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Image Makers Digital invests heavily in Avid
Image makers Digital is planning to spend more than£300,000 on Avid kit.
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Avalon brings up third TV burp with Hill
Off-the-wall comic Harry Hill has been lined up by ITV1 to present a third series of his television review show. Avalon Television has been recommissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute series of Harry Hill's TV Burp, which is due to be screened from mid-February. Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday ...
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BBC takes on US' Arrested Development
The BBC has secured the exclusive UK television rights to the acclaimed US comedy Arrested Development from 20th Century Fox TV.
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Army radio contract
The British Army is inviting companies to pitch for the provision of radio stations at its four main garrisons in the UK. Army Radio is currently run by Garrison Radio, which serves bases in Catterick, Colchester, Aldershot and Bulford/ Tidworth. But it will have to re-pitch for the business alongside ...
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Cheaters set to appear on European TV
Distraction Formats has agreed a series of European deals with gameshow Dirty Rotten Cheaters. TWI Entertainment is already developing the format for the UK, but StormyEyeworks is now working on a German version of the show, which could go to parent company RTL Television. ...
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What about Mimi? makes return to CITV
Decode Entertainment has sold a further 13 episodes of animated series What About Mimi? to ITV children's strand CiTV. The deal follows an initial pick-up of the first 13 x 22-minute episodes in September. The second season of the Canadian series, which follows the adventures ...
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Channel 4 picks up Britney
Fremantle International Distribution has scored 25 sales for ABC's behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. Channel 4 is among those which will screen Britney Spears: In the Zone , after Fremantle picked up the rights to distribute the 60-minute programme in November. Other European broadcasters ...
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C4I chalks up That'll Teach 'Em deal
Channel 4 International has optioned the format of That'll Teach 'Em to Endemol Spain. The reality format, in which a class of pupils are put through a month-long 1950s-style boarding school regime, has already been picked up by Endemol in France, Italy and the Netherlands as well as Tresor Television ...
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S4C to screen second Fireman Sam series
Animated children's show Fireman Sam is set to return to S4C for another Welsh-language series in 2005. The channel is currently screening the first series of the programme - its first new series since 1994. In addition, the BBC will screen English-language versions of both ...
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Mentorn wins£20m Fox order
Mentorn has secured a further $20m from US broadcaster Fox after getting the greenlight for a 25-hour first instalment of 'never-ending' reality show, Forever Eden.
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Maidstone puts£2m into studio
The maidstone Studios is to invest£2.3m in a brand new 12,000 sq ft studio. Chairman Rowland Kinch said Maidstone can afford the new studio partly because it secured a year's contract for SMTV's replacement, Ministry of Mayhem (MOM), produced by Fountain TV and airing from ...
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NewsSaga Glasgow appoints MD
Saga Radio has taken a step closer to launching its new station in Glasgow by appointing Norman Quirk managing director.
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Nighty Night (BBC3) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'The whole blacker-than-black affair was translated into something rather wonderful by the deadpan performance of w...
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Nighty Night (BBC3) - Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'If the quality radiating from the opening episode is consistent through the series we can hail a considerable new ...
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Donovan (ITV1) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Donovan was an unexceptional thriller that was transformed into a memorable event by the fact that it brought Tom ...
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Shattered (C4) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'It's like Big Brother without the interesting bits.'...
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NewsDilnott-Cooper quits ITV
Carlton's most senior content executive, Rupert Dilnott-Cooper, has confirmed that he is leaving ITV.
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NewsSchofield invests in Plymouth radio bid
This Morning host Phillip Schofield has made a 'substantial' investment in a local radio company which is attempting to launch a new commercial station in Plymouth.
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NewsITV Sales hire radio chief
ITV Sales, the merged Carlton and Granada ad sales shop, has announced the appointment of radio executive Justin Sampson as its new director of customer relationship management.
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NewsPublic scripts new Canterbury Tales
Stars of BBC1 series The Canterbury Tales are to read fresh interpretations of the classic stories for a new Radio 4 series written by the public.