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Red Battlefield job
Manchester-based Red Vision has successfully won the pitch for the BBC sequel to Battlefield Britain. The follow-up to the Peter Snow-fronted show will focus on international battles. Red Vision managing director David Mousley said early graphics work had begun and that its Legion software was being ...
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Barnett joins MTV
Sarah Barnett has quit as director of the Edinburgh International TV Festival to join MTV in the newly created role of head of affiliate marketing for the MTV and VH1 channels. Starting in March, Barnett will report to James Scroggs and Anna Bateson, directors of MTV and VH1 channels respectively. ...
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ITV plans two more audiences with...
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned two further An Audience with...specials featuring I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!winner Joe Pasquale and 'pub landlord' comedian Al Murray. The shows, which are expected to air on ITV1 from March, will ...
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BBC turns to virtual camera to spread rugby's appeal
BBC Sport is to pioneer a new virtual stadium technology in the Six Nations Rugby Championship next week in an effort to maintain the popularity of the game after the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
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BBC America open to offers from UK indies
New BBC America chief executive Bill Hilary has said there will be more opportunities for UK indies after pledging to double the channel's budget over the next two years.
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RDFI Band Aid deal
RDF International has picked up distribution rights to the documentary Band Aid: the Song that Rocked the World. Produced by Blakeway Productions, the 60-minute programme marks the 20th anniversary of the Band Aid charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas?and was originally ...
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Masterson sets up dedicated AFP firm
FORMER ITV2 commercial director Paul Masterson has set up a new production company dedicated to advertiser-funded programming.
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PRIME ADDS CAMERAS
Broadcast hire company Prime Television has invested£30,000 in 12 new Sony HVR-Z1 high-definition cameras and three recorders, which it will be showing at Broadcast's Engaging HD conference on 3 February at the Waldorf Hilton, London.
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Curtis pens G8 tale
Love Actuallywriter Richard Curtis is to write his first drama for the BBC with a 90-minute special set at a G8 summit. The Girl in the Caféwill air this summer as part of the corporation's season of programmes about Africa. Produced in association with US cable ...
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Hi De Hi inspires C4 reality series
Brat Campindie Twenty Twenty Television is to recreate the low-brow camp of Hi De Hias part of a new reality series for Channel 4.
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C4's Bromwell High toon Heads for Oz
Channel 4's new multicultural animated series Bromwell Highhas been picked up by the ABC and Comedy Channel in Australia. The 13 x 20-minute series, co-produced by Hat Trick and Decode Entertainment, follows three unruly girls in a London school.
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Blue posts surgery series for C4
Blue has completed the grade and online editing for Channel 4's Ancient Plastic Surgery. The Cicada Films documentary examines what early civilisations knew about cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Online editor and colourist Bill Ogden graded and onlined in Avid DS Nitris using The Foundry's Anvil grading ...
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Liberty Bell allotted BBC2 show
Liberty Bell Productions, the indie behind the hit BBC show Grumpy Old Men, has been commissioned to make a BBC2 daytime series about allotments.
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ITV signs£1m beer sponsorship deal
ITV has signed a£1m deal which will see Cobra beer sponsor more than 300 movies on ITV2 and ITV3 this year. The project, titled CobraVision, will also invite movie-makers to submit short films that will air in the breaks of the main feature. It will launch on 31 January with ...
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NewsBidding war erupts over Freeview slot
A bidding war is set to kick off with broadcasters preparing to offer up to£5m a year via sealed bids for a newly available Freeview slot.
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NewsBBC plans VE Day specials
The BBC is preparing to mark the 60th anniversary of VE Day this summer with a raft of programming, including a Surprise Surprise-style entertainment show that will reunite old comrades.
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NewsLiving TV named channel of the year
Living TV has beaten competition from leading terrestrial channels to be declared Channel of the Year at this week's 10th annual Broadcast Awards.
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NewsC4 in talks to bring Behzti row to screen
Channel 4 is in talks with the producers of the controversial play Behztiabout screening excerpts of the play as part of an investigation into beliefs and the media.
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NewsAndreae exits C4 to take Fox post
Channel 4 head of science and education Simon Andreae is quitting to join Fox Television Studios in the US.
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NewsC4 hires Hopkinson and drops Teachers
Channel 4 has poached executives from Granada and the BBC to fill new drama roles in the wake of head of drama John Yorke's departure.