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Channel 5
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Viacom’s Channel 5, Comedy Central join BritBox UK
Viacom’s UK channels, Comedy Central and Channel 5, have joined the BBC and ITV’s joint…
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BFI’s Young Audiences Content Fund: a fund indeed for a nation in need
The UK children’s industry is already feeling the benefit of a new $70m fund but…
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Cameras roll on Awesome Media and Two Rivers’ ‘The Small Hand’ for C5
Cameras have begun rolling on Awesome Media and Two Rivers Media’s adaptation of The Small…
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Channel 5 takes weekend breaks with ‘MasterChef’ presenter Gregg Wallace
MasterChef’s Gregg Wallace is linking with Rumpus Media for a four-part travelogue series for Channel…
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Banijay Rights gets first look at Proper Content
Banijay Rights has signed a first-look, multi-year development deal with UK factual specialist Proper Content,…
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Channel 5 orders ‘Neighbours’ spin-off for My5 VOD service
Viacom-owned UK broadcaster Channel 5 has commissioned a spin-off of Australian soap Neighbours for streamer…
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Channel 5’s Frow: Savings from ‘Big Brother’ cancellation didn’t go the distance
Channel 5 director of programmes Ben Frow has called the cancellation of Big Brother a…
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Channel 5 bolsters scripted slate with three additions
Viacom-owned UK broadcaster Channel 5 has unveiled a raft of original dramas in the latest…
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TBI Weekly: ViacomCBS, a US deal with global implications
CBS and Viacom’s merger might have created a $30bn US-based content company but a foray…
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Channel 5 readies IWC’s ‘Greatest Warships’
Channel 5 has commissioned a doc series from Banijay Group-owned IWC that explores famous war…
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Viacom plugs My5 channels into Pluto TV
AVOD streamer Pluto TV is to launch three UK channels using content from the VOD…
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Sales round-up: C5 welcomes ‘Bad Mothers’; ‘Very Bad Blagues’ set for Balkans; PBS’s VPM orders ‘Legacy List’
Viacom’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired exclusive AVOD rights to Red Arrow Studios International’s…
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Channel 5 hands out first BBC Studios commissions
Viacom-owned UK broadcaster Channel 5 has ordered its first shows from BBC Studios’ Science Unit,…
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Sales round-up: DRG strikes ‘Remarkable’ deals in Europe; DCD secures UK sales for Oz drama
DRG serves up sales for ‘Remarkable Places To Eat’ BBC Two’s Remarkable Places To Eat…
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Ofcom sets out new PSB measures in face of “unprecedented challenges”
UK regulator Ofcom has announced a new set of measures to improve the chances of…
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Sky Cinema hires C5’s Keenan
The former head of acquisitions for Viacom-owned Channel 5 in the UK has left the…
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C5 targets BAME indies for programme ideas
Channel 5 has launched a new initiative to encourage more BAME-owned and managed indie production…
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Transparent TV unveils ‘Trouble with the Tory Party’ for Channel 5
Channel 5 has commissioned Jazz Gowans’ Transparent TV for a two-part series exploring the problems…
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Crackit readies seven shock docs for 5Star, Channel 5
Crackit Productions has won commissions for seven stand-alone ‘shock docs’ from 5STAR and Channel 5. The…
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My5 to host UK premieres of Stan, Crackle originals
Viacom-backed VOD service My5 will host the UK premieres of two dramas from Sony Pictures…
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My5, All4 bolster services with content deal, SVOD function
Viacom-owned catch-up service My5 has struck a content deal with Israeli cable group Hot. The…
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Channel 5 uncovers Pompeii, Tutankhamun in ambitious history slate
Viacom-owned broadcaster Channel 5 has unveiled a slate of history programming including series on Tutankhamun,…
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Channel 5 sharpens Shiver’s Red Arrows
Channel 5 has commissioned ITV Studios-owned production label Shiver for a six-part doc series on…
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Channel 5 commissions obs doc series Code Zero
Channel 5 has commissioned Zinc Media’s Reef Television to produce Code Zero: Police Under Attack (working…
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Filming in North Korea
Ahead of the Nat Geo premiere of North Korea From The Inside With Michael Palin on…
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Nat Geo goes to North Korea with Michael Palin
National Geographic has acquired ITN Productions’ one-off documentary North Korea From The Inside With Michael…
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Viacom to benefit from Disney/Fox “distraction”
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish has that the Disney/Fox merger represents a “significant positive” for the…
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Channel 5 axes Big Brother as Endemol sale heats up
Channel 5 has cancelled Big Brother after eight years on the Viacom-owned broadcaster. The channel…
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Channel 5 Blind Date commissioner departs for Channel 4
Blind Date commissioner Sean Doyle is leaving Channel 5 to board Channel 4. The exec…
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Elephant House taps ITV Studios label for creative director
Viacom International Media Networks’ (VIMN) Elephant House Studios has hired Ed Taylor, from ITV Studios…