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Celador racks up global format sales
Celador International has secured a raft of sales for three of its key formats. Talking Telephone Numbers has been picked up by producer TV Prava, which will produce a local series for RTS. The Brainiest format has been licensed to TVN in Poland for 10 x 60-minute series, ...
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Imago inks Extreme entertainment deal
Indie Imago Productions has signed a joint-venture deal with Extreme Entertainment to represent its new projects around the world. The deal is intended to generate
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3DD wins global rights to aids benefit
3DD Entertainment has picked up the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to Nelson Mandela's Aids awareness concert, 46664: The Message. The concert, held in Cape Town in November, was produced by Endemol UK's Initial TV and has been packaged as an hour-long TV special. It features performances from musicians such as ...
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Five factual series to analyse rare diseases
Five is to launch a factual strand focusing on unusual diseases and has commissioned Lion Television and Landmark Films to produce the first batch, writes Michael Rosser.
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Rogue trader to play celebrity poker
Flextech channel Challenge has lined up rogue trader Nick Leeson, Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray and Tom Parker Bowles for a new series of Celebrity Poker Club. Indie Presentable is making the 9 x 90-minute series, which will air from the end of June. The executive producers for Challenge are ...
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Discovery orders al-qaida documentary
October Films has been commissioned by Discovery Europe to produce a fast turnaround documentary on the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid. The one-hour special will examine the events of 11 March in which a suspected al-Qaida bomb killed more than 190 train passengers. Relatives of victims and investigators will be ...
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C4 commissions shaken babies film
Channel 4 editor, education and science Simon Dickson has ordered a 60-minute documentary on the recent controversy surrounding shaken babies from Films of Record in association with Pillarbox. The working-titled Beyond Reasonable Doubt will be directed by Juliet Murray and Clarissa Kindred and executive produced by Roger Graef and Clare ...
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RDF wins two travel shows from five
Five controller, features and entertainment Ben Frow has ordered two travel shows from RDF Media - Great Escapes and The World's 20 Best?. The shows are due to air next month and were both executive produced by RDF chief executive David Frank
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Beam.TV and IMD pioneer digital ad delivery
Beam.tv and Independent Media Distribution (IMD) last week became the first companies in the UK to digitally deliver a television commercial to a broadcaster via the internet when a Nestle commercial was delivered via an end-to-end digital IP network to Viacom-owned MTV, writes Rick Dacey.
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Williams to head St Anne's
St Anne's Post general manager Keith Williams has been confirmed as the new managing director of the company following the sudden departure of Bruce Everett, who has left to return to his previous career as a film and television post-producer.
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Monet shows at NAB
Imagineer systems will unveil Monet, its start-to-finish image insertion solution, at NAB next week. The product is used for inserting images, moving or still, into moving footage. Monet was developed in collaboration with Cinesite for use on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but is touted as having widespread ...
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£50m post kitty
TV post facilities that do feature film work will soon be eligible for funding to pay for an in-house training manager thanks to a Skillset and UK Film Council initiative. As announced in Broadcast last year (11.9.03), post facilities can get a slice of£50m being made available for training as ...
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Mouse could die out
Editors may one day cut programmes the way Tom Cruise controlled his anti-crime application in the film Minority Report if research at the University of Salford comes to fruition. The university is using tracking technology from Vicon to 'demonstrate and evaluate real-world ways for people to interact with computers and ...
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Low-cost tv station
Trimedia has completed the design and implementation of a fully digital TV station for Viavision's three new for-profit channels. Built for just over£700,000 - a fraction of the cost of a usual operation - the small studios use Globecaster clip playback, an Incite server and Air Box scheduling software rather ...
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UK Post board looks to regions
The board nominations for UK Post, the Department of Trade and Industry-backed trade body, have been finalised and it is not just the usual Soho suspects that feature. While the 35 shortlisted candidates include chief executives and managing directors such as David Jeffers of MPC, William Sargent of Framestore CFC, ...
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ITV creates news chief for regions
ITV has restructured the management of its news division creating a new role overseeing all the companies' 11 regional news services.
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Granada revives head of comedy role
Granada has appointed its first head of comedy for more than five years, handing the job to a former producer of The Grimleys and Stan the Man.
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BBC pledges to improve on indie relations
BBC acting commissioner for documentaries and contemporary factual Tom Archer has admitted his department has been failing indies and has pledged to introduce a clearer and quicker commissioning system by June.
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Comedy cash boost
Comedian Tony Burgess has won a£6,000 bursary to become the first comedy writer in residence at BBC Manchester. Burgess, who co-wrote Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich with Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, will work closely with the comedy unit to develop his ...
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Lads to battle it out
Indie Prospect Pictures has been commissioned to make a live 180-minute special for UKTV Gold about whether Terry and Bob from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? or Gary and Tony from Men Behaving Badly were the 'best lads ...