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NewsTime Team to excavate royal gardens
Channel 4 has commissioned indies Wildfire Television and Videotext to produce a Time Teamspecial to mark the Queen's 80th birthday in August. Producers of Time Team: Big Royal Dighave secured unprecedented access to excavate gardens at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle ...
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Endemol launches gambling division
Endemol UK is to launch a new subsidiary dedicated to the production of gambling entertainment, as the indie prepares to capitalise on relaxed gaming laws being introduced next year. Endemol Gaming will produce standalone content for a range of media platforms as well as new gaming ideas based around the ...
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Majority now digital
More than half the population have now accessed radio via digital platforms, the first time the figure has passed the halfway mark. Rajar said 51.5% of the population listen via DAB, the internet or their TVs, up from 49.8% in the last quarter. But digital platforms still account for only ...
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National Skills Day unveiled
Lessons in the art of high definition filming, the chance to join a presenter on Five's Milkshake kids strand and workshops on The Art of Being Brilliant are a selection of events planned for National Skills Day on Thursday, 25 May.
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ITV's 'Clause IV' plan
ITV director of television Simon Shaps has admitted the broadcaster has in recent years been guilty of neglecting its main channel. Speaking at the Royal Television Society last week, Shaps said the channel had faced a 'clause IV moment' where 'volume without value' was no longer enough. He announced that ...
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Urban Chef titled by Vitamin
Vitamin has created the titles for Seven Stones' The Urban Chef, a 10 x 30-minute factual series which follows chef Ollie Rowe opening a new restaurant using food sourced entirely from within the London tube network. The titles, directed and designed by Vitamin creative director ...
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Cheetah poaches Test the Nation producer
Endemol UK's new factual outfit Cheetah Television has poached Test the Nationproducer Alexandra Henderson from Talent TV and has won a new commission for BBC4, which she will executive produce.
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Zig Zag heads for Klingon summer camp
Zig Zag Productions is making a two-part factual series for Discovery Travel Channel in the US about people who attend weird summer camps.
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BT Vision signs Dreamworks deal
BT Vision has secured a movie deal with US film studio Dreamworks SKG for its forthcoming on-demand TV service. Titles include Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit, Munich, Madagascar, Just like Heaven and ...
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Gravedigger commission for Bristol indie
Bristol-based indie Available Light has won its biggest commission from the BBC to date, a 10 x 30-minute BBC2 series on a West Country gravedigger. Johnny's Kingdom - A Year on Exmoor, looks at the National Park through the eyes of gravedigger turned film-maker Kingdom. ...
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Sixties shown through eyes of Beatles
UKTV History is to explore British society in the sixties through the music and lives of the Beatles. Each episode of the 5 x 60-minute documentary series called The Beatles Decade, will take a particular era in the band's history, looking at the various themes ...
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Interfield maps out BBC's Coup
Interfield Design has created the titles for BBC Productions' Coup, a 90-minute, one-off drama about Mark Thatcher's failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. The sequence, designed by Interfield's Peter Anderson and animated by Lewis White, has the camera panning over a map of the world, interspersed ...
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BBC Scotland slips
National station BBC Scotland saw its share drop from 9.4% to 8.3% in the latest results, despite adding 19,000 listeners for a total reach of 1.04 million listeners. GMG's Real Radio Scotland, which posted a record share of 17.7% in the last survey, dropped slightly to 16.4%, despite adding 19,000 ...
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BBC names mole
The BBC has named the man who leaked the salaries of some of its highest profile presenters to tabloid newspapers as Sam Walton, a temporary employee who revealed the information for around£1,000. Walton, a 23-year-old agency temp, leaked the confidential salary details while working in the corporation's rights and business ...
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Stourton leaves BBC for indie
BBC current affairs executive producer Fiona Stourton has quit the corporation to join the independent sector. Stourton - who has worked on a string of award-winning programmes including Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, Children of Beslanand The Brighton Bomb ...
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UKTV automates
UKTV is set to be the first UK broadcaster to use a software system across its 10 channels specifically for broadcast management. Sintec Media's OnAir is designed to manage UKTV's network scheduling more quickly. The database will be used by around 240 UKTV staff including channel managers, editors and schedulers ...
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Job losses as TSI closes post arm
Troubled facility TSI Post Production has shut down after 30 years in business, having made its remaining 28 staff redundant last Friday.
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Fremantle signs for first look at Ten Alps
Fremantle International Distribution has signed a two-year deal with Ten Alps' drama division, giving the distributor a first look over the indie's projects in return for a six-figure investment. Ten Alps inherited a slate of drama projects with the February acquisition of Jo Willett's production outfit, Cottage Industry Productions. Its ...
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Wogan wins again
Veteran DJ Terry Wogan attracted 7,766,000 listeners to his Radio 2 breakfast show. Chris Moyles' Radio 1 show came second, with 6,317,000 listeners, followed by 6,121,000 for Today on Radio 4. Five Live follows with 2,320,000, while Radio 3 has just 839,000 breakfast listeners. Classic ...
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Rybczynski takes reins on BBC 7pm slot
Former One O'Clock Newseditor Chris Rybczynski has been appointed as editor of BBC1's new 7pm magazine programme. Rybczynski will take control of the half-hour show, which is planned for a one-month pilot this summer, and if successful could become a permanent feature. The as-yet-untitled programme ...