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Kilgarriff calls time on Turner stint
Richard Kilgarriff is leaving his job as senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Europe at the end of the month. Kilgarriff has been with Turner in various roles for four years, most recently responsible for all the company's UK entertainment channels including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Turner Classic ...
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HBO buys The Sex Inspectors from Talkback Thames
Fremantle International Distribution has sold Talkback Thames' controversial sex therapy series The Sex Inspectorsto US broadcaster HBO.
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Seven buys more world record shows
Australia's terrestrial Seven Network has commissioned a further 4 x 60-minute primetime shows from Guinness World Records TV - a division of HIT Entertainment - to be produced by Granada Australia. The deal follows the success of the first 13 instalments of Australia's Guinness World Records, ...
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Brand new look for The Den
RTE Two's children's channel The Den has been given a facelift, with a range of idents and logos for use off and on air. Creative agency Dunning Eley Jones designed and produced the new look, which shows doors opening out of the show's title to reveal the programme content. The ...
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Byford defends BBC's 'hateful' Katrina report
BBC deputy director general Mark Byford has defended the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina, following allegations that Tony Blair described it as 'full of hatred of America and gloating'.
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BBC OBS makes splash with plunge cam
BBC Outside Broadcasts is next year to develop and build the world's first HD plunge camera. The broadcast-quality HD mini camera application will be mounted on a 16m vertical track and will capture divers in real time as they free fall into the pool. Covering all three diving platforms it ...
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BBC hires Blomberg
BBC Broadcast has appointed Thomas Blomberg - former managing director of the UK arm of global subtitling group, SDI Media - in a newly created role as its head of language services. The position was created to facilitate BBC Broadcast's expansion in the translation broadcast market; it will now offer ...
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Ten Alps sets up Midlands factual arm
Indie Ten Alps has launched a new company in the East Midlands, after taking over Derbyshire-based indie Rock Hammer and winning a year-long commission from the BBC.
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Fusion reopens after three-day shutdown
Fusion Post Production was closed down for three days last week after staff were locked out of the D'Arblay Street facility following a dispute with the building's landlord over payment of rent.
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C4 airs Kiss Awards
Channel 4 has picked up the rights to the first ever Kiss Awards on 5 November, filmed by indie Done and Dusted. The Kiss awards from Emap Radio, which also publishes Broadcast, will showcase the best in urban and dance music over the past 12 months. ...
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BBC2 to show world cricket highlights
The BBC has won the rights to show international cricket for the first time in six years after landing the highlights of the ICC Cricket World Cup in March and April 2007. Throughout the tournament, which is being held in the West Indies, BBC2 will air highlights of the day's ...
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9/11 doc is hit for Discovery in the US
A Brook Lapping film about the passengers who tackled hijackers in the September 11 attacks produced one of the highest ratings ever on Discovery Channel in the US. The Flight That Fought Back, which looked at passengers' attempts to fight back against the hijackers on one ...
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Radio 1 sexes it up
BBC Radio 1 has teamed up with the Open University (OU) for the first time for a series of live broadcasts of phone-in show The Sunday Surgery, called The Sex Tour. The show will broadcast from Wrexham, Glasgow, Sunderland and Derry on ...
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Target: distribution profits£880,000
Following last week's Distributors Survey ( Broadcast, 16.9.05), Target has asked us to make clear that the profit and loss figures published in the table did not relate to its distribution business. Target's programme distribution business made a profit of£880,000 on a turnover of£6m last year. We ...
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Radio indies must be heard
With all the focus on indies' TV quotas, the plight of the independent radio sector can be overlooked. Tim Blackmore calls for the Charter Review to open up the BBC's resources.
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Dying to be on the telly
With a host of shows set to feature real deaths on TV, the question of what is appropriate is once again raised. In the absence of explicit rules, broadcasters have to rely on their own judgement.
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The blame game
Executives within ITV have been on a collision course for months and this week we are seeing the fall-out.
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Audio SOS: emergency treatment
The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...
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Serious about Sky docs
Jacquie Lawrence has made an apparently seamless transition from radical C4 film-maker to driver of Sky One's move upmarket with authored documentaries.
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Forecasting senility at 50
While ITV is perfectly capable of turning itself around, a lack of creative tension is at the heart of its demise.