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Commissioner's Q & A: Lucy Willis
C4's commissioning editor, education, is on the lookout for fresh on-screen talent, wants to challenge our ideas on teenage addiction and is impressed by the edgy and exciting style of indie outfit Firefly.
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Choose your favourite ITV characters
Broadcastthis week launches its readers' poll to discover who are the most popular and iconic ITV characters of all time. Readers are invited to vote from a selection of more than 50 well-loved characters including hard-man of television detectives Taggart; The Saint's ...
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Network rollout for Capital FM's seven
GCap Media is to roll out its 95.8 Capital FM Sunday night Sevenentertainment show across its The One Network stations. The three-hour show, presented by Justin Wilkes and Sam Mann, looks at the week's celebrity news and has exclusive interviews. It is the first time GCap ...
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Pepper Post revamps to grab film business
Pepper Post has restructured its senior management team, creating the new posts of head of operations and head of film as part of a fresh drive to win more film business.
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Top breakfast shows lose listeners
Johnny Vaughan hung on to his place as London's top commercial radio breakfast host but the three leading commercial breakfast shows all lost listeners in the latest figures. Vaughan lost 161,000 listeners over the three-month period, falling to 1,077,000 listeners. Jamie Theakston, who joined Chrysalis's Heart 106.2 FM part way ...
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Bravo puts ultimate fighting centre stage
Ultimate Fighting, the extreme combat phenomenon where contestants batter each other using a mix of martial arts, is to be given a permanent fixture on men's channel Bravo.
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Schoonmaker leads Swansea radio bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker is heading a UK radio bid backed by Australian investment bank Macquarie. The bid is for a new 12-year FM licence for Swansea, under the name Diamond FM, a mainstream classic rock proposal. The new station will reach approximately 300,000 adults, depending on ...
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Bibby joins Optomen
Optomen Television, producer of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, has poached Talkback Thames financial director Mike Bibby to become deputy managing director. He will work alongside managing director Pat Llewellyn who was promoted last month after Peter Gillbe left the company after 15 years. Bibby has previously worked ...
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BBC's Belgian job
BBC Broadcast has created a fresh football brand for Belgian telco Belgacom and public service broadcasters VRT and RTBF. The idents will be used on football broadcasts and matches streamed on the web. Produced by Louise Braham and designed by Katy Jones the work was posted in 3D by Andy ...
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BBC factual trials in-house editing
The BBC's latest scheme for cutting the cost of programme-making will be tested at the corporation's London-based factual and learning department later this year with the introduction of low-cost desktop editing systems for production teams.
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BBC fends off commercial challenge
Commercial radio has failed to claw back significant market share from the BBC.
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BBC digital making little impact
The BBC's digital stations all failed to make inroads in the most recent Rajars, with share either declining or holding steady. BBC 6 Music and BBC 7 both lost share, down to 0.1 and 0.2 respectively, while Five Live Sports Extra, 1Xtra, and BBC Asian Network could only maintain their ...
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Top Banana studio
Birmingham-based commercials production company Top Banana has acquired Optical Image's Stourbridge facilities business, which includes the lease on a 9,000sq ft studio, five edit suites and the company's existing client base and has relocated to Optical's site in Broome, near Stourbridge. Optical Image has refocused its activities, but will continue ...
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Kerrang! audience and share fall
Emap's West Midlands-based Kerrang! 105.2 lost both audience and share compared with 2005's first Rajar. Share slipped from 2.7% to 2.5%, while audience figures fell by 64,000 to 260,000. When digital listeners are included, the Kerrang! brand's total UK share fell from 0.5% to 0.4%, with audience down 123,000 to ...
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Singh Kohli fronts Tiger Aspect series
Hardeep Singh Kohli, the writer and star of BBC comedy Meet the Magoons, is fronting a new Channel 4 topical debate show, writesColin Robertson.
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RTE commissions further Afternoon Show run from Green Inc
Belfast indie Green Inc Film and Television has picked up a major order from RTE with a recommission for 230 hours of its daytime programme The Afternoon Show.
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Royal palaces showcased on BBC4
BBC4 is to go behind the scenes at five of the UK's royal palaces for a 10-part series. Tales from the Palacesvisits Kensington (pictured), Hampton Court, Kew, the Banqueting House and the Tower of London, exploring the myths and stories surrounding the buildings and their purpose ...
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RDF develops pilot for C4 dating show
RDF is piloting a dating show for Channel 4, in which a group of friends dominated by couples must find one of their single friends a partner. Friends and Lovers(working title) is seeking groups of friends in their 20s or 30s where one member is the ...
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Count Arthur sitcom for BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a 5 x 30-minute sitcom series from Komedia Entertainment and Smooth Operations featuring Edinburgh Fringe Festival regular Count Arthur Strong. Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show, written by Steve Delaney and currently in pre-production, is set for broadcast in January 2006 in ...
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Nats gets equation right for C4
Nats has finished posting Channel 4's£1.3m E=MC2, a docu-drama which traces the roles played by five scientists in piecing together the world's best known equation. It was produced in HD by indie Darlow Smithson using DVCPro HD on the Panasonic Varicam at 720p. Post-production supervisor Richard Gillespie ...