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DGP SIGNS UP STAFF.
DGP has hired four new staff following its recent refurbishment and suite upgrades. The appointments include Symphony/Smoke editor John McLaren and producer Moira Brophy. McLaren joins from Welsh Worldly Production where
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MISX.COM EXPANDS.
Media Intelligence Service Exchange (MISX.com) has extended its online showcase service to include UK animation companies. Following the company's report on the UK animation business earlier this year, nine companies, including
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DEEPEND PICKS KELLER.
Multimedia design agency Deepend has appointed Mark Keller as technical director for the moving image team. Keller was recently responsible for the design, specification and installation of the Ice Room, the
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Who's policing tech quality?
While this magazine generally supports a move away from box ticking in favour of lighter-touch broadcasting regulation, the philosophy has its problems. The greatest of these is the huge and increasing
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FREE TO AIR - A voice from the BBC's past.
How interesting that one of the most potent arguments against the BBC's plans for digital expansion and restricting the powers of the board of governors should come not from the commercial
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TRADE TALK - Play UK's big man.
'Gregarious' and 'extreme' Matthew Littleford leaves the Prickly Heat of Sky One (pictured) to take on a new challenge as editor of Play UK channel.
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ON THE BOX - Friendly persuasion.
Editor of Channel 5's The Wright Stuff Jezz Wright can't get enough of his Friends but thinks that Spaced is just a complete mystery. Friday night is 'Friends night'. No, I'm not talking about the traditional end-of-week piss-up down the local, I'm talkin
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NEWS ANALYSIS - State of the union.
Could Bectu, active in disputes at the BBC, MTV and Carlton, be growing in importance? Membership may be rising but the union must adapt to technological and labour market changes and promote itself better.
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INTERVIEW - Ambassador for TV.
If Carlo Sartori, professor of communications at the University of Rome, did not exist, the late Malcolm Bradbury, scourge of the modern, globetrotting academic, would almost certainly have made him up.The
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Homegrown hits still eluding C5.
Channel 5's audience share is obstinately stuck at about 5 per cent, with sport and Hollywood movies getting viewers rather than UK produced shows, such as The Mole, even though they have been well-publicised. Katy Elliott reports.
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TX - The paws and effect.
Graham Brown is the King of Gunge so as the producer of Petswap, ITV's new kids' gameshow, he is in his element. Every inch of the CITV studio set is either
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BBC witnesses an upturn at the start of the week.
The return of football and the two-part drama Silent Witness were the two main changes to the primetime schedule. They brought a change of fortune for BBC 1 as the week's
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OFF THE RECORD - Web spoilsports.
Regular readers will remember our public service announcement about the inadvisability of investigating regional ITV programme Meridian Tonight on the web. Well, it seems our public service wasn't in vain for
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OFF THE RECORD - King of misery.
He may be king of all he surveys at the BBC, but Greg Dyke was in no mood for celebration at the RTS television journalism awards do last Wednesday, when he
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Turner made rank outsider for Celebrity Big Brother
Bookies bank on Brookside's Sweeney as hot favourite with Jack Dee at three's as former GMTV presenter Turner looks set for an early bath
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Turner rank outsider for celebrity Big Brother
Bookies bank on Brookside's Sweeney as hot favourite with Jack Dee at three's as former GMTV presenter Turner looks set for an early bath
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Second commission for The Hot Seat
Flashback TV has been commissioned by Artsworld channel director Richard Melman to produce a second series of interview show The Hot Seat.Presented by Sir Christopher Frayling, the 6 x 30-minute
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Extreme in deal with Spain's AXN channel
London-based channel owner and distributor Extreme International has signed a deal to supply an additional 50 hours of programming to Sony-owned Spanish channel AXN over the next three years.AXN is
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Discovery alternative medicine show
Discovery Health is re-versioning a Canadian complementary medicine series and has lined up Toyah Willcox to present it.The 39 x 30-minute series called Beyond Medicinelooks at health issues with
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BBC Choice orders sexual disease series
BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a 6 x 15-minute series from BBC Scotland entitled Sex, Warts and All.Originally entitled The Clap Clinic, the show is based around a