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NewsCrime channel orders surveillance series
Crime & Investigation Network (CI), which launched on 10 July, and ITV London have commissioned Flame TV to make a 6 x 30-minute series looking at the ways the public is monitored.
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Nigerian film channel to launch on Sky
Zenithfilms, a London-based company distributing Nigerian programming to airlines which fly to Africa and America, is planning to launch a 24-hour channel on Sky in January.
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NewsFive corners CSI trio for digital channel
Five will be able to screen all three series of the CSI franchise on its new acquisitions channel, Five US, after signing a deal with US producer Alliance Atlantis. The broadcaster has also secured exclusive video-on-demand rights to CSI: Crime ...
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BT Vision loses second senior exec
BT's entertainment division has lost its second senior executive in four months, shortly before the launch of the company's TV proposition this autumn.
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NewsFive picks up major Warner Bros drama
Five has secured the exclusive rights to big-budget Warner Brothers drama serial The Nine, one of the last high-profile, new season US shows that was still available from the LA Screenings.
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Ex-Sky man to launch broadband TV service
Aggregator, the London-based digital TV operator co-formed by former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami, will launch its first TV-over-broadband service this September.
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Sky One pushes science to breaking point with Crash Test
Sky One has ordered a Brainiac-style series that will test how far objects, machines and vehicles can be pushed before cracking, exploding or flying off the track.
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Fox rebranding to boost UK production
20th Century Fox is set to ramp up its UK production activities. The major US studio is rebranding Scream Films, the indie it purchased in 2004, as Fox TV Studios UK.
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Love Island is no match for Big Brother
In last week's 'triple whammy' of reality shows in peaktime it was ITV1's Love Islandthat suffered most against BBC1's Only Fools on Horsesand Channel 4's Big Brother.
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Bermuda contest
Bermuda Shorts is launching a bi-monthly competition, Gate, to give aspiring animation directors a chance to promote their work and direct commercials.
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Plaskow joins Beautiful TV
Beautiful TV has hired Claire Plaskow from MTV Networks UK & Ireland.
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NewsRantzen to expose scams in BBC show
Consumer champions Esther Rantzen and Lynn Faulds Wood are to be brought together in a new consumer action series ordered by BBC features and factual entertainment commissioner Elaine Bedell.
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NewsControllers lose out in BBC restructure
This week's massive shake-up of the BBC will dilute channel controllers' power, say BBC insiders, by handing power and money to a new breed of genre-based 'super commissioners'.
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NewsFive gets on talent show bandwagon
Five is to launch a celebrity talent contest fronted by former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass with Julian Clary and Andi Peters lined up as judges.
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The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty argues that the BBC once ruled the analogue world, but now that golden age is over Mark Thompson's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era.
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Comment: The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty thinks that the BBC's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era
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Impact Image to provide HD shots of Red Arrows
Air-to-air filming specialist Impact Image has been commissioned to provide the high-definition aerial photography for a BBC1 documentary on the Royal Air Force's official aerobatics display team, the Red Arrows.
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Arqiva kicks off DSO
Arqiva has started work on the first sites to be switched over to digital in an engineering project estimated to cost a total of£500m.