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C5 BUYS NODDY RIGHTS.
Channel 5 has bought the UK terrestrial rights to classic kids animation Noddy from licensing group
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S4C launches online guide to TV careers.
Welsh broadcaster S4C is launching a new online initiative aimed at explaining to teenagers the many
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Advertisers commission ITV 2 show.
ITV has continued its drive to win back advertisers by allowing a group of them to commission a programme for ITV 2, writes Steve Aston
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Rapture TV rises from the ashes.
Rapture TV, United Business Media's disastrous clubbing channel which danced to its grave last year, is
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Bectu lobbies DCMS for ITV Digital staff.
Further pressure was heaped on the government this week to intervene in the ITV Digital debacle
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Replay TV gains respite from legal action
The maker of digital video recorder (DVR) ReplayTV 4000 has won temporary respite against TV networks NBC and ABC, which are mounting a legal action in the US courts to prevent the recorder from to skipping commercials and share programme files, writes Barbara Marshall
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Main TV channels may link on digital services
The five main channels have each registered an interest in running digital terrestrial television in an attempt to resume services affected by the collapse of ITV Digital
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The ITC has announced that it has received expressions of interest over the digital terrestrial television multiplexes that have been re-advertised following the collapse of ITV Digital. But the watchdog in keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the applicants, who have to submit their final detailed bids by 30 May, ...
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True north to make down's syndrome doc
Leeds-based independent True North has picked up two commissions for ITV and Channel 5
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Trouble order for Hewland International
Teen channel Trouble has commissioned two new 15-part series. Date My Sister, from Hewland International, will be a 15 x 30-minute series challenging contestants to find their siblings the perfect date
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Leeds indie wins order to show life at sea
Leeds-based science and history indie Screenhouse Productions has been commissioned by BBC North deputy head of regional and local programmes Ian Cundall to make a documentary about a young person's adventures on HM Bark Endeavour - the replica of Captain Cook's famous ship. The 30-minute programme will go out in ...
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Indigo to make national television awards
Indigo Television has once again signed a three-year deal with ITV to produce the national TV awards. The awards show, which was started in 1995, is expected to be transmitted during the autumn. International rights are held by Indigo Television. The company has also been commissioned by ITV controller of ...
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Granada's the lab wins police 999 series
Granada factual production house The Lab has won its first commission from Bravo. The 15 x 30-minute series, Street Crime, will focus on police responding to emergency calls around the country in a similar manner to US series Cops. The series producer is Paul Denchfield and the executive producer is ...
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ITV 2 pulls out of party
Channel 5 has secured exclusive TV rights to broadcast Capital 95.8 FM's Party in the Park event, following ITV 2's decision to pull out, claiming the event had become too expensive, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Three double wins at Bafta
The Blue Planet , The Way We Live Nowand Othelloeach scooped two awards at the third annual British Academy Television Craft Awards which this year were dominated by freelancers rather than staffers, ...
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Peaktime order for BBC's Green
Former Big Brother executive producer Conrad Green has scored his first terrestrial commission for the BBC since setting up his new 'reality television' entertainment division at the corporation, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Juniper to look at icons of female beauty
Factual indie Juniper Communications has scooped three commissions for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic, including a 3 x 60-minute series on the growth of female beauty icons, writes Penny Hughes