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Tidmarsh builds media consultancy
BBC Worldwide's former director of marketing Alix Tidmarsh has set up her own media consultancy under the B7 Innovation marketing group. Tidmarsh will run B8 Media and one of her first projects will be to produce and market feature film Earth, BBC Worldwide's follow-up to natural ...
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Schoonmaker bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker and Macquarie Bank have entered a second application for a UK local FM radio licence - this time for Ipswich. Last month Schoonmaker and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, entered a bid for the Swansea licence under the name Radio UK Holdings. He ...
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NewsWhen reporters become the eyes of the nation
Dispatched to the area to cover a hurricane, reporters on the ground in New Orleans witnessed a national disaster unfold before them which exacted a huge logistical and emotional toll - but which they were determined to bring to the attention of the world, writes CNN's Jack Womack
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BBC Worldwide presells football doc
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold its football series The Greatest Show on Earthto three new territories. The 6 x 50-minute documentary on the football World Cup, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide and Fifa, has been bought by Canal Plus in Spain, RTP in Portugal and the rights ...
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BBC signs up for Chinatown doc
Films of Record has been commissioned to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about the lives of the inhabitants of London's Chinatown for BBC2.
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Presentable wins BBC Wales job
Cardiff-based indie Presentable has won a series of commissions from BBC Wales, including a one-off comedy about a maverick historian-cum-cabbie.
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BBC commissions more eggheads
BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt has commissioned a fourth series of 12 Yard Productions 'quiz format Eggheads. A further 40 x 30-minute run of the show has been ordered for an eight-week, 6pm slot on BBC2 from November. David Young is the executive ...
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BBC hires Zenith North for spit game
Indie Zenith North has been commissioned to make a hard-hitting drama for a season of BBC2 programmes on racism. Spit Gamehas been written by Peter G Morgan, a former reporter for Channel 4 News, and explores how two youngsters - one a ...
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BBC Broadcast wins Flextech playout pitch
BBC Broadcast has secured its biggest ever playout deal, prising Flextech's multimillion play out contract away from Ascent Media.
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Shark bait ratings
ITV1's long-awaited Celebrity Shark Baitfailed to deliver on Sunday (4 September), attracting only 3.6 million (16.3%) at 9pm. The programme in which four celebrities faced their fears and experienced a shark cage dive maintained a steady performance until the last 15 minutes when the programme peaked ...
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Strawberry picks up Ashes rights
Strawberry Entertainment has secured the worldwide DVD distribution rights for the 2005 Ashes series. The Sunset + Vine-produced DVD will be released on 17 October, with a separate stand-alone DVD of the third test, one of the closest ever test results, already available. The main DVD will feature extended highlights ...
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Arqiva TX contracts
Arqiva has won four new 12-year FM transmission contracts for stations awarded new licences by Ofcom. Under the new contracts, Arqiva will provide transmission services for two new The Local Radio Company stations, The Bee in Blackburn and Durham FM in Durham. It will also serve Midlands News Association-owned station ...
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Pinewood angles for more TV work
Pinewood Shepperton is to open its doors wider to TV productions in an attempt to see its way out of the current UK downturn in film production, which saw the film and TV studios post losses of£100,000 last week.
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Root6 sales
Root6 Technology has sold its ContentAgent asset management workflow tool to more that 50 broadcast, post-production and advertising businesses - most of which were its latest XR version designed to provide an easy upgrade path to HD, 2K film and DI workflow environments. Root6 has also appointed three new resellers ...
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BBC to roll out 500 desktop edit stations
The BBC is to take its in-house desktop editing trials, where programme-makers carry out basic editing tasks on their shows, corporation-wide next month in a move designed to cut in-house programme-making costs.
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ITV news veterans back for 50th
ITV News alumnae, including Selina Scott and Gordon Honeycombe, will return to present the evening bulletin for one night only, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. Mark Austin will present the 6.30pm bulletin with Scott, Anna Ford and Julia Sommerville, while Mary Nightingale will team up with Martyn Lewis ...
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Robbie season on C4
Channel 4 has commissioned a season of programmes on Robbie Williams, including a follow up to his Live at Knebworth concert. Robbie Williams: Live in Berlin(working title), is being filmed by indie Done And Dusted for broadcast on 22 or 23 October, when C4 also has ...
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Channel 4 hires The Comedy Unit for music and science show
Glasgow-based indie The Comedy Unit is to combine science experiments and music trivia for a new show for Channel 4.
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Radio 4 to air Morrissey memoirs
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a 30-minute one-off programme looking at life on the road with Mancunian indie icon Morrissey. I Was Morrissey's Drummeris based around the memoirs of drummer, comedian and writer Andrew McGibbon, who worked with The Smiths singer. Contributors include Morrissey, Madness frontman ...
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Blue posts BBC4's autumn idents
BBC Broadcast has come up with fresh autumn idents for BBC4 - a series of optical illusions. At first, there seems to be only one image on screen but the sequence, shot on film by Clive Tickner, unfolds to reveal four frames acting independently. Created by BBC Broadcast designers Anthony ...