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Cultural renaissance?
Since Melvyn Bragg lambasted the BBC's arts output in 2001, the genre has perked up enough to support the launch of a dedicated indie. But what's behind the sudden urge to bring art to the masses.
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Screentime scores with soccastars
Screentime Partners has inked deals for its football-based reality format Soccastars. VideoMedia Italia will make a local version for Italy while Advance TV has picked up the option for the Netherlands. The format will also be pitched to broadcasters in Denmark, Estonia, Finland and ...
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New Wallace role as Sky reviews music
BSKYB head of music channels Jo Wallace has been moved to oversee all original programming on Sky One, as the broadcaster reviews its music services.
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MTV manager quits
Peter Wright, general manager of MTV studios in Camden Lock, is to leave MTV after six years. Wright is to take a three-month break for the birth of his first child before pursuing a new career challenge. No decision has been made about replacing Wright, according to Mark Allen, managing ...
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New suite for IBF
IBF has created a dedicated compression and authoring facility within its Covent Garden operation. The suite will provide high-definition and standard definition digital video capture, filtering, encoding and transcoding using the Boxx HD Pro Dual Opteron system.
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Stone in GWR move
Dick Stone, programme controller at GWR station 96 Trent FM, has been appointed deputy programme director of GWR local radio programming division Creation. Stone, who has been at Trent for eight years, takes up the role on 23 August, reporting to Creation programme director Duncan Campbell.
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Granada sells package to South Korea
Granada International has sold more than 35 hours of programming to South Korean cable broadcaster Joongang, including The Forsyte Saga , Celebrity Bootcamp, Marry Me, The Tourist Trap, Brides of the Bath and Cirque du ...
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Granada to make psycho-thrillers
ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department. The Stepfather, a two-parter written by Simon Booker, stars Philip Glenister as a father whose 15-year-old daughter has gone missing amid suggestions that he has murdered her. The film, which goes ...
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ITV orders its first paranormal show
ITV has commissioned its first paranormal investigation with a one-off show from September Films in which a psychic attempts to drive out a spirit haunting a family home.
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Fat Friends returning for fourth series
ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a fourth series of Kay Mellor's acclaimed drama Fat Friends , starring Alison Steadman and Lisa Riley. The series, which has already gone into production for a slot early next year, will be made by Mellor's indie, ...
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Headfirst falls into liquidation
Headfirst Facilities has gone into liquidation after 15 years despite last-minute attempts to sell the company.
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Kemistry exhibition
Design agency Kemistry is due to open a gallery at its Shoreditch office to present the work of three influential title designers whose work during the 1960s laid the foundations for the industry today. The exhibition, which is called Timeframes - Lodge/Jeapes/ McGhie TV Title Pioneers, will combine stills, slides ...
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New sales executive for Minotaur
Minotaur International has appointed former Fireworks International director of factual Marjie Woods as senior sales executive. Reporting to vice-president Sarah
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Hit entertainment shares recover
Shares in Hit Entertainment, which owns the TV rights to Bob the Builder , rallied this week after plunging by a third last month. The boost comes amid rumours Hit is set to launch a kids digital TV channel in the US. Shares in Hit ...
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Elstein urges Ofcom not to forget radio
David Elstein, the new head of the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA), has warned Ofcom not to marginalise its work on the radio industry.
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Loos joins Edinburgh line-up
Rebecca Loos, the former assistant to David Beckham, who sparked a media frenzy earlier this year by claiming she bedded the married Real Madrid star, is to appear at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Function does Downloaded look
Function Design has designed titles and in-show graphics for One More Production's Downloaded. The programme showcases footage of the weird and wonderful from the near limitless library of the internet. Function Design's Tobin Goffe was creative director on the project and Oasis head of ...
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Terms laid down for Teachers TV
Education Digital, the consortium appointed by the government to run the new Teachers TV channel, will be hit with profit-related fines if it fails to meet rigorous standards.
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Diet Trials set for Germany
BBC Worldwide is to co-produce a new series of slimming reality series Diet Trials for German audiences.
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Format focus: TV diaries
Public voting adds interest to a show based around what at first resembles Big Brother audition tapes