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    Dose of Doctors for Virgin 1

    2008-09-04T10:21:24Z

    Virgin Media has bought the UK rights to CBS Paramount's much anticipated daily talk show The Doctors before it has even aired in the US.

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    Studios for Tiger Aspect

    2008-09-04T10:20:28Z

    Fitzrovia Post and audio equipment reseller Scrub have joined forces to build and equip two identical sound studios for a Tiger Aspect series called Tinga Tinga Tales.

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    Steam team sets up in Soho

    2008-09-04T09:23:43Z

    The team behind commercial production company Steam have set up a broadcast facility in Soho to provide ingest, digitisation and conversion services specifically for production companies that have taken their post in-house.

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    On Sight unveils new file-based service

    2008-09-04T09:19:37Z

    HD facility On Sight has launched a service designed to help production companies which want to make HD programmes using file-based tapeless cameras.

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    Nice Biscuits gets new MD

    2008-09-04T09:11:07Z

    Danny Jones has been appointed as the managing director of commercial post house Nice Biscuits.

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    Autodesk upgrades Lustre

    2008-09-04T09:07:37Z

    Autodesk will launch a new version of its Lustre digital grading system at IBC that can handle stereoscopic 3D work.

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    Globecast uplinks for MTV Portugal

    2008-09-04T08:55:41Z

    MTV will use GlobeCast's recently acquired second transponder on Eutelsat's Eurobird 9 satellite to distribute its Portuguese channel.

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    Living unveils 'guilty pleasures'

    2008-09-04T07:03:38Z

    Living will send a group of brides to each other's weddings - and listen to them bitch about their rivals' big days in the hope of winning a honeymoon.

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    BBC4 takes a poetic look at UK landscape

    2008-09-04T06:58:24Z

    Poet and novelist Owen Sheers will trace the relationship between six classic poems and the British landscape in a BBC4 series.

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    Five relaxes exclusivity deal with Trisha

    2008-09-04T06:55:55Z

    Five has relaxed its golden handcuffs deal with Trisha Goddard, allowing the presenter to front primetime programmes for rival broadcasters.

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    C4 to pilot ‘cattle market' dating show from Talkback

    2008-09-03T18:58:46Z

    Channel 4 is lining up a primetime Talkback Thames format dubbed the “cattle market of dating shows”.

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    BBC plans power shift to regions

    2008-09-03T18:54:09Z

    The BBC is to hand network commissioning power to the nations for the first time in what is being hailed as a “radical reshaping” of its structure.

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    Studio Lambert signs up Alexander as fact ent head

    2008-09-03T18:48:43Z

    Stephen Lambert has hired former RDF producer Tania Alexander to lead the development of factual entertainment and reality programmes at his indie.

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    BBC4 to chart life of the ‘queen of romance'

    2008-09-03T18:44:17Z

    Dame Barbara Cartland is next in line for the BBC4 drama biopic treatment, with Dinner Ladies actress Anne Reid playing the novelist in her later years.

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    British Gas to fund eco series for CITV

    2008-09-03T18:12:24Z

    British Gas has partially funded an environmentally conscious series of shorts for CITV.

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    C4 to track launch of youth orchestra

    2008-09-03T18:03:58Z

    The team behind music reality formats Operatunity and Musicality will document the launch of a youth orchestra for its latest Channel 4 project.

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    DCD hires ex Prospect director

    2008-09-03T17:59:54Z

    DCD Media has made Prospect Pictures managing director Liam Hamilton its first business development director and hired Fiona Morris as its first executive producer working across the group's different indies.

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    Five to face second discrimination action

    2008-09-03T17:54:59Z

    Five is bracing itself for a sexual discrimination case brought by its former head of business affairs just days after it emerged that Selina Scott has launched legal proceedings against it for age discrimination.

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    ITV doc marks WWI's 90th anniversary

    2008-09-03T16:50:34Z

    War journalist Martin Bell, poet laureate Andrew Motion and historian Richard Holmes will celebrate the power of words during wartime in an ITV1 documentary for Remembrance Day.

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    Barrowman to meet talented animals

    2008-09-03T16:47:31Z

    John Barrowman will investigate Animals at Work in Cineflix's first series for CBBC.