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NewsMT-Podcast device
Mobile audio company MagneticTime is set to launch MT-Podcast, a device that allows the production of podcasts without the need for voice recordings. It works by translating script from a Word document into a male or female voice in MP3 format, cutting out the current process of reading a script ...
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Wheeler Dealers gets fourth series
Discovery Real Time has ordered a fourth series of Attaboy TV series Wheeler Dealers. The 12 x 30-minute series, due to air late this summer, will see presenters Mike Brewer and Edd China use£2,000 to buy and restore a classic car. Filming on the latest ...
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Gervais cashes in
Ricky Gervais is to charge listeners for the next run of his weekly podcast. The first 12 podcasts were available free from the Guardian's website and such was the demand that the show won a place in the Guinness ...
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Smash Hits TV branded dreamy
Emap TV Design and UP Creatives have created the channel branding for music channel Smash Hits TV. It includes six channel idents featuring a series of surreal dream-like worlds, positioning Smash Hits TV as a space between reality and grown-up fantasy. Emap TV's head of creative & design was Alan ...
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NewsWho is the best doctor?
The debate over who was the best Doctor Whomay finally be settled, after David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston were both nominated in the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
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Flame wins BBC daytime commissions
Flame TV has bagged a series of commissions including two from BBC daytime.
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Government to publish BBC white paper
The government is tipped to publish its white paper on the BBC's future next week, despite the furore surrounding media secretary Tessa Jowell. Jowell is being investigated by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell over claims her husband accepted an alleged bribe from Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to pay off ...
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UKTV finds Attenborough's top moments
UKTV Documentary has greenlit a 2 x 60-minute series, which sets out to establish the nation's favourite Sir David Attenborough wildlife moment. My Favourite Attenborough Momentwill end with a countdown of the top 20 moments and ask viewers to vote via SMS or online. It ...
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Zenith finances King Arthur's Disasters
Zenith Entertainment has signed a further co-finance deal with Spanish producer Neptuno Films for another 13 x 30-minute second season of King Arthur's Disastersfor CiTV. Zenith will provide deficit funding on the series and as a result has all distribution rights outside Spanish and Brazilian-speaking ...
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US Commander in Chief to air on More4
More4 will replace political drama The West Wing, which ends its run later this year, with US import Commander in Chief. The show, from Disney-owned Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), stars Geena Davis as US President Allen attempting to balance ...
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Format focus: Unan1mous
Contestants bid to convince each other they deserve a cash prize, but what's the chance of them all agreeing?
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Leader - No excuse for exploitation
The practice of taking on young people to do unpaid work experience in TV is exploitation by the back door, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Life at the bottom
Young people starting out in TV do months of unpaid work and then only get an average salary of£12,000. Geoff White spoke to five people in their 20s about life in the industry.
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Interview - Charlotte Ashton: Revitalising UKTV
Charlotte Ashton, UKTV's head of entertainment and factual, explains how UKTV is branching out from repeating BBC classics to commissioning original shows such as Wogan: Then and Now.
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RDF's American figurehead
Chris Coelen will play a dual role in RDF's US strategy by representing UK indies in the competitive US market and heading RDF's American production arm.
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NewsHit looks to launch new kids channel
Bob the Builder owner Hit Entertainment is in talks with Hallmark Channel parent Sparrowhawk about launching a UK kids channel.
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NewsTough start to year for Five
Five has suffered a blow with new figures showing ad revenue and ratings have tumbled since the new year.
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NewsFreeview set to overtake Sky this year
Freeview looks set to overtake Sky Digital as the most popular digital TV platform before the end of this year.
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NewsITV makes Sabih head of reality
Hell's Kitchenexecutive producer Layla Sabih has been handed a new role of overseeing reality commissioning for ITV.