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BT Broadband staffs up for launch
BT is beefing up its headcount ahead of the launch of its new broadband television service, poaching staff from The Hallmark Channel and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). TCM programme director Bobbie Fox will take on the role of head of film and Hallmark Channel research manager Luba Kassova becomes head ...
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Tern boosts factual
Scottish indie Tern Television has recruited Banned in the UKproducer Paul Gallagher as executive producer to expand its factual output. He has joined the indie's Glasgow office and will be responsible for documentary projects.
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Box TV embarks on Conrad Black drama
Hollywood actress Lara Flynn Boyle will arrive in London next week to begin filming on the 120-minute Box TV production Shades of Black, dramatising the fall of disgraced former Daily Telegraphproprietor Conrad Black. Flynn Boyle stars as Black's wife, Barbara Amiel, while Black ...
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BDH titles Granada comedy
Design company BDH has provided the titles for All About George, Granada's new comedy drama for ITV1. Designer and director Steve Bell photographed Rik Mayall and the rest of the cast, with their images manipulated to resemble string puppets. Bell combined digital photography with graphic backgrounds to ...
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BBC widens course
The BBC has broadened its out-of-London executive producers' training course to cover series producers and is running the course from Manchester for the first time. The course, which begins on 10 October, will train 11 series producers from both indies and BBC in-house departments over the course of a year, ...
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Zig Zag backs Hotel Channel
Zig Zag Productions has branched out into the channel market, backing a new broadband TV station aimed at tourists and business travellers in London.
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Avanti profits up
In-store media group Avanti Screenmedia has announced results for the year to June 2005, with operating profit doubling to£1.93m from£835,000 in the 15 months to June 2004. Revenues were up from£4.62m to£8.44m. Earlier this month Avanti was granted satellite spectrum by Ofcom and plans to launch its first communications satellite ...
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Playout jobs under threat at Ascent
Staff at Ascent Media Network Services' playout centre at Stephen Street, London are braced for redundancies as a result of BBC Broadcast's successful bid to provide playout facilities for Flextech, writesAlice de Picarda.
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Challenge gambles around the world
Challenge has commissioned Class Films to make The Ultimate Gambler, a 15 x 30-minute series following an ex-croupier as he gambles his way around the world. Armed with£15,000 and travelling to 15 different countries Cole Parker will bet his money on everything from Filipino fighting spiders ...
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The Farm nabs armed robbers job
The Farm Group has completed the post-production for Firefly Productions' latest documentary Armed Robbery Orgasmfor Channel 4's Sexologystrand. Directed by Norman Hull and produced by Sascha Olofson, the 60-minute drama-documentary tells the story of Ron Keyes and Debbie Myers and their sexually ...
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ID Distribution launches 400-hour Rainbow portfolio
ID Distribution has struck a significant agreement with US cable broadcaster Rainbow Media Holdings for global distribution rights to over 400 hours of its programming, writesDan Wootton.
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C4 doc spotlights teenagers' lives
Channel 4 Education has commissioned Raw TV to make a 90-minute documentary about teenagers in Britain. Sixteen for a Daywill follow eight teenagers with differing opinions and attitudes but one thing in common: they were all born on the same day in November 1989. The production ...
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C4 is first with web only shows
Channel 4 has become the first UK broadcaster to commission standalone original programming exclusively for the internet.
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C4 drama wins prix
Channel 4's acclaimed Granada thriller Sex Traffic, produced by Derek Wax, won the TV movies and miniseries drama prize at the 57th Prix Italia. At the same time The Cost of Living, another C4 drama made by DV8 Films, triumphed in the ...
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TV3 picks designer
Design and branding outfit Turquoise has been hired by Irish free-to-air commercial broadcaster TV3 to come up with...
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C4 music season to feature U2 concert
Channel 4 will air Vertigo 2005 - U2 Live from Chicagoas part of the broadcaster's UK Music Hall of Fame season in November. 3DD has acquired the worldwide distribution for the special, directed by Hamish Hamilton, which was filmed in high definition during the first leg ...
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BBC1 to explore WWII shipwrecks
The BBC's Natural History Unit is to spend months exploring the undersea world for a high-end documentary for BBC1.
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Simon says: trust me
The appointment of Simon Shaps as ITV director of television has divided those suspicious of his Granada pedigree and those who believe he will prove even-handed towards indies in his new role.
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Uttering the E-word
Hit series such as Jamie's Kitchenand Supernannyshow that programming with an educational slant is central to ensuring Channel 4's future success, says Heather Rabbatts.
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DGP hires Evolutions graphics head
Soho-based DVD and post-production facility DGP has hired former Evolutions head of graphics Frankie Jacobs to boost the company's broadcast portfolio.