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Big Breakfast and MTV presenter Donna Air and fellow MTV frontman Paul Tomkinson are co-presenting a new late-night pop show
Big Breakfast and MTV presenter Donna Air and fellow MTV frontman Paul Tomkinson are co-presenting a new late-night pop show for Channel 4, writes Ashley Davies.At It Productions' Pop Gun is
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Football chiefs back new tenders
The Premier League's 20 club chairmen have voted for a radical tender document that increases the number of live games on offer to 106, introduces pay-per-view (ppv) matches and keeps rights for clubs' own television channels and websites, writes Tara Con
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DEDICATED KIDS CHANNEL FOR HANNA-BARBERA CLASSICS
Cartoon Network UK is to launch a new animation channel called Boomerang to feature classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Targeting babyboomers and their children, Boomerang will launch on 27 May, showcasing classic animations
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PEARSON TO RAID DORLING KINDERSLEY TRAVEL LIBRARY
Pearson Television plans to exploit Dorling Kindersley's travel catalogue for television content, following the group's acquisition of the publishing company for£311 million. Pearson makes travel show Wish You Were Here
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PPV SERVICE FRONT ROW STEALS MARCH ON SKY AT CWC
Cable & Wireless Communications has this week dropped Sky Box Office as its on-demand pay-per-view (ppv) movie service for analogue customers, in favour of rival cable service Front Row. The cable
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CARLTON INTERNATIONAL SECURES THREE NEW DEALS
Carlton International has struck three new deals with new UK entertainment channel Hallmark Entertainment Network, Channel 5 and Flextech lifestyle channel Living. Hallmark, which is set to launch on Sky Digital
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HENLEY MOVES UP TO MANAGING EDITOR AT CLASSIC
Classic FM has named news editor and programme manager Darren Henley as managing editor. The move forms part of a series of internal changes and sees Henley taking responsibility for day-to-day
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TV CORP CHIEF TO HEAD MENTORN AS S+V'S FOULSER STEPS UP
The Television Corporation chief executive Chris Rowlands revealed that he has taken over as chief executive of Mentorn Group from Tom Gutteridge, as TV Corp revealed a fall in pre-tax profits
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NewsTwenty Twenty takes on sex tourism
Indie Twenty Twenty has won a commission from Channel 4 to make two films looking at the global sex tourism industry from the point of view of those who cater to the tourists.
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ITN MAINSTAY TILLY LURED TO SKY NEWS DEVELOPMENT
Sky News has poached ITN managing editor Andrew Tilly to become its head of development. Tilly, 49, partly replaces Peter Clements who left to join internet outfit Invaluable.com in December. Tilly
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ANGLIA TV PHOTOGRAPHER DAWSON DIES
Former Anglia Television stills photographer Dave Dawson has died after a long illness. Dawson joined Anglia in 1959 and headed the broadcaster's stills department until 1991.
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At It Productions produced new idents for the fourth series of Channel 4's Jo Whiley Show
At It Productions produced new idents for the fourth series of Channel 4's Jo Whiley Show, which will run as part of the channel's 4Music strand.The idents were shot entirely underwater
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Red Pepper Film Company has completed a 20-second commercial for spray paint brand Plasti-kote, featuring a computer animated psychedelic tortoise called Tommy. Commissioned by Cambridge advertising a
Red Pepper Film Company has completed a 20-second commercial for spray paint brand Plasti-kote, featuring a computer animated psychedelic tortoise called Tommy. Commissioned by Cambridge advertising agency Ware Anthony Rust, Red
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Liquid Television Graphics was commissioned by Claire Horton of Hat Trick Productions to create the titles for its Saturday night BBC 1 show Whatever You Want, with Gaby Roslin. The sequence
Liquid Television Graphics was commissioned by Claire Horton of Hat Trick Productions to create the titles for its Saturday night BBC 1 show Whatever You Want, with Gaby Roslin. The sequence
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Parental rift leaves MACh1 out on limb
Chrysalis Sport and United Productions sports joint-venture MACh 1 will exist in name only, following a split between the two parent companies.The MACh 1 brand, established in 1996, is being kept
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September wins C4 project
September Films has won a commission to make a Channel 4 documentary series about ambitious young British expats working in New York who spend their summers networking in the Hamptons, writes Ashley Davies.
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BSC's Holme calls for TV 'lessons' in schools
Schools should teach children how to plan their TV viewing in the multichannel age, according to Broadcasting Standards Commission chairman Lord Holme, writes John Lewis.
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CARLTON BACKS MIDLANDS MEDIA ARCHIVE
Carlton Television is backing a project to create a moving image collection for the Midlands - the Media Archive of Central England Trust (MACE). Former keeper of documentary film at the
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GRANADA GRAPHICS MAN TO HEAD UP THE LAB
LWT's The Lab has appointed Ken Higgins as head of design. He was previously graphics manager at Granada Media, where he designed multimedia presentations and worked on corporate identity projects. Higgins
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STAFF SHAKE-OUT AT ENGLISH & POCKETT
Brand consultancy English & Pockett has made several staff changes, including bringing Tim Stebbing in as senior graphic designer. Stebbing previously worked at Californian outfits Frog Design and Montgomery Pfeifer where