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NewsWood in the running for Five job
8am: Former Sky One head of acquisitions Nicky Wood has emerged as a strong candidate to replace outgoing Jay Kandola at Five.
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NewsXfm Manchester to launch in March
8am:GCap Media is preparing for the launch of Xfm Manchester which will play a mix of new and established indie-rock music for 15 to 40 year olds.
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NewsOpinion - Comment - Whose show is it anyway?
It started off as a simple consultancy gig to a BBC programme on who owned Britain and it ended up as a mess in the courts. Kevin Cahill is bemused by how wrong it all went.
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NewsSMG TV makes Alexander responsible for new business
Glasgow-based SMG TV Productions has promoted Helen Alexander to the newly created role of head of business development as the group launch a creative development drive.
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NewsHotel Babylon takes 5.5m bookings
BBC1's slick drama series Hotel Babylonextended its lead over ITV1's Eleventh Hourlast night at 9pm with 5.5 million (23.4%).
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NewsLiving TV transforms mobiles into 'paranormal detectors'
Living TV is launching a paranormal mobile project to coincide with the next series of Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns.
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NewsPEER POLL: HD
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is the BBC right to invest heavily in HD programming?
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NewsJackson joins Ask Jeeves company
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson has been appointed president of programming at US new media company InterActiveCorp, which owns search engine Ask Jeeves.
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MEM merges production into Scarlet TV
MEDIA group Medal Entertainment & Media (MEM) has merged all its production arms under a single brand and has also secured a major series commission from the Discovery Channel.
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Millionaire losses
Celador's ill-fated Who Wants to be a Millionaire?live tour lost its parent companies over£1m. Investment firm InvestinMedia, which owns 49% of Celador parent Complete Communications Corporation, revealed that last summer's series of live Millionairecompetitions turned in a loss of£1.042m. InvestinMedia ...
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Top models return to Living TV
Living TV has ordered a second series of wannabe models show Britain's Next Top Modelas well as a new spin-off show.
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Optimistic LA move
Optimistic Entertainment will open a Los Angeles office in a move to boost US business. It will be headed by Carolyn Maze, managing director of Optimistic's production arm, who is already recruiting US staff. The company aims to build on its commission from E! Entertainment, for which it produces a ...
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Hunt orders third missing persons series
BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a third 10 x 45-minute series of Missing, a Leopard Films series which follows the work of Hackney Police Missing Persons Unit. The new series will be stripped across two weeks on BBC1 in May.
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Howden to Support
Technical support and integrations company Support Partners has recruited producer Ross Howden from film director Baz Luhrmann's production company, Bazmark, as professional product manager. Howden will instigate projects and manage Support Partners' clients such as the BBC.
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Skaramoosh's Nat Geo idents
Skaramoosh and National Geographic (Nat Geo) have created the idents for the National Geographic Channel. Nat Geo's senior promo producer, Lee Parker, and Skaramoosh's head of design, Piers Helm, conceived the idea for the five idents, which Parker directed, including the moving cogs inside a robot. Head of 3D Seb ...
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Fox joins Steadfast
Former Mentorn boss Charles Thompson has poached another Mentorn executive to join the creative team of his new indie, Steadfast Television. Ben Fox joins as executive producer for the Apace Media-backed indie. Steadfast has also signed Oliver Manley, former head of development at Ronin Entertainment, as a development executive.
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Foundry plug-ins
Visual effects software developer The Foundry has launched a new image-processing plug-in, Furnace 3 for Shake, designed to enhance workflow and productivity for Shake artists. It offers an additional 10 plug-ins for compositing tasks for Linux and OSX operating systems, and includes new features such as MotionMatte and Depth.
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Leader - Formidable force of Four
C4 is Broadcast's channel of the year and is making a strong case for support to maintain its PSB status, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Format focus: Survival of the Richest
The latest US commission for RDF Media/ IWC Media could be heading for UK screens soon.
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Flying TV's helicopter follows the whale
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV supplied the continuous coverage of the whale stranded in the Thames last Saturday. Flying TV's helicopter, GPIXX, filmed the action using an Ikegami camera in a nose-mounted Cineflex gyro mount. A directional antenna installed in the helicopter pointed the signal at a ground receive site ...