy indie Brown Eyed Boy has secured an order for a full series of BBC3 pilot How Not to Live Your Life and has been given the greenlight to produce a US pilot of the show.
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NewsFilm-maker Treays to make C4 ‘love’ trilogy
Channel 4 has commissioned a trilogy of films from documentary film-maker Jane Treays investigating the themes of love, sex and marriage.
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NewsFrost cold on heated interview style
Veteran presenter Sir David Frost has criticised the current trend for aggressive political interviews.