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NewsC4 orders first ever cop show
The indie behind Channel 4's cult comedy drama hit Shameless has been commissioned to make the channel's first cop show.
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NewsThompson makes PSB vow
BBC director general Mark Thompson is set to plough more money into key public service genres such as news, current affairs and comedy by spending less in areas such as reality and lifestyle shows.
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NewsEndemol chiefs in£1bn buyout talks
The international management of Endemol - maker of Big Brother - is exploring a£1bn buyout of the business from Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica.
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Directors to go as VTR restructures
The VTR Group is to shed some of its most senior staff including managing directors and has earmarked up to£1m for redundancy payments.
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Pinewood aims to increase TV studio space
Pinewood Shepperton is planning to expand its television facilities following a 17% rise in business over the last six months.
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Moving Picture bids
WPP, Kodak, Thomson Multimedia's Technicolour and former Carlton chairman Michael Green are being touted as likely bidders for The Moving Picture Company. ITV declared that it wanted to sell its non-core assets earlier this year ( Broadcast , 28.6.04). WPP already owns post-production companies such ...
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Support for Apple
Former NMR managing director Harry Grinling is opening a London office for his Apple training, technical support and integration services business, Support Partners. The Greek Street office in Soho will provide remote, on-site and telephone 'breakdown recovery' services to producers, broadcasters and facilities using Apple software including Final Cut Pro. ...
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Charter's new man
Chris Davies has joined broadcast rental company Charter as a senior engineer. Davies has worked with digital flyaway systems on Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup finals. He previously worked for Star TV, at the time when it became one of the first stations to integrate digital programming.
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NewsOfcom: BBC must not be the sole provider of children's TV
The BBC is in danger of “extending its scope too far” if it remains the sole provider of public service children's programming, Ofcom has warned.
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Parkinson given 3sixty vision
3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...
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Bollywood role for St Anne's
St Anne's and Sumners have finished post-production work on Feelgood Fiction's My Life as a Popat. The kids' comedy drama is about a 12-year-old who escapes into Bollywood dream worlds. St Anne's editors Rob Cooper and John Ellis onlined and colourist Kevin Horsewood graded. ...
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Jump has the X Factor
Jump has created titles for pop contest The X Factor , for Simon Cowell's indie Syco. Cowell and two other judges will pick a winner from their category, then champion that contestant to win overall. The titles, devised and directed by senior Jump designer Russell ...
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CBBC to adapt adventure yarn
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale Kidnapped is to be dramatised with an all-star cast as part of a raft of new CBBC dramas.
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One Life follows up Lager, Mum and Me
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a spin-off of documentary strand One Life, as well as committing to the main series until at least 2007.
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ITV pop quiz for November
ITV1 has commissioned indie North One Television to make a pop music quiz to coincide with the 1,000th number one single.
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Footballers talk to Bravo
Bravo has commissioned a video diary show for an access-all-areas look into a week in the lives of two Premiership footballers.
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Rich Hall takes up the open mike
Comedian Rich Hall is to front a one-off special for BBC4 ahead of the US presidential election in November. Open Mike has been commissioned by Mark Freeland, head of comedy commissioning for the BBC, and production has begun on the 60-minute show. The Perrier ...
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Five schedules Beckham documentary
Startling revelations are promised in a Five documentary about Victoria Beckham. Sham Sandhu, controller of pop features and special events for Five, has commissioned indie Vascha to produce the 60-minute show, which will feature archive footage and interviews and is pencilled in for October. Dave Hills will produce and direct.
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UKTV to air first-time buyers weekend
Reef Television has been commissioned by UKTV Style to follow six prospective home-owners as they attempt to get on the property ladder. The series of 30-minute and 60-minute programmes will form part of a First Time Buyers Weekend on UKTV Style. Nick Thorogood, UKTV's outgoing head of lifestyle, has ordered ...