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    Seamless editing

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Dayang International has signed an XDCam alliance agreement with Sony to aid seamless interoperability between Sony's XDCam blue-laser optical disc system and Dayang's editing equipment. This includes enabling Dayang's D3-Edit workstation to link with the XDCam optical disc media for faster editing.

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    Quake special effects from DVA

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    DVA has produced the special effects, graphics and map sequences for Cicada Films' Europe's Secret Quakes, a 60-minute programme on the effects of earthquakes. DVA created 20 HD special effects shots with creative director Matthew Baxter devising the sequences. Senior animator Andy Kucharczyk and animator ...

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    Sleeper hit Tribe wins double run

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a further two runs of hit anthropology series Tribe, in which adventurer Bruce Parry spends time living with remote world communities.

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    Mentorn loses creative director to At It

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Mentorn's creative director Rob Carey is the latest executive to jump ship after being poached by At It Productions. Carey, whose credits include Britain's Worst...for Five and upcoming US reality show Work Outfor Bravo, will become At It Productions head ...

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    Living lines up Most Haunted burial stunt

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Living TV is planning a live burial in its next episode of Most Haunted Liveafter the special was recommissioned for a 19th and 20th run. A psychic is to be lowered in a coffin fitted with cameras into a grave in Portsmouth in May. A ...

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    Sun Hill cops' European beat

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    The Billwill continue to pound the beat in Denmark and Belgium after Fremantle International Distribution signed lucrative new deals to keep the long-running ITV1 show on air.

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    Sky One bags Ludlum thriller rights

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has picked up the multichannel and terrestrial TV rights to Robert Ludlum's bio-terrorism thriller The Hades Factor. The 2 x 90-minute miniseries, starring Stephen Dorff, Anjelica Huston and Mira Sorvino, was acquired from Tandem Communications. It is due to air on Sky in ...

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    Format Focus: American Inventor

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Simon Cowell's Syco Television and Fremantle Media have launched a US-wide hunt for a winning new invention and $1m in prize money is up for grabs.

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    Fourth Kitchen Nightmares goes abroad

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a fourth 6 x 60-minute series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmaresfrom Optomen Television. For the first time fiery chef Gordon Ramsay will get stuck into the kitchen of a restaurant abroad, still using his trademark forceful approach. Two other episodes will see ...

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    Watch out, learner directors about

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Making the switch to the other side of the camera isn't easy - for a start, the opportunity rarely presents itself. Robert Graytalks to four first-time directors who were given the chance and asks what they have learnt

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    ITN buys 56 Sony cameras for use in field

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    ITN is upgrading its news cameras with an investment in 56 Sony DSR-450WSP DVCam camcorders and more than 30 DSR-1500 DVCam compact editing recorders for all of its ITV international and domestic coverage.

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    Three-piece body work for C4

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is to explore Britain's obsession with body shape and appearance in three different hour-long documentaries.

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    Italian job for ITV1's The Sketch Show

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    ITV1 classic comedy The Sketch Showis to be made in Italian after Avalon International secured a new deal for the show at MipTV. Magnolia Italy has purchased all the UK scripts from the first series of the Bafta award-winning show, which it will use as ...

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    ITV1 struggles in weekday peaktime slot

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    ITV1 is having a tough time in the weekday peaktime slot of 9pm with its audience down by 18% year-on-year.

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    Talk the talk

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    How do some chat shows hit on a winning formula, while others fall at the first hurdle? Is it down to the personality of the presenter or is sticking to tried and tested scheduling the key, asks James Curtis.

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    How much money does this man need?

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    The general consensus is that the BBC should not receive any licence-fee increase above inflation - but the debate is far from over, says James Curtis.

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    Interview - Deborah Turness: Making headlines

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    Since Deborah Turness became editor, ITV News has scored a series of scoops and a slew of awards - and now a boost to her budget is helping her ensure the network stays on top of the news.

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    Smart money on Ball's return

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    Uncompromising, feared and respected and, from his Sky days, moneyed? Tony Ball is back on the UK media scene as chairman of investment vehicle IMAC, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    In my view - A licence fee for all

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    A licence fee rise, shared with other broadcasters, will safeguard public service broadcasts in a digital age, says Ann Rossiter

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    Leader - All that glistens...

    2006-04-12T08:00:00Z

    As RDF loses its latest BBC recruit, City analysts wonder whether the shine has rubbed off the indie sector.