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Liddiment and Bazalgette honoured at RTS awards
Former ITV director of programmes David Liddiment and Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette were this week garlanded at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards, writes Luke Satchell.
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CBBC to look at reality of animals' lives
Real-life animal dramas in Northern Ireland will be put under the spotlight in a new CBBC show looking at the work of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The 13 x 15-minute Animal Arc, commissioned by former CBBC controller Nigel Pickard, ...
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Alias goes for Tyrell
SGI company Alias Wavefront has appointed Tyrell as UK reseller for its animation and modelling software Maya. Tyrell MD Simon Brett believed that Tyrell's business has become increasingly based on its ability to 'offer advice and assistance to clients to improve their workflow'.
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News agency readies for war
APTN (Associated Press Television News) has launched a multimillion dollar venture to help TV news companies cope with the demands of covering the upcoming war in Iraq, writes Sam Espensen.
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MPC adds two to TK
The Moving Picture Company has hired two colourists to work in its new digital film lab. Mark Gethin joins from Rushes, where he worked for nine years, and Giles Livesey comes from the company Digital Film Lab. MPC is also promoting two assistants - Dave Appleby and Kenny Gibb - ...
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C4 counts down our scariest moments
Channel 4 has ordered a 210-minute Halloween special called the 100 Greatest Scary Moments. The film, which will air this autumn, will count down the nation's best-loved chilling clips from movies and television shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chitty ...
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C4 drops Tony Marchant drama
Channel 4's chief executive, Mark Thompson, and director of television, Tim Gardam, have dealt Red Production company a blow by axing its planned Tony Marchant-scripted film about the NHS, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC3 invests again in Celeb money series
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy and current affairs editor Colin Savage has commissioned a further run of celebrity finance series Liquid Assets, which will look at the wealth of stars such as Robbie Williams, Prince and Oasis. The 6 x 60-part series, to be made by ...
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BBC1 strives to find innovation
The team behind the BBC's axed Tomorrow's Worldscience show is to launch a Great Britons-style search for a new working invention to be voted on by the public as part of BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey's£270m spring season, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsDigital homes exceed 40%
The Independent Television Commission's (ITC) Multichannel Quarterly Report today claims digital TV penetration in the UK has exceeded 40% for the first time, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsAllen moves to appease shareholders
Granada chief Charles Allen fought a rearguard action today in a bid to safeguard his position at the head of a future united ITV - telling his angry shareholders: 'We share your pain,' writes John Plunkett
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NewsBBC2 unveils spring/summer season
BBC2 aims to save one of 30 historic landmarks from across the UK in a new programme, Restoration, which will be the centrepiece of its spring and summer season, writes Sam Matthews
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War saves flop Academy
Struggling talent show Fame Academy has been saved by the Iraq crisis - because BBC chiefs have been so busy planni...
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Woss and Wicky team up
Comedy kings Ricky Gervais and Jonathan Ross are teaming up for a top secret tell show. ...
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Murdoch raises $1.3bn on BSkyB
Rupert Murdoch's news Corporatio could dilute its stake in BskyB as a means of raising cash to bid for Hughes Elect...
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Capital starts London fightback
Capital Radio has appointed a new head of music to lead a ratings fightback at its London station and FM network. ...
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Pat helps to post a surge at Entertainment Rights
The intellectual property group Entertainment Rights yesterday followed an upbeat set of results from its rival H...
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Awards for drama and jubilee coverage are crowning glory
The BBC dominated the Royal Television Society's programme awards last night with laurels for dramas such as Flesh ...