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Nickelodeon orders prism cartoons
Indie Prism Entertainment has won a commission from Nickelodeon Europe to make its planned Simpsons -style cartoon based on real families. Three families from Benelux, Scandinavia and Spain will be chosen to star in local versions of the show. They will feature in comedy-driven storylines ...
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C4I sales success in France and Germany
Channel 4 International has made several documentary sales into France and Germany. French broadcaster M6 has bought six titles, including The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart from Darlow Smithson Productions, Lock up Your Songs from Firecracker Films, ...
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Screentime scores with soccastars
Screentime Partners has inked deals for its football-based reality format Soccastars. VideoMedia Italia will make a local version for Italy while Advance TV has picked up the option for the Netherlands. The format will also be pitched to broadcasters in Denmark, Estonia, Finland and ...
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Cineflix completes zero hour deals
Cineflix International's disaster documentary series Zero Hour has been licensed to Australia's Seven Network, the Holland Media Group, New Zealand's TVNZ and Germany's Vox. The 4 x 60-minute series was co-produced by 3BM Television and Cineflix's parent company, Cineflix Canada, and received additional funding from ...
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New sales executive for Minotaur
Minotaur International has appointed former Fireworks International director of factual Marjie Woods as senior sales executive. Reporting to vice-president Sarah
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Format focus: TV diaries
Public voting adds interest to a show based around what at first resembles Big Brother audition tapes
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C4 probes 9/11 terror attacks
Conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks will be put to the test in an investigative documentary for Channel 4.
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ITV orders its first paranormal show
ITV has commissioned its first paranormal investigation with a one-off show from September Films in which a psychic attempts to drive out a spirit haunting a family home.
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Bravo to air LA-Miami rally
Model Helena Christensen, actor Nick Moran and heiress Paris Hilton are among the celebrities taking part in a new car rally across America to be shown on Flextech's channel Bravo.
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Five looks at ?human computer'
Five has teamed up with four other broadcasters to make a programme about a boy dubbed the 'human computer'.
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Countdown safe for another five years
Channel 4 has recommissioned Yorkshire Television to make its long-running daytime quiz show Countdown for another five years. Under the new contract between C4 and Countdown producer Yorkshire Television, presenters Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman are tied in to the ...
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John Lydon fronts discovery bug doc
North One Television has just begun production on a 10 x 30-minute series for Discovery Channel called John Lydon's Mega Bugs. Produced in the US, where the former Sex Pistols frontman and recent star of I'm a Celebrity? lives, ...
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Fat Friends returning for fourth series
ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a fourth series of Kay Mellor's acclaimed drama Fat Friends , starring Alison Steadman and Lisa Riley. The series, which has already gone into production for a slot early next year, will be made by Mellor's indie, ...
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Granada to make psycho-thrillers
ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department. The Stepfather, a two-parter written by Simon Booker, stars Philip Glenister as a father whose 15-year-old daughter has gone missing amid suggestions that he has murdered her. The film, which goes ...
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Apple-based post house goes under
London's first dedicated Apple-based post-production facility has been forced to shut its doors just six months after opening, raising questions over Final Cut Pro's place in the market.
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ITV hands UK's largest uplink contract to SISLink
SISLink, Europe's largest independent uplink services provider, has won the five-year contract to supply ITV with uplinks for its entire regional news network.
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Headfirst falls into liquidation
Headfirst Facilities has gone into liquidation after 15 years despite last-minute attempts to sell the company.
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MTV manager quits
Peter Wright, general manager of MTV studios in Camden Lock, is to leave MTV after six years. Wright is to take a three-month break for the birth of his first child before pursuing a new career challenge. No decision has been made about replacing Wright, according to Mark Allen, managing ...
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Kemistry exhibition
Design agency Kemistry is due to open a gallery at its Shoreditch office to present the work of three influential title designers whose work during the 1960s laid the foundations for the industry today. The exhibition, which is called Timeframes - Lodge/Jeapes/ McGhie TV Title Pioneers, will combine stills, slides ...
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Canon's new camera
Canon has unveiled its new broadcast quality, interchangeable lens digital video camcorder - the XL2. 'With more than double the resolution of the XL1s, the XL2 sets the new broadcast-quality mini-DV recording standard,' said Malcolm Hills, head of Canon consumer imaging, UK and Ireland. 'Canon expects this digital video camcorder ...