Newsletter Sign Up [Default] – Page 238
-
News
Capital agrees takeover bid with Border
Mansfield unveils deal valuing Border at£5 million more than Scottish Radio Holdings offer
-
News
Pearson gameshows go interactive
Digital viewers get interactive versions of Fifteen to One and Family Fortunes
-
News
Neal takes deputy to form new indie
Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal is leaving to set up his own indie and is taking his deputy Catriona McKenzie with him.The duo, who have worked together in various
-
News
Macbean resigns from Itel
Itel chief executive Andrew Macbean has resigned from the distributor as it emerged this week that Itel and Carlton International could be merged by October, write Lucy Rouse and Colin Robertson.According
-
NewsPrimeval snaps up healthy 7.2m audience
ITV1's£6m investment in its new fantasy drama Primevalpaid dividends as the show consolidated the commercial network's Saturday night line-up.
-
News
BBC appoints imagineering chief
The BBC has appointed its first head of 'imagineering' in a move designed to ensure that the corporation makes the most of the creative opportunities presented by new media, writes Steve
-
News
TV does not push drugs
Television does not influence people to take drugs and is even a deterrent, according to a major new study due to be published this week by the Broadcasting Standards Commission, writes
-
News
Politics hit Eyre C5 plan
Pearson TV chief executive Richard Eyre's ambition to become chairman of Channel 5 could hit a political hurdle, writes Lucy Rouse.His intention was announced last Friday (7 April) when Pearson revealed
-
NewsGenie returns
Nickelodeon has ordered a second series of live-action kids comedy Genie in the House.
-
News
CHRYSALIS MAKES GOVERNMENT SHOW FOR C4
Chrysalis Television has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a 25 x 5-minute government-backed glossy education series called My Brilliant Career. The programmes, ordered by C4 commissioning editor, schools John
-
News
BIRMINGHAM MOSQUE IS FOCUS OF NEW BBC 2 PRODUCTION
Production has just begun on one-off special The Mosque for BBC 2. Produced by the BBC current affairs department, the 90-minute film will be an intimate look at life in Birmingham
-
News
CARLTON AND LWT PREPARE SEPARATE MAYORAL SPECIALS
Carlton Television and LWT are both preparing regional specials that will see the key London mayoral candidates appearing just days before the capital's elections on 4 May. Carlton has secured a
-
News
BT signs music deal
BT has signed a deal with music giant Universal Music to provide an on-demand music video service on its digital TV service, BT Vision.
-
News
NEW EDITIONS CELEBRATE TAGGART'S 50TH INVESTIGATION
Scottish Television Enterprises has started production on four new 120-minute editions of Taggart, marking the 50th investigation carried out in the 17-year-old detective series. Due to be transmitted on ITV later
-
News
HOLDEN TO STAR IN CARLTON VERSION OF THE HUNT
Carlton has started production on new two-part ITV drama The Hunt and has confirmed that The Grimley's star Amanda Holden is to take the starring role. Holden features alongside Adrian Lukis
-
News
BBC RIGHTS AND LEARNING CHANNEL IN GAMBLING DEAL
The BBC Rights Agency has brokered a deal with The Learning Channel to produce the third in a trilogy of documentary series from BBC news and current affairs. The new 3
-
News
£22m GMG factual deal with Discovery
Granada Media has signed its most significant factual production deal, agreeing a $35 million (£22 million) co-production strategy with Discovery Communications Inc (DCI) for more than 100 hours of original programming
-
News
Lego starts up production
Toy company Lego has drafted in children's veterans Vanessa Chapman and Michael Carrington to set up a UK production arm and is seeking production staff to create kids' programming that it
-
News
Randall & Hopkirk to return again
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has commissioned a second series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer vehicle Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), writes Tim Dams.Produced by WTTV, it is expected to air