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NewsVan Outen gets ITV1 drama role
Former Big Breakfast host and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is.
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NewsOrton to get MipTV award
Peter Orton, the founder and chairman of HIT Entertainment, is to become the first Briton to receive the lifetime achievement award at the MipTV festival in Cannes.
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NewsBBC to air tsunami relief concert
The BBC is to broadcast the tsunami relief concert in Cardiff, which will feature stars such as Eric Clapton and Charlotte Church performing to raise money for the Asian disaster.
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NewsC4 reject Frost project
Channel 4 has passed over the latest television project from actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost and her Blueflower Production company.
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NewsInglish heads BBC political shows
The BBC has created a new role in its news division combining the leadership of its political programmes, analysis and research.
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NewsPEER POLL: Jerry Springer - The Opera
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the BBC have broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera?
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NewsDead Man Weds falls to 2.7m
ITV1's struggling sitcom Dead Man Wedslost 700,000 viewers to average just 2.7 million (13%) at 10pm as Channel 4's Desperate Housewiveswent from strength to strength with 4.8 million (25.5%).
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BBC offloads Eve
BBC Worldwide has sold glossy women's magazine Eveto the Haymarket publishing group for an undisclosed sum. The decision to offload the title is part of the corporation's decision to sell off non-core activities, as set out in the commercial review it undertook at the end of ...
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Sky One picks Weeds from US
Sky One has bought the exclusive UK rights to US comedy Weeds, months before it launches in the States.
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Kreiz makes move
Former Fox Kids Europe chief executive Ynon Kreiz has joined venture capitalists Benchmark Capital as a general partner of European funds. Kreiz will be charged with leading Benchmark's strategy to widen its investment in the media, as the company invests its new fund of $375m (£199.6m). Since leaving Fox Kids ...
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Japan makes way for Noddy
Noddy is heading to Japan after Chorion, the company that owns the rights to the Enid Blyton books, signed a deal with three TV networks. The 100 x 10-minute CGI animated series Make Way for Noddyhas been picked up by the BS Fuji, Kids Station and ...
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UKTV hires Reef for property output
Indie Reef Television has been commissioned to make a 15 x 30-minute property series for UKTV Style. Perfect Properties, ordered by UKTV Style channel executive Chantal Rutherford Browne, will follow interior designer Theo Nicolaou and his twin brother, Mario, as they track down the most desired ...
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Living orders for Granada
Granada Media has landed its first commission for Living TV, with a docu-soap about an airline.
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Unique to follow multiple mothers
Manchester-based indie Unique Factuals has been commissioned to make a series on multiple births for Discovery Health. Ordered by channel director Clare Laycock, the 15 x 30-minute Multiple Mumswill follow mums-to-be expecting twins, triplets and quads. Transmission is scheduled for 3pm on 7 March.
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Lost film restored
The Machine Room has restored footage for the British Film Institute (bfi) from the archives of Edwardian film company Mitchell and Kenyon. The firm, long since folded, recorded everyday life as well as working on feature films. The three-part The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, ...
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Three fill Peel spot
BBC Radio 1 is to introduce three DJs into John Peel's late-night slot, following the death of the veteran presenter in October last year. R1 DJ Huw Stephens and Rob Da Bank as well as Ras Kwame, a DJ on the BBC's black music digital station 1Xtra, will host individual ...
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ITV lines up pop families in peak
ITV1 is to give two families the chance to become popstars for a night in a Saturday primetime entertainment series.
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MotionFX expands
London-based digital film facility MotionFX has added a second Quantel iQ system, Eyeon Digital Fusion vfx workstations, two Thomson Viper FilmStream digital cinematography cameras and a 2K digital screening unit. Justin Lanchbury has joined the company as group sales manager from rental firm VMI.
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VTR loses Endacott
VTR producer Romillie Endacott will join Glassworks as a senior producer from the beginning of next month. Endacott, who resigned last week, replaces senior producer Zoe Rogers who has, coincidentally, joined VTR North. VTR Media Services company Blue has lost two commercials staff, who have joined Ascent Media's One Post: ...
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NY EastEnders row
EastEndersfans in New York have been told to come up with $29,000 (£15,400) by the end of January to save the BBC soap from being axed by a local public television station. New York station WLIW, which has broadcast the soap since 1996, will stop airing it by the end ...