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MORRIS MOVES TO SOUTHERN STAR CIRCLE.
Susan Morris has been appointed head of business affairs for Southern Star Circle and its wholly owned natural history subsidiary Oxford Scientific Films. She was previously head of business affairs at
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C5 ups web spend.
Channel 5 is stepping up its investment in dotcom companies, and plans to plough£12m into further 'equity for airtime' deals over the next 12 months, despite the persistent collapse of
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BBC producers to make content.
BBC producers will be asked to produce content for the corporation's online services as part of a major new media drive being rolled out across the BBC by director of new media Ashley Highfield, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC dominates RTS nominations.
The BBC has received 16 nominations for this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) Journalism Awards, ahead of rival ITN which scooped a total of 10, writes Penny Hughes.
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CARLTON AMERICA IN TV MOVIE DEAL WITH ABC.
Carlton International's US production arm, Carlton America, is developing two TV movies for the ABC network. A Course of Action is a 120-minute drama about one of the first ever all-women
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SOMETHIN' ELSE TO DOCUMENT US ROCK BANDS.
Radio indie Somethin' Else has produced a 5 x 60-minute series of documentaries for BBC Radio 1's Monday night Lamacq Live show. Desert Rock, which features bands from the town of
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BBC ORDERS SECOND SERIES OF THE LAMPIES.
BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard has commissioned indie Red Baloo to produce a second series of cartoon The Lampies to air on BBC 1. The 26 x 10-minute shows are
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DREEM TEEM DJS TO AIR ON UKTV'S PLAY UK.
BBC Radio 1 DJs the Dreem Teem are to break into TV with a new 8 x 30-minute show for UKTV's Play UK. Ordered by outgoing Play UK channel editor Myfanwy
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FISHING SERIES PLANNED BY BBC AND DISCOVERY.
BBC Northern Ireland and Discovery Home & Leisure have struck a deal to co-produce a new 10 x 30-minute fishing series called Coast to Coast. The series will be fronted by
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS TO GET DOCUMENTARY.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, music Jo Wallace has ordered a 60-minute documentary on rock band The Manic Street Preachers' concert, to take place in Cuba, from Endemol Entertainment UK's production arm,
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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL TO AIR ON RADIO 4.
Actor and musician Graham Fellows is recording a 6 x 14-minute series for BBC Radio 4 based on one of his comic characters. Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll will
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VIRGIN RADIO TO GO ON WORLD TOUR.
Virgin Radio has announced a series of events as part of its new strategy to focus on 'real' music rather than chart hits. The station has lined up the Virgin Radio
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CARTOON NETWORK TO AIR SHEEP ANIMATION.
Cartoon Network is to premier a new 13 x 30-minute animated series, Sheep in the Big City. The story centres on the eponymous Sheep, who leaves the farm to live in
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C5 entertainment bolsters its output.
Channel 5 is ramping up its entertainment output with two major new gameshows and a second series of The Mole. Controller of entertainment Alan Nixon has commissioned Pearson Television to make a
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Gary Rhodes series for BBC 2.
BBC leisure and factual entertainment has won three commissions for BBC 1 and BBC 2, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Priory spin-off underway for E4.
Ginger Television Productions is working on a spin-off from its Channel 4 celebrity chatshow The Priory for E4, writes Ashley Davies.
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AIR GETS FIRST ORDER.
Donna Air's fledgling indie, Airhead & Money, has nailed its first commission, a 5 x 30-minute series for E4, writes Ashley Davies.
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INTERACTIVE ADS TO AIR.
The first interactive advertising campaign to be shown on ITV will run from 1 to 11 March. Developed by Carlton Active for Unilever, the campaign for its Colman's and Olivio ranges
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VIRGIN REVAMPS LOOK.
Virgin Atlantic is to revamp its in-flight channel look. Thirteen new channel idents will be designed and produced by Jump Design & Direction to run across all the Virgin channels, which
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Sony launches HD edit system.
Sony is making an aggressive move into the high-definition (HD) editing market with a PC-based non-linear system that will sell for about $180,000 (£124,000), writes Adrian Pennington.