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    Carlton acts to cash in on family tree fad.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    CARLTON is hoping to cash in on public interest in genealogy with a new series for ITV - Find Your Family, writes Steve Aston.

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    CITV FAVOURITES GET GO-AHEAD FROM GRACE.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Janie Grace has recommissioned four long-running series from Gullane for CITV. The indie will produce a 13 x 20-minute run of Sooty (pictured), taking

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    HITCH-HIKING SHOW HEADS FOR HORIZONS.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Indie Aimimage Productions has sold a 6 x 30-minute series on hitch-hiking in America to the UK Horizons channel. The series, Roadside USA, directed and produced by Austin Vince and executive

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    IMAGO TO MAKE GOBI DESERT DOCUMENTARY.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Independent Imago Productions has been commissioned by Hit Wildlife to make a documentary on life in the Gobi desert for transmission on the National Geographic Channel. Entitled Legends of the Gobi,

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    CITIZEN WINS DOUBLE ORDER FROM ITV.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    ITV has commissioned a sporting archive series and a half-hour comedy special from Dele Oniya's Citizen Television. The 6 x 30-minute series, Sporting Vintage, will be produced and directed by Krishna

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    RADIO 3 TO GO RURAL FOR AN EVENING.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio 3 is to devote an evening of programmes to issues surrounding rural Britain as foot and mouth continues to ravage the countryside. The themed evening, entitled In a Green

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    CHANNEL HEALTH WINS PREGNANCY BRIEF.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The NHS has commissioned Channel Health to produce a new interactive series on pregnancy as part of a£1.2m award to the broadcaster. The Sky Digital channel is to make a

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    KINGFISHER SCORES WITH SOCCER SERIES.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Kingfisher Television has landed a 10-part documentary series, Frankly Football, for Carlton TV. The half-hour shows will feature interviews with players and archive and recent footage. Each show will deal with

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    WORKING TITLE TO MAKE LUCKY JIM FOR ITV.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Working Title is to make a two-hour film of the classic Kingsley Amis novel Lucky Jim. Stephen Tomkinson will star as the book's eponymous hero, alongside Helen McCrory, Robert Hardy and

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    ZIG ZAG COMMISSIONS LED BY UGLY SHOW.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Zig Zag has won three commissions from Channel 5 and Channel 4. The success of London's Ugly Model Agency is explored in Ugly, commissioned for C5 by Michael Attwell, senior controller

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    Slump forces Pittard Sullivan to close down.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    US-based main title, on-air design and branding producer Pittard Sullivan has 'closed for business' resulting in the loss of at least 95 jobs.Managing director of Pittard Sullivan's UK operation John Holland

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    Awards - Longitude garners record nominations.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4'S Longitude has been nominated a record-breaking eight times in this year's British Academy Television Craft awards - more than any other programme in Bafta's history. The record was previously

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    CFC film scanner outperforms Telecine variants.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    THE Computer Film Company (CFC) in Soho has developed a film scanning machine that out-performs the image quality of Telecine-based equivalents, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    KERRANG! SET TO AIR.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Ortmansyounginternational has created the complete on-air identity package for new rock music channel Kerrang! TV. A series of graphical opening and closing sequences were created using cell animation before being composited

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    UK DOMINATES PROMAX.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Companies from the UK are this week celebrating after marching off with an unprecedented 30 gold medals at the 2001 Promax and BDA Europe awards. Sixty-seven per cent of the 45

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    GREEN OFFERS ADVICE.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Video Europe managing director Steve Green has insisted that good management would have softened the blow for equipment hire companies in the recent market slump. Green said: 'A company has to

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    GVG LAUNCHES ZODIAK.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Grass Valley Group will debut its new mid-range vision mixer - Zodiak - at this year's NAB exhibition. According to the company, Zodiak is a 'cost-effective way to replace ageing analogue

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    HAHABONK TALENT CALL.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Cross-media production company Hahabonk is offering the chance to get multi-platform entertainment ideas commissioned. Anyone with a concept for a sitcom, gameshow or animation to work across two or more media

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    ITV must diversify to prosper.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Depending on who you believe, ITV is either facing a gloomy future in which advertising revenues are destined to keep tumbling, or a short-term blip in revenue following last year's boom.In

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    Free to Air - No time to be proud.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Awards, as Channel 4 was reminded at last week's Broadcasting Press Guild gong show, can be a curse as well as a cause for celebration. C4 cleaned up at this year's