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NewsCommissioner's Q & A: Chiara Cipriani
The director of television at The Poker Channel does a lot with very little and is looking for indies that can think commercially as well as creatively and drive more mainstream awareness
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Five swaps state and public school students
Five has greenlit a observational documentary series from Granada Factual which follows three pupils from a public school and three from an inner-city comprehensive as they complete a two week exchange.
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UKTV Food searches for local food heroes
UKTV Food is launching a search for Britain's Local Food Hero 2006 with the help of celebrity chef Gary Rhodes and former politician Edwina Currie.
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BBC1 comes to aid of rural singletons
BBC1 is to play matchmaker for a group of rural singletons, throwing together 16 people from opposite ends of the country and watching the sparks fly for a primetime observational documentary.
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Mansfield's million
GCap Media's former chief executive David Mansfield walked off with a£1.13m payoff after resigning last September, according to the radio group's annual report published this week. The sum was paid by the UK 's biggest radio group by way of compensation to Mansfield who resigned not long after the merger ...
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BBC shows for Folio
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been re-commissioned to make new series for peaktime BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in over 5 million viewers, has ...
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Back to Futurama
Cult animated comedy Futuramais to be brought back three years after being axed for poor ratings. US cable network Comedy Central is to revive the Matt Groening show, which follows a pizza delivery boy who wakes up to discover he is living in the year ...
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America gets Piers
America's Got Talent, the new talent show on which former Mirroreditor Piers Morgan is appearing as a judge, debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC last week. Made by Simon Cowell's indie, Syco, and Fremantle Media, it was the most watched ...
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Wallace joins indie behind E4 Music
Former Sky One director of original programming Jo Wallace has joined Remedy Productions, the indie behind E4 Music.
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Bravo buys Blade spin-off series from Warner Bros
Bravo has acquired Blade: The Series, a scripted drama based on the hit movie trilogy about a warrior fighting his way through a shadowy underworld of vampires.
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Production base for Turner in UK
Turner Broadcasting is to set up a London-based development unit to develop original animated comedy outside the US for the Cartoon Network.
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ITV wins Uefa rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the Uefa Cup in a deal understood to be worth over£20m. Covering the 2006-7 to 2008-9 seasons, the agreement will give ITV exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of the tournament. ITV, which fought off ...
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Universal TV
Universal Music has launched its own TV production company. Globe Productions will operate as a standalone division focused on creating new TV formats and developing on-screen platforms for its roster of artists, who include Scissor Sisters and Jamie Cullum. Ideas will be developed in-house but the company is open to ...
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Parfitt: teen tsar
Controller of BBC Radio 1 Andy Parfitt has been handed the role of 'teen tsar', charged with reaching out to 12 to 16-year-olds. Parfitt, who looked into how the BBC serves children and teens for the Creative Futures review earlier this year, will head a small team briefed to work ...
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Nick Knowles in jail
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of the UK's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha. Behind Bars, which is produced by CityHospitalmaker Topical Television, ...
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Setanta wrestles PGA Tour golf from Sky
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from this January and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel. The Irish sports group, which recently picked up two live Premier League rights packages, has brokered a six-year deal to air the PGA Tour competition in ...
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BBC Worldwide builds on LA success
BBC Worldwide is to capitalise on the success of its Los Angeles production arm by opening more overseas production offices - with an announcement on locations expected within a month. The corporation's LA office makes Dancing with the Starsfor ABC, the international format of ...
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Young to host Desert Island Discs
Five news presenter Kirsty Young has been named as the new host for BBC Radio 4's long-running series DesertIsland Discs. Young, who is currently on maternity leave from her role anchoring Five News, will take over the show at the ...
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CBS chief to keynote at RTS conference
Les Moonves, CBS's president and chief executive, is to give the keynote speech at this year's RTS London conference. Moonves has spearheaded a revival in CBS's fortunes with shows such as Survivor, Cold Case and the CSIbrand and will give ...
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NewsRamsay's F Word cooks up 4.3m
Channel 4 took full advantage of a break in the World Cup as Gordon Ramsay's F Wordgrabbed 4.3 million (21%), helping the broadcaster to record its second highest all-hours share of the year so far.