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Alchemy moves into Centre Point
Audio facility Alchemy Mastering is investing£1.2m to relocate its business to the 29th floor of London's Centre Point building, writes Farah Jifri.
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UKTV Style airs seven-year makeover
UKTV Style is finally set to screen an ambitious property series that has been seven years in the making. Seven Year Makeover follows a family's struggle to transform a derelict Victorian water tower into a modern dream home. Commissioned two years ago by channel editor ...
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Tarrant offered new role after Vaughan's arrival
Capital 95.8 FM managing director Keith Pringle has confirmed that he has held talks with Chris Tarrant about the veteran DJ taking on a new weekend show after he hands over the breakfast slot to Johnny Vaughan.
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Rapido TV to relaunch after takeover
Eurotrash producer Rapido TV has been bought and will be relaunched within the next six months.
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6Music looks to make key appointment
BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas is hunting for a new head of programmes for digital station 6Music. Douglas handled the position at 6Music while head of programmes for R2 but is interviewing replacements following her promotion to controller. In addition, 6Music managing editor Antony Bellekom will also work with ...
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C4 relights fire of boy-band era
Channel 4 is set to take a closer look at the boy-band phenomenon with a warts-and-all expose of 1990s chart-toppers Take That, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4 to air making of touching the void doc
Channel 4 is lining up a documentary about the making of Darlow Smithson's award-winning mountaineering film, Touching the Void. The broadcaster is in talks with the indie about the possibility of airing the show - Return to Siula Grande - later this year when ...
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Baby Cow to make radio 4 sci-fi sitcom
Steve Coogan's indie, Baby Cow, is to make a science fiction sitcom featuring The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss for BBC Radio 4. Set in 2099, Nebulous stars Gatiss as the head of an eco troubleshooting team whose nemesis is Dr Klench, played by David ...
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S4C to air mass for peace at easter
S4C is to broadcast a performance of The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace , by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins on Good Friday on 9 April. The channel has also commissioned production company Cwmni Sianco to make a 52-episode series for pre-school viewers called ...
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c4i renews output deal with finland
Channel 4 International has renewed its 59-hour output deal with YLE in Finland, with shows including factual documentaries, comedy and drama. The programmes include Talkback/HBO's Ali G in da USA!!!, The Regency House Party from Wall to Wall and Pioneer Productions documentary Sars: Killer Bug ...
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Ex-BBC man in at C4 day time
Channel 4 has appointed former BBC1 head of planning and scheduling Adam MacDonald to reinvigorate its daytime output and help it boost its overall share.
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Cooke leaves Radio 4
Veteran BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Alistair Cooke is retiring after 70 years at the BBC. The 95-year-old has presented the Letter from America show since 1946 and joined the corporation in 1934 as a film critic. The current affairs and historical programme is the world's ...
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C4 promotes Hilsum
Channel 4 News has promoted Lindsey Hilsum to the position of international editor. Hilsum, who has been Channel 4 News diplomatic correspondent for the past eight years, has also reported for the BBC, The ...
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Walters rises at S4C
Welsh distributor S4C International has promoted Huw Walters to the newly created role of head of international business. Walters, who was previously the company's head of co-productions, will be tasked with integrating S4C International's sales and co-production businesses. Walters joined the distributor in 1998 after working for the Welsh broadcaster ...
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BBC2 reorders Get a New Life after initial success
BBC2 has ordered 60 further episodes of Brighter Pictures' relocation show Get a New Life , following a successful first run of eight, writes Glen Mutel.
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BBC2 orders fourth outing for Coupling
Hartswood Films' hit sitcom Coupling is to return to BBC2 for a fourth series. The show, which is written by Steven Moffat, has been recommissioned by BBC head of comedy Sophie Clarke-Jervoise and will feature a new character, Oliver, played by Richard Mylan. Mylan ...
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12 Yard devises psychological quiz for BBC
Indie 12 Yard Productions is developing a psychological quiz show pilot for BBC daytime which will test contestants' powers of persuasion.
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Optibase eyes up Media 100
Editing software company Media 100 is in talks with Optibase about a possible buyout.
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NewsAllen promises end to regional job cuts
ITV chief executive Charles Allen this week signalled an end to the strategy of wholesale job losses and studio closures in the regions, after Broadcast 's revelations last week that up to 400 jobs are to go at Central.
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NewsCentral staff hit out at ITV
Angry workers at Central's Nottingham studios, which are being closed with the loss of 200 jobs, have blasted ITV bosses as 'insulting' and 'insensitive' after they were told their cars will be searched to make sure they are not stealing company property.