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C4 to spotlight 'bad' Georgians
Channel 4 has lined up a season of programmes that take a look at the dark or hidden side of the Georgian era with films on boxing and gay sex headlining the season, writes Penny Hughes.
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Wall to Wall makes bold with knights of old
Wall to Wall is to investigate the truth about the knights of the Middle Ages and their penchant for jousting in a co-production for Channel 4 and Discovery, write Jon Rogers and Penny Hughes.
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Shine sails off with exclusive
Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, is to make a documentary series for Five about the aircraft carrier Ark Royal after securing exclusive worldwide access to the ship, as part of a slate of new orders from UK broadcasters, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Anne Robinson to host celebrity dinners
Acid-tongued presenter Anne Robinson is to make a full series of her alternative BBC2 chat show in which celebrity guests are asked to choose the eight people from the past or present whom they would like to invite to a dinner party. The 8 x 30-minute ...
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PBS special will follow Chinese explorers
Pearson Broadband and Paladin Invision, a co-venture between British documentary-makers William Cran and Clive Syddall, are to co-produce a 120-minute special for US public broadcaster PBS about 15th century China. 1421 - When China Discovered the World, which is due to air next year, will ...
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Jonathan Ross to present 2002 TV round-up
Jonathan Ross is to take over presenting duties from Michael Parkinson on BBC1's annual retrospective of last year's best TV moments. The live 90-minute 2002 TV Moments will allow viewers to vote for their favourites in seven genre categories with the results being revealed in ...
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Five takes Sky's Sunrise for another year
Five has renewed its contract with Sky News to continue broadcasting the satellite broadcaster's morning show Sunrise for another year. Sunrisewill now continue to air between 06.00 and 06.30 each weekday and from 07.00 until 08.00 on Saturdays. The deal, ...
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Dead ringers team in new R4 comic venture
BBC Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has greenlit a new six-part comedy series from the team behind Dead Ringers. Elephants to Catch Eels, written by Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, is set in 18th century Cornwall and features ...
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R4 to dish dirt on 1982 rebel cricketers
A 60-minute documentary recounting the 1982 rebel England cricket tour of apartheid South Africa has been ordered by BBC Radio 4 commissioning executive Andrew Caspari. Rebel Hell, to be presented by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, will explore the political in-fighting and backroom dealings that ...
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Support behind Spy TV
Kit hire facility Shooting Partners has supplied full on-set technical support on Ian Wright's new show for Endemol, Spy TV, including providing and 'hiding'; all cameras and microphones. The programme features unsuspecting people being set up by friends in different scenarios, like helping the police trap a diamond smuggler. Each ...
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Nucoda tool for spring
Media company Nucoda has announced that its first PC-based full-resolution tool for film will be on sale in the UK from March. Data Conform (DC) is heralded as a time and money-saving device because it allows users to conform from an EDL (edit decision list) over a network and immediately ...
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New job for bray at DGP
Rowan Bray has left her role as facilities manager at Arena Digital after 11 years to join DGP as general manager. Bray will oversee all staffing issues, training requirements and the running of the post and new media areas of the company. The role did not exist at DGP before ...
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Henson buys system
Jim Henson's Creature Shop has become the first European company to buy the $110,000 (£68,459) network storage system Sledgehammer. The system allows the UK animation company to store all its data for film, commercial and broadcast work in the same place. Creature Shop technical manager Aurelio Campa said that the ...
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Clear miracles for the second coming
Post facility Clear has completed visual effects work on Red Productions' forthcoming drama The Second Coming. Nearly 60 shots were worked on by post-producer Stephen Garrad and his team, including several
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MPC backs digital film lab with£1m
Carlton-owned facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is investing£1m in a digital film lab, writes Sam Espensen.
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Hive to be set alight by Flame
2D/3D animation outfit The Hive has bought a Discreet Flame effects system to replace its Cyborg compositor which the company can no longer use since the collapse of its manufacturer, 5D.
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Pye to spearhead Bermuda's push into CGI
Trevor Murphy, the managing director and owner of animation production company Bermuda Shorts, is to step down as head of the company in order to allow fresh blood with expertise in CGI to push the company forward, writes Sam Espensen.
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NewsMen admit BBC bomb plot
Two men pleaded guilty this afternoon to being involved in a car-bomb explosion which left part of BBC Television Centre in tatters two years ago, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsDiscovery wins access to BBC stock footage
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Discovery Channel owner Discovery Communications (DCI) to provide full access for the company's network of channels to the BBC's moving image stock, writes Luke Satchell