LONDON -- Daisy Goodwin, the independent producer responsible for such reality hits as The Apprentice, Jamie's School Dinners and How Clean is Your House, is leaving Fremantle-owned Talkback Thames after seven years, it was announced Wednesday. Goodwin, who will not renew her contract with the production house when it expires next month, did not announce other plans. The move comes after a period of change at one of the U.K.'s most successful independent production houses, which has seen former BBC1 chief Lorraine Heggessey take over from Talkback chief executive Peter Fincham, who has since moved to the BBC to replace Heggessey at BBC1.
- 5/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lifetime Television said Monday that it has renewed the reality series How Clean Is Your House? for a second season. The show, which features cleaning gurus Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie, will return in the fall as part of the network's ongoing expansion of its reality programming slate. Clean, airing at 11 p.m. Mondays, averaged 1.4 million total viewers last year and has increased the network's ratings in the time period by 83% among women 18-34 and by 22% among women 18-49 compared with the previous year. Clean is produced by FremantleMedia North America, with Tracy Verna executive producing and Jeff Collins co-executive producing.
LONDON -- Ben Frow, head of features and factual entertainment at Channel 4, has left to become controller of features and entertainment at Channel Five, the companies said Wednesday. Frow, whose Channel 4 shows have included Jamie's Kitchen, How Clean Is Your House? and Nigella Bites, joins its commercial rival, which styles itself simply as Five, in the new year. He will be in charge of all entertainment programming on the channel including series and will develop new entertainment features. "I'm really proud of the contribution I've been able to make to the channel's success over the past five years," said Frow, who joined Channel 4 from the BBC in 1998. "I feel I'm now ready for a fresh challenge." "Ben's a highly individual commissioning editor who's left a distinctive mark on a fantastic array of programming," Channel 4 director of television Kevin Lygo said. "Other channels have clearly copied Channel 4's recent innovations in lifestyle and features programming in the hope of repeating its ratings successes, and much of the credit for that must go to Ben."...
- 11/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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