The WGA has since said it would pursue separate talks with smaller, independent production companies.
The 14 shows are made by independent production companies and produced by Amazon Studios, the film and series production arm of Amazon.
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Lord Fraser has asked for access to the untransmitted material recorded for a BBC Scotland programme by independent production company Wark Clements.
The council says it has had filming requests from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, along with a number of independent production companies.
The series will be produced through an independent production company operated by Neil Blair, on behalf of The Blair Partnership, and Rick Senat.
Film rental complements the catch-up TV service YouTube operates in the UK with the help of Channel 4, Five and many independent production companies.
The series, which sees two wives swap families for a week, won prizes for best popular factual, independent production, international sales and best new programme.
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Plymouth's strength as a media centre is shored up by being home to one of the biggest independent production houses outside London, Twofour Productions at Estover.
In 1979, he left NBC Universal where he spent eight years under contract creating and writing series such as the Rockford Files, to start his own independent production company.
Tiago Klimeck, 27, was one of the actors from a local theater company taking part in an independent production of the play April 6 in the city of Itarare.
The joke is old, but all the material is new in the 42-year-old comic daredevil's first independent production, "Bello Mania, " currently playing at The New Victory Theater in New York.
This drama, written and directed by Hilary Brougher and starring Amber Tamblyn and Tilda Swinton (who is also the executive producer), reflects the virtues and flaws of its independent production.
The Channel 4 show won the main Indie Award for best independent production of the year, the light entertainment prize and the new media prize for its work in bringing the internet and TV together.
But Cass Warner, granddaughter of studio co-founder Harry Warner, onetime writing student of Koch and head of her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, is determined to have the sequel made, as she recently announced on her website.
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But as the studios ceded the smaller budget films to independent production companies (who can be much more nimble), the movies that are left at the studios will need to be huge at the box office in order to produce profits.
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Nick Catliff, managing director of independent production company Lion Television, and who in 1994 persuaded a Scottish judge to allow a TV crew to film an armed robbery trial in the sheriff court, said the latest move was a "foot in the door".
Dogfish Accelerator is the newly formed development arm of Dogfish Pictures, an independent film production company founded by James Belfer in 2009.
It came as a terrible shock to him that the experience of an independent American production should turn out to be as heart-breaking as that of a film made in the Mosfilm studio.
It has recently completed an upgrade of television facilities, including the 30, 000 sq ft Richard Attenborough Stage which opened in April, in a bid to play a bigger role in the UK's independent television production.
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In 1994, German luxury car-maker BMW announced the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace, ending nearly a century of independent mass car production in Britain.
That included giveaways, a Reddit AMA, social media chats, bonuses for bulk buys, and a trailer to rival most independent films for production value (an increasingly common tool for large releases).
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Mr Davies pointed out that the BBC would be regulated by Ofcom in several key areas, including economic regulation, taste and decency issues and quotas on regional, independent and original production.
More generally, the growing fashion for contracting out production to small independent companies has further slimmed the studios: almost 100, 000 of the people employed in the business are now freelance workers.
After graduation, Tan continued to work in Sydney as an independent filmmaker with TV stations and production houses.
In the energy sector, as the U.S. becomes more energy independent with growing oil and gas production, the demand for new energy infrastructure will continue.
Wall to Wall is part of Shed Media, a production company that was independent until last August, when Time Warner bought a controlling stake.
Anadarko is among the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world, with 2.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent of proved reserves as of December 31, 2010.
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His Conoil Producing, which was founded as Shell Company of Nigeria in 1927 and privatized in 2000, is one of Nigeria's largest independent oil companies, with a production capacity of 100, 000 barrels per day.
Gottsch lowered his sights, cutting production costs by working with independent producers and pitching the network to satellite channels instead.
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