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More go to MipTV
Attendance for next week's MipTV market looks set to be up on last year's event. As Broadcastwent to press organiser Reed Midem said confirmed delegate numbers were 11,319, already well up on last year's final figure of 11,107. Exhibitor numbers were up from around 1,400 last ...
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Ghost squad starts
Company Pictures has started shooting Channel 4's first cop show, The Ghost Squad. The eight-part drama follows internal investigators trying to root out corruption within the police. The Ghost Squadwas created by Tom Grieves and commissioned by former C4 head of drama ...
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GI takes Nat Geo's megastructures
Granada International has picked up the rights to National Geographic's factual strand ...
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Men & Motors in May launch on Freeview
ITV is set launch Men & Motors on Freeview next month after paying around£5m for a slot on Crown Castle's digital ...
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Format focus: TV TRAP
A Candid Camera-style show, which has unwitting contestants taking part in spoof TV programmes. ...
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Teachers' TV edit
Systems integrator Boxer has set up the on-site edit facilities for the newly launched education and community channel Teachers' TV. Boxer supplied and installed three Final Cut Pro editing systems, connected to an Omneon video server. Teachers' TV started broadcasting across digital platforms in February. The cost was not disclosed.
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Indies team up for Green drama
Touchpaper TV has teamed up with actor Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, to make a family drama for an early evening slot on BBC1.
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ID Distribution to handle Stelios doc
Sky One has awarded the international rights for observational series Cruise with Steliosto ID Distribution. The series (9 x 60 minutes and 20 x 30 minutes) is being made by Twofour Productions. ID Distribution hopes to make pre-sales of the series at MipTV but will officially ...
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Emap finance director resigns
Emap finance director Gary Hughes has unexpectedly resigned with no job to go to. Emap, which publishes Broadcast, has seen profits rise every year since Hughes took over in 2000, but it is believed he wanted a larger role at the company. He will leave at ...
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Question Time lines up election debate
Leaders from all the major political parties are to be quizzed by a studio audience for the first time, as part of a Question Time Election Special. Labour leader Tony Blair, the Conservatives' Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy from the Lib Dems will each be given ...
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Raft of deals for Turn On Television
Turn On Television has sold its The Real Coronation Streetto Living TV2. The series, first shown in the ITV Granada region, follows the lives of people who live on a real Coronation Street. The indie has also sold two series to Sky Travel. The first, 6 ...
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YooMedia in stategic deal for ViaVision
Yoomedia, the interactive group headed by former BBC executive David Docherty has paid around£1.3m for ViaVision, the owner of Game-In TV, in a bid to expand its presence in the gaming industry.
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Darlow director
Former Carlton International Media chief executive Rupert Dilnott-Cooper has resurfaced as a non-executive director at Touching the Voidproducer Darlow Smithson. Dilnott-Cooper took up the appointment, his first since leaving Carlton last year, this week. He is Darlow Smithson's first non-executive director.
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Crow TV ops head
West London facility Crow TV has appointed former Endemol and RDF production manager David Waterman as head of operations. Waterman's credits include The Gamesand Scrapheap Challenge. He joins on 18 April. Also, Piera Cuttica joined Crow TV last month in the new ...
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Commissioner's Q& A: Paul Welling
The vice-president and channel director, Discovery Home & Leisure and Discovery Travel & Living wants pitches for h...
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US channel to co-pro second Nighty Night
Oxygen, the US cable women's channel founded by chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, has stepped in to co-produce the second series of award-winning BBC comedy Nighty Night.
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Portman signs Robert Carlyle drama
Portman Film & Television, the rights group recently taken over by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright, has signed up the distribution rights to Zenith Entertainment's new ITV1 drama Class of 76, starring Robert Carlyle.
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Broadcasters to pay less for Ofcom
Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year. The regulator said its 2005/6 budget would be around£133m - 5% lower than the£140m it was allocated for the year to 31 March 2005. Ofcom will also receive a£5m research grant ...