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Pre-sales deals done for Planet Earth
BBC Worldwide has secured a series of pre-sales for its landmark natural history series Planet Earth. The latest broadcasters to sign up for the 11-part series are Prime Television (New Zealand), DR (Denmark), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) and RUV (Iceland) in deals concluded at Mip. The ...
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Granada makes royal couple drama
ITV1 is cashing in on last weekend's royal wedding with a docu-drama about the early romance between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles with the Granada-produced Whatever Love Means. The drama will follow the couple's relationship from their meeting at a polo match in 1970 until ...
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Mirsky profiles female cons
THE executive producer who cleared a village of women for a BBC3 documentary is to probe the lives of two high-profile, white-collar female criminals.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Ralph Lee
Channel 4 commissioning editor, history is on the lookout for event television for next year and some presenters who can be the faces of it
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Strictly Come Dancing on way to Spain
The BBC's entertainment hit Strictly Come Dancingis to get a Spanish makeover, following a format sale to Madrid-based reality producer Atomis Media. Managing director Isabel Raventos bought the format at Mip with details of the deal to be revealed later in the week. The show may ...
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Liverpool St wins castle commission
TV presenter Tris Payne's new independent Liverpool Street Productions has won its first commission, with a six-part documentary series about the restoration of Allerton Castle for ITV Yorkshire. Allerton Castle will follow the attempts to renovate the 19th-century Gothic castle after much of the building was destroyed by fire. The ...
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Sky launches digibox loyalty card
BSkyB is to launch another TV first this week - an interactive TV credit and loyalty card. The scheme, to be unveil...
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Fox Reality gobbles up UK content at Cannes
Fox'snew reality channel has gone on a shopping spree at Cannes this week, with Fox reality head David Lyle opening his cheque book and hoovering up a range of UK reality TV output.
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Hallmark Channel buys school drama
The Hallmark Channel has acquired All3Media International's Julie Walters drama Ahead of the Classfor its feeds in Scandinavia, Luxembourg, eastern Europe, Israel, Middle East, Turkey and Africa. All3Media has also struck DVD and video deals with TVNZ in New Zealand and Granada Ventures in the UK. ...
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DGP books bronze
DVD and post-production facility DGP has appointed Kate Bronze as bookings manager and promoted Anthony Van Den Putte to assist her in bookings. Van Den Putte was previously head of bookings and sales at Todd-AO Media UK. Bronze was senior bookings manager at MTV.
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The match takes cricket to Bollywood
Bollywood stars are going head to head with Indian cricketing legends in a local adaptation of Initial's sport reality format The Match. Endemol International has sold the format to Indian channel Star TV. The network plans to co-produce the show with Initial later this year under ...
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Ragdoll latest is Blurrfect
Teletubbies indie Ragdoll has unveiled its latest series, Blurrfect, to launch on CiTV in the autumn.
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Cash Cab quiz show sold in Europe before UK broadcast
Cash cab, an ITV1 quiz show from Lion TV, has been sold to several European territories before it has even aired in the UK.
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BBC Cannes deals
Docu-drama Supervolcanohas been snapped up by more than 30 countries as part of a series of BBC deals at Mip. The factual drama - a BBC Science co-pro with Discovery, ProSieben, NHK and Mediaset - will be on screens everywhere from Saudia Arabia to Serbia thanks ...
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Pope hits BBC site
The Pope's funeral has given the BBC's news website its second highest ever number of hits. More than 2 million people visited the site for news of the funeral arrangements for Pope John Paul II last week, with hundreds of thousands more hits for news of the royal wedding. Total ...
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BBC examines first black superstar
A documentary based on the life of 1920s cabaret dancer and singer Josephine Baker has been commissioned for BBC2 and BBC4. The 60-minute Josephine Baker - The First Black Superstarwill explore Baker's influence on the cultural history of the 20th century and is being produced by Forget ...
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BBC in court
The controversy over Jerry Springer - The Operathreatens to erupt again, as the High Court decides whether a legal action against the BBC should go ahead. The Christian Institute took the corporation to court over its airing of the programme in January, which attracted more than ...
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Strike threat to BBC election coverage
The BBC's general election coverage could be hit by strikes. Thousands of BBC workers are to be balloted on strike action after last-ditch talks between union negotiators and director general Mark Thompson failed. Bectu, the NUJ and Amicus are threatening a 24-hour walk out, with one union official warning coverage ...
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Boat drama back on
ITV1 factual drama The Marchioness, made by Chameleon Television and Granada Yorkshire, is now in production after resolving funding problems. The two-hour film, which tells the story of the collision between dredger Bowbelle and pleasure cruiser The Marchionessin 1989, was on hold ...
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Endemol takes on Don't Drop the Baby
Endemol has signed a deal with ID Distribution to take new format Don't Drop the Babyaround the world. The Big Brotherproducer has secured worldwide distribution rights to the format, in which celebrities must look after a state-of-the-art baby doll for a week. Indie ...