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NewsNew work placement scheme for Northerners
Three regional screen agencies have pooled their resources to launch a new work placement scheme for prospective television workers based in the North of England.
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NewsC4 hires Bringing Up Baby producer
The executive producer of Channel 4’s controversial child-rearing series Bringing Up Baby has joined the broadcaster’s specialist factual commissioning team.
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NewsShed to push Wall to Wall titles in US
Shed Media is to focus on growing brands such as Who Do You Think You Are? in the US, following the purchase of Wall to Wall.
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NewsBBC retires in-house horse-racing coverage
The BBC will no longer have an in-house team for horse-racing coverage, following a decision to outsource coverage of the Grand National to indie Sunset + Vine.
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Green light for Chart Show
C4 has ordered a fourth run of music series The Album Chart Show and a fifth summer live special of T4 on the Beach.
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College killings film for BBC
ORTV has been commissioned by BBC2 to make a 60-minute film to air in April 2008 to mark the one-year anniversary of the shootings this year at Virginia Tech in the US.
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NewsBBC hunts new breed of doc makers
BBC New Talent has launched a competition to find three emerging documentary film makers for its BBC3 new talent strand, Fresh.
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NewsDaily Cooks to return for fourth series
ITV has commissioned a fourth series of Daily Cooks fronted by Antony Worrall Thompson to air next spring.
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NewsBBC doc to follow Olympic hopefuls
The BBC will transfer its A Child of Our Time format to a group of young athletes preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, revisiting them in a series of documentaries each year until the games.
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NewsPact elects new council
Twofour chief executive Charles Wace has been elected as council chair at indie trade body Pact.
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NewsRDF wins court battle against Clements
RDF has won its high court battle against Alan Clements to prevent the former employee from joining a rival until December 2008.
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Italian soccer on Babelgum
Babelgum has launched a Serie A Italian Football channel, offering highlights of Italy’s premier division.
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Kate Modern airs in-flight
Virgin Atlantic is to show Bebo’s online drama Kate Modern as part of its in-flight entertainment.
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VoD strategist quits C4
Channel 4's chief strategist on the joint video-on-demand service Kangaroo, Rod Henwood, is to leave the broadcaster in April next year to pursue a new digital venture.
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NewsChannel 4 gets Carter
Channel 4 has confirmed that acting viewers’ editor Paula Carter will take on the role full-time.
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NewsEcho Beach shorts signal next phase for itv.com
Itv.com will host a 12-part series of online shorts linked to Kudos’ ITV1 dramas Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper next month as part of plans to establish the site as the home of added value web-only content.
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Autodesk launches Combustion 2008
Autodesk has launched its Combustion 2008 software, the latest version of its desktop compositing and VFX solution featuring the Colour Warper tool (from the Flame visual effects system) as well as improvements to the schematic view.
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NewsBBC cleared of blasphemy
The BBC and indie Avalon have escaped prosecution for blasphemy over the screening of controversial musical Jerry Springer - The Opera in 2005.
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NewsShine signals intent with US acquisition
Shine’s planned£97m ($200m) acquisition of US indie Reveille is set to catapult it into the same league as Endemol, All3Media and Fremantle Media and signals the latest move by a UK producer into the globalmarketplace.