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Michell forms indie
Betty Television head of development Andrea Michell has set up her own independent production company, Bravura Films, to make drama, factual drama and factual programming. Michell, whose credits include BBC3's Spendaholicsand Channel 4's Pissed on the Job, joined Betty two-and-a-half years ago. Bravura already ...
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Live 8 crosses pond
The BBC is to turn next month's anti-poverty rock extravaganza Live 8 global with broadcasts from both sides of the Atlantic. Live 8 airtime has so far been scheduled on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3 as well as radio stations Radio 1, Radio 2 and the BBC World Service. Jonathan Ross ...
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C4 wins court case
A controversial Channel 4 documentary about a woman with a severe multiple personality disorder is set to air after a high court ruling pronounced that it was not an abuse of human rights. The Steve Boulton Production, Being Pamela,which followed identity disorder sufferer Pamela Edwards for two ...
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NewsThe vital statistics for ITV's Love Island
On the vexed subject of Celebrity Love IslandITV's director of programmes, Nigel Pickard, stated in last week's Broadcast(27.5.05): 'These days it's rarely just about winning and losing, it's about the profile of the audience you're getting.'
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NewsBig Brother takes top spot with 4.6m
Big Brotherlooks to be a hit for Channel 4 once again as last night's show averaged 4.6 million (21.1%), making it the most watched show at 9pm.
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Shed profits rise
Shed Productions has released its first results since the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market, showing profits up 209% to£2.8m. The results covering the six months to the end of February show that turnover is up 98% to£11.9m from£6m in 2004 and operating profit increased to 18.9%. The company ...
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McCutcheon and Malik pair off
Martine McCutcheon and Art Malik are to team up for an ITV1 multicultural love story, in which a young working-class girl becomes one of the three wives of a Persian restaurateur. The English Harem, a 120-minute film, is being made by Feelgood Fiction and goes into ...
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Sixfootsix produces ITVi promo
Sixfootsix has designed and produced a promo and branding package to push ITV's interactive games service. The newly created logo is used in each sequence tying itself in with the games that the red button service can provide, such as pool, darts and solitaire. Characters from the games also interact ...
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Strawberry picks up real housewives
Distributor Strawberry Entertainment has picked up the international rights to Scarlet Television's Five show Real Life Desperate Housewives. The 60-minute show, which spotlights the lives of various 'privileged' British housewives, is set to air on Five next Thursday (9 June).
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Lobby groups hit out at sponsorship rules
TV lobby group the Voice of the Listener and Viewer has accused Ofcom of debasing standards in television and radio with its latest swathe of relaxations to rules on sponsorship and commercial references.
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Input footie win
Input Video has won the creative sports sequence of the year award for the Chelsea versus Arsenal game build-up that it produced for Granada Sport. The game, which was billed as 'London's biggest derby ever' saw the teams clash in the quarter finals
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Five's supersize she gets US outing
Supersize She, Special Edition Films' documentary about female bodybuilding for Five, has been sold to TLC in the US as part of a series of sales tied up by RDF Rights. The indie has also shifted its BBC1 documentary series Windsor: The Queen's Castleto NRK Norway ...
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Kudos wins first ITV work
Kudos, the indie behind BBC1 drama hits Spooksand Hustle, has secured its first ITV commission with a psychological thriller.
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SRH turns down EMAP takeover offer
Emap, the owner of Kiss FM and the Magic radio networks, has failed in its£270m bid to take full control of Scottish Radio Holdings. In a statement to the Stock Exchange, Emap said SRH, the biggest radio group in Scotland, had 'declined to entertain an offer' on the terms it ...
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Townhouse takes Trisha down under
Indie Town House TV has sold Five's Trisha Goddardshow to UKTV in Australia and New Zealand. The year-long deal will see the first episodes of the daily chat show air on the channel from August.
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Target to distribute Imago output
Norwich-based indie Imago Productions has signed an exclusive three-year output deal with Target Entertainment.
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Digidesign launch
Digidesign is launching the Icon D-Command console this Monday (6 June). The smaller format addition to Digidesign's Icon control surface family will be on show at the Courthouse Hotel, Great Marlborough Street, W1. The new version of ProTools, launched at NAB, will be shown for the first time in the ...
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Win free HD Day
Visitors to this week's Broadcast Production Show, which has pre-registered more than 20,000 delegates, can win a day's free equipment and crewing from kit supplier Infinite Vision. The company will be work with manufacturer Panasonic to produce high-definition footage at the show.
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Freudenstein insists new jobs will offset cuts at Sky
BSkyB's chief operating officer, Richard Freudenstein, has insisted that the satellite broadcaster is set to increase its overall headcount as it bids to get 10 million subscribers by 2010 - despite imminent job cuts in departments such as finance and marketing.
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Emap creates sexy look for FHM
Emap Performance Design along with creative agency UP has produced the identity package for the FHM music TV channel. The spots, which feature female models in suggestive poses while assuming male-centric jobs, were designed to fulfil FHM's core values: 'sexy, stylish and useful'. The promo was shot in a studio ...