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The Mill expands motion control
The Mill is expanding its motion control studio at Shepperton Studios despite last week's closure of SVC's White City rig (Broadcast, 14.5.99).Studio head Rob Delicata said the company was looking to
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Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Pau
Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Paul Smith and Oliver Reed, the
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NBC gets Cold Feet from Granada USA
Granada Entertainment USA (GEU) has secured a series commission at the second attempt from NBC for the comedy drama format Cold Feet.NBC has ordered a 13 x 60-minute run of the
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UK indie to run Olympic doc
UK independent Transatlantic Films has unveiled an international production slate for 1999 of more than 20 hours of programming, including a one-off special on the Sydney Olympic Games, writes Alice Macandrew.Guardians
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Southern Star links up with Monogram
Southern Star Circle, the UK arm of Australian distributor Southern Star, has signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with UK drama specialist Monogram Productions, writes Jason Deans.The distributor will have first
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World view
The days of CNN's Peter Arnett securing world exclusives and behind enemy lines access for the US news broadcaster are numbered, not through any reduction in quality of output, but from
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NewsPinewood Shepperton mulls BBC Resources bid
Pinewood Shepperton studios is interested in buying BBC Resources, after reporting half-year results in which pre-tax profit was up 39% but operating profit and turnover were flat.
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ARTE PLANS EUROPE-WIDE DISTRIBUTION VENTURE
Arte chairman Jerome Clement has unveiled plans for a Europe-wide organisation to distribute TV programming made by the Franco-German arts channel and its co-production partners. Although the exact details of the
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UK CREATIVES TO STAR IN BANFF WORKSHOPS
A number of UK television industry figures are to feature in creative workshops at the Banff Television Festival in Canada next month. Andrew Davies, the adapter of Middlemarch, House of Cards,
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PLAYERS LINE UP TO BUY DT'S CABLE TV NETWORK
Microsoft Corp and Bertelsmann are considering the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's (DT) cable TV network along with Deutsche Bank, according to a report in German current affairs magazine Der Spiegel. Bertelsmann
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PEOPLE + ARTS BUSTLES INTO MADRID
BBC Worldwide/Discovery Networks joint-venture channel People + Arts has launched on Spain's Madritel cable system. People + Arts, which first launched in Latin America in October 1997, is now available in
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STREAM BAGS TV RIGHTS TO QUARTET OF TOP SERIE A TEAMS
Telecom Italia's digital TV operator, Stream, has won the rights to televise the matches of four Italian Serie A football teams: Lazio, Parma, Fiorentina and Roma. Stream is to pay L240
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WORLDWIDE HAILS SUCCESS OF CECILIA & BRYN CONCERT
BBC Worldwide Music has sold the Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne gala concert to ABC in Australia, Danmarks radio in Denmark, SVT in Sweden, FR2 in France, NRK in Norway and
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Bristol fashion
Late Show veteran Mike Poole tells Jason Deans why he decided to quit BBC arts for features amid rumours of a radical overhaul of the genre.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The end of the affair?
Is current affairs a genre in crisis? Last week's RTS judges certainly thought so, and many are sceptical that ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald (above) provides the solution. Alice Macandrew reports.
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OPINION - Will Tony Ball kick ass for Sky?
Rupert Murdoch likes to give the top jobs in his global television business to either Americans or Antipodians. According to the News Corp mindset these New Worlders possess the go-getting commercial
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MULTI-CULTURAL TV - Breaking out of the ghetto
Last year Coronation Street, a soap about life in a working-class community in Manchester, got its first Asian family.To some, this is a measure of the television industry's ability to keep
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NewsC4 Radio plans new approach to ads
Channel 4 Radio plans to move away from the traditional 30-second advertising spot to find 'innovative' advertising models to monetise its commercial radio operation.
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BFI TRACKING STUDY - Working daze
In a survey of production staff, the BFI's Richard Paterson and Janet Willis examine trends in TV employment.
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INTERVIEW - No ordinary Joe
As LWT's new head of documentaries, Joe Houlihan rode to TV fame on the back of hit docu-soap Airline. Now the Arsenal-supporting, ex-print journalist has high ambitions to take the genre upmarket and expand overseas.