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Interview - The matter of facts.
Brook Lapping Productions director Brian Lapping is a class act - churning out quality factual against the grain. But is time running out for the veteran documentary maker?
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Ratings Analysis - BBC struggles to win youth vote.
Recent research shows the BBC is losing the battle to attract younger viewers to its slate of political programmes. Can it reverse the trend?
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TX - Clubbing together.
'I don't think it's very funny actually,' comments writer/director Annie Griffin about her black comedy drama, The Book Group. Not the sort of thing you'd normally expect someone to say about
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It's bad but it's not the end of the world for ITV 1.
If Channel 5 were to achieve a consistent 10 per cent primetime share, how different would it make the ecology of television? It's worth posing the question in a week when
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Off the Record - A rare flash of humour in 'Enders.
Rumours are circulating that a calling card given out by EastEnders character Janine Butcher advertising her new role as a lady of the night featured not a made-up mobile telephone number,
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Off the Record - A Capital offence.
How's this for a cock-up. Capital FM's news site on Friday had a story about how a message from the Queen to the Queen Mother had brought a human touch to
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Off the Record - Gold fundraiser.
Time for a bit of a plug. It's OK, it's for charidee, mate. The next 'Gold' event (a party organised to raise money for Marie Curie cancer research) will be at
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BBC 2 beats sister channel with Food Junkies
First part of study on the nation's eating habits sees off BBC 1's wildlife documentary Serpent but night belongs to Manchester United and ITV 1
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PROMAX & BDA Europe 2002 Award Winners
Promotion Categories:Best Television Image CampaignGold: The Lines You Wish You Said?,Turner Classic Movies, UKSilver: Do Not Campaign,MTV South, ItalyBest Television Image PromoGold: Network
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Boujou launches
2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production.Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking
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Avid opens up its kit
In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to
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Omneon's new server
Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions.The
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Kasenna scoops $20m
Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (£14.4m) in its latest round of funding.Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to
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Star Wars colour first
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system.Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite
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Discreet adds asset server to FX family
Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary
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Sony chief says it's digital's year
Sony president and chief operating officer Kunitake Ando has hailed 2002 as 'the year for digital', writes Barbara MarshallSpeaking at NAB in Las Vegas, Ando singled out the growth of digital
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BBC and Channel 4 win raft of gongs at Promax
BBC Broadcast has scooped several gold and silver awards in the promo categories at the Promax and BDA Europe awards, writes Will StraussThe company picked up best on-air programme campaign for
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Panasonic ties up with Apple
Panasonic this week unveiled details of 25 new products as well as announcing it is collaborating with Apple on two technologies for the professional video industry, writes Barbara Marshall from NAB in Las Vegas
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Songs of Praise plans NHS tribute
Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff.The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will
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Root backs second series of Manchild
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a second, longer series of 40-something comedy drama Manchild.The 8 x 30-minute series, to be produced in-house by Peter Thornton and executive produced