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Life of St Paul gets BBC 1 slot
Son of God team to tell story of Christianity's most famous convert
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Channel TV given pay-off
Legal row over use of Carlton and Granada's use of ITV brand to promote ITV Digital ends in out-of-court settlement
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Songs of Praise plans NHS tribute
Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff.The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will
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Root backs second series of Manchild
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a second, longer series of 40-something comedy drama Manchild.The 8 x 30-minute series, to be produced in-house by Peter Thornton and executive produced
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September to look at seamy side of Vegas
The Travel Channel in the US has commissioned September Films to produce a 6 x 60-minute series on the seamy side of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Confidential.Jointly funded by The
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Radio 1 commissions bootleg programme
Somethin Else has been commissioned by BBC Radio 1 to produce 30-minute programme Get Ur Bootleg On.The programme, to broadcast as part of Lamacq Live at 23.00 on 22 April,
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Brian Waddell makes travel reality show
Brian Waddell Productions has been commissioned to produce a new 'travel reality series' for National Geographic Channels International commissioning editor Bryan Smith.The 13 x 30-minute series, Chasing Time in..., sees
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Splinter produces C4/QTV rock show
Splinter Films has been commissioned by Emap Performance managing director of rock Dave Henderson to produce a 4 x 15-minute series for QTV.New To Q will feature various Q magazine
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Teen spirited
Channel 4 controller of acquisitions June Dromgoole has bought a 22 x 30-minute teen comedy series from the creators of Frasier for C4 and E4, writes Penny HughesDubbed 'Ally McBeal meets
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Channel 5 orders costume drama to raise profile
Channel 5 is attempting to distance itself further from its former downmarket image, unveiling its first high-end period drama, writes Georgina LipscombThe 60-minute costume drama Inquisition is understood to be the
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. goes to Granada
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has bought 60 x 30-minute episodes of secret agent series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. from Warner Bros International Television. The series, which features Robert Vaughn and David
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Endemol bursts into song for C4
Endemol UK production arm Initial has been commissioned to produce a three-part series on the singing voice for Channel 4, which will offer wannabe singers the chance to learn trade secrets
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Burton is 'new Morse'
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a new three-part crime series starring Amanda Burton that is tipped to become 'the new Inspector Morse', writes Leigh HolmwoodThe 3 x 120-minute
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Boujou launches
2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production.Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking
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Avid opens up its kit
In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to
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Omneon's new server
Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions.The
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Kasenna scoops $20m
Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (£14.4m) in its latest round of funding.Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to
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Star Wars colour first
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system.Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite
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Discreet adds asset server to FX family
Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary