All News articles – Page 3599
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Five nicks MTV Awards
Five has poached terrestrial rights to broadcast the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) from Channel 4.
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Allen honoured
Charles Allen will pick up the International Emmy Directorate Award this November in recognition of ITV's 50 years of independent, commercial programming in the UK. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents the award to organisations or individuals in management, administration, engineering, news, programming, and international relations for ...
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Allen is new comedy commissioner
BBC editor of comedy Kenton Allen is understood to have been appointed as the BBC's comedy commissioner. The move follows the departure of Mark Freeland, who left the BBC this week to join indie producer Hartswood Films. Freeland will take on an unspecified role at the indie best known for ...
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Living to air Miss Popularity
Living TV has scooped the UK rights to New Zealand reality show Miss Popularityand will air it this summer on sister station Living TV2.
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Kiss My Pixel finishes BBC4 job
Bristol animation company Kiss My Pixel has supplied 3D graphics for Animation Nation.The BBC Bristol documentary series looks at the past 100 years of British animation, from the theatre to Hollywood. Kiss My Pixel creative directors Simon Brown and Christopher Vass created 3D virtual environments combining ...
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C4 makes doc on Arquette sex change
Channel 4 is continuing the trend for extreme make-over with a documentary about Hollywood actor Alexis Arquette's sex change.
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RDFR sells C4 rock
RDF Rights has agreed deals with VH1 in the US for Rock School, a new Channel 4 series where Kiss frontman Gene Simmons will tutor a group of school children in the ways of rock. VH1 will show the original 7 x 30-minute UK series, and ...
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Adams Trainor titles 25 parter
Adams Trainor has created the titles and stings for Lion TV's Mum's on Strike. The 25 x 45-minute series looks at fathers who have been left in charge of the home and the kids while their partners take a much needed break. Creative director Jon Adams ...
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Manchester's Sumners buys Da Vinci 2K
Manchester post facility Sumners has bought a Da Vinci 2K grading system as it aims to establish itself as the top HD finishing facility in Manchester.
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Blue posts BBC2 gambler doc
Soho facility Blue has completed the full post on The Confession. The 90-minute documentary, part of BBC2's Compulsionseries, looks at how compulsive gambling has affected addict James Burton. Director Henry Singer wanted to make the film feel like a series of still ...
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Ginger gets Jack Osbourne fit for ITV2
Rockstar offspring and notorious bon viveur Jack Osbourne is embarking on a six-month mission to get fit in a challenge series for ITV2.
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BBC1 wins with wedding and race
The thrill of the Grand National proved more enticing than the pomp and circumstance of a royal wedding last weekend.
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A real waste of money
The feeble idea behind BBC3's rural reality show, The Week the Women Left, and its high costs prove that BBC in-house production needs to be more accountable, says Ted Harrison.
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The Marshall Plan
With revenues from ITV Interactive growing at an impressive rate, department head Jane Marshall is confident that s...
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Weather or markets?
What makes the latest FTSE and Dow information more important than storms looming over the horizon for Newsnight's ...
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Special day or tedium TV?
Lisa Chapman thought the BBC struggled to spice up this weekend's royal wedding coverage, while ITV and Sky News ma...
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Changing the face of TV
Former ITV chief Richard Eyre devours all the gory detail of the enormous risks and rewards behind John de Mol's Big Brother,as revealed in Peter Bazalgette's 'big and brainy' new book, Billion Dollar Game.
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In training for the big one
Having lost out on the BBC1 controller's job, former BBC daytime scheduler Alison Sharman is now looking to make he...
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Electing to do better
It's time for broadcasters and politicians to try to find a way out of a relationship skewed by constant confrontation.
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The clash of art and commerce
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson explains why the BBC distorts the UK broadcasting sector and how a TV industry which mixes commerce and creativity can be problematic - but is also capable of producing spectacular results