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Granada Film Production drama
124 Facilities senior colourist Mike Panchaud created the master grade for Granada Film Production drama Longitude, based on the Dava Sobel novel. For the film, which moves between eighteenth-century seascapes and
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Pace Micro set-top box wins millennium award
Pace Micro Technology has become the first and only set-top box designer to be awarded Millenium Product status for its digital cable set-top box, developed for Cable & Wireless digital cable
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MACTAGGART TAKES UP FILM ROLE AT WORLDWIDE
BBC Worldwide has drafted in Ivan Mactaggart to the new role of films manager, calling the appointment a 'further demonstration of its commitment to develop a feature film business'.Mactaggart joins from
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GRANADAWEST TO FINANCE ARTEMIS WILDLIFE SLATE
GranadaWest, the joint-venture set up in February by Granada Media and Western Australian development agency ScreenWest to fund TV projects, has signed up newly formed factual indie Artemis International. GranadaWest will
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20TH CENTURY FOX HANDLES RELEASE OF SKY'S SAVING GRACE
The UK theatrical release of Sky Pictures' Saving Grace will be handled by Twentieth Century Fox. The film, starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson, is the first Sky film to have
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UNIQUE SIGNS DUTCH CO-PRO DEAL FOR SECRET CAMERA
Unique Television has struck a co-production deal with Dutch indie Boorsma Loogman for a 9 x 45-minute run of World of the Secret Camera for cable channel Veronica. The show, which
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BRIGHTER TO CONTRIBUTE UK ITEMS TO TBS REVIVAL
Brixton-based indie Brighter Pictures has secured a deal to produce material for a 20 x 60-minute revival of Ripley's Believe it or Not on Ted Turner's TBS Network in the US.
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Think-tank warns govt on TV exports
Left-wing think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) will this week issue a warning to the Government to streamline its efforts to boost television exports.The warning comes as part of
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Carlton America strikes output deal with Polson TV movie firm
Carlton America has signed a multi-year output deal with US TV movie producer and author Beth Polson's Madison Avenue Productions and Corapeake Productions.Under the terms of the deal, Carlton America -
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Two Way TV joint-venture targets US
London-based interactive outfit Two Way TV has made its first move into the US by forming a joint-venture with San Francisco-based Interactive Network, writes Ashley Davies.
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Spire Films has finished shooting
Oxford-based indie Spire Films has finished shooting a six-part documentary for WGBH Boston and PBS starring art buff nun Sister Wendy, writes Tara Conlan. Sister Wendy's American Collection is a 6
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World View - Jos Havermans in Amsterdam
On 31 December Dutch viewers will pick the winner of Big Brother.The lucky man or woman will be one of three people who has endured 100 days of diurnal public scrutiny
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TRADE TALK - Good news?
Will new deputy chief executive Richard Sambrook retain his popularity as he takes charge of reorganising BBC News? Tara Conlan reports.
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TRADE TALK
On why US television, with an eye on 2001, is saving its Christmas surprises until after the festivities.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Tough questions for ITV
Thanks to the likes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ITV has enjoyed a highly successful year. But can David Liddiment, the man in the hot seat, keep it up? Jason Deans asks the questions.
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OPINION - Content providers add flesh to cable
Cable has long been the City's biggest tip for the future of TV (which, just in case it hasn't been said too many times this year, is digital). But just how
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Wheel of fortune
Who were 1999's fairground attractions, and who were the year's human cannonballs?
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TX - FAERIES
Producer: Hit EntertainmentBroadcaster: CITVStart: 16.45, 26 DecemberLength: 1 x 75-minutesCommissioned by: Nigel PickardExecutive producers: Kate Fawkes, Dan Maddicott, Robert Leighton, Stephen ShelanskiWriter: Jocelyn StevensonIf the Christmas tree fairy could grant
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OFF THE RECORD - Birt down on the canvas
Off The Record was shocked to see that the BBC is spending the thick end of£15,000 on a portrait of everyone's favourite out-going director general, Sir John Birt. We are
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OFF THE RECORD - Airey bashing
Let's hope Dawn Airey hasn't already sent her Christmas cards out this year, because she just might want to take Will Wyatt off her list after he gave her a bit