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Challenge ups stakes with poker series
Challenge has acquired PartyPoker.com: The Poker Den, the channel's first live card game series for its new casino strand Players. Made by indie Matchroom in association with website PartyPoker.com, the 12 x 180-minute series will be broadcast from a basement in east ...
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Pact and Ofcom team up for census
Pact has teamed up with Ofcom to launch an industry-wide annual census in a bid to track the health of the programme production market.
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ITV1's new reality show Celebrity Love Islandgot off to a modest start this week.
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Racing camera
BBC Outside Broadcast's special camera team has developed a new camera set-up for horse-racing. The system, dubbed the 'starting stalls camera', is mounted on the moving part of the starting gate. The cameras are set to be used on BBC2's coverage of racing from Goodwood this Wednesday and Thursday (18 ...
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ITV buys classic shows from Fremantle
Fremantle International Distribution has sold 150 hours of programming to ITV for its digital offerings ITV3 and Men and Motors. The deal includes such classic shows as Rumpole of the Bailey, Van der Valk, Reilly Ace of Spies, The Sweeneyand Hannay.
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Granada ventures patrols Little Britain
Granada Ventures has won the contract to be worldwide licensing agent for BBC comedy Little Britain, handling merchandise, such as clothing and executive toys. The deal is believed to be worth more than£50m this year alone. The firm will also be responsible for protecting the ...
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Skills Day in Bristol
Aardman Animations, Endemol West and TwoFour Productions are coming together for a skills day on 26 May. Senior and entry level staff from the three companies will join staff from South West Screen and Skillset for a tour of Endemol West's Bristol studio, a workshop in reality TV filming, and ...
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MUTV to bring playout in-house
Manchester United Football Club's dedicated news channel, MUTV, has invested over half-a-million pounds to bring its playout in-house.
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Brighton lines up Saddam's doctor
Indie Brighton TV has inked three commissions for US broadcaster A&E's History Channel including a film exploring the relationship between Saddam Hussein and his doctor.
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Supernanny heads Brazilian deals
Channel 4 International has sold Ricochet's parenting show Supernannyinto Brazil. Terrestrial channel SBT has acquired the format rights, while pay-TV channel GNT has bought the finished series one and two and the eight-part US series. GNT has also picked up Ricochet's series ...
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ITV to enter ring with boxing bouts
ITV could be set to make boxing coverage a permanent part of its schedule after Saturday's bout between Amir Khan and Mario Kindelan pulled in 6.3 million viewers. The live fight on 14 May was the first boxing match that the channel had broadcast in about 10 years and was ...
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Blue in A Company of Soldiers
Blue has completed post-production on BBC4 Storyville documentary A Company of Soldiers. The 90-minute piece, produced by October Films, follows a US army division around Baghdad for a month. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton's biggest challenge was dealing with footage from when the production team came under ...
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Second bite for Masterchef Goes Large
BBC2 has commissioned a second series of Masterchef Goes Largefrom indie Shine, adding an extra 10 episodes to its run. The programme, which hunts out budding chefs, putting them through their paces to earn a place in a top restaurant or as a TV chef ' ...
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GMTV to show Biker Mice from Mars
GMTV has secured the UK rights to the new series of Biker Mice from Mars.
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Lion TV expands Beat the... format for BBC
Lion TV has secured another BBC daytime series with a spin-off of its Beat the Burglarformat.
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Half of BBC staff set to join strike
Union officials are expecting as many as half the BBC's staff to join its first day of strike action on 23 May.
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BBC training to improve EU coverage
BBC News will give staff better training on the EU to improve its reporting of the subject. In the wake of Lord Wilson's report on the corporation's EU coverage, the department has pledged to provide an online course on the EU for journalists, give fieldwork in Brussels and Strasbourg for ...
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BBC trials 'iTunes for TV'
The BBC is offering viewers the chance to download programmes over the internet with a new initiative it hopes will become 'iTunes for the broadcasting industry'.
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Woof and Hothouse brand BB
Branding agency Woof and special effects company Hothouse FX have teamed up to produce the promos for this summer's Big Brother. One thousand Big Brotherfans were invited to a secret east London location to grab their part of£100,000 of prizes after winning ...
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Mentorn award
Indie Mentorn has won an award for its BBC2 music documentary on Benjamin Britten. Director John Bridcut was handed the Royal Philharmonic Society's award for creative communication for Britten's Children, which explored the composer's music for children and his relationship with them. It aired in June ...