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Film profiles couples united by tragedy
Sky One and Michael Attwell Productions have co-produced United By 9/11, a documentary about people brought together in various ways by the attacks on the World Trade Centre. The 90-minute special, due to air in the autumn, will feature couples who have met through bereavement and ...
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Two Hats snaps up Shake commissions
Five has commissioned two series and recommissioned a third for its weekend Shakestrand, aimed at 6 to 13-year-olds. Demolition Dad, a 13 x 11-minute series from Two Hats Film and Television in association with Here's One I Made Earlier, will start on ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Mark Wild
The commissioning editor of Animal Planet International gets excited by baby humpback whales, wishes he could steal Springwatch and is on the lookout for something on illegal practices in the animal world.
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Desperate Housewives set for China
London-based channel operator Zone Vision has bought the rights to US drama Desperate Housewivesin China. The ABC show is scheduled to premiere in the autumn on CCTV-8. It will run nightly in the international movie and drama block Everyday Jiayi, which Zone Vision operates through Encore ...
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ITV confirms plans for kids channel
ITV has confirmed it is to launch a commercial free-to-air kids channel across all platforms including Freeview. The as-yet-unnamed channel, first revealed by Broadcastlast month, will show ITV's existing slate of kids programmes, but will also commission and acquire new shows before its launch, set to ...
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Brown fronts Riots for Bravo
Former Loadededitor James Brown is fronting a show for Bravo exploring some of Britain's more notorious riots, writesSusan Thompson.
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Blue illustrates Nazi mentality
BBC Broadcast's brief to post house Blue for UK History's six-part Inside the Nazi Statewas to shed light on the mentality of those who supported the Nazis. Blue came up with a reconstruction of a Nazi throwing a brick into of a Jewish bakery, but played ...
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Heart gets bigger
Former GCap station 106 Century FM will take the Heart brand name from 26 August, following its purchase by Chrysalis. GCap was forced to sell the station to allow the GWR and Capital merger to go ahead, under Ofcom rules. Chrysalis paid£29.5m for the station and has commit-ted a further£500,000 ...
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Belfast indie follows world tour
Belfast-based indie Imagine Media Productions has secured a three-year deal from BBC Northern Ireland to follow a journalist as he travels the world.
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BDH projects onto crime screen
Animal Crime Sceneseries producer Hilary Jeffkins commissioned designer Steve Burrell from agency BDH to work on opening titles and content graphics for the BBC natural history unit's new whodunnit animal series. Burrell created a large transparent crime screen onto which graphics and footage are projected using movie ...
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BBC Worldwide sends documentaries to Iraq
Iraqi TV viewers will get to see BBC shows on Genghis Khan, Auschwitz and Islam in Europe, thanks to a deal signed by BBC Worldwide.
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BBC OB scrubs up to film kidney transplant operation
BBC Outside Broadcasts, which crewed last year's award-winning Breast Cancer: The Operation, has been called in again on a BBC1 show about kidney transplant operations. The unit, headed by manager Steve Hall, worked closely with St Mary's Hospital to ensure health and safety. The shoot used ...
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BBC rapped over vice
A BBC daytime series that covered prostitution, pornography and drug abuse has been rapped by media watchdog Ofcom. The regulator said scenes showing brothel workers, intravenous drug-taking, and sex toys - shown as part of the Britain'sStreets of Vicein February - were 'unremitting' and unsuitable for broadcast ...
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ITV news holds back de Menezes pics
ITV Newswas forced to hold back exclusive pictures of the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes because of their graphic nature. ITV Newseditor in chief David Mannion said Tuesday night's exclusive report, which was picked up by all the national papers the following day, was the ...
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Arqiva playout deal
Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast, has signed a£2m, five-year deal to provide integrated playout, uplinking and satellite capacity for Home Entertainment Corporation's ChoicesUK TV, a DVD retail channel launching on Sky Digital this week. HEC will manage playout using the remote scheduling and file-transfer capability at Arqiva's Broadcast Media Centre in ...
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Al Jazeera graphics
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera has ordered real-time 2D and 3D graphics from Norwegian graphics specialist Vizrt. The system will run in Al Jazeera's four broadcast centres in Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur and Washington from the beginning of 2006 and will provide news graphics through the Octopus newsroom editing system. ...
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ITV goes down Tarrant's way again
ITV has extended the second series of Chris Tarrant vehicle Tarrant's Wayacross the entire ITV network. ITV editor of daytime Nick Thorogood has recommissioned an 8 x 60-minute series. The first series of 30-minute episodes went out on ITV London only. The programme follows Tarrant and ...
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Evington out after TWG Ulster merger
The Wireless Group (TWG) group programme director John Evington has left the company following its acquisition by Ulster TV.
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Slowdown forces Lynx into administration
Denham-based Lynx Digital, one of the UK's oldest facilities, has gone into administration, writesDavid Wood.
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Bectu Acas move
Broadcasting union Bectu is considering going to industrial arbitrator Acas after the collapse of negotiations with Talkback Thames over employees on The Bill.The union wants to form a 'bargaining unit' for the show to represent all employees and negotiate standard contracts for them. But the talks ...