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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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Promax UK awards
Promax UK is launching its annual student awards aimed at promoting the broadcast promo and marketing industry within colleges and universities. The competition involves challenging students to brand and promote a celebrity showdown format or an idea of their own choosing. The 2005 Promax Student Awards competition is being run ...
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Hartswood in Australian co-pro comedy
Hartswood Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Carrie and Barry, has started shooting its latest comedy series, Supernova, in Australia. A co-production with Fox World Australia, the 6 x 30-minute BBC2 series is about a team of astronomers working in the desert. ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Finn Arnesen
Senior vice-president original animation and acquisitions Cartoon Network, Toonami, Boomerang and EMEA international head of programme production on his admiration for Spongebob Squarepants
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Siemens appointees
Siemens Business Services has appointed Kevin Newport head of media and entertainment business development while Craig Dwyer is to lead media and entertainment solutions. Newport, a former BBC executive producer, joins Siemens from Cable and Wireless.
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Frow: life lesson shows are losing appeal
Lifestyle shows that attempt to tell people how to run their lives are losing their appeal, according to Ben Frow, the former Channel 4 commissioner behind hits including How Clean is Your House?
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VFG hire in administration
VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...
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Addiction gives us H Side Story
Addiction has just finished a title sequence and content graphics for Blaze Television's H Side Story. The series follows pop group Steps' H as he embarks upon a musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. The sequence illustrates H's journey from pop megastar to ...
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FX lands Fat Actress for UK
Multichannel broadcaster FX has acquired exclusive UK rights to Cheersstar Kirstie Alley's much-hyped new comedy reality show, Fat Actress.
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Industry to act on sound levels
The Advertising Producers Association (APA) has told broadcasters for the first time how they should operate with post-production companies on the problem of sound levels.
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C4's sexy short rap
Channel 4 has been rapped by Ofcom for airing an animated film with sexual content before the watershed. Regulator Ofcom decided that the C4 short, His Passionate Bride, was inappropriate for its 7.55pm time slot last November as it contained 'clear indications of sexual acts'. The ...
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S4C shuts down commercial arm
S4C International is to be closed and its business put out to tender following the closure of the Welsh broadcaster's commercial division, S4C Masnachol (commercial).
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C4 to co-produce King Tut's curse
Channel 4 has signed on as a co-production partner for National Geographic Television International's new event special, King Tut's Curse. In the 90-minute documentary, which is currently being co-produced by France 5, explorers, scientists and Egyptologists analyse the tomb of King Tutankhamen to establish how he ...
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C4 spotlights sport of eating
Twofour Productions is making a documentary about the bizarre 'sport' of competitive eating for Channel 4.
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Channel 4 conceives Morning After Show
Popworldhost Simon Amstell is to front a new live magazine show for Channel 4 taking a comedic look at the week's events. The 6 x 60-minute series, The Morning After Show, will be produced by Talkback Thames and see Amstell and co-hosts Olivia Lee and Barunka ...
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C4 suffers Friday night slump
Channel 4 suffered its second worst peaktime performance on a Friday since 1992 as comedy Nathan Barleydrew an average of just 700,000 (3.3%) at 10pm.
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C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...
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Telefónica to float part of its stake in Endemol
Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica is looking to float a minority stake in its wholly owned production arm Endemol on a European stock market.
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Fine Point and O21 buy into HD
Outside broadcast company 021 Television and hire company Fine Point Broadcast are committing£2m between them to cover high-definition sports and arts programming.
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Strictly? format to net BBC over£20m
Strictly Come Dancingis set to net over£20m for the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, the corporation said this week.