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    Without Prejudice set for Fox Reality

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    12 Yard Productions is set to sell the first series of its Channel 4 gameshow Without Prejudiceto US broadcaster Fox Reality.

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    Government inspector goes to Finland

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 International has sold dramas The Government Inspector, Hell Has Harbour Viewsand Lawlessand teenage behaviour format Brat Campto Finland's YLE. Finnish channel MTV3 has also bought Last Man Standing, ...

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    Format focus: Fata Morgana

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    This socially minded format challenges people to co-operate in a bid to achieve the impossible.

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    Directors follow the Romans

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Directors Cut has completed post-production on Life and Death in Romefor production company Shine. The 6 x 60-minute documentary series goes back 2,000 years to look at how the Romans lived, loved and partied. Online editor Andrew Elliott used digital film effects and lighting effects on ...

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    West dig gets kit

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    West Digital has completed its£200,000 relaunch after buying the Real Editing Company from Independent Post last year. Joint managing director Darren Cock ordered three Avid Adrenalines - one HD - from reseller Altered Images. The refurbishment, including digital cabling infrastructure, was completed last month. West Digital is currently editing ...

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    Childline Support

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Chromakey specialist Reflecmedia has supplied its Chromatte to the producers of a music video promoting the new Childline anti-bullying single, Stand Tall, sung by Just3. Reflecmedia lent producer Colin McKeown and director Samantha Janus a

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    Rayner takes helm of ITV News Channel

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Ben Rayner, the new editor of ITV News Channel, said this week he planned to secure better cross-promotion from other ITV channels to help it compete with rivals.

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    Zone Vision to show Horror Channel in Europe

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    The Horror Channel is set to be rolled out in Europe after being bought by Zone Vision Networks, the owner of a string of digital channels including Reality TV.

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    Celeb Island's vital statistics

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    So it's over. The celebs have touched up their tans and departed Love Island to sell their stories, leaving ITV to decide whether there will ever be a return to Love Island. So based on the ratings, was the show buff or duff?.

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    Sperber to leave CBBC drama in July

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    CBBC's head of drama has announced she is to quit the corporation for a move to the independent sector, but has no new job lined up. Elaine Sperber - who commissioned award-winning series such as Fungus the Bogeymanand Microsoap- will leave her ...

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    Pepper prepares Girl in Caf

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Pepper Post Production has completed post-production, including visual effects and title sequences, for Richard Curtis' Girl in the Café. The drama focuses on a politician (Bill Nighy) who embarks on a relationship with a girl that he meets in a café (Kelly MacDonald) around the G8 ...

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    BT poaches two from Sky and Freeview

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    BT has poached BSkyB's head of pay-per-view, Karen Saunders, and Freeview general manager Lib Charlesworth to join its television arm. Saunders is to become head of programming and acquisitions for BT's Television Services division. During seven years at Sky she was responsible for the content acquisition, programming and marketing of ...

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    Telewest Launches Broadband TV

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Telewest Broadband has launched a web-based TV service offering niche entertainment and sports programming, including Living TV, on its Blueyonder website. The trial service provides broadband users with free content via four channels. Blueyonder 01 offers highlights from Flextech's Living TV, Bravo, Challenge and Trouble channels, such as ...

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    North One boosts factual with two executives

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    north One Television has appointed two executive producers to its fledgling factual and formats department and bagged a host of new orders.

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    OFT turns up heat under BBC

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading has called for more power to be given to Ofcom to enforce anti-competition rules on the BBC.

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    BBC prime to launch in Singapore

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC is expanding the reach of its international channels by launching entertainment service BBC Prime in Singapore later this year. The channel, which offers programming from the BBC's entertainment and drama portfolio, such as Fawlty Towersand Top of the Pops, will be joining ...

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    Bib wins BBC order

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Bib Buoy TV has won the BBC contract to post-produce visual effects shots on The Virgin Queen. The job, around 20 shots, has been estimated at about 90 hours in a Flame suite and five days' shoot attendance. The shots range from crowd duplication of armies ...

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    Glastonbury goes green on BBC

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    422 Manchester has produced graphics for this year's BBC coverage of the Glastonbury Festival. 422 graphic designer Gareth Price created the multilayered sequences entirely within After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop. The strong use of green - using digital stills - was used to create a distinctive theme for this year's ...

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    Bland blasts BBC Green Paper ideas

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland has criticised the government's plans to shake up the way the corporation is governed. Bland, now chairman of BT, said replacing the present BBC board of governors with a BBC Trust to regulate it and ensure it delivers its Charter requirements looked unworkable. 'It ...

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    Female face at Bafta

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Tightrope Pictures joint director Hilary Bevan Jones has become the first woman to be appointed deputy chairman of Bafta. Bevan Jones, who runs the indie with Shamelesswriter Paul Abbott, has been involved with Bafta for six years. The deputy is generally promoted to chairman after a ...