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London Live’s Lawford joins Beal’s Woodcut

Former BBC Worldwide iPlayer exec Derren Lawford has joined Kate Beal’s new indie, Woodcut Media, as joint creative director. Lawford joins from London Live, the local digital channel that services England’s capital city, where he was commissioning executive. At Woodcut, Lawford will work to secure commissions, work on production in the UK and internationally, and […]

London Live drops entertainment shows

UK local TV operation London Live will stop making and buying entertainment series, and instead focus on news and current affairs programming. Programming execs such as head of programming and commissioning Jonathan Boseley (pictured) and commissioning executive Derren Lawford – formerly BBC Worldwide’s head of programming and scheduling for the Global iPlayer – will be […]

London Live to launch in UK

A new channel is launching on digital free-TV in the UK today. London Live will occupy the Freeview channel 8 slot, along with BSkyB channel 117, Virgin Media channel 159 and YouView channel 8. The network is one of the stations launching throughout the UK in a government-lead drive to launch channels that offer local […]