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    CORRECTION

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Last week's Trade Talk credited Tony Orsten as being the director of sitcom Spaced when he is, in fact, the executive producer. Edgar Wright is director of both series of Spaced.

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    C5 plans six-part birth of man series

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 has made one of its most ambitious and expensive factual commissions to date, with a landmark series about early man colonising the planet.The 6 x 60-minute,£500,000 production, to

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    ITV backs Pilger documentary

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning investigative journalist John Pilger is to present a special documentary on the effects of globalisation for ITV, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    September to make fourth Soap Secrets

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    September Films has been commissioned by ITV to create a 6 x 30-minute series of Soap Secrets, writes Steve Aston.

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    DIETERS GET WARNING

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Carlton has produced a one-off documentary on the dangers of the diet and slimming industry for the ITV network, writes Steve Aston. Trust Me ... I Can Make You Slim highlights

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    E4 to air new talent profile series

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    E4 director of programmes Andrew Newman has lined up a new eight-part profile series which he hopes will become the channel's version of The South Bank Show, writes Penny Hughes.

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    NATIONAL GEO MAKES PEARL HARBOUR FILM

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    National Geographic Channel is to broadcast a documentary across all its global channels simultaneously for the first time. In a strategy which it claims will bolster its future purchasing power, the

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    EXECS LAUNCH MEDIA CO

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Former Pittard Sullivan executives Brian Hurst and John Bryan, who headed the design agency's London office, have formed a new media strategy and business development company. MediaXi launches with offices in

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    LUCAS GOES ALL DIGITAL

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Director George Lucas has killed any doubts the industry may have held about his commitment to end-to-end digital production by declaring that he will never again shoot a movie on 35mm

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    BBC 2 notches up seven gongs

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    BBC 2 was the big winner at this year's British Academy Television Craft Awards securing half of the 14 prizes, writes Jonathan Mills.

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    Visions splashes out£2m on footie truck

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Outside broadcast company Visions has revealed details of the new£2m truck it has commissioned, following the company's successful bid for the Premiership football contract.In an exclusive interview with Broadcast, Visions

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    MEDIAARC GOES TO THE DOGS

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    BBC MediaArc has created the on-air idents for new interactive digital greyhound racing channel Go Barking Mad, writes Will Strauss.

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    CELEBRITIES GO ON WEB

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Three showbusiness experts have launched an online service that aims to give producers and researchers a much better chance of contacting the stars of their choice for their next production. The

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    PANASONIC HOLDS DEMO

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Panasonic has indicated its next major HD breakthrough will be a super high-density recorder. Describing its DVCPro HD products as the fourth generation of the DVCPro range, after DVCPro 25, 50

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    Condor dumps Spirit for ITK system

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Condor Europe has bought four Millennium Machines from telecine manufacturer Innovation TK (ITK) and as a result the company is expected to sell off the three Philips Spirit DataCines it already owns, writes Joanna Scott.

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    New era of regulation begins

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    The commercial broadcasters found themselves on new ground this week as they published their first programme policy statements. They are the broadcasters' own work and look ahead to the day when

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    FREE TO AIR - Looking at the white dot

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    It would be wrong to let 'Turn Off Your TV Week' pass without suitable comment, as this annual plea vies with 'No Smoking Day' for the 'most routinely ignored made-up event'

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    TRADE TALK - TWI's big guy

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Having steered TWI into factual programming with the acclaimed ... In Colour strand, there'll be no stopping larger-than-life Alastair Waddington.

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    IN MY VIEW - Wayne Garvie

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    On how independent production companies do not flourish by royal connections alone.

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    ON THE BOX - One man and his tool

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Absolutely Productions md Miles Bullough finds wielding power tools so passe but toon man Johnny Bravo hits the nail on the head.