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REVOLUTION - produxion.com
With more than 1,400 independent production companies in the UK, in addition to the thousands of service companies and contractors in the UK television industry, produxion.com aims to bring order to a highly fragmented industry.
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Production Solutions goes on-line
Part of Production Solutions content is now available on a new portal, jointly owned by Emap Media, Channel Five and Netdecisions - produxion.com.
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Emap builds team to sell Broadcast's Produxion website
Emap Media, publisher of Broadcast, is creating a sales team to work on its online venture, Produxion.com
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Produxion.com to offer Barb ratings data free of charge
Produxion.com, the website for the TV production industry, has added Barb ratings access to its content.
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CanalWeb and H2P unite for UK webcast venture
European webcaster CanalWeb has is to set up a joint venture web broadcasting operation for the UK with newly-formed digital production outfit H2P, writes David Wood.CanalWeb UK, which is set for
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BBC 'just' met OFT indie quota for '99
The BBC only just made its 25 per cent independent production quota last year, according to the latest figures from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) which throw the corporation's ability
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NTL loses Premiership pay-per-view rights
Cable giant NTL has lost its strategic pay-per-view (PPV) rights to screen live Premiership football after talks to thrash out details of the£328m deal broke down this week, writes Simon Ellery.
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CHANNEL 4 TO AIR ANIMATED TALES OF THE WORLD ..
Channel 4 will air 3 x 15-minute educational animations from Taiwan, Wales and France in January. Greenlit by commissioning editor, schools John Richmond, they form a 13 x 15-minute unit called
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... AND STRIKES DEAL WITH NICKELODEON FOR BLUE'S CLUES
Nickelodeon UK has struck a deal handing Channel 4 terrestrial rights to broadcast its pre-school show Blue's Clues (left) next year. As part of a two-year deal C4 will show 30
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STARS TO READ FAVOURITE STORIES ON CLASSIC FM
Classic FM head Roger Lewis has commissioned a 6 x 60-minute weekend series Classic Winter Tales to be narrated by Ross Kemp, Helen Baxendale and Classic FM regular Stephen Fry. The
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UK HORIZONS ORDERS DOUBLE DECKER DOCUMENTARY
Ticket to Ride, a documentary following the exploits of five travellers on a red double decker bus travelling around the world, has been ordered by UK Horizons channel editor Andrew Lowrey.
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LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN WILL NOT BOW OUT OF THIRD SERIES
The BBC has quashed speculation that BBC 2's League of Gentlemen comedy team have declined to make a third series of their cult show. The move follows suggestions that, after a
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BENDER TO SHOWCASE DOCUMENTARY NEWCOMERS ON C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor, night-time Darren Bender has earmarked 5 x 30-minute slots for strand The Other Side for documentaries made by people attending the newcomers session at the Sheffield International
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RAPTURE TV GREENLIGHTS GLOBAL CLUBBING SERIES
Rapture TV has greenlit a global clubbing series trailing leading DJs around the world as its first indie commission. Called Club Class, the series has already gone into production and comes
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ACTION TIME FACTUAL ARM GETS DISCOVERY CHANNEL DUO
Action Time's fledgling factual department has lined up two new commissions including a six-part series for the Discovery Channel and a one-off documentary for Channel 5 and the Sci-Fi Channel. Where
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Lucky Dog drama is axed
A Many Splintered Thing, indie Lucky Dog's comedy drama about adultery, emerged this week as the first drama series to be axed by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC entertainment wins lottery slots
BBC entertainment is to be awarded 28 Saturday night primetime BBC 1 lottery show slots for 2001, providing the first concrete evidence of director general Greg Dyke's promise to boost in-house
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Avalon shows reordered
Avalon Television has secured recommission orders for its Al Murray vehicle Time Gentlemen Please and Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned series from Sky Television and ITV respectively, writes Colin Robertson.