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All articles by Leon Forde – Page 18
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BBC leads race for BAFTA television awards
The BBC dominated the drama categories in the nominations for this year's British Academy Television Awards, garnering 11 out of 20 nods.BBC1's Wives & Daughters was the most heavily nominated BBC drama production, picking up nods for best actress (Francesca Annis), best actor (Michael Gambon) and best drama serial.ITV's Lost ...
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DNA lines up two with Coogan, O'Toole
Duncan Kenworthy and Andrew Macdonald's National Lottery franchise DNA Films is moving ahead on two projects - The Parole Officer, marking the feature debut of UK comedian Steve Coogan, and The Final Curtain, in which Peter O'Toole and Aidan Gillen play warring media celebrities.In its final round of lottery funding ...
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UPC joins Disney, Sony in Benelux movie channel
Netherlands-based cable operator UPC has confirmed that it has boarded a joint venture between Disney and Sony to launch a 24-hour premium movie channel for Belgium and the Netherlands (Screendaily, February 4).Dubbed CineNova, the channel is scheduled to launch May 18 in the Netherlands and in Belgium in September. It ...
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Macbean to exit Itel for drama school
Andrew Macbean, CEO of UK-based TV programming distributor Itel, is resigning from the company. It is understood that he plans to go to drama school. His exit appears to have been prompted by the proposed merger between Itel's parent company United News & Media and Carlton Communications, which has its ...
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Pathe steps into Cowboy's Hole
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures is financing Cowboy Films and Granada Film's The Hole, set to star American Beauty's Thora Birch.Director Nick Hamm (Martha, Meet Daniel, Frank and Laurence) is to start shooting the psychological thriller in the UK in July from a screenplay by Ben Court and ...
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Downtown seals DVD output deal with MGM
Downtown Pictures, the UK distributor of Spike Lee's Summer Of Sam and Bill Condon's Gods And Monsters, has signed an exclusive output deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for DVD and video sell-through titles in the UK.The deal also requires Downtown to identify and acquire product for MGM in the UK. The ...
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MIP-TV: Channel 4, Company strike first-look deal
UK TV production outfit Company Television has signed a first-look development and distribution deal with UK-based TV distributor Channel 4 International (C4I).Under the terms of the deal, C4I will handle distribution on selected Company titles and the two companies will jointly develop a raft of projects. The partners are already ...
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Aardman, AtomFilms team for Internet premiere
UK animation house Aardman Animations is launching its latest creation, Angry Kid, exclusively on the Internet, via online distributor AtomFilms' web-site from early May.The 25 60-second episodes will be available as free Quicktime downloads from Sunday, May 7. Aardman and AtomFilms previously pacted for Web distribution of Aardman's back catalogue ...