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Wire star attacks British drama
The Wire's Dominic West has criticised British TV for its lack of “high end” drama and its reliance on period pieces.
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MipTV: Day One
Despite a soggy start to the market in Cannes and noticeable decrease in delegates, there was still plenty of business to report from MipTV.
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BBC Storyville chief slams NGO 'propaganda' docs
MipTV: Nick Fraser, editor of the BBC's Storyville strand, has branded film schools and NGOs as “the two big dangers” facing documentaries.
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BBC2 orders improv comedy series
The improvisational skills of young comedians will be put to the test in real-life scenarios for a new BBC2 series.
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Ex-LWT veteran dies
Former London Weekend Television veteran Jane Honeycombe, who brought shows such as Blind Date and Surprise Surprise to the screen, has died after a short battle with illness.
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UK to show Pushing Daisies finale before US
UK audiences will get to see the final episodes of Pushing Daisies before US viewers, following a decision by ITV to air the full series of the axed ABC drama.
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Al Jazeera acquires Aardman's Timmy Time
MipTV: Aardman is to take Sean the Sheep's cousin to the Middle East after signing a flurry of new deals for his preschool spin off, Timmy Time.
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Second series of Horne & Corden in pipeline
The BBC is in “advanced discussions” over a second series of the Tiger Aspect sketch show Horne & Corden, despite a poor critical reception.
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Byrne to launch new Yorkshire TV/radio indie
Just weeks after ITV said it was to mothball Yorkshire Television's legendary Kirkstall Road Studios, a new cross-platform company has been formed called Made in Yorkshire Productions.
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2.1m sign up for C4's Sex Education
Channel 4's latest version of The Sex Education Show managed to pull a respectable 2.1m viewers (8.9% share) at 9pm last night.
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Molinare appoints COO
Soho post facility Molinare has promoted operations director Richard Hart to the role of chief operating officer.
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First sales for RDF's Waybuloo
MipTV: RDF Media Group has signed its first overseas deals for Waybuloo, the£10m preschool show which will make its UK debut on CBeebies in May.
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Pinewood achieves modest TV growth
Pinewood Shepperton plc managed to up its television revenues slightly in 2008, despite its customers facing increasing pressure on production budgets.
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Sony opts out of IBC 2009
Sony will not exhibit at this year's IBC trade show and will instead concentrate its marketing efforts on a series of localized customer ‘engagement' events.
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Strong debut for The Wire on BBC2
The critically-acclaimed US drama series The Wire made its terrestrial debut last night, bringing in a strong 568,000 (8%) over an hour in a late night slot at 11.20pm.
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BBC Resources to be re-named
The newly merged BBC Resources studios and post divisions are to be re-named as BBC Studios and Post Production.
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Loft London secures kids channel deal
Loft London has been commissioned to ingest 800 hours of back catalogue children's programming for The Digital Media Centre (DMC) in Amsterdam.
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Da Vinci offers up a PowerHouse
Da Vinci Systems has released a new technology innovation designed to support the grading of files created using the Red One camera.
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Mistika gets real-time Red tape playout
SGO has updated its Mistika editing, compositing and grading system so that it can fully support native R3D format files produced by the Red One camera.