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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - SOUTH PACIFIC BOLSTERS DRAMA AND FILM TEAM
South Pacific Pictures, the New Zealand-based producer one-third-owned by UK outfit Chrysalis Visual Entertainment, has made four appointments in a move to step up its TV drama and feature film activities.
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OFF THE RECORD - Blast from the past
Who is this fresh-faced young thing (below) posing for an ad which Off The Record unearthed for September Films' British Sex on Sky One? Why, it's none other than gorgeous Kelly
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BECTU HAILS SUCCESS
A two-hour strike by union members at Granada Television went ahead last Friday and was described as 'pretty successful' by a Bectu spokesman.Members are now working to a strict 12-hour day
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VANESSA MADE SHORTER FOLLOWING BBC REVIEW
The Vanessa Show is to be shortened from 70 to 45 minutes from Monday (8 March), in a move designed to strengthen the programme editorially following revelations about the use of
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BBC GETS THE KNOWLEDGE
The BBC will launch its new learning channel - BBC Knowledge - on 1 June, making it available free-to-air on all digital transmission platforms for six hours a day. Offerings include
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BBC READIES LAUNCH OF EASTENDERS' PROMO DRIVE
The BBC is launching a promotional drive to promote long-running BBC 1 soap EastEnders. Between six and eight films, each up to 50 seconds long, will run between March and June
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - TORRANCE EXITS BBC FOR DRAMA ROLE AT GRANADA MEDIA
Granada Media International (GMI), the distribution arm of Granada Media, has poached Caroline Torrance from the BBC to manage the company's drama portfolio. Torrance, who will join Granada on 8 April,
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Sky News' in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for the launch of Sky News at Ten. Designed by the creative team headed by Matthew Baxter, the titles feature a
Sky News' in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for the launch of Sky News at Ten. Designed by the creative team headed by Matthew Baxter, the titles feature a
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Feelgood to film Choice doc on BBC Badger set
BBC Choice has commissioned its first indie-produced documentary - about the making of a BBC 1 drama, writes Nicola Methven.
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HTV AWARDED FILM GRANT
HTV Wales has secured a£20,000 grant from ITV for the planned International Film School, Wales. The award, from an ITV central fund, is to finance the state-of-the-art digital editing equipment
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Mirror ready to offload TV assets
Mirror Group is set to tell shareholders that it is prepared to sell off its TV assets including cable channel Live TV and its stake in Scottish Media Group (SMG), according
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Tiger Aspect takes new Crucial role
Leading comedy performer Lenny Henry is moving his indie, Crucial Films, under the umbrella of Tiger Aspect Productions, writes Jason Deans.
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FIRST ART TO LAUNCH IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINE AT NAB
First Art, the visual effects R&D company headed up by Rushes' technical director, Paul Grace, is launching a new image processing engine at NAB.Originally codenamed Toast (Broadcast, 27.11.98), the real-time effects
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Is TV sex a big turn-off?
Sex on TV attracts virulent press condemnation but few complaints from viewers, and, perhaps most surprising of all, small audiences. Tim Dams asks if sex has lost its pulling power.
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RA cleared of Newsnight allegations
The Radio Authority (RA) is demanding a broadcast correction from the BBC after it was cleared of allegations of impropriety by an independent inquiry, writes John Plunkett.
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ALIAS UNVEILS LONDON DEMO AND TRAINING FACILITY
Alias Wavefront is to open a new London demonstration and training facility.Due to launch next Friday (12 March), the facility will be based in Wardour Street. Alias Wavefront UK managing director
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - BBC Prime goes on air beyond Europe
BBC Worldwide pay-TV entertainment channel BBC Prime is to expand beyond Europe for the first time, with a digital satellite TV (DST) distribution deal covering sub-Saharan Africa.BBC Prime launched across the
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INTERVIEW - Testing times ahead
Jane Root sees BBC 2 as a 'laboratory' for British TV. But three months into her job as controller of BBC 2, the controversy over the axing of One Man and his Dog shows she has her work cut out refocusing the channel
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FENTON QUITS BKSTS AFTER FOUR-AND-A-HALF YEARS
The Moving Image Society's (BKSTS) executive director, Anne Fenton, has announced she is leaving the organisation to set up a new film and television arm for recruitment consultancy Searchlight. Fenton, who
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Hit output headed by African special
Hit Wildlife managing director Carl Hall has revealed a slate of new output headed by a multi-million pound series on the natural history of Africa made by one of Germany's top wildlife cameramen, Rolf Lammers, writes David Wood.