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Copycat dispute hits Tailor-Made
Indie Tailor-Made Films has lost a lucrative commission from a Belgian broadcaster after a rival station rushed a similar format into production.
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Under construction goes to Scandinavia
Zeal TV has sold its house-building reality format Under Constructionto Norway and Finland. Monster TV in Norway will produce 24 episodes, which will air twice weekly on TV2 this spring, and Channel 4 in Finland will also develop the format. In addition, Belgium's VTM has commissioned ...
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Commisioners Q&A: Fenia Vardanis
With her first commission of the year, the BBC's senior commissioning executive, entertainment thinks she may have hit upon the next big thing after property and babies
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Few laughs for new ITV comedy
New comedies on BBC and ITV failed to find many laughs among viewers this week.
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CNN hires Foster
CNN International has poached Max Foster from BBC1's Breakfast. The correspondent/presenter will join CNN in March as an anchor/reporter across the network's London-produced business and news shows. He will report to managing editor Nick Wrenn.
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Classic sound kit
Audio post facility Classic Sound has bought Merging Technologies' Pyramix and V Cube audio, editing and mixing systems from reseller Total Audio Solutions. The system offers 128-track editing and dubbing and also allows high-definition picture files to be imported for audio to picture post work.
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Julian Clary format sells to Russia
Distraction Formats has secured a raft of new deals for three of its shows. In the Dark, the UK format hosted by Julian Clary on ITV in 1996, will be remade by Russia's Muz TV. TPI in Indonesia has also taken the format, in which three ...
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Daytime chief quits Sky One
Sky One commissioning editor for daytime Zoe Watson has quit after nearly four years with the broadcaster.
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Chancellor on the Community Channel
Channel 4 Newsanchor Jon Snow is to interview chancellor Gordon Brown as part of a series of high-profile interviews for charity service the Community Channel. The 4 x 30-minute series, The Jon Snow Interviews, will air from the end of February, as part of the channel's ...
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Celebs pick top TV moments for UKTV
UKTV has asked celebrities to recall their favourite TV moments for a 60-minute show to air across eight of its 10 channels. Commissioned by director of network programming Charlotte Ashton, TV Firstsis made by Prospect Pictures and is part of a season celebrating TV. It will ...
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Canada's Cineflix opens London office
Canadian-based producer/distributor Cineflix has set up a London office and poached Outline Productions managing director Simon Lloyd to run it.
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UK Post sets up broadcast working group
UK Post chiefs have set up a broadcast working group to confront the issues facing the sector ahead of impending changes at the BBC.
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Broadcast surveys
Equipment resellers and television studio bosses are being sought by Broadcastfor two special magazine reports. Reseller Survey 2005 and TV Studios 2005 will feature statistics, analysis and business features that explore the size and condition of the reseller and studio markets. Both reports will be published ...
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Mersey PSB bid
Mersey Television chairman Phil Redmond said this week he planned to launch his grassroots digital public service channel on the Sky platform in the autumn. The not-for-profit Liverpool-based channel, to be called the North West Digital Platform, will be fully funded by the North West Development Agency for five years. ...
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BBC orders greig-fronted rom-com
The BBC has commissioned a romantic comedy drama starring Green Wingactress Tamsin Greig and The Wonder Years'Michael Landes. The 6 x 60-minute Love Soup, written by David Renwick, whose credits include Jonathan Creekand One ...
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Electric Sky shifts BBC tsunami doc
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made several sales of the BBC's Asian tsunami documentary, The Killer Wave. The 52-minute special, broadcast earlier this month, has been picked up by broadcasters in six countries including the US.
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BBC Worldwide lines up shows for US
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to bring British comedy, drama and factual programming to video-on-demand viewers in the US. Akimbo Systems, which offers content via broadband, signed a deal at this week's Natpe market for content such as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroyand ...
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Casino threat to BBC media centre
The proposed conversion of Alexandra Palace into a new media campus has been thrown into doubt by the BBC reviews and interest from the gambling industry.
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Red finishes BBC promotion
Red Post-Production has completed work on a pioneering interactive television production for the BBC, cross-promoting BBC 1Xtra's radio coverage of the Trinidad Carnival with the red-button service on digital TV platforms. Red Inferno artist Ally Burnett created transitions using elements from carnival footage, which were animated in Inferno with a ...
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Grade on BBC News
BBC chairman Michael Grade has said the corporation should make news programmes that are both serious and popular, despite conceding serious news values were coming under 'increasing strain'. Delivering the inaugural Hugh Cudlipp lecture in London this week, he admitted there may have been confusion in the past as to ...