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    BBC 2 beats sister channel with Food Junkies

    2002-04-11T14:41:00Z

    First part of study on the nation's eating habits sees off BBC 1's wildlife documentary Serpent but night belongs to Manchester United and ITV 1

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    PROMAX & BDA Europe 2002 Award Winners

    2002-04-11T11:49:00Z

    Promotion Categories:Best Television Image CampaignGold: The Lines You Wish You Said?,Turner Classic Movies, UKSilver: Do Not Campaign,MTV South, ItalyBest Television Image PromoGold: Network

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    Omneon's new server

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions.The

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    Star Wars colour first

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system.Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite

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    Sony chief says it's digital's year

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Sony president and chief operating officer Kunitake Ando has hailed 2002 as 'the year for digital', writes Barbara MarshallSpeaking at NAB in Las Vegas, Ando singled out the growth of digital

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    Boujou launches

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production.Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking

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    Avid opens up its kit

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to

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    Panasonic ties up with Apple

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Panasonic this week unveiled details of 25 new products as well as announcing it is collaborating with Apple on two technologies for the professional video industry, writes Barbara Marshall from NAB in Las Vegas

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    Discreet adds asset server to FX family

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary

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    BBC and Channel 4 win raft of gongs at Promax

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has scooped several gold and silver awards in the promo categories at the Promax and BDA Europe awards, writes Will StraussThe company picked up best on-air programme campaign for

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    Kasenna scoops $20m

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (£14.4m) in its latest round of funding.Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to

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    Teen spirited

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Channel 4 controller of acquisitions June Dromgoole has bought a 22 x 30-minute teen comedy series from the creators of Frasier for C4 and E4, writes Penny HughesDubbed 'Ally McBeal meets

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    Songs of Praise plans NHS tribute

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff.The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will

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    September to look at seamy side of Vegas

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    The Travel Channel in the US has commissioned September Films to produce a 6 x 60-minute series on the seamy side of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Confidential.Jointly funded by The

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    The Man From U.N.C.L.E. goes to Granada

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has bought 60 x 30-minute episodes of secret agent series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. from Warner Bros International Television. The series, which features Robert Vaughn and David

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    Burton is 'new Morse'

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a new three-part crime series starring Amanda Burton that is tipped to become 'the new Inspector Morse', writes Leigh HolmwoodThe 3 x 120-minute

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    Brian Waddell makes travel reality show

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Brian Waddell Productions has been commissioned to produce a new 'travel reality series' for National Geographic Channels International commissioning editor Bryan Smith.The 13 x 30-minute series, Chasing Time in..., sees

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    Root backs second series of Manchild

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a second, longer series of 40-something comedy drama Manchild.The 8 x 30-minute series, to be produced in-house by Peter Thornton and executive produced

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    Channel 5 orders costume drama to raise profile

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Channel 5 is attempting to distance itself further from its former downmarket image, unveiling its first high-end period drama, writes Georgina LipscombThe 60-minute costume drama Inquisition is understood to be the

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    Splinter produces C4/QTV rock show

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Splinter Films has been commissioned by Emap Performance managing director of rock Dave Henderson to produce a 4 x 15-minute series for QTV.New To Q will feature various Q magazine