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    Evolutions brands Motors TV

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions has produced the new idents for inter-national satellite TV channel Motors TV. The sports channel wanted to build on a freshly created brand identity and logo reflecting the dynamic aspects of motorsport. The Evolutions design team, led by senior graphic designer Mark McKenna, used Discreet Flame and Smoke to ...

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    Clear branches into telecine

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Vfx house Clear is opening a telecine department and has poached VTR colourist Mick Vincent to drive the£2.5m set-up.

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    Broadband boom

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BT has said this week that it is due to connect its 5 millionth broadband customer, which sets the telecom company three years ahead of its own schedule. The take-up marks broadband as one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever. According to research by Point Topic, broadband connectivity grew worldwide ...

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    LBC hires Bob Friend

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Sky News veteran Bob Friend has been signed up to present on LBC 1152 in the run-up to the general election. Friend will co-present The Evening Reporton the Chrysalis-owned rolling news station, with regular host Katy Breathwick, from 25 April. He will continue to present the ...

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    Blue Room talks

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Third Eye and Orion TV are in confidential talks with a number of companies, including a major US media outfit, over their immersive reality television studio set, Blue Room. Blue Room gives participants a 360-degree experience without the need for additional aids, such as headsets or goggles, and aims to ...

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    At It hires Blaker as senior staff rejig

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie At It Productions has appointed Ashley Blaker as senior development producer for comedy and entertainment. Blaker was recently head of development for So Television. Meanwhile, At It has rejigged its senior staff, appointing head of development Sheldon Lazarus to a new role of head of factual and specials. Paul ...

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    Hit at centre of bidding war

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Hit Entertainment is set to find itself at the centre of a£500m bidding war as Canadian media group Lions Gate Entertainment prepares to make a takeover approach.

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    BBC OB covers funeral and royal wedding

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC outside broadcast will be covering both the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the royal wedding in what has turned into of one the busiest OB weeks of the year.

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    Reef wins BBC daytime order

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie Reef Television has been commissioned to produce 23 hours of daytime programming for the BBC focusing on property in foreign climes.

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    Temporary head found for BBC sport

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC Sport's head of programmes and planning Pat Younge is being temporarily replaced by Grandstand and Sports Personality of the Yeareditor Philip Bernie. Younge is joining Discovery Communications in the US to run its Travel Channel and has already left the corporation. Bernie has stepped into ...

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    BBC regional film

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Brighton-based indie Pier Productions has been given£100,000 from the corporation's You Don't Have to Live in London fund to make a 60-minute documentary about the history of the Scout movement for BBC2. The indie is the first to benefit from the scheme, launched by entertainment commissioner Jane Lush to promote ...

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    BBC juggles hectic weekend schedule

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 has been forced into frantic schedule juggling to fit in the Pope's funeral, the royal wedding and the Grand National. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' wedding was hastily re-arranged for Saturday (9 April), but clashed with the Grand National. However, the race's organiser agreed to change its start ...

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    Dragon's Den to return in autumn

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC2's Dragons' Denis to get a second run after being recommissioned. The 6 x 60-minute series is in pre-production and is due to go out in the autumn. It will follow a new group of budding business entrepreneurs as they pitch their ideas to a panel ...

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    Fremantle to fund Atlantic productions

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle International Distribution (FID) is to plough cash into new documentaries produced by factual specialist Atlantic Productions, as part of an exclusive two-year deal.

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    Dick and Dom's Ask the Family fails to bag viewers

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Dick and Dom, the BBC's critically acclaimed children's presenters, suffered a setback in their bid to follow rivals Ant and Dec into peaktime, after their quiz show Ask the Familywas largely ignored.

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    Ascent's Farm girl

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Rachel Joseph has left the Farm Group to join Ascent Media Group as director of sales for the UK. Joseph joined Ascent Media at the end of March and left The Farm at the end of February. She will be responsible for leading the sales team covering areas including features, ...

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    Apology for Dr Who

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has been forced to apologise to Doctor Whostar Christopher Eccleston for issuing a statement in his name, falsely claiming he had quit the show because he did not want to be typecast. The corporation knew in January that Eccleston would not be returning for ...

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    Doc to look at Egypt's sacred animals

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Parthenon Entertainment is making two 50-minute specials for Animal Planet to air early next year. Sacred Animals of the Pharaohsexamines what it meant to be a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. The show is being delivered in October. Phantom of Vietnamfollows a ...

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    Amir Khan brings boxing back to ITV

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    ITV is to broadcast boxing for the first time in over 10 years, after it secured the rights to broadcast the rematch between Amir Khan and the man who beat him for the Olympic gold medal in Athens, Mario Kindelan. The bout, which takes place at the Reebok Stadium in ...

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    Emap in running to buy up all of SRH

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Emap, the owner of the Kiss and Magic radio networks, has admitted it is interested in acquiring all of Scottish Radio Holdings but has yet to make a formal approach. Over a year since Emap, publisher of Broadcast, bought 27.8% of SRH, Scotland's biggest commercial radio ...