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BBC Broadcast's Unthinkable job
BBC Broadcast has produced UKTV History's Unthinkable campaign promoting UKTV History's ...
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India gets BBC feed
BBC World has created a separate satellite feed for India as part of an experiment in localised news. The channel has been making versions of its programmes specifically for India for seven years, but will now broadcast a unique schedule to the country from its Asian PAS 10 satellite. If ...
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BBC digital radio
Listeners to the BBC's digital radio stations have increased by 83% over the past year, helped by the success of the corporation's Radio Player technology. The technology gave a boost to the corporation's digital-only stations - 1Xtra, 6 Music, BBC 7, the Asian Network and Five Live Sports Extra - ...
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BBC team head to US to remake Strictly
The BBC team behind Strictly Come Dancingare decamping to the US to make a version of the hit show for ABC.
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Barb includes PVRs
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) is to enhance its overnight viewing by adding data from PVR users. Viewers who pause or record a programme using a PVR, such as Sky+, and then watch it the same day will now be included in the overnights figures supplied the following day. ...
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Merchandising backs Muffin's return
Maverick Entertainment is planning a major merchandising blitz for its classic kids character Muffin the Mule, which will return to the BBC in September in a modern, 2D incarnation from Blue Fish Cartoons. Maverick has agreed a worldwide licensing deal with Derbyshire rights group Peak Entertainment which plans a novelty ...
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Audio facility opens
Audio facility Noise has opened for business. Dubbing mixers Aidan McCarthy, Karl Mainzer and Jeff Richardson have opened the audio facility in Oxford Circus and will offer three high-definition sound theatres for broadcast and commercial projects. They are being financially backed by Directors Cut. The studios were built by Munro ...
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Agenda setting TV on a plate
From the outset the production team behind Jamie's School Dinners were determined that their TV show would make a difference
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NewsDoctor Who peaks at 44% share
The much-hyped return of Doctor Whoto BBC1 not only meant victory over the Autons but also saw off ITV1's popular duo Ant and Dec.
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C4 series tracks Asbo enforcer
Terrorised estates and frightened residents are to come under the spotlight for a C4 documentary on the only private firm allowed to dish out the controversial Anti-Social Behaviour Orders.
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C4 delves lost princes' death
Channel 4 has commissioned a docu-drama to uncover the truth behind Richard III's rise to the throne of England.
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C4 Dispatches looks at dying wishes
Channel 4 is investigating British attitudes to death in a documentary for its flagship current affairs strand Dispatches. In the 60-minute film Last Rights(working title) Professor Laurie Taylor will be looking at why British people plan their funerals but give little thought ...
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C4 poaches Party in the Park from Five
Channel 4 has snatched the rights to screen 95.8 Capital FM's music concert, Party in the Park, from Five.
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C4 aims antiques show at grey market
Channel 4 has commissioned an antiques-based gameshow as part of its strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime schedule.
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C4 launches property show magazine
Channel 4 is continuing to spin off its hit property shows into consumer titles with the launch of a Location Location Locationmagazine later this month. The show's producer, IWC Media, and rights manager, RDF Rights, have secured a deal with publisher Brooklands Group for the monthly ...
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Hall joins the Channel 4 board
Former BBC news chief executive Tony Hall has joined the Channel 4 board as a non-executive director for a three-year term. He takes up the part-time role immediately replacing Andrew Graham whose term ended on 31 March. Hall is currently chief executive of the Royal Opera House.
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Lawrence back at M2
Editor Richard Lawrence has returned to M2 following stints at Molinare and Oasis Television after leaving M2 in 2003. Lawrence is taking a senior Editbox operator and Nitris operator role. His credit list includes promos for MTV, Discovery Channel and E4 and title sequences for the BBC's ...
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Odd couples' stories for ITV2
ITV2 has commissioned Manchester-based indie Turn On Television to make a 6 x 60-minute series on some of Britain's...
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BBC1 orders third Hustle from Kudos
Kudos Film & Television has been commissioned to make a third series of Hustle, the indie's BBC1 drama which kicked off its second series this week.
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ABC1 in ad deal
Disney entertainment channel ABC1 has signed its first advertising deal, teaming up with the world's largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble. From Friday (1 April) the channel, which has not taken any ads since its September 2004 launch, will feature two advertising breaks per half-hour during shows. There will, however, be ...