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RDF reveals profits up for first results
RDF Media's first results since listing on the London Stock Exchange in May saw turnover increase 14% to£26.3m.
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New execs for Fremantle international
Fremantle International Distribution has appointed two new executives to its sales team. Jamie Lynn joins Fremantle's London office as sales director for Middle East, Africa, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He was previously sales manager at TV-Loonland. Veronika Gracher, who will be Berlin-based, joins as vice-president sales for German-speaking Europe and ...
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Rendermedia engineers jet
Rendermedia, the 3D animation studio, has completed its animation of the Whittle jet engine prototype for Quanta Films' Whittle - The Jet Pioneer, a documentary about the development of the jet engine in the 1930s. Rendermedia's animator Mark Miles and creative director Steve Green created the model, particle and air-flow ...
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Digital losses up
Digital Classics, the TV distribution and production business chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein, has increased losses for the year to June from£590,000 last year to£616,000. Turnover during the period was£3,134,000, an increase of£980,000 on 2004.
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Two Way in Flextech deal
Two Way TV has signed a deal with Flextech Television to provide interactive red button services for Challenge TV and Bravo.
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Crown rebranded
Crown Castle UK, the main provider for broadcast transmission infrastructure, has been rebranded as National Grid Wireless, after its merger with National Grid-owned Gridcom earlier this year. It delivers the BBC signal, providing analogue transmission across the UK.
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FX picks up comedy
The FX channel has boosted its comedy slate by buying a pair of sketch shows from Comedy Central. It has picked up the first two seasons of Chappelle Show, written and hosted by Dave Chappelle, for its Comedy Thursdays slot. It will air on FX from January next year. The ...
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Granada Int leads charge into China
Chinese broadcasters' appetite for classic UK drama and educational documentaries has helped Granada International secure five new deals in the territory.
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Thinkbox chairman
ITV director of customer relationship marketing Justin Sampson has been appointed as the first chairman of Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial television. Taking up the role from November, he will act as 'lead ambassador' for the body that represents eight TV channels including Channel 4, Five, GMTV, Turner Broadcasting, ...
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Diverse buys Edifis
Factual indie Diverse's in-house facility has purchased an Edifis Finaliser which will be used to colour correct and create HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables from a single HD or SD edit master. The£150,000 purchase was prompted by the decision to establish a dedicated grading facility at the indie. Diverse will ...
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Ex Sky boss launches DTT service
Former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami is launching a DTT service offering Freeview channels and on-demand specialist content. Aggregator TV will be based on a Freeview box with broadband connection and PVR capabilities. Goswami has teamed up with former ITV director of channels Chris Griffin and Chris Goodhall, previously of ...
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Blue completes Biggest Loser
Blue has completed the online editing, grading and audio work on the promos for Flextech's The Biggest Loser UK, a reality show in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. Blue's Andy Sawyer, Davide Pascolo and Steve Miller used Combustion to matt footage of the contestants floating in water. Blue's ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Hannah Beckerman
More4's commissioning editor is keen to develop entertaining, intelligent programming and is on the lookout for provocative features that reflect modern living.
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BBC Worldwide invests in ITV Christmas movie
BBC Worldwide has become an investor in a major ITV Christmas movie, as part of a distribution deal with indie Ecosse Films.
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Format focus: Ballroom Bootcamp
This new reality/entertainment hybrid focuses on uplifting personal stories rather than routine humiliation.
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Baker's back at BBC
Former BBC Radio London presenter Danny Baker is to return to the station, just four months after quitting. Baker, who left the breakfast show in May to pursue 'personal projects' - believed to include working on a comedy drama for Five - will start the afternoon show this Monday, 17 ...
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Five to bring back Swinging sketch show
Five's first homegrown comedy commission, Swinging, a sketch show about relationships and sex, has been recommissioned by the broadcaster.
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Turner is back on TV with Housewives
Anthea Turner, the former GMTV presenter whose career hit the skids following a disastrous appearance in OK! magazine, has resurfaced with a new reality show for BBC3. RDF Media's 8 x 60-minute series Perfect Housewives (working title) will see the former Blue Peter presenter attempt to educate the nation's incompetent ...
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Five ups spend and axes The Farm
Five is increasing its programme budget to more than£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers has confirmed. He said the budget for 2006 would be up at least£10m from the£190m signed off for this year, taking the budget to 'substantially more' than£200m. However, he said the extra cash would ...
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Angry Kid travels to Europe
Cult cartoon Angry Kid will cross the channel after Aardman Animation secured deals with TV Catalunya in Spain and Canal+ in France this week.