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    Sky One investigates last hours of icons

    2007-02-16T09:10:00Z

    Sky One will examine the final moments of six historic icons, including River Phoenix and Marvin Gaye, in a new documentary series looking at the secrets behind their untimely deaths.

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    PEER POLL: Life on Mars

    2007-02-16T07:45:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Are the creators of Life on Marsright to pull the plug after two series? Click hereto vote.

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    The Brits bring 5.2m to ITV1

    2007-02-15T10:30:00Z

    ITV1's live coverage of The Brit Awardsin an 8pm slot last night serenaded 5.2 million people (22.3%), a rise of 500,000 viewers on the previous year.

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    Twenty Twenty takes on sex tourism

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Indie Twenty Twenty has won a commission from Channel 4 to make two films looking at the global sex tourism industry from the point of view of those who cater to the tourists.

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    Reeves takes on Ripper for Sky One

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Vic Reeves is making a one-off documentary for Sky One on the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper.

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    Profile: Malcolm Wall - Virgin Media's prizefighter

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Profile of Malcolm Wall, Virgin Media's chief executive of its content division

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    Pope's message - an interview with Jeff Pope

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    ITV Productions' Jeff Pope on why the drama will always win out

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    TX - Instinct

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    TV's newest detective confronts death and his feelings amid the bleak scenery of the Pennines.

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    Unit improves post

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Unit Post Production has installed a new digital machine room with Final Cut Pro to improve workflow and cut digital delivery and rendering times.

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    Genie returns

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Nickelodeon has ordered a second series of live-action kids comedy Genie in the House.

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    Talkback trials Saturday night gameshow

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Talkback Thames is developing a new Saturday night gameshow for BBC1 based around the concept of time, with Chris Evans on the wish list to present it.

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    The kids are our future

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Broadcast editor Lisa Campbell looks at the future of children's TV

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    Sky pay-TV launch threatens Freeview

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    BSkyB's move to launch a subscription television service on digital terrestrial TV (DTT), announced last week, has put tensions between Sky and its Freeview partners at an all-time-high.

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    Fearnley-Whittingstall takes on Tesco

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Food evangelist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is launching a Jamie Oliver-style David and Goliath battle against the rise of supermarket chains for a major new series on Channel 4.

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    US facilities group wins Elstree lease

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    The fate of Elstree Film and TV Studios, home to Dancing on Ice and Big Brother, looks secure following the purchase of the site's 125-year lease by California-based film and television facilities group Pacifica Ventures.

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    Quicksilver tackles domestic violence

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Oxford-based Quicksilver Media is to investigate domestic violence for Channel 4's Dispatchesstrand.

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    Digital Vision launch

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Digital Vision, the Stockholm-based software company which provides image restoration and colour correction systems, will be unveiling digital cinema compliance for its full product line as well as Avid DNx HD support and upgrades to its DVNR image-processing processing work station at NAB in Nevada this April.

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    Outright secures Russian deals

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Outright Distribution, formerly Screentime Partners, has licensed Lion Television's gameshow format Cash Cabto the TNT network for a further five years.

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    Ignite fund ready to seal two deals

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Just three months after its launch, Ignite, the£2m investment fund set up by RDF, is close to tying up two deals with a factual and a comedy producer.

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    ITV crime drama spawns three-part follow-up

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    ITV Productions is making three new episodes of serial killer drama Cold Blood, which last aired on ITV1 in 2005.