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Pact appoints Willis as director of film
Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Tim Willis, a director at Civilian Content, as director of film. He replaces Ronnie Planalp and will have overall responsibility for devising and implementing Pact's film strategy. He will work alongside Margaret Matheson, vice-chair of film at Pact and managing director of Bard Entertainment.
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Extreme to air gumball rally series
Extreme Sports Channel has commissioned Sunset+Vine to make a 6 x 30-minute series about the Gumball 3000 rally, which runs from Paris to the Sahara and back. The channel will premiere the race in July in the UK and Europe. Extreme has also commissioned 60-minute in-house production Come Out and ...
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Newsnight editor to ?broaden its agenda'
Peter Barron, the new editor of BBC2's Newsnight , wants to broaden the agenda of the flagship news programme.
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TV corp exec joins ad-funded specialist
Television Corporation executive Neil Osborne has quit to help launch a distribution company. Osborne, who joined TV Corp in 2001 as sales director for advertiser funded programming and sports, will take on the role of managing director at Sports and Entertainment Television, a new division of the Apace Group. The ...
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Electric sky sells Status anxiety abroad
Distributor Electric Sky has sold Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety, which originally aired on Channel 4, to four international broadcasters. The 3 x 60-minute series has sold to ABC in Australia, HBO's Central European service Spektrum, VRT in Belgium and TV Catalunya. Electric Sky has also sold 13 x 26-minute ...
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Australian ABC keeps faith with the bill
Fremantle has sold a further three years' worth of Thames Television's The Bill to Australian broadcaster ABC TV. The volume deal of 300 hours also gives ABC TV an exclusive first-look deal on future The Bill recommissions, other Thames-produced crime series (such as Murder Investigation Team) and any specials of ...
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BBC4 pays tribute to british folk singer
BBC4 has commissioned a 60-minute profile of the late British folk singer Bob Copper from Brighton-based indie Synchronicity Production. Coppersongs will feature recent interview footage of the star who died aged 88 two days after the film was completed. Produced by David Battcock, with Fiona Morris and David Jackson as ...
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C4 literary investment starts paying off
British writer Ian McEwan will interview US novelist John Updike in an hour-long special to be shown on Channel 4 during the Hay-on-Wye Festival at the end of the month. The programme, which will be produced by Juniper Communications, is the first commission to result from C4's three-year sponsorship of ...
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C4 to air third Shameless
Channel 4 head of drama John Yorke has gambled on the continuing popularity of Paul Abbott's comedy drama Shameless by ordering a third series before production has started on the second.
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C4 marks entente
Channel 4 has commissioned a series of four short films from Scottish film-makers about Paris to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. Production company Edinburgh Mediabase will oversee production of the films and is currently looking for Scottish directors to work on the projects. The commissions are part of ...
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Sky and Arena buy out C4 racing stake
BSkyB and Arena Leisure have bought out Channel 4's 33% stake in the collapsed Attheraces media rights consortium. Sky and Arena have signed up 25 race courses for a new subscription TV service they intend to launch next month. Meanwhile, in a widely expected move, the BBC has retained broadcasting ...
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Sky's catch-22
The clamour for a Freesat service to provide an alternative to BSkyB's subscription business may also present the opportunity for a strategic repositioning by Sky.
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TWI's I'd Do Anything in over 20 deals worldwide
sports production giant TWI's first UK entertainment show, I'd Do Anything, is on track to become a global hit after being sold to over 20 countries worldwide, writes Paul Revoir.
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NTL reports£2.2m first-quarter profit
Cable operator NTL has reported a first quarter operating profit of£2.2m to 31 March 2004, compared with a£54.1m operating loss in the first quarter of last year. Revenues in the cable giant's broadcast division increased 11% from£64.3m to£71.4m. NTL added 16,600 TV subscribers in the first three months of the ...
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BBC invests£12m in ?think big' initiative
The BBC has unveiled the criteria for its multimillion pound 'think big' for next year, adding a further£2m to the pot.
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Everything must go set to return to ITV1
ITV1 controller of daytime Liam Hamilton has recommissioned lifestyle series Everything Must Go from Hotbed Media. The Birmingham-based indie will produce a further 50 x 60-minute episodes of the house clearance and collectibles series, which will be screened from September. Hotbed has just commenced production on the new series and ...
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Bank holiday meltdown for BBC1
BBC1 had a disastrous performance over the bank holiday weekend with its lowest peaktime audience share for a Sunday this year.
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NewsInvestor sought to step in at Elstree
Elstree Studios, the home of Big Brother and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? , needs a multimillion pound injection of funding to secure its long-term future.
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NewsBBC swaps Saturday line-up
BBC1 is overhauling its flagging Saturday morning schedule, moving its children's programmes to BBC2 for the entire summer to make way for a new sports magazine show.
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NewsJob cuts hit BBC factual staff
The BBC has axed 37 jobs from its specialist factual department, following a move away from long-running studio shows such as Tomorrow's World to more landmark pieces.