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    TWI takes race to the altar to Europe

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    TWI Entertainment has sealed a brace of deals that will see dating format Race to the Altarscreened across Europe. Endemol Holland has licensed rights to produce the format in the Netherlands, where it is pitching to local networks, while Banana Productions has picked up local ...

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    RDFI acquires ideal world programmes

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    RDF International has acquired the distribution rights to a trio of documentaries from Glasgow-based indie Ideal World. RDFI will distribute human-interest titles Siamese Survivorsand Surrogate Mother: The Baby Makeras well as current affairs documentary Hunting the Washington Sniper, which all ...

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    Discovery wants Thunder races for US

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Leopard Films has been commissioned by Discovery Channel US to produce a 60-minute special based on its Thunder Racesformat. The show, which sees teams turning broken-down cars into racing machines, will be shot this autumn in the Las Vegas desert. Executive producer for Discovery is ...

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    3G phones could have a radio role

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    A production team from BBC Bristol, which produced a programme package featuring footage captured using a video mobile phone instead of a camera, has admitted that while the pictures aren't yet good enough for broadcast programmes, the technology could be a breakthrough for radio reports.

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    DGP invests in DVD with three appointments

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Soho facility house DGP has expanded its DVD department with the recruitment of three new staff, writes Will Strauss.

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    Red cuts eight support jobs

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Red Post Production has been forced to make eight staff redundant.

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    C4 recreates Egyptian lives

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Red Post Production has completed post work on Channel 4's documentary Ancient Egyptians, a four-part series based on the lives of four real Egyptians. Colourist Simone Grattarola, who worked closely with director Tony Mitchell, said he wanted to

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    Two join Blue Post

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Senior editor Dan Goldthorp has joined Blue Post Production. Goldthorp, whose credits include the documentary series Jamie's Kitchen, Would Like to Meetand How Clean is Your House?,joins after a spell as a freelance editor and 18 months at TSI. His ...

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    Tyrell teaches 3D

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Reseller Tyrell has opened a training centre at its Soho office to offer operational and technical courses in Discreet, 2D, 3D and video/audio editing products. The centre will run monthly three-day courses in Discreet Smoke and Flame. Other courses in 3D, video and audio editing, from beginner to advanced and ...

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    Clear buys Avid set

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    West London post house Clear Cut Pictures has purchased seven Avid Media Composer Adrenaline systems and an Avid Unity LAN share storage and network system. The equipment was purchased directly from Avid and will be supported by the manufacturer. The systems will be added to the facility's three Symphony systems, ...

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    MTV signs OB Crew

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Scottish TV and Grampian TV Resources have won the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The team will deploy extensive digital OB equipment, including WiCam digital wireless cameras supplied by McMillan, to help put together content in the run-up to the event, as well ...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian

    2003-10-30T09:35:00Z

    'She may be good at storytelling, but Gifted suggests that Kay Mellor doesn't have the precision to tackle a subjec...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent

    2003-10-30T09:44:00Z

    'What followed was a date-rape information pack in dramatic form? What it wasn't quite was a fully functioning dra...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express

    2003-10-30T09:45:00Z

    'Gifted was certainly topical. It was also laboured , clumsy and thoroughly unconvincing.'...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph

    2003-10-30T09:46:00Z

    'And yet, of course, a noble aim doesn't always mean good drama. Judged purely as a piece of television Gifted had ...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail

    2003-10-30T09:49:00Z

    'Compared with last night's Gifted, a clunking melodrama by Kay Mellor, Footballers Wives offered a far more balanc...

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    Gifted (ITV1) - Carol Midgley, The Times

    2003-10-30T09:51:00Z

    '[Kay Mellor] didn't, in the end, produce a very good drama.'...

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    Ratings

    7m watch the fall of IDS

    2003-10-30T11:30:34Z

    BBC1's live coverage last night (29 October) of the Conservative MPs deciding the future of their leader Ian Duncan-Smith reached a peak of 7 million at 19.00.

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    Finding the Parfitt fit at Radio 1

    2003-10-30T12:54:06Z

    After disappointing, if not disastrous, ratings, is it time for Andy Parfitt to do more than just tweak the line-up at Radio 1, but rather usher in some major changes?

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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BBC2) - Robert Hanks, Independent

    2003-10-31T09:25:00Z

    'Because of the way it is packaged, people think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as fast food, when it is a gourmet del...