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Channel 4 gets rights to Rapido lesbian film
Channel 4 commissioning editor, factual Jo Wallace has bought the rights to Planet Rapido's documentary about last year's Aqua Girl 2000 lesbian gathering in the US, writes Penny Hughes.
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MAVERICK TO PROBE HOUSE SWAPPING FOR C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor, daytime Jo McGrath has ordered a 25 x 30-minute series from Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television about house swapping. It will be filmed in the UK and abroad
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CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS SCIENCE SERIES
Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has ordered a 6 x 30-minutes series, Seismic, from Darlow Smithson. The popular science series will break down events - such as the Argentinian
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News 24 clears schedule
BBC News 24 is gearing up to clear its schedule during the general election campaign with an ambitious plan to focus almost entirely on the election.Broadcast has also learnt that BBC
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Planet 24 production director quits to set up multimedia indie
Planet 24 production director Paul Sandler has left the company and plans to launch a multimedia production company in the summer, writes Simon Ellery.
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£6m boost for C5 productions
Channel 5's warring shareholders RTL Group and United Business Media (UBM) have agreed a truce in their battle over the station's programming budget by green-lighting an extra£6m for original productions.The
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RATINGS - BBC 1 viewers flee from Godzilla over to ITV
The first terrestrial showing of Godzilla on BBC 1 failed to get a monster rating writes Jon Rogers.
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Out of Africa
Tigress Productions producer Graham Booth talks to Laura Harding about the trials, tribulations and joys he faced while on location in Ghana
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Switchdigital wins licence
The Radio Authority has awarded the digital multiplex licence for Aberdeen to the Switchdigital consortium.The group, which is majority controlled by The Wireless Group, plans to operate eight commercial services,
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BBC Resources names first head of business develpment
BBC Resources has created a new head of business development role but continues to face industrial action following the restructure first announced last July, in which more than 200 jobs and
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422 man scooops first Quantel artistry award
422 Bristol's Dave Corfield has been named the first UK Quantel artist of the year, writes Barbara MarshallQuantel, in association with Promax & BDA, the associations for marketing, promotion and design
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BBC buys fantasy animated series UBOS
BBC head of acquisitions and co-productions for CBBC Theresa Plummer-Andrews has bought 52 x 22-minute animated series UBOS(formerly Ultimate Book of Spells) from entertainment company BKN.UBOS is a fantasy
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ITN to stream news to kiosks
Leading UK news provider teams with Cityspace & Adshel to bring 24-hour news to I-plus kiosks
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Carlton signs Crossroads NZ deal
Carlton International has signed its first distribution deal for new ITV soap Crossroadswith New Zealand terrestrial broadcaster TVNZ. It plans to run the soap as a key component of its
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Play UK's Littleford orders first programming raft
Play UK's new channel editor Mathew Littleford has commissioned his first batch of programming, led by a new series based on BBC Radio 1 dance show The Essential Selection
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Initial grabs first daytime order
Endemol subsidiary to make Guru-Murthy-fronted general knowledge quiz for Channel 4
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Virgin wins Radiohead concert rights
Virgin Radio has secured exclusive rights to broadcast rock band Radiohead's one-day mini-festival in Oxfordshire on 7 July. The deal is part of Virgin's new policy to get back to broadcasting
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Penny Smith to front Classic FM show
Classic FM is to launch a new Saturday evening music programme, to be hosted by GMTV news anchor Penny Smith. The show will have a weekly theme and be produced by
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BBC buys fanasy animated series UBOS
BBC head of acquisitions and co-productions for CBBC Theresa Plummer-Andrews has bought 52 x 22-minute animated series UBOS(formerly Ultimate Book of Spells) from entertainment company BKN.UBOS is a fantasy
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UK Horizons airs live wildlife docs
UK Horizons is airing the first live wildlife documentary series, Africam - Live and Wild.London-based independent Tvbus selects live footage from three crews in southern Africa and beams it back