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Ideal world to make car scam show for C4.
Ideal World is making a 6 x 30-minute Channel 4 motoring series designed to inform car-buyers of the newest and most frequent rip-offs and scams in the motoring trade. Working-titled Tricks
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S4C commission details on website.
S4C, the Welsh arm of Channel 4, has posted details of the kind of programmes it is looking to commission on its website. The address for the bilingual site is www.s4c.co.uk.
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UKTV reveals first cluster of orders.
UKTV has unveiled the first tranche of orders from its£15m new programming fund, ordering six new series to run on its factual channels UK Style and UK Horizons. OR Media is
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BBC chiefs order four documentary projects.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have ordered four documentary projects to be produced in-house by BBC documentaries, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV asks Baby Cow and Avalon TV to co-produce new sketch series.
Baby Cow Productions, the independent run by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, has bagged its first ITV commission, writes Colin Robertson.
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Live video-to-web transfers made faster.
The Grass Valley Group (GVG) is to market an internet encoder which it claims will speed up the process of taking live video straight to the web by combining all the necessary steps into one box, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Ikegami unveils new Editcam2.
Camera manufacturer Ikegami has revamped its Editcam2 hard disk. camera to enable news teams to edit and transmit footage to broadcasters or post-production facilities from the field, write Adrian Pennington and Will
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Online TV music site launches.
Former Virgin Music Group executive Maria Forte has launched an online audio service that allows television, commercial and film producers to download broadcast-quality soundtrack music from the internet. Intended to fill the
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Skill shortage poses risk to UK animation.
Softimage UK product manager for XSI Richard McGuinness has lamented the lack of animation talent in the UK, writes Will Strauss.
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Carter joins Llip Sync.
Post-production specialist Michael Carter has joined Lip Sync Post's audio team. Carter arrives from Pinewood Studios where he worked for 32 years on projects such as Goldeneye, Eyes Wide Shut and,
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Hollis quits S&M.
Co-founder of high-end post house Smoke & Mirrors (S&M) Jon Hollis has left the company to become a full-time director. An Inferno artist at S&M, Hollis leaves after five and a
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New kit at Tele-Cine.
Post-production facility Tele-Cine has added a Virage video logger to its encoding and compression department to provide indexing for encoded video clips used for streaming on the internet. Video logger processes
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Red prepares for Red-i.
Soho creative facility Red has added two new members of staff in readiness for the launch of its e-media arm Red-i. Zak Ezzati joins as senior Mac designer and will head
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Rogue signs Warwick.
Rogue Films has signed award-winning director Ben Warwick. Best known for his culinary programmes, including Nigella Bites and Monty Don's Fork to Fork, Warwick has recently completed commercials for the Bird's
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Chrysalis' revamp goes for scale.
Anyone who observes the changing fashions in industry, not to mention those working for plcs, knows that the pendulum is constantly swinging between a 'small is beautiful' philosophy and a belief
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Free to air - A sham of a marriage.
Sky and ITV are the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman of the media scene.The extent to which their relationship or lack of it is a sham has become so complex and
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Trade talk - Together again.
After a stint at Tiger Aspect, drama wunderkind Lucy Richer has been lured to C4 by former boss Tessa Ross, to be drama commissioning editor.
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In my view - Wayne Garvie.
After Nigel Lythgoe, isn't it time we saw more TV execs coming out in front of the camera?
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On the box - Money for old rope.
Hat Trick producer Iain Coyle thinks that Bargain Hunt is good value but Richard and Judy's farcical Midday Money is a dunce.
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News Analysis - Blue skies ahead?
Eurosport, now 12 years-old and long hampered by co-ownership, has been bought by French broadcaster TF1, but with sports rights ever more elusive will this give the channel the impetus it needs, particularly in the UK?