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NewsDead Man Weds falls to 2.3m
ITV1's struggling sitcom Dead Man Wedslost a further 400,000 viewers last night to average just 2.3 million (12%) at 10pm.
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Twofourtv's price
Producer twofourtv has appointed Nick Price as head of branded content. Price, formerly head of programme development and co-production at Extreme Entertainment, will be charged with growing the company's advertiser-funded programming which already includes projects such as Audi at Le Mans (Channel 4), The British Heart Foundation's Kitchen Detective (Discovery) ...
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On-demand launches
Telewest Broadband and NTL have launched the first phase of their TV on-demand services, which they plan to roll out region by region this year. Telewest's movies-on-demand service, provided by FilmFlex, is now available to its customers in Bristol who will be offered film titles through their existing set-top box. ...
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Tailor-made seeks injunction on VRT
Indie Tailor-Made Films is seeking an injunction to stop Belgium's VRT broadcasting an alleged copycat version of its BBC1 format Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough. Lawyers will try to block the public broadcaster from screening the show this Friday (21 ...
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Technicolor hiring
Technicolor Creative Services has appointed senior online editor Dominic Thomson to drive its Smoke suite and work within the digital intermediate department, which received a£2.6m investment in 2004. Technicolor recently moved its Denham operations to its new Perivale HQ.Thomson previously worked at Blue and Soho 601.
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NewsScream! Get it off the schedule
Poor-performing shows such as Scream! If You Want to Get Off- which has been pulled from this Saturday's ITV1 line-up - can have a knock-on effect across that channel's schedule.
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Filming in London reaches record high
Filming on the streets of London has soared by 10% over the past 12 months according to a study by Film London.
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Featherstone to lead Flame global push
Flame Television has promoted its head of production, Claire Featherstone, to managing director as it attempts a major push into the international market.
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New Zealand sticks to the facts
Factual specialist TVF International has sold 26 hours of British documentaries to broadcasters in New Zealand. Foxtel has picked up a slate of 13 titles including Brook Lapping's Playing the China Cardand Diana: Story of a Princess. In addition, TV3 New Zealand ...
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Format Focus: Face Off
This general knowledge knock-out format has done well in France and could soon reach UK shores. The format
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Lipsync puts images to eulogy
Lipsync Post has produced titles for and onlined Holocaust - A Music Memorial Filmfrom Auschwitzfor the BBC. The graphics had to be evocative yet appropriate to the subject matter. Senior designer Julia Blake and creative director Howard Watkins used After Effects to make the titles appear ...
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Van Outen in drama
Former Big Breakfastpresenter and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is. Van Outen will play district nurse and single mum Kim Blakeney, who moves to rural Yorkshire to start a ...
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Double order for September
Indie September Films has landed two new commissions, including a primetime special for ITV1 about nightmare nannies.
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Tsunami triggers NGTI documentary sales
National Geographic Television International (NGTI) has made several sales of documentary Tsunami: Killer Wave, in the wake of the Asian disaster.
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London figurehead ousted in Disney shake-up
Disney International has signalled a shift in power back to Los Angeles after its London-based president David Hulbert was ousted as part of a management shake-up.
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NewsWoolfe named as Flextech director of TV
Flextech has promoted Living TV and Bravo director of programmes Richard Woolfe to the new role of director of television.
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New Diary entries for distraction
Distraction Formats has sold its TV Diariesformat to Ireland, Canada and the Middle East. The format, in which contestants attempt to submit the most interesting video diary to avoid elimination, has been picked up by RTE in the Republic of Ireland, Zone 3 in Canada and ...
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Postman Pat makes more deliveries
Entertainment Rights (ER) has sold the new Postman Patseries to the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia. The deal, which will see the children's series air in the Nickelodeon channels' territories, takes the number of sales of Postman Patto 65 countries.
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RDFR in first-look deal with ZKK
RDF Rights (RDFR) has signed a first-look all-rights deal with factual indie ZKK that will see the Wife Swapproducer provide development funding for new programming and staff.
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More dates for Princess
Indie Princess Productions has scored high-volume renewals for a dating format in America and Italy.