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Huge reorder for Real Deal
RDF has secured a massive recommission from ITV1 for two more years' worth of daytime antiques show Dickinson's Real Deal.
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ITV lines up Boy Meets Girl for 9pm slot
ITV1's latest 9pm drama commission is a Freaky Friday-style series in which a man and woman swap bodies
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Apparitions lands full run
BBC1 has ordered a full series of Martin Shaw supernatural drama Apparitions for this autumn.
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NewsBBC3 show to scare unhealthy teens
BBC3 will perform “live autopsies” on hedonistic youngsters in an 8 x 60-minute series by TwoFour.
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NewsDiscovery's Drobnyk is new UKTV entertainment chief
UKTV chief executive David Abraham has gone back to former employer Discovery Networks US to find his new director of entertainment.
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NewsCelebs vie to write crime novel in BBC2 series
BBC2 is to teach six celebrities tips for solving murders before challenging them to write their own crime fiction novel, working under the guidance of best-selling author Minette Walters.
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VTR buys Clarke Associates
Prime Focus's holding group, VTR, has secured the business interests of visual effects specialist Clarke Associates.
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NewsIannucci returns to politics for new comedy
Armando Iannucci's next big project is a The Thick of It-style political satire for BBC Films.
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Thomson animation tie-up
Thomson's Technicolor Services division has formed an alliance with DreamWorks animation to develop its capabilities in India.
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NewsThompson: BBC must take risks
Mark Thompson has admitted that 2007's editing and phone-in scandals may have undermined risk-taking at the BBC and will launch a Failing to Succeed initiative to ensure producers do not play it safe.
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Thomson edit station demo
Thomson Grass Valley will demonstrate its Edius Broadcast edit workstation 4.6 for the first time in Europe at Broadcast Live & VideoForum.
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NewsPrivate equity to fund BDA growth
BDA, the broadcast design and promotions agency responsible for creating the on-screen identity for Setanta Sports and NBC Universal, has sold a 33% stake to private equity firm Octopus for£5m.
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Thomson to demo new edit station
Thomson Grass Valley will demonstrate its Edius Broadcast edit workstation 4.6 for the first time in Europe at Broadcast Live and VideoForum later this month.
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NewsPut audience first, urges Lyons
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has made an impassioned plea to put the audience's needs at the heart of the public service broadcasting debate.
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Sir Michael Lyons: Putting audiences at the heart of the PSB review
Once upon a time you used to have to wait ages for a review of public service broadcasting. Now they seem to come along like the buses on the High Street here in Oxford: no sooner has one departed than another looms eagerly into view.
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NewsBBC Trust kicks off kids' review
The BBC Trust has commissioned a major review of all of the corporation's services for children and young people, from CBeebies to BBC3.
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BBC bosses reject C4's call to curb acquisitions
BBC chiefs today flatly rejected a demand from Channel 4 that the corporation should stop buying American programmes, insisting it helped to keep the costs of making British programmes down.