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NewsCommissioner's Q & A: Clare Hollywood
Living TV's head of commissioning is on the hunt for formatted series to go in slots from 8pm to 11pm and for weekend events - but no more paranormal please
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Chandos takes stake in Splash Media
Former Television Corporation chairman Tom Chandos and hedge fund chief Stuart Fiertz have taken a stake of around 50% in Splash Media, the company set up by former BBC entertainment executives Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis.
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Tigress captures game reserve commission
Five has commissioned Tigress Productions to make Game Ranger Diaries, a series looking at day-to-day life in Kenya's busiest private game reserve, Lewa.
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Editworks buys kit
Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.
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Fireworks in US broadband content deal
UK distributor Fireworks International, which is owned by Content Film, has entered an agreement with broadband entertainment network Heavy to sell all its original and library programming outside the US. The three-year deal covers Heavy's existing library of 35 programming hours as well as new content. Heavy's slate includes ...
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ITV gives Britton and Kyle two-year deals
ITV has signed daytime presenters Fern Britton and Jeremy Kyle for another two years, after recently tying down Phillip Schofield for the next couple of years.
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Bravo to screen Life on Mars
Flextech-owned Bravo has bought the pay-TV rights to BBC hit drama Life on Mars to lead the channel's push into drama.
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McGregor to voice biography of Sheene
Actor Ewan McGregor has signed up to narrate a documentary about legendary motor-cycling champion Barry Sheene. The 75-minute programme, being made by Leeds-based Double Jab Productions North, was commissioned by EMI for commercial release in 2007 and The Biography Channel for broadcast this winter. It is the first official biography ...
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BBC radio reporters file by mobile
BBC radio reporters will be able to send broadcast-quality content from a mobile phone-style device, following trials in Lincolnshire.
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Gypsy radio on BBC
The BBC has rolled out a radio show for travellers and gypsies across the east of England. Rokker Radio, hosted by Romani journalist Jake Bowers, is to broadcast every week between 7pm and 9pm, across six local radio stations in the BBC East region, including BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio ...
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Baraka opens offline editing facility Chop
Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.
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Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
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Fracture gets Asbo Fever
Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...
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True North makes archive programmes
Leeds-based indie True North has been commissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute religious series called The Way We Worshippedfor ITV1. Greenlit by ITV controller of current affairs and documentaries Jeff Anderson, it will air from September and will explore changing religious habits in Britain.
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Apace hires Carsey
Steve Carsey has joined Apace Media's new TV division, Steadfast Television, as deputy chief executive. Carsey, who joins from Endemol UK production company Initial, will also be creative director and head a new intellectual property and content creation division working across the entire group.
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St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
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Deadly Knowledge Show returns to C4
Channel 4 schools commissioning editor Deborah Ward has greenlit a second series of The Deadly Knowledge Showfrom Princess Productions. The new 20 x 30-minute series will again be hosted by Dave Berry. Executive produced by Dean Nabarro, it will begin production soon and screen from ...
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Pilkington handed C4 slot
Karl Pilkington, the radio producer who gained cult status after appearing alongside Ricky Gervais in the most popular podcast ever, has landed his first TV commission for Channel 4.
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ITV and Five eye controversial 9/11 doc
ITV and Five have expressed an interest in buying the controversial 9/11 conspiracy documentary Loose Change following a high-profile feature article on the programme in Vanity Fair. The 90-minute documentary, which is being sold by UK distributor Mercury Media, ...
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Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire
More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...