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C5 AGREES TO NEW RUN OF PICTUREHEAD LOTTERY DOC
Channel 5 has commissioned Picturehead Productions to make a follow-up to last year's 7 x 30-minute Everyone's A Winner documentary series (right) about National Lottery winners. Commissioned by C5 controller of
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S4C commissioning editor for children's programmes Meirion Davies has given Bumper Films and LA-based Mike Young Productions the green light for a second series of Star Hill Ponies, a stop-frame puppe
S4C commissioning editor for children's programmes Meirion Davies has given Bumper Films and LA-based Mike Young Productions the green light for a second series of Star Hill Ponies, a stop-frame puppet
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This view of Ali G with no clothes on begins the title sequence for his new series from TalkBack for Channel 4, Da Ali G Show, which begins a six-week run
This view of Ali G with no clothes on begins the title sequence for his new series from TalkBack for Channel 4, Da Ali G Show, which begins a six-week run
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Hart to be new chief engineer at Channel 4
Channel 4 has appointed a new chief engineer, Jim Hart, who for the past year has been Panasonic Broadcast Europe's (PBE) key executive in the UK.Current chief engineer Peter Marchant is
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SUMATRA 3D SOFTWARE RENAMED AS SOFTIMAGE XSI
Softimage has decided to change the name of its new generation of 3D animation software from Sumatra to Softimage XSI. The software is late coming to market, having first been mooted
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WESTWOOD TO TALK HIP HOP AT MUSIC RADIO 2000
BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been lined up as a speaker for music radio conference Music Radio 2000. Westwood has been asked to speak about the importance of hip
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BBC2 drama to tap into dotcom fever
Award-winning This Life and The Cops producer World Productions has started work on a major 20-part drama series for BBC 2 about an internet start-up, writes Tim Dams.
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ITV2 acquires new series of HTV's Nuts and Bolts
ITV2 director of programmes Brian Barwick is in the final stages of acquiring a second series of Welsh teen soap Nuts and Bolts (right) from HTV Wales, three weeks into the
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Discovery hands M2 promo contract
M2 Television has won a deal for promo post-production from Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) that could net the company£1 million over the next year.DNE's promotion and presentation department has used
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WRIGHT STEPS UP TO BECOME LBC 1152 AM MORNING ED
Daniel Wright has been named morning editor of LBC 1152am. Currently editor of the Bates & Warr Breakfast Show, The Steve Allen Programme and London Focus for LBC, Wright, 28, replaces
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BBC to invest£1m in newsgathering
BBC News head of newsgathering Adrian Van Klaveren is to hire 16 new editorial staff after securing£1 million to bankroll his plans to bolster news gathering's 24-hour operations.Van Klaveren revealed
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BBC Resources Birmingham has produced the titles for the new BBC 1 daytime drama Doctors. The sequence features the nine main characters in shots split into nine different sections, set against
BBC Resources Birmingham has produced the titles for the new BBC 1 daytime drama Doctors. The sequence features the nine main characters in shots split into nine different sections, set against
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Avanti to make rock show for BBC 1 Wales
Avanti Television has secured two new commissions, including a new 12 x 30-minute weekly pop and rock series for BBC 1 in Wales, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Carlton International has pre-sold its forthcoming Simon Nye-scripted 1 x 120-minute adaptation of kids classic The Railway Children and two John Thaw dramas to US PBS station WGBH Boston, writes Coli
Carlton International has pre-sold its forthcoming Simon Nye-scripted 1 x 120-minute adaptation of kids classic The Railway Children and two John Thaw dramas to US PBS station WGBH Boston, writes Colin
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Telewest launches blueyonder as losses widen
High-speed 512Kb internet service aims to have 200,000 subscribers by end of 2001 says Illsley
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Channel 5 agrees to new run of Picturehead lottery doc
Channel 5 has commissioned Picturehead Productions to make a follow-up to last year's 7 x 30-minute Everyone's A Winner documentary series about National Lottery winners, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Commissioned by C5
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Katrina waves goodbye as Long joins Nightime
Janice Long is joining the Nightime team on BBC Radio 2 as the new presenter of the Monday-Friday show, writes Georgina Lipscomb.From 3 April, she replaces Katrina Leskanich from pop