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Alias to buy Kaydara
3D graphics company Alias is set to buy fellow Canadian company Kaydara, a developer of real-time 3D character animation and motion-editing solutions. Kaydara provides services across film, video game and interactive mediums with products such as Motionbuilder and FBX. FBX allows animators to transfer assets between tools. Alias has pledged ...
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Granada sells dramas to Albania
Granada International has made its first package sale into Albania with a deal that includes more than 100 titles. The package has been sold to Viziontrade for free terrestrial network distribution and comprises 300 hours of programming such as The Forsyte Saga, Island at War ...
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CBBC orders dog adventure
The company behind cult children's drama Press Gang has been commissioned to make a kids comedy drama for the BBC.
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Attheraces end prompts action
Arena Leisure and BSkyB this week filed a£51m legal action against the Racecourse Holding Trust (RHT), in an effort to recoup some of the losses made from the demise of the Attheraces TV channel.
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Sci-Fi appoints UK acquisitions chief
The Sci-Fi Channel UK has created a new role to oversee programme acquisitions.
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Aardman takes two awards at Rushes Shorts Festival
Aardman Animation picked up two awards at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival last week.
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Russia takes C4 clean-up format
Russian audiences will be offered a peek into the messy homes of their neighbours in a local adaptation of Channel 4's How Clean is Your House?.
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C4 pulls out of bidding for Joey
Channel 4 has pulled out of the race for Friends spin-off Joey. Despite having a first-look option, the channel has refused to meet Warner Brothers' asking price. Five remains the favourite to land the sitcom, ahead of ITV.
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NewsSubs overtake ads as TV's main earner
Subscription has overtaken advertising revenue as the biggest source of income for British television for the first time in the medium's history.
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NewsFive movies rival pay-TV
Five is to premiere Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 3 before any of its pay-TV rivals after securing a major new movie deal with Sony Pictures Television International.
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NewsRDF to make C4 rival to BBC2's The Apprentice
Channel 4 is enlisting three charismatic millionaires for a formatted documentary to rival BBC2's The Apprentice.
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Humphreys joins C4 as pact ends
Channel 4 has marked the end of its no-poaching agreement with Five by signing the channel's recently departed commissioning editor for factual entertainment, Liam Humphreys.
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C4 talks over merger with Jowell
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has met with media secretary Tessa Jowell to discuss the viability of a proposed merger with Five.
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Thorogood takes ITV daytime job
UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has taken the role of editor of daytime at ITV.
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BBC2 seeks advice from Widdecombe
Tory MP and well-known battleaxe Ann Widdecombe is to become TV's latest agony aunt with a new BBC2 series in which she dishes out no-nonsense advice.
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NFTS brings in Bolland to build up TV courses
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) has poached BBC Scotland head of entertainment and comedy Mike Bolland to head a revamped television department at the college.
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Granada wins ABC pilot
Granada USA has secured a broadcast pilot commission from US broadcaster ABC for a show in which two strangers swap wallets and use their contents to live new lives for a week.
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NewsBBC meets indie quota
The BBC commissioned 28.8% of its programmes from independents in 2003 - meeting its 25% indie target for the first time in four years, new figures from Ofcom have confirmed.
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NewsR2 to push digital radio
The BBC has enlisted the help of Terry Wogan and Johnnie Walker to run a month-long digital radio awareness campaign on Radio 2.
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Knightrider squares up to Morse in battle of TV cars
Kitt from Knightrider , Inspector Morse's elegant Jaguar and the Robin Reliant driven by the Trotters in Only Fools and Horses will battle it out for the accolade of greatest TV car in a new series for Sky One.