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TALKSPORT SANCTIONED FOR RUMOURS.
The Radio Authority has upheld complaints that TalkSport allowed a phone-in show to 'perpetuate rumours' during last September's fuel crisis.The authority said the station should have treated callers who claimed blockades
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BBC SHORTLISTS ARCHITECTS FOR SCOT HQ.
A BBC architectural competition jury has shortlisted two international architectural firms to build BBC Scotland's new headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Architects David Chipperfield and Mecanoo have been chosen from
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Wall to Wall nets Egyptian series.
Channel 4 has commissioned Wall to Wall Television to produce a£6m landmark historical series aiming to do for ancient Egypt what Walking With Dinosaurs did for the Jurassic era.The 6
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Wellington doc for BBC 2.
The team behind Channel 4's critically acclaimed series Elizabeth has been commissioned to produce a major series on the Duke of Wellington for BBC 2 and has poached Middle Classes producer Rachel Bell to make it, writes Colin Robertson.
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CARRY ON BOOT CAMPING.
Sky One is to show reality series Boot Camp as part of its spring and summer schedule, after buying rights to the show from Granada International, writes Lucy Rouse. The 8
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Carlton acts to cash in on family tree fad.
CARLTON is hoping to cash in on public interest in genealogy with a new series for ITV - Find Your Family, writes Steve Aston.
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CITV FAVOURITES GET GO-AHEAD FROM GRACE.
ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Janie Grace has recommissioned four long-running series from Gullane for CITV. The indie will produce a 13 x 20-minute run of Sooty (pictured), taking
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HITCH-HIKING SHOW HEADS FOR HORIZONS.
Indie Aimimage Productions has sold a 6 x 30-minute series on hitch-hiking in America to the UK Horizons channel. The series, Roadside USA, directed and produced by Austin Vince and executive
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IMAGO TO MAKE GOBI DESERT DOCUMENTARY.
Independent Imago Productions has been commissioned by Hit Wildlife to make a documentary on life in the Gobi desert for transmission on the National Geographic Channel. Entitled Legends of the Gobi,
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CITIZEN WINS DOUBLE ORDER FROM ITV.
ITV has commissioned a sporting archive series and a half-hour comedy special from Dele Oniya's Citizen Television. The 6 x 30-minute series, Sporting Vintage, will be produced and directed by Krishna
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RADIO 3 TO GO RURAL FOR AN EVENING.
BBC Radio 3 is to devote an evening of programmes to issues surrounding rural Britain as foot and mouth continues to ravage the countryside. The themed evening, entitled In a Green
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CHANNEL HEALTH WINS PREGNANCY BRIEF.
The NHS has commissioned Channel Health to produce a new interactive series on pregnancy as part of a£1.2m award to the broadcaster. The Sky Digital channel is to make a
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KINGFISHER SCORES WITH SOCCER SERIES.
Kingfisher Television has landed a 10-part documentary series, Frankly Football, for Carlton TV. The half-hour shows will feature interviews with players and archive and recent footage. Each show will deal with
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WORKING TITLE TO MAKE LUCKY JIM FOR ITV.
Working Title is to make a two-hour film of the classic Kingsley Amis novel Lucky Jim. Stephen Tomkinson will star as the book's eponymous hero, alongside Helen McCrory, Robert Hardy and
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ZIG ZAG COMMISSIONS LED BY UGLY SHOW.
Zig Zag has won three commissions from Channel 5 and Channel 4. The success of London's Ugly Model Agency is explored in Ugly, commissioned for C5 by Michael Attwell, senior controller
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Slump forces Pittard Sullivan to close down.
US-based main title, on-air design and branding producer Pittard Sullivan has 'closed for business' resulting in the loss of at least 95 jobs.Managing director of Pittard Sullivan's UK operation John Holland
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Awards - Longitude garners record nominations.
Channel 4'S Longitude has been nominated a record-breaking eight times in this year's British Academy Television Craft awards - more than any other programme in Bafta's history. The record was previously
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CFC film scanner outperforms Telecine variants.
THE Computer Film Company (CFC) in Soho has developed a film scanning machine that out-performs the image quality of Telecine-based equivalents, writes Barbara Marshall.
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KERRANG! SET TO AIR.
Ortmansyounginternational has created the complete on-air identity package for new rock music channel Kerrang! TV. A series of graphical opening and closing sequences were created using cell animation before being composited
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UK DOMINATES PROMAX.
Companies from the UK are this week celebrating after marching off with an unprecedented 30 gold medals at the 2001 Promax and BDA Europe awards. Sixty-seven per cent of the 45