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Distraction shows interest in Prospect
Distraction Formats has picked up worldwide rights for UK indie Prospect Pictures' new ITV1 series Under One Roof. The factual-based entertainment format sees a psychologist and body language expert move in with warring couples for 48 hours to help them sort out their problems. The ...
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TV Corp faces call for post closures
The results of a City investigation into independent television production in the UK released this month will make bad reading for TV Corporation's 30-year-old post subsidiary, Molinare, and its sister company, Visions, writes Sam Espensen.
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McMillan buys DRCs
The rental division of McMillan has bought four of the BBC's new WiScape Digital Radio Cameras (DRCs). The cameras, which retail for about£36,000, will be used for outside broadcast, sport and corporate events for clients like STV and Carlton. Business development director at McMillan Angus Knight said the DRCs are ...
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B&S gets Treatment
PR and marketing agency Bubble & Squeak has launched a programme and film development division. The Treatment Salon will offer services including negotiating product placement, set design proposals, assistance in presenting pitch tapes and documents, and help with commissioning editors. The department is already working on several projects, including documentaries ...
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Dunne joins Chorion to develop brand
Chorion, which own the rights to key Agatha Christie properties such as Miss Marpleand Poirot, has appointed Len Dunne as director for brand development. Dunne joins the company from Entertainment Rights where he was head of marketing and global brands.
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BBC Schools looks at dangers of reality TV
The cult director behind films such as Repo Manand Sid and Nancyhas been asked to make a drama on the dangers of reality television for BBC Schools, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsBBC in 'watering hole' scheme
The BBC's commissioning system is to undergo a further change with the introduction of a scheme in which a variety of different BBC voices are called on to develop and test programmes before they are commissioned, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NDS nabs IDP assets
Digital pay-TV technology provider NDS has snapped up some of the assets of the French interactive TV technology company Interactif Delta Production (IDP), which was recently put into administrative receivership by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris. The News Corporation company acquired all of IDP's intellectual property assets, including the ...
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Living TV orders child abduction doc
Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe has commissioned 10 x 30-minute Child Snatchers, a joint production from Scallywag and Pre-requisite Films, examining the issue of parental child abduction. Set to air on 20 October, the producers are Tish Adudua for Scallywag and Neil Blewett for ...
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Radio 4 to explore why history is funny
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to create a 2 x 30-minute investigation into how comedy plumbs history for laughs. Ha Ha Historywill explore how writers have used the past for humorous material such as ...
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All Out wins three orders from Radio 4
Olympic athlete Diane Modahl will present a 5 x 15-minute series for BBC Radio 4 discussing the experiences of Olympians. Olympic Stories, from indie All Out Productions, will air during the next Olympic games in 2004 and is produced by Rebecca Sandles. R4 has also ...
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Scandinavia scoops 70 hours of C4
Channel 4 International has sold more than 70 hours of programming to Scandinavian broadcasters. Broadcasters in Denmark (TV2), Finland (YLE and Nelonen), Sweden (Kanal 5), Norway (TV Norge) and Iceland (RUV) have snapped up a range of programmes including Ali in Da USA, documentary ...
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Brands bolster 3G
Revenue from 3G phones is likely to be generated by using existing brands rather than original content, according to the head of interactive at Endemol. Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival in a session examining the future for 3G technology, Peter Cowley said: 'brand new content is problematic. How is ...
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Carlton biopic marks 9/11 anniversary
Carlton International has sold its TV movie biopic of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to leading Japanese commercial station TV Tokyo. Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, made by Carlton America, will be broadcast to mark the second anniversary of the 9/11 New York terrorist ...
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Tern wins£1.5m of factual orders
Scottish indie Tern Television Productions has picked up a raft of orders worth£1.5m, writes Michael Rosser.
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New UK president for USN
Dan Marks has been appointed UK president of Universal Studios Networks (USN), replacing Janet Goldsmith who quit earlier this month, writes Gavin Stamp
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UK Style to make house out of straw
UK Style has commissioned indie ACP TV to produce a 15 x 30-minute property series, Home Wasn't Built in a Day. Ordered by head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood, each episode tracks attempts to build a home in 24 hours with unusual materials like soil and ...
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NewsBBC dominates list of best-ever TV shows
Radio Times' TV Editor Alison Graham has compiled a list of the 40 best television shows - 29 of which were broadcast by the BBC - with only 2 from ITV, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsElstein plans ITV management overhaul
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has lined up former finance directors of BSkyB and Five to take senior executive roles in a single ITV, should the proposed merger between Carlton and Granada go ahead.