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NewsDestined to be together
It will be third time lucky for Ulster TV if, as expected, its latest bid for SMG is given the go-ahead
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NewsGlobeCast delivers
Satellite service provider GlobeCast has signed a deal with London-based Bangladeshi broadcaster Channel S Television to deliver three of its channels to the Sky platform via the Eurobird satellite. The channels include flagship station Channel S, the UK's fastest growing free-to-view Asian television channel. GlobeCast's London technical operations centre currently ...
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Pebble Setanta deal
Technology provider Pebble Beach Systems has signed a deal with Setanta Sports to supply its Anemone automation system to the network's new London playout facility. Anemone will control ingest and playout from Omneon video servers at the facility, based at Input Media's Production Centre. TSL was systems integrator on the ...
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A touch of Pepper for Five Days
Pepper has post-produced BBC1's crime thriller Five Days. The 5 x 60-minute drama, a BBC drama production in association with HBO, was written by Gwyneth Hughes and features such names as Edward Woodward, Patrick Malahide and Penelope Wilton. Pepper's Chris Beeton captured the ...
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Rough Cut: Give me the money...
What wouldn't we do to pitch successfully to the powers that be, asks Nick O'Dwyer.
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Five hires Cooper
Five is expanding its multichannel team by hiring Nikki Cooper from indie Prospect Pictures. She will take up the role of channel editor of Five Life and Five US and effectively be number two to multichannel controller Nick Thorogood.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Patrick Spence
The head of drama at BBC Northern Ireland is proud to have commissioned Lilies against the current of fashion and is now looking for a police show that reinvents the format once again
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NewsComment: Entertaining new ideas
Branded content is pointless unless the content itself is compelling, argues Adrian Pettett
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NewsComment: Light relief in dark times
Fremantle's Vasha Wallace and David Belshaw look at how drama and entertainment are responding to a troubled world
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NewsITV offers UKTV's Clinton-Davis top features job
ITV has lined up UKTV executive Jo Clinton-Davis to head its features commissioning.
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NewsControversy gives CBB lift
While most of the UK has been up in arms about the Celebrity Big Brother racism row, the TV industry believes it is exactly the 'shot in the arm' that the series required.
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NewsHazlitt sets sights on turning round Capital
Fru Hazlitt has vowed to make turning round Capital Radio her core objective after she was appointed managing director of GCap's London brands.
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NewsGlobal buyers snap up Shaun the Sheep
Aardman International has sold its kids show Shaun the Sheepinto more than 60 territories.
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NewsBSkyB slams iPlayer test
BSkyB has hit out at the new BBC Trust, claiming that its public value test (PVT) for the iPlayer is inadequate.
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NewsOn the box: Breaking with tradition
Elinor Day found Liliesfresh and engaging while The Trial of Tony Blair lacked the razor-edged wit of satires such as Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It. ...
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NewsFive begins thaw with niche plan
Five's freeze on commissioning has come to an end as Lisa Opie begins to set out her vision for the channel. Early indications from indies suggested she may shift the channel to become more male-skewing.
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Comment - I've been framed
As his colleagues vie to express their finer feelings through art, Steven D Wright's face is a picture
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Setanta gets a facelift by BDA
BDA designed the new on-air branding for Setanta Sports, which has ditched its old red and grey graphics for a striking yellow and black. BDA's package includes 18 idents and 16 bumpers, plus in-match graphics for football, rugby and golf and a complete continuity kit. The agency's design team, headed ...
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Leopard cashes in BBC daytime orders
Leopard Films has been recommissioned to make new series of daytime shows Cash in the Atticand Car Bootyfor BBC1.