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    BBCW hires news chief

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide America has appointed a new executive vice-president of news and sport in a move to step up the expansion of BBC news in the US.

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    Red Bull in China shop

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    IMG Media has sold the upcoming Red Bull Air Races to Chinese broadcaster CCTV-5.

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    Time to restore trust in call TV

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Has the industry learnt its lesson over the problem with call TV?

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    Indie Century wins Live Earth film commission

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Century Films has become the first UK indie to win a commission from the US film producer behind the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

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    Broadcast Letters - 3 August 2007

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Letters from Broadcastissue dated 3 August 2007

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    Docu-drama looks at Thatcher's road to Finchley

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    BBC4 has commissioned Great Meadow Productions to make a 90-minute film called Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley.

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    Quantel adopts organic display

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Digital technologist Quantel has adopted the organic light emitting display (OLED) for screens in some of its post-production technologies.

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    BBC's OB slice of Salford Pie

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    The BBC's outside broadcast division will take a presence at the Pie Factory in Salford Quays, the only building currently standing at the Salford MediaCity:UK site.

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    BKN opens HD facility

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Children's media and entertainment company BKN is creating a new HD facility but it has not yet released details of the amount of money involved.

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    Gearbox Cardiff opening

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Equipment dealer and hire company GearBox is opening a new office in Cardiff.

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    Crime channel looks at killers

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Crime and Investigation Network has teamed up with Scarlet TV to make a 6 x 60-minute series looking at the origins of serial killers. The Making of Monstershas no air date as yet but there are also plans to run it on sister station The ...

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    Ladbroke to make R4 docs

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Ladbroke Radio has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to make 3 x 30-minute factual radio programmes to air in 2008.

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    Setanta unveils star shows

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Setanta is to air The Friday Football Showat 6.30pm from 10 August, kicking off with former ITV frontman Des Lynam interviewing Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill (pictured).

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    Lime wins first BBC drama commission

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Lime Pictures has won its first BBC drama commission, a supernatural drama starring actor Martin Shaw as a Jesuit priest drawn into the world of exorcisms.

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    Tiger to reveal favourite Vicar of Dibley scene

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Dawn French will be reunited with Richard Curtis for two specials celebrating the success of The Vicar of Dibleyas part of UKTV Gold's autumn schedule.

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    Firecracker Films tracks pre-teen preachers

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Indie Firecracker Films is making a pair of one-off documentaries for Channel 4 including a film that follows a US child who began preaching at the age of three.

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    Community Channel digs into gardening

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    The Community Channel will offer a snapshot of the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom 2007 competition by following the progress of two of its regional finalists.

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    BBC3 meets single mums

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Ten single mothers and their children will live together for a week in PramfaceMansion, a Love Productions commission for BBC3.

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    Five to hold show rights for a year

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    Five is to hold the rights to commissioned programmes for 12 months, with an option to extend the licence period to 18 months if it wants to air them on digital channels Five Life and Five US, under new terms of trade agreed with Pact.

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    R4 hits the hippie trail

    2007-08-02T08:00:00Z

    David Morley from radio indie Above The Title has been travelling around India's hippie trail with Hardeep Singh Kohli (pictured), star and director of Channel 4's Meet the Magoons.