Small MPU – Page 426
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NewsMotive sets up rescue fund
Motive Television has set aside a£1m “lifeboat fund” to rescue indies that have hit cash-flow difficulties because of the economic downturn.
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NewsStart-up indie lands Rastamouse order
Former As If and Suburban Shootout producer Greg Boardman has started an indie and landed a 50-part kids animation for CBeebies called Rastamouse.
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NewsWatch launch hampered by Virgin package hitch
More than a million Virgin Media customers were unable to view UKTV's Watch for a full week after it went live - undermining its flagship show, Richard & Judy's New Position.
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NewsAcclaimed novel Small Island comes to BBC1
BBC1 is planning a major dramatisation of Andrea Levy's bestselling novel Small Island.
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NewsBBC kicks off XM25 indie scheme
Established indies like True North and Presentable will sit alongside smaller players such as Bristol's Avatar in the first intake of the BBC's XM25 access scheme.
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NewsFincham: put your money in ITV
ITV director of television Peter Fincham has told 130 of London's top media agency executives that ITV is the place to spend their money in 2009.
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NewsDuncan joins Grade in attack on Google
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has joined Michael Grade in attacking Google, branding its failure to invest in UK content creation unfair.
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NewsFremantle to launch Britain's Got Talent pants
Fremantle Media and Simon Cowell's Simco are planning to launch a Britain's Got Talent clothing line in 2010.
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NewsBBC may sell Jam content to recover licence funds
The BBC is proposing to commercially exploit mothballed BBC Jam content in a bid to recover some of the millions of pounds of licence- fee funding spent on the axed education service.
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NewsITV lines up duo for Christmas
Alan Titchmarsh will reunite families and Aled Jones is to explore the most popular carols as part of ITV1's Christmas line-up.
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NewsVaizey supports ITV regional news plan
Shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey has backed ITV's withdrawal from regional news, and cautioned MPs who have criticised the commercial broadcaster's plans.
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NewsAnimal Planet's London base faces axe
Animal Planet International is poised to disband its London-based headquarters and split commissioning power between parent company Discovery Networks International's (DNI) offices in the US and UK.
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NewsC4's Auerbach to join ent indie start-up
Channel 4 entertainment commissioning editor Andy Auerbach is to step down to run a start-up indie with former Princess Productions head of entertainment Dean Nabarro.
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NewsUS Election: Craig Oliver
Editor, BBC News at Six and Ten and executive editor, Overnight Results Programme
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NewsFormer ITV exec new legal boss at Endemol
ITV's former legal director Andy Griffiths has joined Endemol as the indie's global head of legal.
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NewsGMG Radio boss to step down
GMG Radio chief executive John Myers will step down next year and will be succeeded by his deputy Stuart Taylor.