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NewsPEER POLL: Will Back to Reality be Five's breakout hit?
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Will Back to Reality be Five's breakout hit?
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Optex to sell sony
London-based reseller and rentals company OpTex has inked a deal with Sony to become the latest 'Sony premier reseller' in the UK. The deal covers the Sony DVcam systems and services and will see OpTex add the entire DVcam range to its existing Sony CineAlta HDcam high-definition products. Sony will ...
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Molinare spends
Molinare is continuing the£1.5m investment drive started by managing directors Steve Milne and Mark Foligno when they took over the company in September with the creation of a new Avid department. The 3,500 sq ft facility will house nine Avid Adrenalines with LAN-share supplied by Root 6. It will also ...
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More radio licences
Ofcom is to create 35 radio licences around the country. The broadcasting regulator has earmarked Liverpool, Manchester, Aberdeen and Cardiff for new licences, which will be created by squeezing more space out of the airwaves. Major groups such as Emap, Chrysalis, GWR and Capital are expected to pitch for the ...
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Sky sees profits soar in last six months
BSkyB has seen its operating profits rocket up 84% to£130m in the six months to 31 December. In its latest quarterly results the satellite giant also announced that it has pulled in 193,000 new subscribers to Sky Digital over the period, giving the platform 7.2 million customers. The company's overall ...
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Newsnight special looks at Iraq war
Jeremy Paxman is to front a 90-minute primetime Newsnight special on the reasons why Britain went to war in Iraq. Prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to appear on the programme, which will mark the first anniversary of the war. It will look at ...
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Lion to produce more hammer shows
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show Homes Under the Hammer for BBC1. They are scheduled for broadcast this autumn, with a further 20 episodes for spring 2005. Melanie Eriksen will executive produce.
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...
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Telemagination MD quits to go freelance
Marion Edwards, managing director of animation house Telemagination, is leaving the company after seven years. Edwards, who is currently executive producing a second series of The Cramp Twins for Cartoon Network, will leave in mid-March to set up as a freelance producer and animation consultant. ...
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Lion makes gay format for Fox
Lion Television has strengthened its foothold in the US with a major new commission for the Fox network.
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Mosaic to follow olympic fortunes
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for BBC4. Nick Fraser, commissioning editor of BBC4 strand Storyville, has ordered Athens Through the Hoops for broadcast in the week before the Games start in August. The programme will investigate how the Olympics are ...
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FCUK sets up radio station
Clothing label French Connection is launching a digital radio station on 1 April, broadcasting from its Regent Street store.
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Leopard takes on Shine exec
Leopard Films has appointed Shine executive producer Jonathon Holmes as its first head of factual and features, writes Glen Mutel.
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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Encoda wins ITV deal
ITV has awarded a multimillion pound contract to Encoda Systems to supply its airtime sales system Landmark. The deal will see more than half of the UK's commercial TV advertising being controlled by the Landmark system at ITV, following the merger of Carlton and Granada. Landmark will allow ITV to ...
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NewsMiriam gets February date on Sky
Sky One will finally screen its controversial reality show There Something About Miriam later this month after paying the show's six contestants£125,000 each. The six claimed they were tricked into competing for the affections of a dark-haired 'woman' called Miriam, unaware that she was actually ...
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Sky One co-pro deal
Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel in the US have joined forces to make a 13 x 60-minute series of the 1980s sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica. Filming is due to start next month in Vancouver with David Eick as executive producer. The show expected ...
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Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs, writes Will Strauss.
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Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.