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NewsPEER POLL: BBC2
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Will Roly Keating improve BBC2?
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NewsC4 pulls Edge of the City
Channel 4 has been forced to pull a documentary, which shows Asian men in Bradford grooming young white girls for sex, after local police claimed the programme could spark race riots in the city.
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BBC1 slumps to second worst peaktime ever
BBC1 slumped to its second lowest-ever peaktime share yesterday with 13.3% as an unscheduled special edition of Panorama got just 1.6 million (7.6%).
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World Weddings: DJ Ray's Big Day (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'The film ended immediately after the wedding. Suddenly, you felt as though you were watching an episode of Banzai,...
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Destination D-Day (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'For those who took part in Destination D-Day, a game of soldiers is precisely what it was.'...
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Bad Girls (ITV1) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
'I am proud to say that I fell asleep 10 minutes into Bad Girls.'...
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World Weddings: DJ Ray's Big Day (BBC2) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star and Daily Express
'Happy ending? Unhappy ending? Who knows? There wasn't any kind of ending.'...
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Telegdy promoted
BBC Worldwide has promoted Paul Telegdy to vice-president of programming and co-productions in Los Angeles following Rebecca Segal's move to BSkyB. Telegdy will take up his post on 1 June and be responsible for programme acquisition, co-production and programme sales.
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NBC orders US office
NBC has ordered six episodes of a US version of Ricky Gervais' award-winning sitcom The Office , despite the pilot being panned by critics. The sitcom will be renamed The American Workplace to distinguish it from the original UK version, ...
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TSI posts new Test the Nation
TSI Post has built the graphics for Talent TV's upcoming Test the Nation. The questions and answers package was created by Mark McKenna on Smoke HD. The Mac systems that were previously used had struggled to keep up with the workflow. 'Working on HD ...
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ITV snares Ozzy
Rock family the Osbournes, who starred in the eponymous MTV and Channel 4 hit reality series, have been signed up by ITV to appear in the next outing of its An Audience with? strand as part of a brace of new Saturday night entertainment shows.
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Industry tackles lapse in training
An initiative to tackle the growing lack of skills training across the audio-visual industries was launched by a group of broadcasting organisations this week.
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RDFI sells holiday show overseas
RDF International (RDFI) has sold its ITV1 format Holiday Showdown to Italian producer Magnolia, one of several new deals in Europe and Asia.
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Tiger grows production
Tiger Aspect has bolstered its comedy and entertainment department with two new appointments, as well as scoring a commission from MTV.
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Granada wild to revisit predator series
Bristol-based Granada Wild has been commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to make four more instalments for the Built for the Kill series. Subjects to be covered in the 4 x 60-minute series are cats, snakes, sharks and raptors. Andrew Buchanan will executive produce and ...
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Gearbox guarantee
GearBox Sound and Vision is going to guarantee a within-the-hour delivery service to Soho-based companies, via a new service called Gearbox Express. Managing director Richard Eastwood felt that the needs of the Soho community demanded that they 'get as close as possible to where our clients are based'. Eastwood said ...
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Sky One launches transvestite reality gameshow
Sky One is to follow its reality show There's Something About Miriam with a gameshow in which men compete against each other to be the most convincing women.
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Neville in search for European formats
Australia's Ten Network has appointed former Granada TV executive Stephanie Neville to find programmes and formats across Europe, working with broadcasters, distributors and indies to identify acquisition opportunities.
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Rushes Europe push
Rushes has promoted Vittorio Giannini to senior producer/new business executive to drive sales of Rushes services and creative staff to the continent. His remit includes re-establishing links with new and existing clients in France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia. Giannini will answer to Carl Grinter, director of production and business development.
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Oasis finishes Pavarotti doc
Oasis Television has completed audio work on BBC documentary Pavarotti - the Last Tenor. Director Francis Hanly chose Oasis dubbing mixer Hugh Mitchell-Dawson to drive the audio desk, saying: 'I've always worked with Hugh because he has a good feel for music and we ...