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IPC man to set up TV agency.
IPC head of TV development Nick Ryle is launching an agency to create digital TV brands after being made redundant from the publisher following a change in its TV strategy, writes Simon Ellery.
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BLAND BACK-TRACKS.
BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland has moved to play down earlier comments of a move into broadcasting and programme production but not ruled it out. At a conference in Arizona last
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NEW BRIEF FOR TBS HEAD.
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) head of business development Pete Flamman has been handed a wider strategic brief that includes identifying business opportunities with regional managers and channel heads. He will work
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SSC ROLE FOR SKILLSET.
Skillset, the National Training Organisation for Broadcast, Film, Video & Interactive Media, this month becomes one of the UK's five 'trailblazer' sector skills councils (SSCs). With enhanced remits and increased funding
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GLOBAL MEDIA RAIDS BBC.
Programme finance and distribution house Global Media Television has named former BBC Worldwide co-productions and development director Juliet Grimm as its director of international production. Charged with overseeing all co-production activities
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CREATIVE - News in brief.
Emap Performance TV created the graphics for the Brit Awards 2002 promotion on its Smash Hits and Box music channels. The sequences, which preview the 'You choose' campaign, encourage viewers to
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Talkback wins raft of orders.
Talkback Productions has bagged its widest ever range of commissions, including a number of factual series for the BBC and a quiz show for Channel 4.Headlining the BBC slate is 6
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Brook Lapping to make Thatcher doc.
ITV has commissioned a major three-part profile series on former prime minister Margaret Thatcher from the company that produced Diana: Story of a Princess, writes Penny Hughes.
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Discovery slate focuses on diets.
Discovery Health has unveiled its first batch of commissions for this year with two new series and a second run of United Productions' Dietbusters, writes Simon Ellery.
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NewsAvid brings DX to market
Avid Technology has introduced a new family of digital video editing systems designed to speed up high definition editing.
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Twofourtv to give kids taste of life as a star.
Plymouth-based indie Twofourtv is moving away from its reliance on factual and leisure commissions after scoring an 8 x 30-minute order from children's channel Nickelodeon, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC BUYS CHILDREN'S COMEDY LIZZIE MCGUIRE.
The BBC has bought children's comedy series Lizzie McGuire from format distributor Egmont Imagination. The 21 x 30-minute series, produced by Stan Rogow Productions, debuted on the Disney Channel and has
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IAN WRIGHT MAKES BBC 1 VARIETY SHOW PILOT.
Former footballer Ian Wright, who has a #1m deal with the BBC, has recorded a pilot for a new BBC 1 Saturday evening variety show. The show, Right Here, Wright Now,
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TITCHMARSH TO LOOK AT SCIENCE OF GARDENING.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned BBC Bristol to make 6 x 30-minute series How to be a Gardener, in which Alan Titchmarsh explains the science behind gardening. The series,
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BBC FIXES DATE FOR SAS FACTUAL SURVIVAL SHOW.
The BBC is set to screen a series about the SAS that was postponed from its original transmission date because of the events of 11 September. SAS - Are You Tough
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ECOSSE WINS FOURTH MONARCH OF THE GLEN.
BBC Scotland has commissioned indie Ecosse Films to produce a fourth series of Monarch of the Glen. Shooting on the new series will begin in March in Scotland. It was commissioned
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EXTREME TO MAKE LOURDES OF LOVE FOR C4.
Northern Ireland-based indie Extreme Production has scored three new commissions, including a 4 x 5-minute series for Channel 4 about a major European event for single people. Lisdoonvarna - Lourdes of
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MTV TO BROADCAST NEW THREE-DAY FESTIVAL.
MTV is to produce more than three and a half hours of programming for its new three-day music festival MTV Winterjam 2002 which takes place in Austria. Overseen by MTV Europe
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CARLTON MAKES SALE TO NEW OZ KIDS CHANNEL.
Carlton International has struck a content deal with new Australian kids digital channel ABC Kids. The deal includes 52 x 10-minute award-winning animation Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and two live-action
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC to provide mobile content.
The BBC has beaten commercial rivals to a five-year contract to provide audiovisual 3G phone content for mobile phone outfit Hutchison, writes David Wood.