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NewsE4 greenlights comedy shorts to lead into BB
E4 has ordered a series of 10-minute comedy shorts to run at 10pm before Big Brother's Big Mouth.
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Da Vinci Code inspires C4 gameshow
Diverse has signed up Tony Robinson to front a Da Vinci Code-style gameshow currently being shot in the British Museum - part of the indie's fresh drive into entertainment formats. The Time Teamhost is to make two 6 x ...
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BBC2 to explore Italy from top to toe
Francesco Da Mosto, the Italian architect who presented BBC2's series on Venice, is to make a new series covering the whole of Italy for the channel. Da Mosto is to follow up his 2004 series with Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe, in which he ...
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Yorkshire indies to benefit from£10m cash injection
Television production companies in Yorkshire are set to cash in on a£10m windfall after the regional screen agency announced a four-year programme of investment, including plans to attract more TV drama to the region.
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BBC1 orders one-offs
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham has greenlit five one-off comedy dramas. Lenny Henry has co-written Slings and Arrowswith Kim Fuller, a comedy about a dry cleaner who finds love on an Open University course. It is being made by Tiger Aspect, which will also produce ...
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In My View - Reconnecting the young
Broadcasters are looking to user-generated content to reconnect with today's youth, says Flextech's Lisa Opie
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Picking up the tools of the trade
Graduate trainees talk about their experiences on production courses
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NewsObjective takes on new genre
Indie Objective Productions is to branch out into comedy panel gameshows and has drafted in writer and producer Jim Pullin to oversee the genre's development.
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Magic hires Finch
London station Magic has hired GCap Media marketing head Alison Finch as its first commercial director. Finch starts next month at the station, which recently became number one in London, and will be responsible for non-traditional revenue streams. She joins after 10 years at GCap, where she was most recently ...
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NewsFeeding the online habit
Does the explosion in downloading TV content online mark the beginning of a radical change in viewing habits?
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NewsTV's learning curve
Broadcasters are waking up to the need to structure training for freelancers
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Comment - Why training matters
C4's Janey Walker asks what is being done to get a wide range of people into the industry and then trained properly
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Comment - Saving myself for TV
With sex back on TV, Steven D Wright wonders why the TV industry isn't doing it
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Southern Star in deal with Coastal
Southern Star International has secured a first-look distribution rights deal with Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions.
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NewsPrince Charles to present Five doc
Prince Charles has agreed to front a series for Five commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, his first show for the broadcaster.
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ITV Bristol head to take over Tonight
ITV Bristol head Alex Gardiner is set to be made executive producer of the broadcaster's flagship current affairs show Tonight with Trevor McDonald.
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NewsWoolfe boosts Sky team
Richard Woolfe, director of programmes for Sky One, Two and Three, has embarked on a poaching spree, signing up two former colleagues from Flextech including his deputy at Living TV, Hannah Barnes.
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Bravo set to boost drama with The Unit
Bravo is looking to bolster its schedule with US drama The Unit, a 20th Century Fox production made by The Shield collaborators David Mamet and Shawn Ryan, writesDan Wootton.
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Profile - Bob Cochran: When every second counts
Bob Cochran reveals how he keeps the adrenaline flowing for hit drama 24