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PSYCHO GAMESHOWS - Games without frontiers
Will the no-holds-barred brand of voyeurism and public humiliation that has made Channel 4's Big Brother such a success provide the template for a new era of copycat shows or will it turn out to be a mere flash in the pan? James Curtis reports.
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TELEWEST SHARE PRICE FALL RAISES TAKE-OVER FEARS
Telewest has become the centre of takeover speculation following a plunge in its share price to the current level of 170p as Broadcast went to press. Last week the cable operator
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Factual orders roll in for Granada Television
Granada Television has scored a number of new factual commissions for broadcasters in the UK and abroad, including a new series of Savage Planet, writes Colin Robertson.
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Soho Images md leaves for new facility
Soho Images managing director Gary Napier is leaving the company to head the launch of a new£3.5m digital film facility, Digital Film Lab, writes Dominic Timms.
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Pile replaces Shields at Eva Entertainment
Eva Entertainment chief executive Mikael Shields is leaving to join Atom Films and is to be replaced by Pearson TV head of special projects Hugh Pile, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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QUANTEL ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDE HENRY INFINITY
Quantel has announced a raft of enhancements and a new line-up for its editing family, including the infinite superlayer Henry Infinity. That now comes with Maya on Quantel and 24fps universal
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GMG SELLS ENDEMOL STAKE
The Guardian Media Group has sold its 50 per cent stake in UK indie GMG Endemol Entertainment to its Dutch joint-venture partner Endemol Entertainment. The deal means that new Endemol Entertainment
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WOOLLEY PROMOTED IN TELL TALE EXPANSION DRIVE
Tweenies (left) producer Tell Tale Productions has promoted director Karl Woolley to the newly created role of managing director. The appointment is part of the indie's expansion plans. The producer now
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Salmon serves up drama-heavy slate
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon unveiled his most expensive drama line-up ever, as he launched the channel's£189m autumn schedule on Tuesday (8 August).Salmon said the BBC was setting 'great store'
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Redhead to Hat Trick as drama head
Independent Hat Trick Productions has appointed Bafta-winning producer Mark Redhead as its new head of drama, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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EPN takes on new director
Emap Performance Network (EPN) has named Piccadilly Radio managing director Phil Roberts as its new group programme director, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Pinewood to invest in digi studio
Pinewood Studios has announced a seven-figure investment in television facilities while construction and remodelling begins on a 9,000 square foot digital television studio due to open this autumn, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Omnibus devises fingerprinting tool
Omnibus Systems has invented a new technique for recognising video that could solve many of the problems facing broadcasters wanting to track use of their programme material in the digital multi-channel
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OFF THE RECORD - It takes deadication
Tofu-eating Big Brother loser Sada could learn a thing or thing or two from one of the game birds taking part in BBC 1 doc Surviving the Iron Age which has
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U>DIRECT PICKS UP UK RIGHTS TO WORLD CUP QUALIFIER
Pay-TV company U>direct has bought exclusive UK TV rights to the World Cup qualifier game between England and Finland from the Finnish FA. The move has come under fire from the
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OFF THE RECORD - What a load of crop
As if those crazy cats at the GWR radio empire haven't got enough to do. Not content, it seems, with integrating the radio assets of the Daily Mail and General Trust,
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Cost of entry dropping for tx
The falling cost of broadcast technology will allow many more entrants to become broadcasters, according to John Pittas, vice-president of broadcast products at Seachange International, writes Nick Radlo.
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COOGAN OUTFIT PILOTS WALKING WITH DIANA DORS
Comedy indie Baby Cow Productions, co-founded by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, has co-produced a comedy sketch show pilot, Walking With Diana Dors, for BBC 1. Made with Avalon Television, the
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UBC MEDIA TO PROVIDE CONTENT FOR GWR INTERNET PORTAL
UBC Media Group has signed a deal to provide entertainment and music content including text, audio and video for an internet portal set up by GWR's new media arm, ecast ventures.
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Granada unites compliance
Granada Media is bolting together the separate legal and compliance arms at its four franchises into single entities and is bringing in Granada managing editor for factual programmes Ian McBride to