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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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BBC disabled target
The BBC has set a target of 4% of its 28,000 jobs to be staffed by people with disabilities by 2007. Around 2.7% of BBC staff currently identify themselves as having a disability compared to 10.1% of the population as a whole. The new target sits alongside improved targets for ...
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Bectu calls off BBC Technology strike
Broadcasting union Bectu has been forced to call off this weekend's planned strike over the sale of BBC Technology after receiving a renewed offer from its proposed buyer Siemens. The strike was due to take place for two days from Friday (30 July). Another two-day strike from 13 August, which ...
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IWC media bags BBC piping hot order
BBC Scotland has ordered a one-off documentary for later this year centred around Glasgow's international bagpipe festival in August. The programme, provisionally titled Piping Hot , will be made by IWC Media. IWC's Hamish Barbour will executive produce and Jill Cumberbatch and Tim Maguire will ...
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Bravo orders to probe bad Brits
Bravo has stocked up on factual content with three series looking at the rougher side of Britain's provincial towns.
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Govt backtracks on switchover
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.
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Dubbs axes nine
Soho duplication service Dubbs has laid off nine members of staff in what chairman John Reiss called 'a proactive initiative to protect the staff that remain'. Reiss attributed the decision to cut the staff to the technological changes that have affected the duplication business and said: 'We hate doing this ...
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Ascent sets up TV and film restoration arm
Ascent Media has brought in Martin Poultney from Technicolor to head their new group restoration, archiving and mastering team aimed at the film and TV markets.
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Benny Hill show set for BBC America
BBC America has picked up classic slapstick comedy The Benny Hill Show following a deal with Fremantle International Distribution. The popular Thames Television series made in the 1960s and 1970s will join the channel's schedule from October. In addition, Fremantle has sold the home entertainment ...
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Adrian Chiles to front MOTD spin-off
Working Lunch presenter Adrian Chiles is to front a new Match of the Day spin-off to air on Sunday evenings on BBC2. Match of the Day 2, which will air at 10pm from 15 August, will include highlights from that day's games as well as ...
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Pact and Equity agree actors' pay deal
Producers' alliance Pact and actors' union Equity have agreed a new television deal which will halve the amount broadcasters have to pay actors for repeats between 4pm and 6pm and 10.30pm and 11pm. In addition, broadcasters will now make a further saving of 4.5% on repeat fees if the repeat ...
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Format focus: Studio 7
Studio 7, which debuted in the US last week on The WB, is a none-too-subtle mixture of Weakest Link-style grilling ...
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Mahoney moves to C4I from BBC
Channel 4 International (C4I) has poached BBC Worldwide senior commissioning editor Joe Mahoney to take up the new role of head of commercial development.
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Zeppotron lands C4 smut show
Endemol UK subsidiary Zeppotron is to help Channel 4 sex up its late evening slot with a new show chronicling the smuttiest moments from TV and cinema.
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Trainspotting actor to star in C4 drama
IWC Media has recruited Trainspotting star Ewan Bremner (above) for a one-off drama about an ME sufferer and a wheelchair-bound war film fanatic with multiple sclerosis who get together to perform a terrorist act. The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show , ...
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S4C prepares to go digital
Welsh channel S4C is to bolster its art, current affairs and children's output in preparation for its switch to a digital-only Welsh language service.
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C4 ties up Ramsay
Channel 4 has locked Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay into an exclusive three-year UK deal. The deal, which will run until July 2007, gives C4 exclusive rights for all of Ramsay's UK television output. Over the next three years, Ramsay will star in a range of shows produced by indie Optomen ...
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BBC3 to air Graham Norton's US show
BBC3 has acquired Graham Norton's US chat show in a move that will keep the camp comic exclusively on the BBC.
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BBC2 series to organise lives
Personal time management could be the hot new lifestyle genre after BBC2 controller Roly Keating ordered a series that aims to help streamline people's lives.
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BBC1 lines up fourth series of spooks
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have ordered a fourth run of hit spy drama Spooks. The series, about a group of MI5 agents, will be made by indie Kudos. The third series, due to air on BBC1 in ...