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TWO FOUR TO MAKE URBAN GARDENING SERIES.
Channel 4 has commissioned a 10-part urban gardening series from Plymouth-based Two Four Productions. Urban Gardener will feature new presenter Matt James showing city dwellers how to overcome the space constraints
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FOOTIE CAUSES CORONATION ST RESCHEDULE.
ITV is to shift the midweek edition of Coronation Street to a Tuesday to avoid moving it to a later slot for the duration of its Champions' League coverage. From Tuesday
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Channel 5 follows up on arts promise.
Channel 5 is attempting to live up to its pledge of increasing its public service output with a raft of new arts commissions, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Gritty northern drama for BBC 2.
The writer of gritty 1998 Scottish film Looking After Jo Jo has been signed up to write a new four-part, hard-hitting drama series for BBC 2.Real Men, ordered by BBC 2
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BBC 2 backs new chefs.
Not content with Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith and the Food and Drink team dominating her schedule, BBC 2 controller Jane Root has ordered yet another cookery show, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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AN UNPLANNED RETURN.
ITV controller of comedy Sioned Wiliam has commissioned a third series of live improvised comedy/chat show Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, writes Steve Aston.
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ITV 1 exposes workplace sins.
ITV controller of documentaries and features Dianne Nelmes has commissioned a six-part series in which various professionals reveal workplace scams, writes Steve Aston.
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Technology & Facilities - #9.7m media park to be built in Wales.
South-west Wales is the location of Hartham Park's latest media park, a #9.7m development from the property group behind Wiltshire's Corsham Media Park (Broadcast, 14.9.01).Historic Welsh mansion Gelli Aur, near Llandeilo
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Technology & Facilities - Encoda picks finance man for EMEA job.
Encoda Systems EMEA chief financial officer David Martin is to replace EMEA president Roy Freeland as head of the European, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) region, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Technology & Facilities - Pinewood in Canadian studio venture.
Pinewood Shepperton Studios is leading a consortium to build the first purpose-built film studio complex in Toronto, Canada, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Technology & Facilities - Inspiring BBC 4.
BBC Broadcast is behind the launch campaign for the corporation's new cultural digital channel BBC 4, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Technology & Facilities - Metro first to buy Sony Xpri.
As part of a #1m investment plan, Metro Broadcast is the first UK company to buy the Sony Xpri high definition (HD) non-linear editing system, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Technology & Facilities - Northlight scanner.
Framestore-CFC spin-off Film-Light has joined forces with telecine specialist Innovation TK to produce the ITK Northlight scanner. Originally developed by the Framestore-CFC team that now runs FilmLight, the CCD digital scanner
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Technology & Facilities - Lynx equipment theft.
Middlesex facilities company Lynx Digital has been rocked by the theft of four digital beta video recorders worth #100,000 from their premises in Denham on Tuesday night last week (5 February).
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Technology & Facilities - Workstation XSI.
Softimage has introduced an entry-level version of its XSI non-linear animating system. The new version, called Workstation, runs on a single workstation and starts at under $5,000 (#3,520), compared with the
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Technology & Facilities - Net innovation at CeBIT.
Hitachi will be showing a range of products at the CeBIT world business fair in Hannover next month, including a prototype range of wearable internet appliances. The devices come complete with
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Technology & Facilities - Soho shorts entries.
Entries are invited to the fourth Rushes Soho Shorts festival which will be held between 27 July and 1 August 2002. Submissions should have been produced in the 12 months up
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Leader - Time to forget Barb's troubles.
As the dust settles on the first six weeks of the year, one group of people in the industry is sighing with relief. The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or Barb, has
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Free to air - Execs who want to be idols.
Apart from the obvious disappointment of simpering middle class Will and his annoying Jamiroquai-a-like crooning winning, Pop Idol was about as close to a perfect piece of light entertainment television as
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Trade talk - A big ideas man.
Capital 95.8 FM looks set for a burst of creativity now that Ric Blaxill, creator of TOTP2 and SM:TV, has been made deputy programme controller.