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UK Food orders 15 parter about puddings
UK Food editor Nick Thorogood has commissioned Illumina Digital to make Sweet - a 15 x 30-minute series based on chef James Martin's passion for desserts, which will air on UK Food in early May. Shot on location in Martin's kitchen at his home in ...
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Endemol to make Ground Force for BBC in US
BBC America has signed its first independent production venture after ordering an 8 x 60-minute US-based version of Endemol UK's garden makeover show Ground Force. Both the show's stars, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh, will appear in Ground Force America, ...
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Aldo Zilli hosts dinner dates for LWT
Celebrated restaurateur Aldo Zilli is to take over as the host of LWT's Dinner Dates. Zilli will front the 6 x 30-minute regional restaurant review show, which begins on 16 February at 17.45. The show is being created for the region by Granada production unit ...
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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry quits TV
Soho equipment reseller Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (RLYL) is pulling out of the broadcast industry and moving into corporate marketing, writes Will Strauss.
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Grass Valley adds to product range
Thomson Grass Valley has announced a raft of new products and improvements in existing lines ahead of April's NAB event in Las Vegas, writes Sam Espensen.
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Fire Mountain turns BBC's life of mammals into simulator ride
BBC Worldwide and AI/Camber has commissioned Fire Mountain Entertainment to produce a simulator-ride film for the wildlife series The Life of Mammals. Featuring Siberian tigers among other felines, Hunting with the Big Cats will open to visitors at the Glasgow Science Centre, the first stop ...
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Red Post MD Grinter leaves
Carl Grinter, producer, joint managing director and part owner of Red post-production, has quit the company after nine years.
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Lipsync adds Arri laser
Lipsync Post has installed a second Arri Laser film recorder as a result of increased film work. Head of post Kevin Phelan stated that not only will the recorder allow Lipsync to address the film market better, it will 'add value to the work passing through our graphics and sound ...
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Extra chance to be idol
The deadline for entries for Extreme Idol, the Broadcastand Extreme Music search for a production music star, has been extended to 14 March 2003. Designed to find the UK's best new composers, Extreme Idol is open to anyone with a passion for making TV music. ...
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844/x kit improved
US product manufacturer Media 100 has announced both HD and SD applications for its 844/X editing/compositing product, an expansion of its Genesis Engine media processor. HDX will be demonstrated at NAB in April (and the Production Show in May), and comprises new software and a high-density HDX PCI card that ...
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4MC becomes St Anne's
Post facility 4MC's creative services department - telecine, editing, sound editing and mixing - has been rebranded St Anne's Post as part of Ascent Media's (formerly Liberty Livewire)£5.5m investment in the company. Ascent has put£1.3m aside to build and improve the HD and SD telecine department, headed by colourist Vince ...
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NewsSky One's Marsh moves on
BSkyB has confirmed its deputy director of broadcasting Kate Marsh will be joining News Corporation's Italian pay-TV outfit Stream, to develop new channels, following the company's appointment of Sara Ramsden as controller of Sky One, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBBC's Stevenson quits
BBC joint director of factual and learning Michael Stevenson, the driving force behind the BBC's Digital Currriculum, has quit the corporation following allegations over improper dealings with a potential partner for the initiative, writes Luke Satchell
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Born loser
Marion and Geoff, a series of 10-minute TV monologues by a jilted minicab driver, made a surprise star of Rob Brydo...
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Suicide bid on CCTV may herald new privacy law
A man whose suicide attempt was captured by his local CCTV cameras and released to newspapers and TV companies won ...
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New TV boss
Jane Lighting, who runs the cable a satellite TV company Flextech, is to become chief executive of Channel Five. ...
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BBC slated for free school software
RM and 17 other educational software providers yesterday demanded clarification from the Government over its decisi...
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£7,000 award for man after suicide bid is show on TV
A man whose life was saved when he was filmed by a security camera as he tried to cut his wrists in a town centre w...
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Celebrity fights KO'd
The BBC has scrapped a series of celebrity bouts after the British Boxing Board of Control threatened to revoke the...