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Rights to Bo' Selecta! creator's new show go for£1m
RDF's distribution arm has sold the DVD rights to Bo' Selecta!creator Leigh Francis' next Channel 4 show ' four months before it goes out.
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Format focus: Clever
Ever wondered why toast always falls buttered side down? Then German science format Clever could provide the answer.
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Granada exec to head Target production
Distributor/producer Target Entertainment has confirmed the appointment of Ed Forsdick as the new managing director of its in-house production division. Forsdick, who is currently executive producer for Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeawayat Granada, joins the company from mid-April. The executive, who previously ran Planet 24, ...
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Five to air trio of action sport shows
Five has picked up three action sports shows from producer/distributor Black Diamond Films. The channel has acquired the rights to feature-length surfing documentaries Step Into Liquidand The Endless Summeras well as Chlorine, a programme about the sport of ...
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Fremantle takes on acquisitions chief
Granada International senior programming executive, drama Shane Murphy has quit to join Fremantle Media as head of acquisitions and development. He will work closely with indies and the production departments within Fremantle Media to identify new programmes for acquisition and global distribution.
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3DD picks up Christian Andersen rights
London-based distributor 3DD has secured the worldwide TV and DVD rights to an international event to commemorate Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen. Once Upon a Time - Hans Christian Andersen, a Celebrationis taking place on 2 April in Copenhagen and will feature music, dance and ...
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Denmark to make You Are What You Eat
Danish production company and format creator Easy Film has acquired Celador International's nutritional format You Are What You Eatfor a local adaptation. Easy has just started work on the series for Danish commercial channel TV3 for broadcast later this year.
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Entertainment Rights moves into profit
Entertainment Rights, the company behind Postman Pat and Basil Brush, has reported a 28% boost in turnover and a move into profit. Pre-tax profits last year totalled£1.1m following a£400,000 loss in 2003. Turnover also rose to£25.5m, up from£19.8m the previous year.
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Sky Travel to premiere circus docusoap
Sky Travel is to provide the first UK screening of a docu-soap series based on life at a circus. The 7 x 22-minute series, Circus, follows the stars of the Weber Brothers Circus on tour around New Zealand and has been sold by Touchdown Television. It originally aired on TV ...
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Stott to star as Rebus returns
ITV1 is to bring back Scottish detective drama Rebus, after a four-year break, with The Vice star Ken Stott taking over the lead role from John Hannah.
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Non-Blonde gets own BBC3 show
ONE of the stars of acclaimed comedy 3 Non Blondeshas gone solo in a new sketch show for BBC3.
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Robert Carlyle to star in ITV thriller
Indie Zenith Entertainment has landed an ITV1 drama commission with a psychological thriller starring Robert Carlyle.
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Jailbirds sing for Century
Factual producer Century Films is following up its musical documentary about young offenders, Feltham Sings, with a project set in a women's prison.
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Sewell tours Italian landmarks for Five
Art critic Brian Sewell is to follow up his Naked Pilgrimseries for Five with a tour of Italy's most prominent art and architectural landmarks. Brian Sewell's Grand Tour of Italywill air this autumn over a 9 x 45-minute series. Kim Peat, controller ...
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Fulmar West to cover Hay-on-Wye
Cardiff-based indie Fulmar West has won a commission to cover the Hay-on-Wye literary festival for Channel 4. Fulmar will produce a 50-minute programme about an as-yet-unnamed contemporary writer and four short films to be shown in the Three Minute Wonderpost-news slot on Channel 4 in the run-up ...
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Five adds five to Britain's Worst list
Five has commissioned five new documentaries from indie Mentorn to extend its Britain's Worststrand. The hour-long specials, hosted by former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson, will highlight the nation's worst hairdresser, chef, boss, builder and teenager. Five commissioning editor Alex Sutherland has ordered the new programmes, ...
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Hopscotch analyses Iranian film for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Glasgow-based Hopscotch Films to make a slate of programming worth£250,000 to tie in with an upcoming Iranian film season. Shows include documentary Cinema Iranabout the country's recent film history and an as-yet-untitled documentary about Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The indie is also ...
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Done and Dusted to make T4 pop event
Done and Dusted has been commissioned to produce this year's T4 summer pop event. Previously called Popbeach, this summer's bash will be rebranded as T4 on the Beachand be broadcast from Weston Super Mare. Hamish Hamilton has been lined up to direct ...
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Commissioning Q&A: Clare Hollywood
The commissioning editor for Living TV is looking for the biggest paranormal idea ever to make the Flextech channel the undisputed home of supernatural programming
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Backroom staff first to go in cull
Last week's announcement of 1,730 job cuts was the biggest single round of redundancies in BBC history.