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NewsReal Story Special interests just 1.8m
BBC1's The McCartneys Versus the Fur Tradesuffered from viewer apathy with just 1.8 million (7.6%) at 9pm as the channel fell to its lowest all-hours share since August last year.
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NewsTwo Way TV to supply ITV Play
Interactive TV specialist Two Way TV is looking for a slice of the£20m profits ITV Play is expected to make over the next year after securing a licensing deal to provide the channel with texting services for TV games.
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Hat Trick spin-off
Hat Trick Productions has launched a talent agency for writers, directors and producers called The Writers' Company. Managed by Ligeia Marsh, who joins from The Agency, it has already signed up writers Danny Brown ( Hustle), Asch Ditta ( No ...
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Resolution goes to Movies
Resolution has produced the titles and programme graphics for Diverse's Greatest Ever Movies, a 6 x 180-minute series about six genres of film - comedy, disaster, blockbuster, romantic, 1980s and horror - counting down the top 40. Creative director Darren Marshall designed, animated and composited ...
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Format Focus: No smoking
Scandinavian production company Strix is rolling out a format which helps people quit smoking by locking them in a house with no cigarettes.
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Saga wins FM slot
Saga has won the new FM radio licence for the north-east of England, beating applications from all the major UK radio groups. Saga FM, which will play easy listening and melodic music, got the nod from regulator Ofcom over 12 other applications. The new station, which will reach a potential ...
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ID scores flurry of Landmark sales at MipTV
ID Distribution has secured a number of sales for regional indie Landmark Films on the back of MipTV.
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Sumners fires up Shootout
Sumners has created the titles for Suburban Shootout, an 8 x 30-minute co-production from Five, Paramount Comedy, Feelgood Fiction and Oxygen. The series is a Desperate Housewives-style black comedy set in the home counties. Designers Alan O'Brien and Anthony Scott ...
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Sky One makes explosive history
Sky One is tracing the history of all things explosive in a new documentary series presented by The Fast Show's Mark Williams (pictured). Made by Granite Films Production, Mark Williams' Big Bangs is a 4 x - 60-minute series in ...
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Sunset + Vine lays down pack of poker shows
Sunset + Vine has secured orders for five gaming series from Challenge in a deal understood to be worth more than£4m.
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Lagardere to distribute Performance
UK arts and entertainment digital broadcaster Performance Channel, which is owned and operated by Eicom, has entered a distribution agreement with French channel distributor Lagardere Networks International, a subsidiary of Lagardere Active. Under the terms of the agreement, Lagardere will be the exclusive representative for the channel's distribution within continental ...
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GCap Disney talks
GCap Media is in negotiations with Disney over the future funding of digital radio station Capital Disney, which could see the outlet change hands or close. The station, which is aimed at children aged eight to 14, is available on 10 DAB multiplexes, NTL and Sky. GCap currently fully funds ...
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Seeing the news from a different perspective
Ties with its Arabic-language namesake have made life difficult for Al Jazeera International, says Kate Bulkey.
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Zone signs mobile deal with Player X
Zone Mobile, the newly created mobile media division of Zone Vision Networks, has concluded a deal with mobile content publisher Player X to distribute mobile video clips of its Reality TV channel. The deal will see clips distributed to operators in a number of territories including the UK, eastern and ...
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Morgan exposes celeb sackings
Piers Morgan is returning to BBC1 to reveal the stories behind the high-profile sackings of celebrities including Linford Christie and Vinnie Jones.
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Vizrt signs BBC deal
Graphics specialist Vizrt has signed a four-year deal with the BBC to provide it with live rendered 3D graphics systems. The deal, worth between£1m and£2m, will enable the BBC to buy Vizrt graphics software at reduced rates. Networked news programmes and the larger national and regional stations are expected to ...
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Fremantle brings back quiz classics
Fremantle Media wants to capitalise on its upcoming US version of ITV1's Gameshow Marathon for CBS by reviving other classic quiz formats from its extensive library.
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Sky Sports trials Arri super-slo-mo prototype
Sky Sports is trialling a prototype high-speed camera which captures 1,080 progressive images at 300 frames per second and could displace orders for next generation Sony and Grass Valley super-slow-motion cameras, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Five spotlights Ant and Dec in showbiz marriage season
After tell-all specials on Noel Edmonds and Richard and Judy, Five is now turning its attention to showbiz pairs Ant and Dec and Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
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Tigress stalks yeti for Animal Planet
Bristol-based factual indie Tigress Productions has secured a commission from Animal Planet US to produce a major new programme on the search to uncover the yeti.