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NewsMillionaire Live loses a million
8am:Celador's ill-fated Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?live tour lost its parent companies over£1m.
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NewsFox axes Malcolm In The Middle
8am:US broadcaster Fox has pulled the plug on long-running comedy Malcolm in the Middle- a key show for Sky One and BBC2.
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NewsMandabach sitcom goes to BBC
Roseanneproducer Caryn Mandabach has delivered her first sitcom idea to the BBC, as part of the first-look development deal she signed with the corporation in April 2005.
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NewsOfcom to 'partner' BBC over assessing new services
Ofcom will be given a 'partner' role in assessing the market impact of new services launched by the BBC, media secretary Tessa Jowell has said.
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NewsMixed feelings over Sky EPG genre moves
Trouble, the Flextech channel aimed at teenagers, is to be shifted out of the kids' genre on the EPG and into the entertainment genre.
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NewsSci-Fi hires ex-Sky One editor
Former Sky One commissioning editor Sara Johnson has joined the Sci-Fi Channel in a consultancy role.
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NewsPEER POLL: Manchester
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should BBC2 be part of the BBC's move to Manchester?
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NewsHBO sets sights on UK launch
US broadcaster HBO is considering the launch of a premium channel in the UK as part of a larger overseas strategy covering six new markets.
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NewsVisual Voodoo triple
ITN-owned indie Visual Voodoo has made three senior appointments, including poaching indie Making Time's founder and creative director, Ben Devlin. Devlin, a former producer of So Graham Norton, will become deputy head of programmes at Visual Voodoo, whose credits include ...
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VTR recalls Morahan
Soho facility VTR has brought back a former head of marketing, Steve Morahan, as head of production. Morahan had worked at the company for 10 years before leaving to launch production company Renegade One and consultancy Captive People. Morahan will oversee VTR's six producers and manage the company's business development ...
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LBC offers podcasts
Chrysalis-owned speech station LBC 97.3 has launched a paid-for podcasting service offering full-length versions of its flagship shows, including Nick Ferrari and Iain Lee. For£2.50 for one month, rising to£10 for six months, listeners will be able to download shows and access content including vintage and behind-the-scenes material.
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Gyngell takes top job at Granada US
ITV has handed responsibility for its North American arm to Australian TV veteran David Gyngell.
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Momoco titles Eleventh Hour
Momoco, through production company Maguffin, has designed and animated the title sequence for Eleventh Hour, a 4 x 60-minute thriller from Granada TV starring Patrick Stewart as a professor who tackles disasters caused by modern science. Designers Nic Benns and Miki Kato created a series ...
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Syco to make US Star Duets
Star Duets , the new ITV1 celebrity singing format from Simon Cowell's indie Syco TV, is to be remade in the US, writes Leah Milner.
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GI hires drama chief for programme team
Granada International has boosted its programming team by appointing Noel Hedges as head of drama. Hedges was previously vice-president of sales at GI, in charge of selling shows to France and Scandinavia. The programming team is responsible for all programming acquisitions, investments and co-productions.
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Format focus: Top Chef
The makers of Project Runway are back with a similarly competitive reality series set in the kitchen, writes Dan Wootton.
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Spun Gold profiles Britain's rudest comic
Spun Gold, the indie set up by former Carlton factual entertainment controller Nick Bullen, has been commissioned to make an access documentary about blue comic Roy Chubby Brown for Channel 4. The documentary, called Roy Chubby Brown: Britain's Rudest Comedian, will look at the performer's ...
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New staff for Beam
Digital asset management company Beam.tv has taken on Condor Post Production's managing director, Tom Horton, as its business development director. Horton spent two years heading Condor and will promote Beam.tv as a solution that digitally enables the versioning and distribution of TV ad campaigns. Kate Georgiou also joins as new ...
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Virtual museum for BBC daytime
The BBC is to create a 'virtual museum' of famous artefacts, as part of a series of commissions from BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt.
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Twofour backs Hideous indie
Twofour Productions has backed a new start-up indie called Hideous Productions.