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BURRELL ENTERS EMMYS
Burrell Durrant Hifle art director Rob Hifle and head animator Alan Short have been nominated for an Emmy along with Sauce digital effects operator Nick Brooks. The team has been nominated
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LEADER - Ofcom's future is already shaky
Here's a statement to upset the broadcasting apple cart as it trundles towards the Edinburgh and Cambridge talking shops: the creation of Ofcom isn't a dead cert. Those close to the
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FREE TO AIR - Mass appeal for creativity
The creation of a single regulator for communications, Ofcom, is a mammoth task involving 1,000-plus people and the expectations of hundreds of commercial and public service operators. But if it's done
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TRADE TALK - The Dan factor
Lured by former colleague Kevin Lygo to head factual at C5, Dan Chambers' populist sense could be even more of an asset there than at C4.
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ON THE BOX - Start of a new season
Wyn Innes, S4C International managing director, felt The Premiership was old hat but wanted more of The Real Ghostbusters.
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TV FESTIVAL - Edinburgh acts
This weekend the television industry decamps to Edinburgh for its annual fest of backslapping, navel-gazing and, of course, serious debate. Broadcast selects a handful of the best of this year's many provocative sessions.
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TV HOTSHOTS - The ones to watch 2001
DANNY COHEN, 27 CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONING EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES If you're a late-night, niche-TV owl you might have caught Generation E, one of Cohen's more prominent commissions for E4. While the series
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HOTSHOTS - Where they are now
From a former producer of Generation Sex to the brains behind The Weakest Link, former Broadcast hotshots are living up to their promise and emerging as broadcasting's movers and shakers of the future.
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BROADCAST DEBATE - TV's creative limbo
While the opportunities offered by new technology are boundless and are supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting industry, many feel that TV is repetitive and no longer provocative. Is this an industry going nowhere, creatively? Five leading lights thra
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INTERVIEW - Back from the wild
As the BBC's Natural History Unit prepares to see what the nation makes of its lavish exploration of the oceans in The Blue Planet NHU head Keith Scholey claims the recession in natural history programming was just the kick it needed.
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REGIONAL TV - STV flies the flag over the border
The fourth part of Broadcast's series - which looks at the handful of ITV franchises that have not been subsumed by Carlton or Granada - assesses the fortunes of SMG-owned Scottish TV which is poised for more growth.
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TX - Comedy for the masses
It's been a while since a comedy show has united three generations of the same family in the way that the likes of Morecambe & Wise or The Two Ronnies once
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OFF THE RECORD - Dramatic first for digital media
In the exciting world of exhibitions and festivals, organisers will go to any lengths to attract people to their show. But, for this year's Digital Media World, one of those enigmatic
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OFF THE RECORD - Nipple removal all in a day's work
It's a fair bet that most people in the industry won't have to complete the obscure tasks that graphics artists have to. OTR did a spot poll this week and it
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Gardeners' World shows up BBC 1 peaktime weakness
What sort of condition did the networks wake up in with no Survivor and no Big Brother? Interestingly, ITV's primetime share for the week was up on the previous week's performance
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NewTek launches LightWave 3D version [7]
NewTek has announced and simultaneously started shipping the major upgrade of its 3D animation software, LightWave 3D version [7], writes Joanna Scott.Included among the features in version [7] is Sasquatch Lite,
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Have broadcasters lost the will to innovate?
The Broadcast debate asked leading industry figures Endemol's Peter Bazalgette, Cinema Verity's Verity Lanmbert, Telewest's David Docherty, ITV's Sioned Williams and Antelope's Mick Csáky to voice their opinions on the creative health of UK television
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BBC Natural History plans 'electronic museum' internet archive
Unit plans to create online database of over 1,000 hours of footage
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Whereitsat TV set to close
Digital satellite channel specialising in music and features will be taken off air within a month if new investment not found
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S4C pumps£6m into animation
Welsh broadcaster starts search for new animation projects following launch of a children's strategy group chaired by former BBC head of children's television Anna Home