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MPC sale hits snags
Reports of the sale of ITV-owned The Moving Picture Company (MPC) to French technology group Thomson appear to have been premature. The sale is yet to go through with the main stumbling blocks thought to be price and terms offered to the existing management. This may have opened up an ...
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Evolutions posts C4's Auschwitz
Evolutions Television has finished post on Auschwitz - The Forgotten Evidence for Flashback Television and Channel 4. The documentary studies reconnaissance photos of the Nazi death camp that were taken by Allied planes in 1944 and why, despite Churchill's recommendations, no action was taken. Evolutions' ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Best in the world
Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time.
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John Willis in call for authored docs
BBC director of factual and learning John Willis has called for less homogenised television and more pieces like the controversial BBC2 series The Power of Nightmares. During the Royal Television Society's annual Christmas lecture on Wednesday (24 November), Willis said he wanted to see ...
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Auctionworld folds with debts of£14m
Teleshopping channel Auctionworld has gone into administration with debts of around£14m. The station went off air on Friday (19 November) after Ofcom last week ordered it to cough up£450,000 after repeatedly failing to suspend misleading price guides and for poor customer service. Around 300 staff are thought to have lost ...
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Exclusive horticultural coverage on BBC
The BBC has signed a four-year deal for exclusive rights to the Royal Horticultural Society's four major flower shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. The deal will also see a collaboration on three new BBC2 gardening series for next year. The working-titled Winning Tatton from ...
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£400m bill to switch over-75s to digital
Financial assistance should be given to the over-75s and the vulnerable during the switchover to digital TV, Ofcom has said. In a recommendation that could cost up to£400m, the regulator said during switchover those eligible for TV licence exemptions should be helped to meet the cost of new equipment and ...
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Race for the PSP prize
It's interesting to speculate what Ofcom's proposed public service publisher (PSP) could look like. Perhaps it might be an offshoot of Channel 4, with a brand name of E5 and run by Roly Keating out of Birmingham. Perhaps a mobile phone giant could run it. Perhaps its proposed budget of£300m ...
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RatingsITV1's peaktime share tops 40% again
ITV1 completely dominated viewing as I'm a Celebrity? and a double helping of Coronation Street sent the broadcaster's peaktime share to over 40% for the second time this week.
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ITV launches 'Strictly Ice-Skating' show.
ITV is to take on the BBC with its own ice-skating show and has signed the king and queen of the ice rink, Torvill and Dean, to front it, writes Paul Revoir.
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Five gets£17m boost to budget.
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has been handed a£17m budget boost to strengthen the
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Off the record - Spoof Mark Thompson email.
This is the spoof email doing the rounds at the BBC purporting to be from the
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BBC set to cut 250 jobs with factual merger.
The BBC's specialist factual and documentaries and contemporary factual departments - homes to shows such as Pompeii and What Not to Wear - are set to merge, in a move that could cost at least 250 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Sony Pictures looks at stake in Shine.
Sony Pictures Television International has held informal talks with Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, about buying a stake in the indie, writes Colin Robertson.
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Comment - Best in the world.
Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Duncan bids for licence fee.
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has called for direct access to the licence fee and
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Bazalgette gains global brief.
Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette has become the indie's global head of creative operations as part of a move by Spanish owner Telefónica to shift power from the Big Brother creator's Dutch base to Britain, writes Maria Esposito.
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All3Media launches German TV offshoot.
All3Media is to further expand its international clout by launching a TV production company in Germany, writes Paul Revoir.