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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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Fremantle signs deal with Goodwin indie
Daisy Goodwin, the format creator behind How Clean Is Your House? and Sex Inspectors, has signed a distribution and production deal with Fremantle.
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Chan joins firefly
Indie Firefly has poached Channel 4 commissioning editor Angela Chan just nine months after she joined the broadcaster. Chan is to quit her role in C4's news and current affairs department, where she has worked on Unreported World and Dispatches. She will start in November as executive producer at Firefly ...
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Betty appointment
Indie Betty has appointed director Alannah Richardson as executive producer to boost its features and formatted documentary output. Richardson was previously a freelance producer and director, although she worked with Betty on the ITV1 documentary Love in a Foreign Climate and was series producer for the first series of Spendaholics. ...
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Clifton confirmed
Pete Clifton has been confirmed as head of BBC interactive, and will take over the running of the corporation's news website, as well as the news division's interactive and broadband elements. Clifton has been overseeing the post since May, when former head Richard Deverell left to become chief operating officer ...
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Twofour tie-up
Twofour Broadcast and Australian production company Landmark Television have struck a format and co-production deal. Landmark is already developing Twofour's format Family Firm for TVNZ, and Twofour is pitching several Landmark formats to UK broadcasters. The two companies are also developing a global lifestyle series for Discovery Asia and Discovery ...
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ID sells Nigella
Nigella Lawson's 20-episode ITV daytime talk show has been sold to cable broadcasters RAISat in Italy and XYZ in Australia through ID Distribution. The company has also shifted forthcoming US cable show Nigella Feasts, a co-production between Pacific Productions London and Pabulum.
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Little Britain bolsters BBC3 share
BBC3 comedy Little Britain has been the undoubted ratings hit for the channel while Stuart Murphy has been in charge, writes Jon Rogers.
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The BBC's 'talent drain'
The BBC has real reason to fear losing some of its best programme-makers, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Rejigged Sky News begins with Sunrise
BSkyB kicks off its new-look Sky News on Monday (24 October) at 6am with new signing Eamonn Holmes and Lorna Dunkley presenting Sunrise. The channel will unveil a new multimillion-pound studio and revamped programming schedule. Other new signings include James Rubin, the former chief spokesman for Bill Clinton, who will ...
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Beazley confirmed as Lush successor
Jon Beazley has been appointed BBC executive editor for entertainment commissioning after a month of caretaking the post. Beazley, who while mainstream entertainment commissioner handled such programmes as Test the Nation, was widely tipped for the post. He is expected to take up the job with immediate effect and will ...
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Second signing for Setanta from Sky
Setanta Sports has poached a second executive from Sky Sports. Simon Green, general manager, Sky Sports Online, follows Trevor East, former Sky Sports deputy managing director, who joined Setanta in July as director of sport. Green will start next month and work mostly on business outside the UK. He could ...
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Sky Premiership exclusive draws to close
BSkyB's monopoly of live Premiership football rights inched closer to an end this week as the Premier League moved towards an amicable agreement with the European Commission. After 'constructive' talks with Richard Scudamore, the league's chief executive, the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said she would give herself until Friday ...
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NewsITV1's Cold Blood chills 6.6m
ITV1's one-off crime drama Cold Blood was a big hit with the viewers, attracting a sizeable audience of 6.6 million (29.5%) at 9pm.
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NewsPost house of the year
Broadcast is searching to find the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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NewsPEER POLL: Reality TV
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Five's Dan Chambers right to declare reality TV is 'on the way out'?
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NewsITV2 brings back Oprah
8am: American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is to return to UK screens after a three-year absence.
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NewsSetanta & Benchmark prepare Premiership rights bid
Irish-owned sports broadcaster Setanta has said it would like to secure 'one match a week' from the auction of the 2007 to 2010 live Premiership football rights.
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NewsCommander In Chief exec producer defends show
The French executive producer of new US drama Commander In Chief has hit back at UK terrestrial broadcasters' claims the show is 'jingoistic'.
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NewsSky News to be 'more informal and more flexible'
Head of Sky News Nick Pollard has said he wants the 24-hour rolling news channel to be known for more than just big events and breaking news.