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Aussie Ten takes BBC3 kids diet show
Australia's Ten network has snapped up the rights to new BBC3 lifestyle format Honey, We're Killing the Kids!The You Are What You Eat-style show, created by BBC Manchester's format entertainment department for BBC Learning, looks at the diet parents feed their children ...
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ArenaP3 posts seaside comedy
ArenaP3 created a traditional seaside postcard look for Tiger Aspect's eight-part fly-on-the-wall comedy Hotel on Sea. Produced and directed by Jonathan Hacker, the show was offlined at Tiger, with ArenaP3 editors JP Davidson and Alex Pickering onlining and grading the series using Avid DS Nitris, saturating the ...
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ITV2 ahead of multichannel rivals
ITV2 has secured the top position as the most watched multichannel offering with a share so far this year of 2.10%, a rise of 25% on 2004.
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BDH goes to Art School for BBC2
BDH designer Carys Hull, cameraman Mark Chandler and director Steve Bell have produced the titles for Endemol's BBC2 series Art School, in which celebrities such as Keith Allen, John Humphrys and Ulrika Jonsson develop their talents at the Chelsea School of Art & Design. Shot on ...
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Sky offers£5,000 prize for best indie doc
Sky One is putting£5,000 up for grabs for the best authored documentary idea to come from an indie. Entries are being accepted until 26 September and the five finalists will be announced at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Friday 14 October. Indies will then pitch to a panel of Sky ...
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Northern renaissance
The TV scene in the north-west is bursting with ambition, energy and ideas - now it just needs infrastructure.
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This season's must-haves
Before industry delegates pack up their comfy shoes ready to scour IBC at Amsterdam's RAI centre, Keri Allan asked four differing TV tribes what's on their shopping list.
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It's a man's world
Jonathan Webb is best known for his influential and successful poker programmes on Challenge. His latest brief is to move men's channel Bravo upmarket and widen its appeal to 16 to 44-year-olds. By Steve Clarke.
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He's the strong, silent type
The media-shy new BBC head of television news is happy to let his career achievements do the talking as he prepares to bring News 24 out of Sky's shadow, writes Steve Clarke.
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Freesat vs Sky
The launch of Freesat has the potential to eventually challenge Sky's monopoly in the pay-TV satellite market.
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An unhappy business
The TV industry needs to take the happiness of its workforce seriously - particularly those working in reality TV - or face an exodus of key talent.
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Taking baby steps
RDF's investment in The Baby Channel may have been motivated by sound business sense, but does it signal a host of similar niche channel moves by production companies?
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Sex Appeal
Are women controlling what's shown on TV and feminising it as newsreader Michael Buerk has implied, or are broadcasters just catering for a change in viewing habits?
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Share and share alike
Despite their historical antipathy to co-operation, broadcasters may find the best way to conquer the future is to work together.
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NewsBBC and ITV rival Sky with Freesat
ITV this week announced it was joining forces with the BBC to launch a free satellite TV service to rival Sky.
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NewsBids gather for Flextech
The bidding war for Flextech entered the second stage this week with offers submitted from major US companies and all the main British commercial broadcasters.
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NewsPact asks questions over C4 quiz channel
Pact has voiced serious concerns to Ofcom about Channel 4's new Quiz Call channel, criticising the broadcaster for failing to tender out the new service's programming to indies.
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NewsSky cricket deal faces new threat
David Brook, the former Channel 4 strategy director who originally brought cricket to the channel, is backing a new campaign to keep key fixtures free to air.
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NewsBBC factual unit facing carve-up
BBC factual director John Willis is considering carving up the division among several creative heads as part of a major re-organisation of the department.
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ITV set to offer top shows via mobiles
ITV has launched its long-awaited mobile phone service, offering viewers mobile content from shows such as Coronation Streetand I'm a Celebrity.