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British hopes boost tennis ratings
Coverage of the first week of the Wimbledon tennis tournament has served up an extra 300,000 viewers for BBC1.
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Bisexual Girls makes its US mark for Betty
Betty TV has made its first mark in the US market - selling Bisexual Girlsto US broadcaster Independent Film Channel.
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BBC 'indie champion'
CBBC head of entertainment Anne Gilchrist is to become the BBC's first children's TV 'indie champion'. She will become executive editor, independents and events, commissioning children's programmes solely from the indie sector. She has been responsible for commissioning some of CBBC's most high-profile shows, from Blue ...
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BBC on course
BBC journalists will have to pass new training courses in order to be promoted within the corporation. As part of its response to the Neil report on its journalistic standards, the BBC has dropped the Neil committee's recommendation for a bricks-and-mortar college, opting instead for a 'virtual college' of training ...
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BBC critic to head commons watchdog
Tory MP John Whittingdale, one of the BBC's more formidable critics, is to head the Commons watchdog that will scrutinise its activities.The former shadow media secretary is to replace Sir Gerald Kaufman as chairman of the cross-party Commons media select committee. Labour MP Kaufman, himself an outspoken critic of the ...
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Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV
CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...
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Lion ramps up operations for US assault
Lion TV has expanded its operations in the US, opening a new office in California and promoting one of its executive producers to run its New York base. Tracy Green has been appointed to head the new Santa Monica office, developing original programmes and selling UK formats to the US ...
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Bell's rapid ascent
Ascent Media Network Sevices Europe (AMNSE) has appointed Catherine Bell as vice-president of operations. Bell, former head of traffic and presentation for Satellite Television Asian Region (Star), will report directly to AMNSE senior vice-president, Bob Gentry. AMNSE is currently recruiting a vice-president of engineering.
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Online archive fear
A BBC project to make its archive available online has been criticised by an MP, who fears it could spark a new trade in illegal downloads. Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, said he plans to investigate the cor-poration's plans for its Creative Archive - a publicly ...
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Firefly appointment
Indie Firefly has promoted company production manager Francesca Newby to the newly created post of head of production. Newby will manage the company's workload and will report to managing directors Magnus Temple and Nick Curwin. Firefly is currently making three programmes for Channel 4's forthcoming Psychoseries ...
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BBC America co-pros
BBC America has agreed to co-produce two BBC TV movies from Talkback, written by Stephen Poliakoff. Friends and Crocodilescharts the shifts in power between a boss and his secretary and Gideon's Daughterstars Bill Nighy as a PR guru forced to re-evaluate his ...
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Discovery co-production comes alive
Discovery Networks is co-producing Darlow Smithson's new survival docu-drama series Alive(working title) with Channel 4 and Granada International. The 10 x 60-minute series mixes interviews with people who have had near-death experiences and dramatic reconstructions of the events. Production is already underway and transmission is set ...
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Full stream ahead
Senior producer Lauretta Horrocks has been promoted to production manager at interactive design and DVD authoring company Stream. Horrocks will head a team of six producers at the Ascent Media company. A Stream spokesman said that the appointment filled a new role and was not a direct replacement for anyone ...
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BBC governors to hold official AGM
The BBC's governors are to hold their first official annual general meeting in front of a 200-strong audience at TV Centre. The governors have held yearly conferences in the past, but the meeting on 19 July will be their first official AGM. It will give the audience the chance to ...
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Five orders doc about oldest mother
Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.
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C4 ends Countdown era
Channel 4 will tomorrow (Friday) screen the last Richard Whiteley-fronted episode of Countdownas part of an afternoon dedicated to the channel's longest serving face.
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BBC2 lines up new archive programme
BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...
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O2 deal will take ITV live onto mobiles
ITV is poised to sign a deal with O2 that would see it become the first terrestrial channel to be broadcast live on mobile phones.
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BBC2 orders major series on Middle East
The BBC is hoping to address concerns over its coverage of the Middle East with a landmark documentary on the peace process.
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BBC Broadcast sells for£166m
BBC Broadcast will be sold to an Australian consortium led by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) for£166m - a price underpinned by£500m of BBC contracts - once the government greenlights the deal next month.