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Mobile talent
Online talent agency Soho Artistes has launched a mobile service allowing producers and casting directors to access their online database with mobile phones and receive images direct to their handsets. Soho Artistes has around 1,000 actors and extras on its books, which are drawn from parent company 2 Cast 4.
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Peter Williams traces wartime lovers
Six wartime love stories are to be retold in a regional series being made by indie Peter Williams Television for ITV Meridian. The indie has researched a group of second world war love affairs for the 6 x 30-minute series with the help of the Imperial War Museum,
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Lovejoy to Virgin
Virgin has recruited Sky Sports Soccer AM presenter Tim Lovejoy to host a Sunday afternoon magazine show from 28 August. The new 4pm to 7pm show will feature interviews with top sports and showbiz celebrities as well as feature packages. Lovejoy's other credits include Sky One show ...
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LBC MD quits
LBC managing director and director of programmes Mark Flanagan has quit, prompting a reshuffle at the London station. Flanagan, who has overseen the Chrysalis-owned LBC since October 2002, is leaving to take up a new career as a political lobbyist. He will be replaced by David Lloyd, the managing director ...
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Target takes over Jordan and Peter show
Target Entertainment is set to produce a follow-up to ITV2's hit show Jordan and Peter: Laid Bare, with Can Associates, the company run by the celebrity couple's agents. The deal comes after the previous co-producer of the show, Spun Gold, clashed with the pair's agents on ...
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Playboy goes multi-platform
Playboy TV has launched a multimedia package offering adult content to its subscribers across all platforms for a monthly£30 payment, writesRick Dacey.
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Fund for Whiteley
Channel 4 has set up local talent fund in memory of the late Countdownpresenter Richard Whiteley.
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Format focus:Intervention
After makeovers and diet shows galore, TV turns its attention to alcoholics and drug addicts.
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Internet first for Farm Group
The Farm Group has completed the second series of The Mighty Booshfor Baby Cow Productions and BBC3. The programme will be the first time the BBC premieres a series over the internet. The comedy is based on two keepers at a strange intergalactic zoo and features ...
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NewsJowell to face MPs
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is to face a cross-party probe into the government's plans to switch the country to digital television by 2012. The Commons media select committee is to question the minister this autumn about how and when analogue television will be switched off. The government has still not ...
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Evolutions hire
Bryony Evans has joined Evolutions as design producer, heading the graphic design team. She comes to Evolutions after five years at M2, where she had worked as a graphics producer on broadcast projects for Discovery and BBC dramas, such as Waking the Deadand ...
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Sharp launches dual view TV set
Sharp is releasing a two-way television that could stop family arguments over the remote but may cause headaches for ratings agency Barb.
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PBS to show Tern's fishing documentary
Scottish indie Tern Television has negotiated its first international deal with US broadcaster PBS, selling its documentary on the Scottish fishing industry. Gutted, which follows a year in the lives of fishing families in Fraserburgh, will be shown on PBS's Wide Anglein ...
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Fremantle gains dinosaur show
Fremantle Media has signed up the rights to Prehistoric Park, the new Jurassic Park-style ITV1 natural history show from the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Thompson defends move to Manchester
BBC director general Mark Thompson has told Parliament the BBC will press ahead with plans to move to several key departments to Manchester despite protests by staff.
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European deal for Paradise Hotel
Paradise Hotel, Mentorn's beachside reality show, is set to be made for viewers in Belgium and the Netherlands following a deal with SBS.
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Living orders live Dead Famous
Living TV has commissioned the first live version of its paranormal series Dead Famous. Dead Famous Livewill be broadcast over three nights from LA from 11 to 13 November and feature the show's presenters, Gail Porter and Chris Fleming, as well as guest ...
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Love cosies up with Target
Love Productions, the indie set up by former Maverick managing director Richard McKerrow, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Target Entertainment.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Crispin Nieboer
The founder and chief executive of the Poker Channel says that although the channel is dedicated to the card game, it is willing to branch out into backgammon and maybe even bingo.
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CiTV series teaches new skills to kids
CiTV has commissioned Initial to make an advertiser-funded series promoting energetic lifestyles to kids.