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Red Bee goes for growth with restructure
Multimedia and playout facility Red Bee Media is restructuring in a bid to expand the business over the next year.
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BBC F&L reveals Final Cut plans
The BBC's factual & learning department has outlined its plans to save between£4m and£6m a year over three years by bringing 20% to 25% of its post-production in-house.
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BBC lines up TV chef Martin for Leopard'sStately Suppers
BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a daytime cookery show featuring celebrity chef James Martin.
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BBC finance job cuts
The BBC is proposing to cut around 60% of jobs from its finance division in the next three years. The number of posts in BBC finance will fall from around 650 in 2005/6 to 310 in 2006/7 and will reach around 260 by 2007/8. The reduction, which is being consulted ...
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Five gives Grey's Anatomy terrestrial berth
Five has bought the terrestrial rights to US hit Grey's Anatomy after sub-licensing the show from Flextech-owned Living TV.
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5 live Xmas special
BBC Radio 5 Live has commissioned indie the Comedy Unit to make a 60-minute comedy sketch show reviewing the sporting year. Called Freddie Flintoff Ate My Ashes, the programme will air on Christmas Day and star Dead Ringers' Kevin Connelly and impressionists Kayvan Novak and Gabriel Quigley. Gus Beattie will ...
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Strictly Baby Ballroom for Channel 4
Channel 4 is attempting to cash in on viewers' current thirst for ballroom dancing with a dance show involving kids.
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More4 hires Mentorn for Paris Doc
More4 has commissioned Mentorn Oxford to produce a fast turnaround documentary examining the recent French riots. In Paris In Flames, which will air in primetime on Saturday 10 December, reporter Sandra Jordan presents the first detailed analysis of why France exploded into violence. The 60-minute programme, executive produced by Eamonn ...
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BBC4 to screen life of US photographer
BBC4 has ordered an 80-minute feature documentary from Berwick Universal Pictures about US photographer O Winston Link and his wife, Conchita. The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover charts the story of the Link's marriage and tells how Conchita was jailed twice for stealing her husband's photos after their separation. The ...
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NewsQueen's Sister serves C4 well
Channel 4's one-off drama about the life of Princess Margaret managed a comfortable reign over its nearest rivals.
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T4 heads down under for Christmas
Channel 4 youth strand T4 is heading Down Under for Christmas. Steve Jones and Miquita Oliver will present a festive season of shows from Sydney Harbour as well as new year editions from the Great Barrier Reef. At It Productions executive producer Richard Cook will head a crew of 14 ...
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ArenaP3's Abnormal job for Sky
ArenaP3 has finished the post-production on the Media Trust's Abnormally Funny People. The documentary follows a group of disabled comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Colourist Blair Wallace graded the difficult lighting conditions of the footage on Pogle Platinum to give it a ...
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BBC3 tells Christ's story through pop
BBC3 is planning a live Easter event which tells the story of the passion of Christ on the streets of Manchester to a soundtrack of pop songs. Members of the public will be invited to join in, with the procession culminating in the city's Albert Square. The programme, due for ...
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Still Game wins BBC1 Christmas slot
Scottish comedy Still Game has won a place in BBC1's Christmas line-up, three months after getting its first network outing on BBC2. Glasgow-based indie the Comedy Unit will make a 30-minute festive special of the sitcom, which revolves around two pensioners in a fictional Glasgow suburb. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham ...
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BBC1 searches for Weds night entertainment
BBC1 is hunting for a midweek entertainment programme in a bid to revive what has been branded 'Black Wednesday'.
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Star to make Formula 1 series
Sex and the City creator Darren Star is making a series for the BBC set in the world of Formula 1 racing. Star will control the rights to the format and hopes that success in the UK will help sell the idea to America. Star will executive produce the so ...
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The new mainstream?
As Little Britain rides high in the BBC1 ratings, Peter Keighron considers the future of 'alternative' comedy and what the shifting landscape means for broadcasters seeking channel-defining laughs.
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Netting the future post profits
The traditional role of the post-production house is coming under imminent threat from cost-cutting and in-house operations, so how are the facility houses planning to earn their keep in the future? Kate Large reports.
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Interview: Fru Hazlitt - The Virgin queen
Virgin Radio's new chief executive, Fru Hazlitt, is looking to build profits by committing to getting on Freeview, launching new stations and hiring Christian O'Connell to present at breakfast-time.
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Taking the temperature of drama
What is the state of British drama today? What is the role of soaps and the influence of American series?Broadcast brought together leading lights in UK drama, from both the commissioning and writing sides to debate the hot topics.