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JK Rowling gets part with Bart
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is to make a wizard appearance in The Simpsons. ...
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Wacko 'waived rights'
Michael Jackson's multi-million pound court battle with Granada will hinge on a one-paragraph agreement. ...
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NewsViewers desert BBC3
New BBC digital service BBC3 is failing to catch the imagination of the nation's prized youth demographic, with latest viewing figures showing it is less popular than BBC Choice, the channel it replaced, writes Luke Satchell
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RatingsITV1 loses out as United win
Football is a funny old game, or so they say, but ITV1 will not be laughing this morning after Manchester United's Champions League victory in Turin last night (26 February) failed to produce a peaktime victory for the channel, writes Luke Satchell
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Coastal to make another Wire in the Blood
Actor Robson Green's indie Coastal Productions has been commissioned by ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott to make a second series of police drama Wire in the Blood. The series, which stars Green and Cold Feet actress Hermione Norris, will air later in the year in a new 4 x ...
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NewsBBC accounts to be probed by Parliament
BBC chiefs are set to be forced to open their books to Parliament to account for the way they spend the£2.5bn a-year-licence fee, writes David Rose
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NewsAl Jazeera secures raft of BBC programmes
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Arabic news and documentary channel Al Jazeera for 1,000 hours of factual programming, writes Hayley Treacy
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News£12m-a-year saving for Five
Five will save around£12 million a year under new terms for its analogue TV licence drawn up with the Independent Television Commission, writes John Plunkett
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Redmond accuses ITC of 'dumb regulation'
Brookside creator Phil Redmond this week attacked the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for 'dumb regulation' after it ruled that an armed siege in the Channel 4 soap was unsuitable for broadcast before the watershed, writes Hayley Treacy.
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Watchpoint in London
Interactive specialist WatchPoint Media has opened a London office. The company offers solutions for creating, broadcasting and collecting responses for interactive TV applications and its biggest product is Storyteller, an authoring system and graphical tool built on a proprietary visual programming language.
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Machine Room hiring
Soho facility The Machine Room has added former 4MC/Ascent Media colourist Brian Metherell to its telecine team to help with an increase in TK projects. Metherell, who has 25 years' experience, has previously worked at VTR and TVP among other facilities. His credits include The ...
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Ascent redundancies
Thirty five Ascent Media staff have been axed as a result of the merger of post houses Soho 601 and SVC into One Post. Those affected are being encouraged to apply for other jobs within the group. One Post will have 58 employees comprising 23 people from SVC, five from ...
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Gong for Morris film
Chris Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, which was posted at The Mill, has won a Bafta for best short film at this year's awards. The project was co-produced by Mark Herbert ( Phoenix Nights), and was adapted ...
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Simple treatment for Sky show
The Sky News graphics team has created images for a new live evening talk show called 3Dto air on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 March.
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BBC buys news software for war
The BBC has ordered 13 LNG (laptop news gathering) software systems from web and newsgathering partners TVZ and 4BN, for journalists to use in covering the impending war in Iraq.
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Video Europe spends£1.5m on OB equipment
London kit hire and studio facility Video Europe has invested£1.5m in OB trucks and kit for its new events division.
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P3 to axe office and shrink workforce
Soho post facility P3 has denied rumours it is going bust but has admitted that it will have to close one of its two offices and make staff cutbacks, writes Sam Espensen.
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MTV forum to grill Blair over war in Iraq
Prime Minster Tony Blair is to appear on MTV in a special 60-minute discussion programme in which he will set out his case for war with Iraq. MTV Forum with Tony Blair: Is War the Answer?, to be made by MTV Europe in London, will include questions from 40 young ...
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Bruce picked as face for BBC1 Tonight rival
The BBC has confirmed that Ten O'Clock News presenter Fiona Bruce is to present a new current affairs magazine programme on BBC1. Real Story, which begins next month, has been commissioned by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks for a huge three-series run of 28 ...
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C4 launches lunchtime war news bulletin
Channel 4 is to air a new lunchtime news bulletin that will go head to head with Five News as the build-up to a possible war with Iraq continues. The 30-minute