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Ex-Clinton spokesman for Sky News
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News. World News Tonightwill see Rubin presenting a weekday 60-minute roundup of the big international stories and will include interviews with key figures on the international stage. The show, which is ...
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Dubbing expands
Glasgow-based audio post facility The Dubbing Theatre has moved to the city's The Waterfront Studios and doubled its capacity because of increased bookings. It now offers five studios with Protools, Avid Audiovisions and Digital performer.
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Sharman orders Pratchett drama
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel. Zoë Wanamaker, Frank Finlay and Keith Barron have been lined up to star in Johnny and the Bomb. The 3 x 50-minute series is being ...
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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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Wall to Wall sells hurricane doc to Oz
Indie Wall to Wall has sold the rights to its Oil Stormdocumentary - which months before Hurricane Katrina hypothesised what would happen if a hurricane struck the Gulf of Mexico - to Australia's Seven Network. The two-hour programme was produced for FX in the US and ...
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ITV plans terror doc
Rageh Omaar, the reporter famed for his coverage of the war in Iraq for the BBC, will set his sights closer to home for his next ITV project. ITV controller of current affairs, arts and religion Dominic Crossley-Holland is looking to sign the reporter to present a Christmas special on ...
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Quickfire shoots Moore drama doc
Quickfire Media is to make a BBC2 drama-documentary about the life of World Cup-winning England captain Bobby Moore in the build-up to the historic 1966 tournament. The programme, working titled Bobby Moore, has been commissioned by Adam Kemp and will be executive produced by Mark Fielder.
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Discovery to make masthead show with IPC
Discovery has teamed up with magazine publisher IPC to make a masthead show based around its home and design magazine Livingetc.
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Green Green Grass debuts strongly
The Green Green Grass, the sitcom spin-off from Only Fools and Horses, was an instant hit, with the first 30-minute episode attracting an average audience of 9.1 million (41.6%). The John Sullivan comedy, which aired on Friday (9 September) at 8.30pm and featured the character of ...
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RDF in first-look deal with Maverick
RDF Rights has signed a two-year, first-look development deal with Birmingham-based Maverick Television for the company's international TV and consumer product rights.
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Sport deal renewed
Arqiva has renewed its contract with British Eurosport in a five-year deal worth over£6m. The channel will move from Arqiva's Langley studio to the company's Broadcast Media Centre at Feltham, which will be British Eurosports' production and administration base. Arqiva receives worldwide feeds and provides playout to Sky at Osterley ...
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Unique cuts staff
UBC Media has made two redundancies from its production arm Unique. The redundancies were from junior levels, and were in response to market changes, said the company. It has recently completed a full strategic review of the group. Unique recently won a contract to produce a new adult contemporary chart ...
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Purvis: ITV cost-cutting threatens news
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has suggested that regional and late-night news on ITV could struggle to survive if the broadcaster implements further cost-cutting.
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Frost moves into Coronation Street
Granada has confirmed the appointment of Steve Frost as the next Coronation Streetproducer, replacing Tony Wood, who steps down at the end of the year. Frost, who has also produced fellow ITV soap Emmerdale, was most recently producer on ...
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Distributors report confidence
Almost 74% of respondents to Broadcast's first survey of the distribution sector believe business has improved as a result of the new terms of trade. Of the companies that responded, 92.3% ended their financial year feeling more confident about the sector than a year ago.
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Sky One lines up coke and Viagra
Sky One is to explore the use of cocaine and Viagra as part of its autumn season.
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New chiefs at Sky One and ITV
Rival digital channels ITV2 and Sky One have got new interim programming chiefs for the coming few months.
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Terrestrial channels sign up for mobile trial
Fourteen of the 16 channels lined up for Arqiva's mobile television broadcast trial, scheduled to begin later this month, have been confirmed, with BBC1 and BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, Channel 4, Five and BBC News 24 all signing up to take part.
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ITV and Sky renew Champions League deal
ITV and Sky have retained the rights to UEFA Champions League Football for a further three years. Under the new deal, which kicks off from the start of next season, ITV will take the pick of the two best matches on Tuesday nights - one on ITV1 and the other ...
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HD cameras at IBC
The camera wars heated up at IBC this year with Grass Valley launching its new Infinity camcorder, a low-end HD camera aimed at taking on Sony's HDV market. Sony completed its line-up of HD formats with the launch of the HD version of its tapeless XDCAM, positioned between its HDV ...