All Broadcast articles in 15 August 2003 – Page 5
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New company up
The founder of broadcast technology manufacturer Omnibus Systems has left to launch IdeasUnlimited.tv, a company that will specialise in transmission verification and content monitoring. Glyn Powell-Evans believes the company will address an urgent need among broadcasters for automated remote TV and audio-signal monitoring. The company will introduce the Content Probe ...
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Granada ships period drama to middle east
Granada International has completed a raft of sales of costume dramas to the Middle East as the genre continues to gain popularity in the region. Dramas including Agatha Christie's Poirotand adaptations of Catherine Cookson titles such as The Cinder Path, ...
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Open mike wins fifth series with Ross
Open Mike Productions has been recommissioned by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey to make a fifth series of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. The longer 28 x 50-minute run, co-commissioned by controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush and senior commissioning executive Jon Beazley, will be stripped ...
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Stream's new focus
DVD outfit Stream Digital Media is refocusing its business to concentrate on interactive design and authoring. The company will be working across all platforms and formats of interactive media, although it will still be doing high-end DVD design and production. Heading the new team will be Lucy Protheroe who joins ...
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Goldsmith leaves Universal Network
Universal Studios Networks UK managing director Janet Goldsmith has quit after five years at the company, writes Colin Robertson.
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Granada sells two to Greece
Granada International has sold home makeover series Home on their Own, which has recently finished its run on ITV1 to Greek channel Mega TV. A member of LWT's production team will go to Athens to consult during the making of the 20 x 30-minute series. ...
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ITV greenlights learners
ITV1 has has given the greenlight to a 'hair-raising' six-part series looking at why it is that some people cannot pass their driving tests, writes Colin Robertson.
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Second helping of Oliver for Ten
Ubiquitous TV chef Jamie Oliver has become a firm favourite down under and now Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has decided to strip the second series of his Oliver's Twistcookery show, writes Penny Hughes.
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The weakest link moves into Malaysia
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to take the hit quiz Weakest Linkto Malaysia. Under the agreement, brokered by BBC Worldwide director of programming Colin Jarvis, the show will debut on RTM later this year. The quiz is also in production in Slovenia, while a ...
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Watching the Detectives (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Watching the Detectives (BBC1) was a calm, measured, unhysterical documentary that was allowed unusual access to B...
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ER (C4) - Fiona Sturges, The Independent
'It's some achievement that, 9 series on, ER's (Channel 4) still one of the best things on television. At this stag...
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ER (C4) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'Carter (Noah Wyle) has answered a call from Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic) to help out at a ramshackled clinic where h...
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Watching the Detectives (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'At times, the narration could be a bit wince-inducing. ('June is a time of long days and light hearts.') At others...
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RatingsChelsea scores for BBC2
BBC2 scored with its 11th hour scheduling of new-look Chelsea's first venture into Europe with 2.6 million viewers, writes Jon Rogers.
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Masters and Servants (C4) - Fiona Sturges, The Independent
'All in all, Masters and Servants was a fairly fatuous exercise, and served only to reinforce class stereotypes. Wh...
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Young, Posh and Loaded (ITV1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It's obvious that the sole purpose of Young, Posh And Useless [sic] is to expose the stupidity of the rich and hum...
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Masters and Servants (C4) - Penny Wark, The Times
'Ostensibly this is a series about class and power, but what it actually does is expose people's foibles and confir...