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Elliott unveils first Kemp drama for ITV
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has unveiled former EastEnders star Martin Kemp's first drama vehicle for the channel.LWT has been asked to produce Daddy's Girl, a 2 x 60-minute
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Celador resumes search for brainiest kid
ITV 1 controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned Celador Productions to produce a second Britain's Brainiest Kid one-off.The 90-minute special will again feature Carol Vorderman testing the general and
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Men & Motors gears up for TT races
Men & Motors has secured the exclusive rights to The Isle of Man TT Races for 2002.Greenlight has been commissioned by Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programming Gary Shoefield to
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Treacy honoured with ITV fashion tribute
World-renowned milliner Philip Treacy is the subject of this year's Fashion Tribute, to air in ITV regions early next month.The 30-minute special, to be made by indie Talent Television, focuses
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BBC 1 lines up young offenders drama
BBC controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter has greenlit the first improvised drama for BBC 1.Tamzin Outhwaite and David Morrissey star in The Young Offenders, a 2 x 60-minute order
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Union and Columbia to scale next Rockface
BBC Scotland has commissioned Union Pictures and Columbia Tristar International TV to produce a second series of mountain rescue drama Rockface for BBC 1.Commissioned by BBC Scotland head of drama
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It's Partridge season
BBC 2 is to air a season of programmes featuring comedian Steve Coogan's anti-heroic creation Alan Partridge in the run-up to a brand new series of I'm Alan Partridge from TalkBack,
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E-Mediavision gets Point across
Young British company E-media-vision.com caused a stir at NAB last week with the launch of the Point, a touch-screen telestrator first developed for Sky Sports' live football coverage, writes Barbara MarshallThe
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New role for GVG chief
Grass Valley Group president and chief executive Tim Thor-steinson is to head a division of Thomson Broadcast Solutions under vice-president Marc Valentin, following the sale of Grass Valley to Thomson (Broadcast,
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Dolby unveils volume tool
Dolby unveiled a new audio analysis tool last week aimed at helping broadcasters iron out volume inconsistencies between channels and programmes , writes Barbara MarshallDolby claims the LM100 Loudness Meter is the
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BT unveils SatNet
BT Broadcast Services has launched BT SatNet, a mobile satellite uplink antenna which it claims can be fitted to the roof of most vehicles within an hour. Non-crew members can operate
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NTL greenlights mobile DTT
NTL has completed UK tests of mobile digital terrestrial television (DTT) and claims the initiative opens the way for the development of the DTT platform. The trials, which have taken place
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Cyborg v2 launches
British systems developer 5D last week launched version 2 of its effects editing system 5D Cyborg, which it is now positioning as a fully fledged finishing tool with multi-resolution compositing and
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Snell secures£22m
Snell & Wilcox has secured a£22m finance package with Advent Venture Partners, the venture capital firm behind Post Impressions which Snell bought last summer (Broadcast, 22.6.01). Advent Venture Partners chairman
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BBC regional news divisions to get generationQ
The BBC is the first customer for Quantel's recently launched generationQ newsroom system, writes Barbara MarshallBBC English Regions has ordered two systems for its regional news operations - one for Norwich,
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Apple in frame to buy Alias Wavefront
Speculation was rife at NAB last week about whether Apple had bought SGI subsidiary Alias Wavefront, writes Barbara Marshall
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Rockface plummets again
BBC 1 drama sheds another 1.5m viewers to finish its run with its worst figures yet while Survivor and The Bill on ITV 1 pull their best figures of the year
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BBC dominates Bafta Television Awards
Channel 4 only collects four awards as Brass Eye fails to impress judges
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Little Mo brings home the bacon for BBC 1
Slater sister's EastEnders court case takes 60 per cent share
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