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BBC NI head of drama sets up indie
Former BBC Northern Ireland head of drama Robert Cooper has unveiled details of his new indie, which will be called Great Meadow Productions. Based in London it will be staffed by Cooper and ex-BBC Northern Ireland executive producer Kate Triggs.
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Blackpool lights up musical show
The bright lights and faded grandeur of Blackpool is to be the backdrop for a major BBC1 'musical drama' - one of a number of new projects from BBC head of drama serials Laura Mackie, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Mentorn wins ITV class order
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate , in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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C4 orders two new Wife swap series
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife Swap. Both 6 x 60-minute runs will air this year. RDF media has now appointed the show's executive producer Jenny Crowther on a full-time basis. She will also ...
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Mosaic to follow olympic fortunes
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for BBC4. Nick Fraser, commissioning editor of BBC4 strand Storyville, has ordered Athens Through the Hoops for broadcast in the week before the Games start in August. The programme will investigate how the Olympics are ...
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Lion to produce more hammer shows
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show Homes Under the Hammer for BBC1. They are scheduled for broadcast this autumn, with a further 20 episodes for spring 2005. Melanie Eriksen will executive produce.
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Know Comment wins BBC contract
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of the four 2004 political party conferences in Scotland. It marks the first time conference coverage has been contracted out to the indie sector by BBC Scotland. The company will work with Bowtie Television, which ...
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case
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C4I does brisk business with Australia
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a package deal with Channel 4 International. ABC has also bought Lion Television's two-part documentary Island of the Minotaur , RDF Media's Carthage, The ...
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American Idol 3 set for global airing
American Idol 3 , the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol , is to be screened on a string of channels around the world including ITV2. The latest series of the show, produced by 19TV and Fremantle ...
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Action time does format deals in Europe
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow All Together Now , created by Keshet Formats, has been picked for an additional 18 episodes by Star Channel in Greece and a second series on Show TV in ...
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs, writes Will Strauss.
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Pepper pours£1m into HD kit
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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Buyers line up for BBC Tech
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04). After receiving 40 bids for BBCT, the BBC pared these down to a shortlist of eight: EDS, Capita, Accenture, IBM, Logica, CSC, Fujitsu and HP. These companies will now move forward to the next ...
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Millar buys studios
Record producer Robin Millar has acquired Whitfield Street Studios from its current owner, Sony Music. Negotiations have been going on between Millar and Sony since September when Sony decided to pull the plug on the facility. Purpose-built in 1965 and originally owned by CBS, the central London facility consists of ...
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Molinare spends
Molinare is continuing the£1.5m investment drive started by managing directors Steve Milne and Mark Foligno when they took over the company in September with the creation of a new Avid department. The 3,500 sq ft facility will house nine Avid Adrenalines with LAN-share supplied by Root 6. It will also ...
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Encoda wins ITV deal
ITV has awarded a multimillion pound contract to Encoda Systems to supply its airtime sales system Landmark. The deal will see more than half of the UK's commercial TV advertising being controlled by the Landmark system at ITV, following the merger of Carlton and Granada. Landmark will allow ITV to ...