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    422 Manchester invests in HD to stop client drain

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    422 Manchester has invested around£400,000 on high-definition products to stop big-budget local clients from heading south for post-production work.

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    HIT40UK comes top

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    The Hit40UK chart show has maintained its position as the UK's leading rundown of pop singles. The commercial radio chart show, produced by Somethin' Else, now attracts an adult audience of 2.05 million as opposed to the 1.63 million who listen to the Official Chart ...

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    Fusion nabs 'The Heist' job for C4

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    Fusion has post-produced reality documentary The Heist for Windfall Films. The 3 x 50-minute series follows a team of reformed criminals as they try to outwit a team of security experts by planning and executing daring crimes, such as kidnapping and ransoming a racehorse. ...

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    C4 orders series on things banned in UK

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 editor, factual entertainment Andrew MacKenzie has ordered a four-part series that illustrates the changing culture of the UK by chronicling the films, books, adverts and objects that the country has banned. Topics range from video nasties to the ban on handguns. The series, which will air in February, ...

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    E4 devises dating show with a twist

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    E4 is to run a six-part dating show called The Great Love Swindle later this month. The programme, produced by Ealing Studios, features four bachelors whose aim is to get a girl to say 'I love you' within five dates. The first one to do ...

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    C4 in radio venture plan

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 stars such as Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan and Avid Merrion could land their own radio shows as part of the broadcaster's plans to launch a digital speech station.

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    BBC3 series charts ?Harvey Nichols of the north-east'

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a documentary series set in a department store from the director behind the channel's recent film trilogy on model Jordan.

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    TV Set merges P3 with Arena Digital

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    Post-production group The Television Set has bought post facility P3 for an undisclosed sum. The broadcast and corporate post-production company will be merged with Arena Digital at TV Set's five-storey Newman Street site to create a new company, Arena P3.

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    3 Mills sold to LDA

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    East London's 3 Mills Studios has been sold to the London Development Agency (LDA). The deal, worth a reputed£22.54m, was signed last week with completion expected within a month. 3

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    Radio 2 continues ascendancy

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 2 has cemented its dominance of the national market, reporting yet another set of record-breaking audience figures.

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    Lulu and O'Leary sign up for R2

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    BBC radio 2 has revamped its weekend line-up, commissioning shows fronted by Lulu and Dermot O'Leary.

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    18 ITN staff set to be axed from Five News

    2004-08-05T08:30:00Z

    The Five News team will lose 18 ITN staffers when BSkyB takes over production of the programme at the end of the year.

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    Disney plans ad-free start for new channel

    2004-08-05T07:50:12Z

    Disney's long-awaited Freeview channel ABC1 will be free of advertising for up to six months when it launches on 27 September.

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    Top BBC staff steer clear of C4 Hutton doc

    2004-08-05T07:50:10Z

    BBC executives and governors involved in the Hutton affair are closing the door on Greg Dyke's request for them to take part in his documentary for Channel 4.

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    This Life indie airs law drama

    2004-08-05T07:50:06Z

    World Productions, Tony Garnett's indie that made the iconic twentysomething drama This Life , is to once again turn its sights on lawyers for a new BBC series.

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    BBC1 to overhaul Holiday show

    2004-08-05T07:50:04Z

    BBC1 is revamping its long-running Holiday strand that will see it move away from its reliance on celebrities and include more travel journalism.

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    C4's channel surfing show

    2004-08-05T07:50:02Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a show from its former director of strategy David Brook in which a series of familiar faces are filmed flipping between TV channels and discussing what's on.

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    C4 close to Hit 40 UK deal

    2004-08-05T07:50:00Z

    Channel 4 is on the verge of signing a deal that will see commercial radio chart Hit 40 UK adapted for TV.

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    ITV3 to launch by November

    2004-08-05T07:49:55Z

    ITV's new digital channel for the over-35s, ITV3, is set to launch on 1 November as a free-to-air venture across all platforms, including Freeview.

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    NTL reaches 2 million subscribers

    2004-08-04T17:54:25Z

    Cable operator NTL picked up 60,500 new subscribers in the three months to 30 June, according to its second quarter results. The firm now has 2 million pay-TV subscribers and a further 1 million telecoms customers. Chief executive Simon Duffy now has a target of 4 million customers by 2008. ...