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NewsSumo clashes air on Challenge
Challenge is moving into sumo wrestling after buying a package of shows from distributor NBDTV. Set to air from the summer onwards, the Flextech channel has picked up two 90-minute specials and the 26 x 60-minute entertainment series World S.U.M.O. Challenge Tour. It follows heavyweight ...
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Four talent schemes added to ITV's Regional Production Fund
ITV has launched a series of new talent schemes as part of its three-year£9m Regional Production Fund, launched last summer.
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Lip Sync's Basic Instinct 2 job
Lip Sync Post has completed the title sequence animation for Sony Pictures' forthcoming feature Basic Instinct 2. Working with designer Simon Taylor of Tomato, LipSync Post's senior designer, Gareth Tansey, created the animation using After Effects. The animation of the typography is coupled with electrical ...
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Gail Porter to challenge bald stigma for BBC1
Presenter Gail Porter, who has been left virtually bald after falling victim to alopecia last year, is to explore the condition in a show for BBC1's One Lifestrand - due for broadcast in early summer.
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Reform not revolution
More radical proposals for BBC reform may have fallen by the wayside but the BBC is being nudged in the right direction, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Have rights must travel...
With TV drama production increasingly taking place abroad, jet-setting and commissions now go hand in hand, says Gub Neal.
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Indies: is less more?
RDF chief David Frank says fewer indies in the UK market would be no bad thing, but are stock market flotations and super-indies really going to safeguard the creativity of the sector, asks Kate Bulkley.
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Late into the game
The launch of the CITV channel may have been a long time coming, but controller Estelle Hughes insists the offering's UK-originated content will give it the edge over its commercial rivals.
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Youngsters embrace new media
The industry is fast realising that interactive platforms for kids content are key to engaging pre-teens and building communities. Kate Large reports.
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The ill effects of TV
Stress-related IBS may lose you friends, but it will put you ahead of the competition, says Steven D Wright.
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Youthful perspective for BBC2
As BBC2 faces its mid-life moment, hopes are high that new head of planning and scheduling Kate Mordaunt can revive the interest of younger viewers.
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NewsTWI in bid to create UK's first mega-indie
TWI is lining up a double swoop to buy Tiger Aspect and Darlow Smithson in a mega-merger creating the UK's biggest indie with a£166m turnover.
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NewsIndies attack cuts in production budgets
Sixty-eight per cent of the top 150 independent producers who responded to the 2006 Broadcast Indie Surveysaid they have experienced 'netting off' - broadcasters paying less for programmes because indies now have additional rights.
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NewsJowell demands 'fun' from BBC
In a bid not to leave out any element of Lord Reith's founding principles of the BBC, culture secretary Tessa Jowell called on the BBC to 'take fun seriously' as she unveiled the white paper.
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UKTV to air World Cup
UKTV is stepping up its sports' output with its biggest acquisition to date - sublicensing 31 live World Cup matches from the BBC.
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More 4 to air live hernia surgery
More 4 is to undertake one of Britain's riskiest ever broadcasts - a live hernia operation during which the patient is under no form of anaesthetic.
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NewsNew editor for Tonight
5.15pm:ITV Productions has appointed Fiona Keenaghan as the new editor of ITV1's flagship current affairs series Tonight With Trevor McDonald, following Jeff Anderson's departure to network centre.
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NewsIndie survey says 'netting off' is happening
2.45pm:Almost 70% of independent producers who responded to the 2006 BroadcastIndie Survey say they have experienced 'netting off' since the terms of trade were introduced.
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NewsSperber follows Pickard to RDF
12.15pm:RDF Media has poached Mentorn executive producer and former CBBC drama boss Elaine Sperber to head up drama within its new family and children's department.
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NewsITV lines up Ant and Dec for Soccer Aid
12.15pm:ITV is lining up Ant and Dec to present Soccer Aid, the Endemol-produced celebrity football tournament that will screen before the World Cup in April.