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PROGRAMMING - ITN FACTUAL TO MAKE SUZY LAMPLUGH FILM.
ITV controller of news, current affairs, art and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned ITN Factual to produce a documentary for its Real Crime strand, based on the disappearance of estate agent
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Quantel launches generationQ range.
Quantel has unveiled a completely redesigned 'generationQ' range of production, post, broadcast graphics and news systems, all based around Windows 2000.At its heart is a new generation of scaleable Quantel software
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Open and Liberate in court battle.
Rival US interactive TV companies Liberate and OpenTV are embroiled in a patent infringement lawsuit in the Californian courts, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - ENTRY-LEVEL HOUDINI APPEARS.
Side Effects, whose 3D software Houdini has been used on films such as Lord of the Rings and The Time Machine, has launched an entry-level version called Houdini Select, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - The Mill goes to Manhattan.
The Mill plans to set up a New York base to work on commercials visual effects projects, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BRYANT JOINS BBC.
BBC Broadcast, the corporation's newest commercial subsidiary, has appointed Andy Bryant as its first director of creative services. Bryant joins from creative communications company Circus where he was a partner overseeing
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - 4CREATIVE EXPANDS.
Channel 4 creative agency 4creative has expanded with the appointment of two new account directors. BBC MediaArc business development manager Wendy Bleazard will look after external clients, while workthing.com head of
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NEW SOHO AUDIO VENTURE.
Former M2 Television duo director Richard Lambert and senior dubbing mixer Chris Phinikas have set up a new audio facility in London's Wardour Street. Backed by the Soho Studios group, the
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - SOHO 601 DUO ON EDGE.
Former Soho 601 directors Bill Keehner and Bruce Hancock have completed work on their first major project since setting up the UK branch of New York post-production facility Edgeworx. Based in
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LEADER - Confusion over digital must end.
The complex world of digital TV is about to get more complicated. By the end of this year, according to some estimates, around six different set-top boxes will be marketed directly
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FREE TO AIR - They think it's all over ...
Just as one thought that the NDS pirated cards scandal would carry off the top gong for TV drama of the year, it was barged unceremoniously aside by ITV Digital. Always
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TRADE TALK - Teenage kicks.
Will Channel 5's Sham Sandhu ensure that 16 to 24-year-olds can't get the channel out of their heads with the Kylie special he ordered last week?
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IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah.
On how the web can enable programme-makers and viewers to engage in meaningful dialogue.
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ON THE BOX - Could do better, Louis.
Soho 601 managing director Mike Wilkie was puzzled by Louis Theroux's choice of interviewee but got a Buzz out of Booze.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - SMG uncovered.
With #390m of debt and MPs raising concerns about its dominance in the Scottish media, the group behind 18-30 holidays expose Club Reps is currently itself the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation.
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LOW-COST SET-TOPS - Is this box digital TV's best hope?
At the end of this week Pace launches the first of many low-cost TV adaptors which are set to flood the market, bringing the digital revolution much closer. So why no fanfare, and why so little support from broadcasters?
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INTERVIEW - Daytime's royal duo.
For Sebastian Scott and Henrietta Conrad of Princess Productions, the pre-peak schedule is their kingdom. Can they pull off another success with their new Channel 4 breakfast show?
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CHANNEL REPORT - Challenge's game plan is interactive.
Challenge TV was stymied in its initial quest to bring interactive gaming to the screen by the slow development of technology. It had to rely on traditional quiz shows instead. Can the original vision be brought to life? Ed Shelton reports.
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TX - The gang busters.
How do you get a former undercover cop to tell you things he hasn't even told his wife? Ask Sue Jones and Edmund Coulthard, the producer and writer/director of Undercover Cops.
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Is Posh the augury of a new era of tabloid ITV?
As ITV 1 took the weekend to commemorate John Thaw, the loss of one of the network's biggest stars brought into relief the changing face of the channel itself. The three