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...It was Downton Abbey-on-the-Potomac decades before that television drama was conceived....
...The plan was hastily abandoned and its first hit in-house production, House of Cards, premiered a year later....
...broadcast live from ecommerce company Brit + Co’s holiday house....
...Halfway house Some craft brewers believe they have found a halfway house where they can retain control but secure investment to boost their export operations....
...New programmes piggyback on established favourites (Downton Abbey aired directly after The X Factor), and educational output sneaks in after popular shows....
...British talent also struck gold, with wins for Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggat winning best supporting actress in a miniseries and Ruth Wilson...
...But its offerings face competition from the BBC, maker of Doctor Who, ITV, home of Downton Abbey, and Net-flix, commissioner of House of Cards....
...He seems most perturbed by recent media reports that his Edinburgh-based parent company has looked at purchasing new headquarters in the City of London, allegedly in case Scotland votes in favour of independence...
...Two drama executives from ITV who were behind successes such as Downton Abbey are reuniting with a former BBC colleague in an independent production venture....
...That stance could be important to other media deals....
...ITV will unveil its next big drama project on Wednesday, aiming to repeat Downton Abbey’s global success and underpin the group’s strategy of boosting in-house programming power through a tale of sex, class...
...Income from in-house content such as the popular costume drama Downton Abbey helped to lift annual pre-tax profits at ITV by 14 per cent, even as the broadcaster warned of a slowdown in advertising....
...Then, just like in the culture, media and sport committee’s questioning of the Murdochs a year ago, it just takes one to ease the pressure off....
...She is a director at Guardian Media Group, and venture partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm....
...For David it was his whole life’s reputation on the line,” says Roger Parry, a UK media executive who has worked on deals with and against Mr Wormsley for 20 years....
...EMI bought the house at number 3 Abbey Road for £100,000 in 1929 and transformed it into the world’s first custom-built recording studios....
...After one handbrake turn on Abbey Road, the world now knows that EMI is in trouble....
...RBS is up against super-mutual Nationwide-Abbey and Chinese-controlled HongKong Standard Chartered (HSCB), which trades under the singing Black Horse pictogram....
...Potential targets include Abbey National-owned Scottish Mutual and Scottish Provident, the closed life fund of Lloyds TSB and possibly parts of Equitable Life....
...Highbury House rose 5.4 per cent to 7.4p....
...EMAP, the media company, held steady at 704½p after Merrill Lynch concluded the media company’s consumer magazines had solid first-half circulation....
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