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BBC COMMISSIONS POP PROGRAMME DUO.
BBC music entertainment has been commissioned to produce BBC 2 Sunday lunchtime show Top of the Pops Plus (left) for a spring and summer run. Another 22 episodes have been ordered
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THE STUDIO REVEALS IN-HOUSE PRODUCTIONS.
New movie channel The Studio has unveiled plans to produce 20 per cent of its programming in-house. Productions on the slate from the nine-strong production team include a regular, weekly 15-minute
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USA NETWORK SNAPS UP DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Target Distribution has sold the format of Hewland International drama Daylight Robbery (left) to USA Network. The US broadcaster is expected to make an 8 x 60-minute version of the drama,
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ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS' CUBEEZ GOES GLOBAL.
Entertainment Rights has sold the 26 x 11-minute and 13 x 30-minute children's property Cubeez to a number of international broadcasters, including Discovery Kids Latin America, Fox Kids Australia, TVP Poland,
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BBC 1 orders new Simon Nye comedy.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of entertainment commissioning Danielle Lux have signed off a new post-watershed sitcom from Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye.The 6 x 30-minute comedy, called
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Commissions queue up for YTTTP
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions (YTTTP) controller of features Bridget Boseley has bagged a number of orders, including three more instalments of her 100 Greatest ... strand for Channel 4, writes Colin Robertson.
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MODELS IN THE FRAME.
Sportsworld Media Group is billing a new reality TV show called Search for a Supermodel as the successor to current ITV hit Popstars, writes Simon Ellery.
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Carlton makes film of Sheila Bowler case.
Carlton Television is making a major 120-minute film charting the high-profile case of Sheila Bowler, who was jailed for a crime she did not commit, writes Colin Robertson.
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Red Fig enhances its TV voting system.
Interactive TV specialist Red Fig is set to introduce a return path to its real-time TV voting system to enable programme makers to send personalised information to viewers via mobile phones, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Avid chief Davies quits for new media venture.
Avid technologies international product marketing director Simon Davies has quit the company to set up a 'facilities house for new media', writes Will Strauss.
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Impossible TV uses PCs for Channel 4 animation.
Impossible television has used super-charged PCs to complete a satirical animation pilot, Pen Monkeys, for Channel 4 in just five days, writes Will Strauss.
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Pukka Web speeds up approvals.
Pukka group managing director John Gordon-Saker has outlined how the launch of his new strand - Pukka Web - could improve the lives of UK TV producers, writes Will Strauss.
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FREE XSI COURSES.
Softimage is offering free XSI training courses to current users of the software. Tyrell will host the single-day courses on the following days: 6 February for new users; 7 February for
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KEN MORSE MOVES.
Ken Morse Rostrum Cameras has moved to TSI Post Production house in Covent Garden. Previously located on Soho's Dean Street, Ken Morse has a varied client base ranging from the smallest
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SHEIK LEAVES MTV.
MTV senior editbox editor Tariq Sheik has left the music video channel to take up the same role at London Post. He said: 'London Post has handed me an opportunity to
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RED POST BUYS FIRE.
Red Post in Soho has upped its high-end film editing capabilities with the purchase of Discreet Fire. Along with the upgrade to its Flame, Flint and Inferno suites, the purchase means
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CLIMER TO ON DIGITAL.
BBC News controller of technology Naomi Climer has joined On Digital in the new post of director of technical operations. Reporting to chief technical officer Simon Dore, Climer will take responsibility
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Turning the white paper into law.
Work on shaping the communications white paper into something that can justifiably become legislation is beginning in earnest. Lobbyists on all sides of the industry are attempting to turn the greener
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FREE TO AIR - It's the programmes.
By a simple twist of fate, the first anniversary of the New Regime at Broadcasting House coincides with the publication of an interview in The Spectator with the sacked former BBC
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TRADE TALK - The TV activist.
One of the broadcaster's longest-serving staffers, Channel 4 editor of nations and regions Alan Hayling, is going back into documentary-making.