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NewsComment: UK leads the factual pack
While the Hollywood studios are seeing a resurgence in sales for US dramas and sitcoms worldwide, when it comes to factual and reality programming it seems that UK distributors are leading the pack, writes Dominic Schreiber.
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NewsDic Entertainment to list on Aim
US animation producer and distributor Dic Entertainment is planning to float on the UK's Alternative Investment Market this October and has appointed Bridgewell Securities as nominated advisor and broker.
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NewsTV Loonland launches new film division
Aim-listed children's animation company TV-Loonland has launched a new feature film distribution division and added a new member to its London-based sales team just in time for Mipcom.
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NewsAardman's sketch show sold to Latin America
Canadian kids entertainment outfit Decode Entertainment has sold Planet Sketch, a co-production with Bristol-based Aardman Animations, to Cartoon Network Latin America.
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NewsTributes to a comic genius
The broadcasting world this week mourns Ronnie Barker, a giant of TV comedy whose career in the business gave us 50 years of laughter.
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EC OKs product placement
The European Commission (EC) is set to give the greenlight to product placement, creating a potential multimillion pound industry.
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New-look This Is Your Life brings red book back to TV
SMG TV Productions is set to revive classic entertainment show This Is Your Life, following a deal with rights holder Click TV, which is part of Portman Film and TV, the company majority owned by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright.
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Endemol teams up with MobiTV for mobile channel
Endemol UK has teamed up with mobile broadcasting platform MobiTV to launch the Reality TV channel on Orange's telecoms network.
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CBBC orders London bomb drama
Hat trick is to make a children's drama documentary about the 7 July London bombings - the first UK television drama to be made about the tragedy and the indie's first commission for CBBC.
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Sex Traffic producer heads for Kudos role
Granada producer Derek Wax, the man behind multi-award winning drama Sex Traffic,is joining Spooksproducer Kudos Film and Television as an executive producer.
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NewsPlowman to set up BBC comedy board
Jon Plowman, the BBC's head of comedy entertainment, is to take over as head of the corporation's in-house comedy department, and has set up a new board to develop programmes.
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NewsPickard stays as head of ITV1 programming
Nigel Pickard has told ITV chiefs that he is staying on as ITV1's director of programmes, despite the restructure at network centre two weeks ago that brought in Simon Shaps above him.
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NewsITV could drop News for lads channel
ITV is considering pulling the ITV News Channel off Freeview in a bid to keep lads channel Men and Motors on the digital terrestrial platform.
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NewsCreation of a cable giant
NTL and Telewest tied the knot this week in a landmark merger aimed at boosting the pair's ability to take on rivals BSkyB and BT.
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NewsBBC editing move to cost facilities£18m
One of the BBC's biggest production departments, factual and learning, has announced plans to take 75% of all post work in-house by 2007, in a move that could cost the UK facilities sector up to£18m in revenues.
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Blindfolded by C4
Channel 4 should not be embarrassed that More4 offers entertainment of a cerebral rather than a carnal nature.
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A flair for nurturing talent
Nicknamed by ex-boss Lorraine Heggessey Mrs Fix-it, Sally Debonnaire has moved to Avalon where she hopes to get back to the creative side of things.
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Tangled web of rights
With the rapid rise of download technology, broadcasters and producers agree the old model of primary rights is outdated. Now the fur is flying over how valuable online rights should be divided.
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Hitting the spot
Men's channel Bravo is hoping its hefty investment in Ultimate Fighting Championship, a brutal mixed martial arts contest, will pay off by creating cult viewing which lifts the channel out of its niche.