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C5 lobbies ITC over World Cup
Broadcaster says ITV and BBC should not be permitted to show clashing World Cup games on digital-only channels
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C4 invests in regional research
Ten indies to get share of£250,000 thanks to Channel 4-backed researcher development programme
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C4 puts weight behind drama
Broadcaster commits to long-running, non-soap drama for first time in its history
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ITV Digital sale puts analogue switch-off in doubt
Broadcasting minister Kim Howells admits demise of digital terrestrial platform could effect government's 2010 target
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CITV to serve up animated Tofu Family
ITV has bought 52 x 11-minute episodes of French kid's animated series Tofu Family from Saban International Paris.The series, which follows the adventures of two children and their environmentally aware
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Green to appear in Box TV drama for BBC
Actor Robson Green, who Broadcast revealed last week has ended his exclusive contract with ITV, is set to appear in indie Box TV's six-part BBC drama Trust, which begins shooting this
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Fox captures cockroach with superpowers
Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has bought the television rights to the animated series RoboRoach.The 26 x 30-minute co-production between Germany's RTV Family Entertainment and Canada's Portfolio Entertainment features Rube, a cockroach
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Infonation goes to the edge for discovery
Indie Infonation has sold its award-winning science series The Edge to Discovery Networks Europe (DNE).DNE has picked up the second 12 x 30-minute series and will air it on Discovery
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National Geographic show to air globally
National Geographic Channel is joining up with its sister stations internationally to show landmark series Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost Empire.The 60-minute programme, which promises new revelations about the
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Channel 4 buys MTV's take on Ozzy's family
Channel 4 is finalising a deal to buy MTV's much-vaunted The Osbournes, the fly-on-the-wall US show about heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional family.The show, which has already
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Talent to make enhanced Villa for Sky One
Talent Television has been commissioned by Sky One deputy director of broadcasting and production Kate Marsh to make a fourth series of dating show The Villa.The new 8 x 60-minute
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Nigella goes al fresco
Self-styled domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is taking her culinary wand out of her kitchen with a new show for Channel 4, writes Penny HughesForever Summer with Nigella (working title), an 8
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Bragg looks at moral issues
Granada controller of arts Melvyn Bragg is to depart from his role as presenter of ITV 1's The South Bank Show and front a new series exploring moral dilemmas, writes Steve Aston
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Animate! winners get C4 slots
The Channel 4-backed digital animation scheme Animate! has awarded funding to six filmmakers whose shorts will now air on C4 later this year, writes Penny HughesThis year's winners are experimental film-makers
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TWI scores Discovery World Cup commission
TWI has secured its first ever commission from Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) with a 2 x 60-minute football documentary series to air as part of a night dedicated to the World
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Boost for hd kit hire
Hire companies Arri Media and Gearbox are stepping up their high-definition product lines.Arri Media ordered two Thomson Viper Filmstream cameras at NAB earlier this month and Gearbox has added a
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Rushes takes on three
Rushes has made a further three additions to its 3D department.Former Aldis Animation/The Refinery chief Louise Hussey has joined as 3D production manager, Rick Leary comes from the BBC as senior
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Kaydara FX training
Canadian digital media specialist Kaydara has appointed Shepperton-based Centroid Motion Capture as its first European authorised training centre.Centroid will be holding a series of seminars from 30 April to 3
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Hitachi in patent row
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has dismissed as 'without merit' allegations of patent infringement brought against its data storage products by loss-making rival EMC.EMC filed against Hitachi in the US on