Archive for May, 2009
Out: Pat Younge, President/GM Travel Channel
Patrick Younge, Prestident/General Manager, Travel Channel is leaving the channel in January 2010 to return to the UK.
Greenlit: Why Men Watch Porn, Virgin 1
Why Men Watch Porn (1×60′) – Volunteers watch five hours of porn under medical supervision to see what effects it has on them. Part of an as yet unnamed strand. Mark Sammon, Virgin Media TV head of commissions, has said he’s looking to commission 3-4 series in a similar vein. Budgets around £110.000 per hour. [...]
Greenlit: Kendra, E!
Kendra (9x ) – Reality series featuring former star of The Girls Next Door Kendra Wilkinson. It follows her as leaves the Playboy Mansion to move in with fiance Hank Baskett. Channel: E! Producer: Prometheus Entertainment / Fox Television Studios / Alta Loma Entertainment TX: 7 June 09 Source: Cynopsis
A World of Pain: Meera Syal on Self Harm, BBC2
A World Of Pain: Meera Syal On Self Harm – Meera Syal, author, actress and mother, looks at the issue of rising levels of self harm in the UK. Meeting victims, Meera learns about the complicated issues that can lead to a person taking such drastic action and asks how parents can protect their children [...]
Greenlit: The Price of Life, BBC2
The Price Of Life – features remarkable access to NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the body that conducts the process by which the NHS decides which drug treatments it can afford to offer to patients. How do doctors choose which patients should be the winners – and which should be the losers? [...]
Twitter Reality TV rumours
Word is that Twitter is developing an unnamed unscripted TV show that will put “ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” More details to follow as they emerge. Producer: Reveille Productions / Brillstein Entertainment Partners / Twitter Source: Variety (Hat tip to Tech Crunch) Update: Twitter has said it’s not [...]
Workshops for Creative People – That’s YOU!
Workshops for Creative People – That’s YOU! If you are in London this summer, Mark McGuinness is running a series of workshops for creative people, three of which are relevant to anyone who is working in TV – How to Motivate Creative People (Including You) – 8 July 09 Time Management for Creative People – [...]
In: Jan Younghusband, Commissioning Editor Music and Events, BBC
Jan Younghusband has been appointed as commissioning editor for music and events role at the BBC. She joins from C4 where she was commissioning editor for arts and performance. Commissions include Hunger, To Be Or Not To Be and Big Art.
In: Kim Shillinglaw, Commissioner Science and Natural History, BBC
Kim Shillinglaw has been appointed as commissioner for science and natural history at the BBC where she is currently a science exec producer.
The Freesound Project
The Freesound Project is a new website that is gathering a collection of sounds that will form a collaborative database of audio samples – bird song, burps and rainstorms, among other sounds – that are available for use under Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. Browse using the search function, random sample link or “sounds like” [...]
