Nigel Dacre has quit his role as managing director of Bob Geldof’s production company Ten Alps to set up a new venture wholly based on helping internet television channels succeed.

Dacre, a former editor of ITV News had been at Ten Alps for five years, during which time he helped set up digital service Teachers TV, and then oversaw the launch of both Public TV and Kent TV.

While he will remain as a consultant at Ten Alps, he is leaving his main role to concentrate on a new business specialising in developing and launching internet TV channels.

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MySpace seem to be getting increasingly more adventurous in their aims to produce professionally made, high budget drama series.

In spring, or Q2 to be more precise, of this year, we all saw the debut of MySpaceTV’s first serial drama, called “Prom Queen”, which was broken into 90-second-episode snippets and ran for just over a month.

Then just over a week ago, the social network announced the launch of its second episodic production, “Roommates”, an ongoing, scripted, viewer-influenced drama occurring over the course of 45 weekdays.

Now, MySpace has made known its intentions to go even further into the realm of top quality film making. 

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