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PROGRAMMING - BBC 1 hopes to banish demons.
BBC 1 has ordered a full six-part series of its fantasy drama Strange following a successful 60-minute pilot.The 6 x 60-minute series, a collaboration between the BBC and indie Big Bear
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PROGRAMMING - Animate! winners get C4 slots.
The channel 4-backed digital animation scheme Animate! has awarded funding to six filmmakers whose shorts will now air on C4 later this year, writes Penny Hughes
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PROGRAMMING - NIGELLA GOES AL FRESCO.
Self-styled domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is taking her culinary wand out of her kitchen with a new show for Channel 4, writes Penny Hughes
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PROGRAMMING - Bragg looks at moral issues.
Granada controller of arts Melvyn Bragg is to depart from his role as presenter of ITV 1's The South Bank Show and front a new series exploring moral dilemmas, writes Steve Aston
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PROGRAMMING - TALENT TO MAKE ENHANCED VILLA FOR SKY ONE.
Talent Television has been commissioned by Sky One deputy director of broadcasting and production Kate Marsh to make a fourth series of dating show The Villa (pictured). The new 8 x
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PROGRAMMING - CHANNEL 4 BUYS MTV'S TAKE ON OZZY'S FAMILY.
Channel 4 is finalising a deal to buy MTV's much-vaunted The Osbournes, the fly-on-the-wall US show about heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional family. The show, which has already
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PROGRAMMING - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SHOW TO AIR GLOBALLY.
National Geographic Channel is joining up with its sister stations internationally to show landmark series Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost Empire. The 60-minute programme, which promises new revelations about the
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PROGRAMMING - INFONATION GOES TO THE EDGE FOR DISCOVERY.
Indie Infonation has sold its award-winning science series The Edge to Discovery Networks Europe (DNE). DNE has picked up the second 12 x 30-minute series and will air it on Discovery
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PROGRAMMING - FOX CAPTURES COCKROACH WITH SUPERPOWERS.
Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has bought the television rights to the animated series RoboRoach (pictured). The 26 x 30-minute co-production between Germany's RTV Family Entertainment and Canada's Portfolio Entertainment features Rube,
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PROGRAMMING - GREEN WILL APPEAR IN BOX TV DRAMA FOR BBC.
Actor Robson Green, who Broadcast revealed last week has ended his exclusive contract with ITV, is set to appear in indie Box TV's six-part BBC drama Trust, which begins shooting this
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PROGRAMMING - CITV TO SERVE UP ANIMATED TOFU FAMILY.
ITV has bought 52 x 11-minute episodes of French kid's animated series Tofu Family from Saban International Paris. The series, which follows the adventures of two children and their environmentally aware
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Production Show is first with new kit.
MEDIA 100 will showcase its new editing and effects system 844/x at next month's Production Show, writes Barbara Marshall
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Cheerful Scout to float on AIM.
Multimedia and animation specialist Cheerful Scout is set to raise£850,000 when it floats on the alternative investment market (AIM) next week.In a complicated reverse takeover, Cheerful Scout, which was set
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Clear rejigs after founder quits.
Clear Post Production has rejigged its board of directors following the departure of co-founder Simon Fallon, writes Barbara Marshall
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - AT THE RACES GETS A TITLE.
Chrysalis Creative and XTV have created the titles and bumpers for digital interactive racing channel At The Races, which launches on 1 May, writes Barbara Marshall
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - HITACHI IN PATENT ROW.
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has dismissed as 'without merit' allegations of patent infringement brought against its data storage products by loss-making rival EMC. EMC filed against Hitachi in the US on
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - KAYDARA FX TRAINING.
Canadian digital media specialist Kaydara has appointed Shepperton-based Centroid Motion Capture as its first European authorised training centre.Centroid will be holding a series of seminars from 30 April to 3 May
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MANAGER FOR PINNACLE.
Pinnacle Systems has appointed Discreet business development manager Gary Lewis as regional sales manager to the northern Europe broadcast and professional sales team. Lewis, who takes responsibility for the UK and
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - RUSHES TAKES ON THREE.
Rushes has made a further three additions to its 3D department. Former Aldis Animation/The Refinery chief Louise Hussey has joined as 3D production manager, Rick Leary comes from the BBC as
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BOOST FOR HD KIT HIRE.
Hire companies Arri Media and Gearbox are stepping up their high-definition product lines. Arri Media ordered two Thomson Viper Filmstream cameras at NAB earlier this month and Gearbox has added a