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NewsStar makes Indian Housewives
Hit US drama Desperate Housewivesis set to be remade in India by Rupert Murdoch-owned cable broadcaster Star TV.
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Sun Hill cops' European beat
The Billwill continue to pound the beat in Denmark and Belgium after Fremantle International Distribution signed lucrative new deals to keep the long-running ITV1 show on air.
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Sky One bags Ludlum thriller rights
Sky One has picked up the multichannel and terrestrial TV rights to Robert Ludlum's bio-terrorism thriller The Hades Factor. The 2 x 90-minute miniseries, starring Stephen Dorff, Anjelica Huston and Mira Sorvino, was acquired from Tandem Communications. It is due to air on Sky in ...
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Italian job for ITV1's The Sketch Show
ITV1 classic comedy The Sketch Showis to be made in Italian after Avalon International secured a new deal for the show at MipTV. Magnolia Italy has purchased all the UK scripts from the first series of the Bafta award-winning show, which it will use as ...
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ITN buys 56 Sony cameras for use in field
ITN is upgrading its news cameras with an investment in 56 Sony DSR-450WSP DVCam camcorders and more than 30 DSR-1500 DVCam compact editing recorders for all of its ITV international and domestic coverage.
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Seamless editing
Dayang International has signed an XDCam alliance agreement with Sony to aid seamless interoperability between Sony's XDCam blue-laser optical disc system and Dayang's editing equipment. This includes enabling Dayang's D3-Edit workstation to link with the XDCam optical disc media for faster editing.
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MTV software
MTV Networks has launched on-air creative software to allow designers and editors from various parts of the world to work on projects simultaneously. Creative Hub software, based on Apple's Final Cut Studio, is designed to enable numerous systems to connect to form a Storage Area Network (SAN) to allow creative ...
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Quake special effects from DVA
DVA has produced the special effects, graphics and map sequences for Cicada Films' Europe's Secret Quakes, a 60-minute programme on the effects of earthquakes. DVA created 20 HD special effects shots with creative director Matthew Baxter devising the sequences. Senior animator Andy Kucharczyk and animator ...
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Format Focus: American Inventor
Simon Cowell's Syco Television and Fremantle Media have launched a US-wide hunt for a winning new invention and $1m in prize money is up for grabs.
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Watch out, learner directors about
Making the switch to the other side of the camera isn't easy - for a start, the opportunity rarely presents itself. Robert Graytalks to four first-time directors who were given the chance and asks what they have learnt
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Houlihan signs for Twofour
Former RDF LA boss Joe Houlihan has been hired by factual entertainment indie Twofour as creative director.
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ITV1 struggles in weekday peaktime slot
ITV1 is having a tough time in the weekday peaktime slot of 9pm with its audience down by 18% year-on-year.
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Noack moves west
Granada Bristol has appointed September Films head of specialist factual Dunja Noack as an executive producer overseeing history, science and specialist factual programmes. Noack's credits include the Emmy award-winning CGI project Virtual Historyfor Discovery International and Britain's Sexual Fantasiesfor Five ...
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New Leopard exec
Leopard Films has hired Sea of Soulsexecutive producer Nadine Marsh-Edwards as an executive producer within its drama division Leopardrama. Marsh-Edwards joins from BBC Scotland, where she spent seven years working on programmes such as Two Thousand Acres of Sky and Tinsel Town. She will be ...
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UBC trials service
UBC Media is to trial a service allowing consumers to buy music they hear on the radio over their mobile phones, in partnership with BT Movio, the Carphone Warehouse, and Chrysalis Radio. Using Chrysalis' Heart network, the trial with 100 people will last two months, starting in June. It will ...
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Fourth Kitchen Nightmares goes abroad
Channel 4 has commissioned a fourth 6 x 60-minute series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmaresfrom Optomen Television. For the first time fiery chef Gordon Ramsay will get stuck into the kitchen of a restaurant abroad, still using his trademark forceful approach. Two other episodes will see ...
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Mentorn loses creative director to At It
Mentorn's creative director Rob Carey is the latest executive to jump ship after being poached by At It Productions. Carey, whose credits include Britain's Worst...for Five and upcoming US reality show Work Outfor Bravo, will become At It Productions head ...
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How much money does this man need?
The general consensus is that the BBC should not receive any licence-fee increase above inflation - but the debate is far from over, says James Curtis.
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Smart money on Ball's return
Uncompromising, feared and respected and, from his Sky days, moneyed? Tony Ball is back on the UK media scene as chairman of investment vehicle IMAC, writes Lucy Rouse.
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In my view - A licence fee for all
A licence fee rise, shared with other broadcasters, will safeguard public service broadcasts in a digital age, says Ann Rossiter