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BBC post facility wins Weakest Link tender
The new producer of BBC's Weakest LinkJo Street has completely overhauled the way the shows are made for the forthcoming fifth series, writes Sam Espensen.
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Welsh Assembly backs animation venture
A new animation studio, partially funded by a grant from the Welsh National Assembly, will open in Cardiff Bay this week, writes Sam Espensen.
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422 South brings the human chimp to life
422 South has provided graphics and content for Granada's show The Human Chimp, part of the Unsolved Mysteries strand on Five. The programme uses archive footage to speculate about a human/chimp hybrid species and whether such a species is already in existence. 422 designer Will ...
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Knight goes to Nats
Nats Post Production has added Louise Knight to its team of post-production managers. Knight was previously joint managing director of Rainbow Post where she worked for six years. 'I wanted to concentrate on the post side,' she said. 'Because of my position at Rainbow I was often involved in things ...
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Mediahouse living deal
TWI's Mediahouse studio has won the contract for Living TV's new daily live talk show Loose Lips, produced by Scream Films. The show will kick off on 31 March and run for 20 weeks. Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe told ...
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Runners get advice
Skillset is to hold a careers advice day next month for runners wanting to get ahead in TV. Offering access to producers, directors and broadcasters, the event features workshops and talks from such luminaries as 1Xtra programmes editor Wilber Wilberforce. Skillsformedia advisors, who are experienced working freelancers, will also be ...
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Rushes needs shorts
Talented short film-makers are wanted for this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. Entries must have been produced in the last 12 months (up to 6 May 2003) with a running time of up to 12 minutes and can be entered in one or more of the following categories: short film; ...
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NewsAirey hunts Sky scheduling head
Sky Networks managing director Dawn Airey is set to shake-up the broadcaster's programming department further by creating a new post for a head of scheduling and promotions across Sky channels, writes Paul Revoir.
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History Channel and S4C sign two-series deal
A documentary on Irish political party Sinn Fein is part of an output deal signed between The History Channel UK and S4C International (S4CI) for 10 hours of co-produced programming, writes Penny Hughes.
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UK reality TV tops Rose d'Or shortlist
The UK's strength in reality programme formats was reflected in the shortlist published this week for the prestigious Montreux Rose d'Or awards, writes Jon Rogers.
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Peers threaten government over ITN
The government was this week warned it could be defeated in the House of Lords over its refusal to allow ITV to run its own news service to compete with the BBC and BSkyB, writes David Rose.
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Dawson's Creek switches to Five
Fans of Channel 4's US teen drama Dawson's Creekwho want to know whether Dawson and Joey get it together are going to have to switch terrestrial channels after Five pulled off a deal to screen the sixth and final series, ...
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News19TV takes indie of the year award
Pop Idolproducer 19TV won indie of the year at the 2003 Indie Awards this week as reality shows swept the board.
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NewsOfcom ready to go on Dec 15
New super-regulator Ofcom will be up and running and ready to begin work by mid-December, it was announced today, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsBBC opens super-newsroom in Moscow
The BBC has opened a huge newsgathering bureau in Moscow - its largest news operation centre in the world outside the UK, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsEyre appointed IAB chairman
Former ITV chief executive Richard Eyre has added yet another string to his bow after being appointed chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the UK trade body for interactive and online advertising, writes Luke Satchell
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Scottish media group losses cut to£16m
SMG posted a narrowed loss last year but the media company said the outlook for the advertising market remained ble...