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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC MediaArc picks Barker
BBC Mediaarc, the corporation's newly created design agency, is expanding with the appointment of Carol Barker to the new role of head of animation and the addition of three 3D artists,
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - DIBS REVAMPS AS GO
Sony's interactive technology business, Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBS), has relaunched as Go interact tv. The spin-off, which acts as technology partner to interactive producers and worked with Simply Money
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RUSHES APPOINTMENTS
Commercial facility Rushes has signed Allen Sillery and Phil Man to its Inferno team. Sillery joins the Old Compton Street facility from rival VTR, where he worked across Flame and Henry.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - ROOT6 R&D GROWS
Root6 is expanding its R&D department and has appointed Jim Bentley as an additional software developer to work on HammerHead, the outfit's hardware-independent streaming media automation tool. Bentley has joined from
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TAMBORINE EXPANDS
Sound facility Tamborine Productions is expanding with the opening of a second studio at its Soho site and has plans to open a third in the next 18 months. The company,
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Digital plans need rethinking
The prime minister's decision to set back a general election date by at least a month until June prompts a glance at the list of unfinished government business for this industry.
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FREE TO AIR - Say no to Tweenie tat
When it comes to the 'power of television' over the young mind I have always been pretty ambivalent. I spent many hours of my early years sitting in front of any
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TRADE TALK - An original touch
Former executive producer at Carlton Rob Pursey has set up his own indie, Touchpaper, eager to put his passion for new drama into practice.
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IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah
On how awards for news sit uneasily with glamorous ceremonies at swanky hotels.
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ON THE BOX - The bear necessities
BBC editor, mainstream LE Jonathan Glazier finds Grizzly Face to Face a little uninformative but As If an all-round delight.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Treading a fine line
The threat of legal action against the producers of Pop Idol for format plagiarism shows how difficult it is for programme-makers to tell the difference between copying another show and being inspired by it.
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BBC WORLDWIDE - The BBC's catch-22
The review of BBC Worldwide, begun nearly a year ago, is still going on and insiders are suggesting there won't be much to say once it is completed. Have Greg Dyke's commercial instincts for once let him down?
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INTERVIEW - Sense of Wellbeing
Wellbeing joint managing director Paula Carter is confident that the Boots/Granada 'brandcaster' has the edge over digital rivals like Discovery Health.
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News moves fail to make a splash
When the BBC/ITV news at 22.00 battle started, critics and the ITC were shouting about lost ratings but, six months on, the fuss seems to have come to nothing with viewers tuning in much as they did before.
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The apostles rise again
ITV's The Apostles follows hot on the heels of Son of God, the BBC's landmark religious series. Both programmes explore the historical and archaeological evidence to shed new light on some
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Holby City comes back to prop up Tuesday night
Back to earth with a post-Comic Relief bump for BBC 1 - Coronation Street returns to the top of the stack in the top 50 and all except one primetime night
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OFF THE RECORD - Yanks put Britain in quarantine
RDF is having fun and games filming its Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge in Los Angeles where the weather's more or less guaranteed to be sunny enough for the outdoor shoot
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OFF THE RECORD - Cable chaos
And so to the annual cable industry awards where Off The Record was mightily confused to see Disney's Playhouse pick up a gong for best pre-school channel in 2000. The channel
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OFF THE RECORD - Belt tightening
Blame the economic slow-down, but Granada is tightening its belts. OTR hears that bowls of fruit have been banned from all executive's offices and company credit cards have apparently been taken