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USA KOs UK TV
American TV dominated homegrown shows in a survey yesterday of Britain's favourite programmes. ...
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Cilla: Blind Date is mine forever
Slimline Cilla Black vowed yesterday she will never quit hosting Blind Date ' declaring: 'It's my show.' ...
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RatingsBBC 1 back on top with narcolepsy doc
BBC 1's look at narcolepsy caught its main rivals sleeping on the job last night as Nap Attackhad over 7 million wide-eyed viewers, writes Jon Rogers
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NewsMotorola threat to digital radio
Communications giant Motorola claims it has developed new technology that will allow analogue radio listeners to achieve near-digital quality sound, writes Luke Satchell
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Red Vision buys Flame
Graphics and post facility Red Vision has bought a high definition Flame for its Manchester base, making it the first to be installed outside London. The system was sold and will be supported by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Red Vision will use the system initially on broadcast projects but has ...
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Omnibus expands in US
British automation specialist OmniBus Systems has opened a second US office and created three new senior management positions. Former CBS executive Ashley Barretto has joined as group executive, products and will head the new office in Stamford, Connecticut. ICL technical strategy manager Ian Hardacre has joined as group executive, services ...
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Red poaches SVC FX man
Post facility Red has taken on Chris Mortimer as head of visual effects. He joins from SVC where he was senior digital effects artist for five years. Before that, he spent seven years at Framestore CFC as senior editor/Henry artist. Mortimer's recent credits include the commercials BMW 'Luge' for WCRS ...
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Bailey Promax speech
Photography icon David Bailey is the latest name to be added to the roster of speakers at next month's Promax UK event. He will be interviewed by Vogue creative director Robin Derrick at the inaugural Promax UK Presents?session to be ...
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The Mill sheds 25 jobs
Top Soho facility The Mill has cut around 25 permanent jobs but denies it is in financial difficulties, writes Barbara Marshall
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Middx Uni offers TV studio to boost revenue
Middlesex University is hoping to attract television producers to its refurbished TV studio in north London in a bid to boost revenues, writes Barbara Marshall
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TSI ditches Quantel for a Smoke
Soho post facility TSI has dumped its Quantel Editbox in favour of a brand new editing/finishing system from Discreet, writes Will Strauss
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Artem Digital gains Doff as stakeholder
TSI founder Nick Doff has taken a stake in motion-capture specialist Artem Digital and has joined the firm as commercial director, writes Barbara Marshall
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C5 to reveal rundown of top 50 sex tips
Channel 5 controller of youth, music and interactive Sham Sandhu has commissioned Initial to produce a 2 x 90-minute factual entertainment documentary, Cosmopolitan's 50 Ways to Please...The programme, which ties in with a sex survey being carried out by Cosmopolitanmagazine, ...
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Pulling to be main theme of Trouble
Flextech's teen offering Trouble has ordered three 15 x 30-minute commissions. Sex Bomb, from Mentorn, is a gameshow based on the art of pulling on the UK club scene. Executive producer is Steve Carsey and producer is Sam Rogerson. It will air in October. Separately, ...
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BBC's Tranter orders fourth Clocking Off
Red Productions' drama Clocking Offis returning for a fourth series on BBC 1. The 6 x 60-minute series, ordered by BBC controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter, is produced by Juliet Charlesworth, directed by Brian Grant and Brian Percival and executive produced by Nicola Shindler. ...
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Mentorn takes on von Hagens corpse project
Television Corporation subsidiary Mentorn is behind the controversial Channel 4 project to find a volunteer willing to have his or her body preserved and modified after death for a television series. The company is undertaking the search in conjunction with Professor Gunter von Hagens, whose Body Worlds exhibition is currently ...
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Hollywood...spins off into celebs' homes
The Travel Channel has commissioned a spin-off of September Films' Hollywoodfranchise looking at celebrity homes. Hollywood Real Estate, a 2 x 60-minute series for transmission early next year, will focus on celebrity mansions in LA. The series producer is Michelle ...
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Chatsworth TV to revive treasure hunt
Chatsworth TV is to bring back to life cult series Treasure Hunt15 years after it was axed. Grandstandpresenter Suzi Perry is taking the role of the Lycra-clad clue-finder that made Anneka Rice and her bottom famous, while new BBC news ...
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Fox Kids UK buys Xilam's Lucky Luke toon
Animation studio Xilam's 52 x 30-minute kids series The New Adventures of Lucky Luke, has been picked up by Fox Kids UK channel. The deal is the latest in a string of arrangements between Xilam and Fox Kids, which previously acquired ...
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Titchmarsh in gnome role
Departing Gardeners' Worldpresenter Alan Titchmarsh has found a new BBC role, as the voice of an animated garden gnome, writes Penny Hughes