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Al-Jazeera Sport gets identity
Former XTV executive producer Richard Markell's new branding agency, Markell Associates, has just completed its first job - the branding package for Al-Jazeera Sport, a new channel launching this week. The package included logos, bumpers, stings and idents, as well as title sequences for the channel's news programmes and its ...
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NewsBBC Films aims to build on TV work
BBC Films has poached one of Granada's most respected drama producers to spearhead its television production side as it attempts to build on recent award-winning output such as The Gathering Storm and Conspiracy, writes Leigh ...
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Discovery gets go ahead for celeb births
Discovery Health has pulled off a coup after becoming the first TV channel to be allowed to film inside London's Portland Hospital, where many celebrities such as Liz Hurley and Victoria Beckham have given birth, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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ITV in Britain again
Oxford-based indie Landmark Films has been commissioned to make a further two episodes of its In Britainstrand for ITV. The 60-minute programmes, commissioned by ITV controller of factual programmes Bridget Boseley, are as yet untitled, but will be about unorthodox marriages and people's infatuations with ...
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Capital Disney poised to take advertising
Kids digital radio station Capital Disney is planning to be the first Disney operation to take commercial advertising, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Forever sells off Juice FM to Absolute
Forever Broadcasting has off-loaded award-winning Liverpool station Juice FM to Absolute Radio (AR-UK) for£3.1m in an effort to reduce its debts, writes Michael Rosser.
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TV corp takes celeb formats abroad
The Television Corporation has sold a brace of celebrity-based formats to Poland and Canada, originally made for BBC1 by indie Mentorn. Polish public broadcaster TVP1 has commissioned Do Us a Favourfor a primetime slot and Radio Canada has commissioned 20-part series ...
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Chrysalis exec takes flight to C4
One of Chrysalis TV Group's most senior executives has quit the company, less than a month after it was taken over by the management team led by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, writes Colin Robertson.
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C4 shows MTV bash
Channel 4 has been signed up as the terrestrial partner for MTV's 10th annual Europe Music Awards on 6 November in Edinburgh. The event, which will be Scotland's biggest ever televised event reaching up to 1 billion homes worldwide, will be hosted by popstar Christine Aguilera. Acts signed up to ...
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C4 signs Ferguson
Channel 4 has signed up Professor Niall Ferguson to make two history series over the next three years. The first will be a follow-up to Ferguson's series Empirein which the historian looks at the subject of US global power. The second series will be a ...
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Top moves at 3BM
Factual indie 3BM has promoted director Daniel Korn to managing director as part of
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Bond joins LBC 97.3
Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond is set to join the presenter team at news and talk station LBC 97.3FM. Bond will feature as a royal commentator and will stand in for presenters across the schedule from early next year. Another newcomer will be writer and former BBC Radio 5 ...
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BBC2 sends grown-ups on gap
BBC2 is to take a different look at the concept of the 'gap year' by following a group of middle-aged people who have decided to take a break from their everyday lives, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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R2 music histories
BBC Radio 2 has commissioned two documentaries on the rise of two musical institutions. Hollywood director Cameron Crowe will present 2 x 60-minute documentary Stoned: The History of Rolling Stone Magazine. The programme, produced by indie Ten Alps, will air at 21.00 on 15 and ...
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BBC1 looks at magic
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has jumped on the magic bandwagon by ordering a full series on the secrets behind the tricks from indie Objective, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Grounds BBC1 series
Writer Tony Grounds, creator of the award winning Ray Winstone vehicle Births, Marriages and Deaths, is writing his first drama series for BBC1. The working-titled Family Business, ordered by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of drama commissioning Gareth Neame, aims to put the modern suburban family 'under the microscope ...
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C4 follows up Operatunity
Channel 4 is to follow up its successful Operatunityseries with a search for a West End musical star, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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TWI wins BBC darts contract
Indie TWI has picked up the contract to produce the BBC's darts coverage for the next year, as part of the corporation's bid to meet its 25% independent production quota, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC digital curriculum gets green light for 2006 launch
The BBC's controversial£150m digital curriculum project will finally launch in September 2006, after getting the go-ahead from the European Commission (EC) this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC2 to trace celebrity family trees
A group of celebrities are to trace their family ancestry for a major BBC2 interactive series, which is being billed as next year's Restoration, writes Leigh Holmwood.