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C4 disability drama to poke fun at reality TV
Channel 4 has commissioned a mockumentary about six disabled characters spending a Shipwrecked-style year on a desert island.
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RDF's Presentable secures 35 hours of orders
Presentable, RDF Media Group's Cardiff-based subsidiary has won 35 hours of commissions and recommissions, including a Gabby Logan-fronted sports show for BBC Wales.
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Crackit show for C4 fixes botched cosmetic surgery
Victims of botched cosmetic surgery are to get the chance to have their faces and bodies repaired in a campaigning Channel 4 series from Crackit Productions.
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KidsCo makes first order with kids' craft show
A young “art whizz” will teach kids how to make objects in international children's channel KidsCo's first original commission.
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Film-makers to explore pop culture icons for BBC3
The Oscar-winning film-maker behind When We Were Kings is to investigate the Britney Spears phenomenon for BBC3.
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Bigwigs join DCD to form Scottish indie
DCD Media has created a new indie by teaming up with six senior figures from the Scottish production community.
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Burnham: no to placement
ITV has branded media secretary Andy Burnham's decision not to allow product placement in UK-made TV shows “perverse”.
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Musical prodigies in C4 recital
A renowned teenage classical composer will recruit the best musical prodigies from around the world to perform his latest concerto for a Channel 4 series.
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Summer Films' Morris and Dark part company
Summer Films co-founder Southan Morris is leaving the indie, ending his long-standing business relationship with Susie Dark.
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C4: no guarantees on programming budget
The worsening advertising market could force Channel 4 to cut its 2009 programming budget further after it emerged that the broadcaster had already shaved off an extra£25m at the start of this year.
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BBC names Scottish ent commissioner
Alan Tyler has been named the BBC's new Glasgow-based executive editor of entertainment commissioning as part of the corporation's shake-up of network programming from the nation's and regions.
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BBC to test hour-long version of The One Show
BBC1 will trial an hour-long version of The One Show next month that could see it shake up its mid-week schedule.
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ITV's commissioning future shapes up
ITV's six entertainment commissioners will battle it out for two jobs when the broadcaster's new director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell steps into her role on 23 March.
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Comment: John Cresswell, ITV chief operating officer
Rumours of ITV's demise are greatly exaggerated says ITV's chief operating officer John Cresswell
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BBC Resources to lose director roles
BBC Resources will ditch a layer of senior management roles as it merges its facilities divisions.
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Buyers line up as Gearbox stalls
Bidders are circling equipment hire and sales company Gearbox after it was placed in administration.
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Quantel seeks second round of savings
Quantel plans to make another round of cutbacks after admitting that the global recession is having a bigger impact than it first anticipated.
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Multimedia briefs 13 March
Multimedia news in brief featuring Sky Player, YouTube, the BFI, Netlog and Adundant from Broadcast magazine dated 13 March 2009.
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On-demand set for four-fold growth by 2015
On-demand viewing will increase four-fold by 2015, narrowing the gap with traditional, scheduled, linear TV.
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Lazarus to boost MySpace business
MySpace plans to step up its partnerships with indies and broadcasters with the appointment of its first senior director of business development for Europe.