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Super Fashion Stars
13 x 44'
Entertainment - Reality
Galleon Entertainment

Design it, Style it, flaunt it...who will be the next Super Fashion Star? The search for the ultimate fashion team starts here! Exclusive Fashion partner: Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden (IMG Entertainment)

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Being...Fidel Castro
1 x 90'
Documentary - History
Calt Distribution

Fidel Castro gives us his view of things, through the caustic view of Karl Zero, a French journalist who stands "in the shoes" of famous politicians.

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Dilemma - Banijay International
Dilemma
25'
Entertainment – Game Shows
Banijay International

They think they are ready for anything. But how far will they go to win the game?...

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Band Without Brothers
52 x 30'
Factual - Documentary
John Mclean Media

The Last Supper is a rock band hell-bent on breaking the world record for most countries toured by a music group by hitting 100! The series is a true rockumentary drama of cultural exploration.

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Benidorm Bastards - Seven One International
Benidorm Bastards
25'
Format
Seven One International

Rose d'Or Nominee "Benidorm Bastards" is an edgy hidden camera show starring 7 old men and women who are making fun of the younger generation.

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Street Kids of Mumbai
1 x 60'
Factual - Documentary
Digital Rights Group

India is home to the largest number of street children in the world. UNICEF's estimate of 11m is considered to be a conservative figure. 10 - 15,000 children arrive in Mumbai alone every year. This film tells the stories of just a few...

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Orange UK stocks up for IPTV launch

Orange UK has forged its first video-on-demand content partnership for digital TV and PC rights to fuel its upcoming digital TV service, which it said today would launch "later this year."

The mobile operator has teamed up with Disney-ABC International Television to allow subscribers to watch a selection of Disney, Touchstone and Miramax movies via its planned on-demand service, Orange TV.

Films to be initially available via the service will be Jerry Bruckheimer's thriller Déjà Vu, starring Denzel Washington; the John Travolta and Tim Allen comedy Wild Hogs; and Venus, starring Peter O'Toole.

Tim Pearson, director of IPTV at Orange, said the deal was the first of many content partnerships he will be signing in the coming months. "We're gearing up for our launch of digital TV later this year. We intend to offer our customers a great range of the best movies on demand, for which this agreement with Disney is a great step."

"We're committed to developing a digital TV service that will allow our customers to get more from their TV by putting them in control of the best quality entertainment with the flexibility to watch what they want, when they want, how they want."

The market for the UK service is not only Orange's existing 16.5 million customers in the UK - unevenly split between 15.1 million mobile and 1.5 million internet customers - but the growing IPTV user base in that market.

A recent Screen Digest report said the UK had the fastest rate of IPTV growth in Europe, adding that the number of UK IPTV households would rise from 80,000 to 300,000 by year end. There were 2.9 million IPTV subscribers in Europe in 2006, a figure that's set to double to 5.6 million this year.

Orange's upcoming launch of digital TV in the UK builds upon its existing TV services in France, Spain, Mauritius, Senegal and Poland, and comes as UK telco BT today said the roll-out of IPTV service BT Vision was "going according to plan," and Tiscali said its own service would launch in September.

C21 first reported France Telecom-owned Orange's plans to launch TV services into the UK here in April 2006, but the company then said Orange TV would launch by the end of last year.

Ed Waller
26 Jul 2007
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