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ITV AND ITV2 TO AIR AUSTRALIAN POPSTARS.
ITV2 is set to screen the original Australian version of Popstars after agreeing a deal with rights holder ITV, which will itself screen the show later in the year. The Australian
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ITV DISTRIBUTORS AFTER TEMPTATION ISLAND.
Carlton International and Granada International are among a number of distributors seeking to secure the rights to controversial reality format Temptation Island. The two ITV companies are both said to be
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RTE'S GLENROE TO END IN MAY AFTER 18 YEARS.
Irish broadcaster RTE has announced plans to scrap drama series Glenroe from this May. The show, which launched in 1983, is one of RTE's longest running dramas. RTE director of television
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C4 unveils major history commissions for peaktime.
Channel 4 is to air a four-part season of primetime history programmes about the 17th century later this year.Head of history, arts and religion Janice Hadlow described the commissions as an
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Alibi in post for Safe House drama.
Alibi Productions has gone into post-production on a 2 x 75-minute thriller for ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott, writes Ashley Davies.
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Mentorn to mark Jubilee with special.
Mentorn Barraclough Carey has nailed a number of new commissions, including a 4 x 60-minute special for BBC 1 to coincide with the Queen's Golden Jubilee, writes Ashley Davies.
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US sticks with its own digital TV system.
The US has again turned its back on the European-designed digital TV system that is being adopted worldwide, in favour of its own system that is widely believed to be inferior, writes Nick Radlo.
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Interactive firms take new approach.
Interactive television with the emphasis on television is the message Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBs) and Entranet are pushing as they separately unveiled interactive television programming ideas, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Bristol facility is reborn as Bart 211.
A new company has been set up by the directors of Broadcast Film & Video (BFV) which went into liquidation last week.BFV chairman Roger Heise will chair Bart 211, which incorporates
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Televirtual makes animation breakthrough.
Televirtual, the creator of Channel 4's Karaoke Fishtank virtual presenter, has developed a system that enables multiple animated characters to interact in real time.The PC-based system, which Televirtual founder Tim Child
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TAYLOR QUITS ITN.
ITN director of technology Ted Taylor is to become managing director of Panasonic Broadcast Europe in March. Taylor, who joined ITN in 1971, was responsible for the planning and installation of
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NEW ROLE AT KINGSTON.
Kingston MediaStream has appointed BBC Resources studio resources manager Steve Lowry to the new role of operations manager, TV facilities. Lowry takes responsibility for all technical and operational matters across the
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CHEAPER DIGIBETA.
Digital Video Systems (DVS) has developed a high-end computer that emulates a DigiBeta recorder at a third of the price. Offering up to 1.5 hours uncompressed storage, the DigiEmulator is compatible
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AVID UPS NEWS STAKE.
Avid Technology has bought the outstanding 50 per cent of joint-venture news automation company iNews from partner Grass Valley Group. Although neither partner was prepared to comment on the value of
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SD POST AND NMI MERGE.
Camden-based SD Post has merged with New Media Industries (NMI) to exploit opportunities in new media. Ofex-listed NMI, whose clients include Braingames.net, London Fashion Week and Procter & Gamble, sees the
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BBC digital plans yet to mature.
Greg Dyke officially took over as director general of the BBC a full year ago. In the time since his predecessor, John Birt, finally left the building, Dyke has made the
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FREE TO AIR - Here comes Suburban TV.
The scheduling of the main evening news bulletins on ITV and BBC 1 has become, for most people, almost as boring as having to watch them.To hear the respective sides smarming
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MULTICHANNEL FILMS - Drowning by numbers.
New film channels on non-terrestrial television are launching all the time, yet even established players such as Sky Premier and Moviemax are reaching less than half a per cent of viewers in multichannel homes and Channel 4 's FilmFour, with a large marke
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - What's on the breakfast menu?
The BBC reformatted Breakfast News and GMTV changed its sofa, yet early morning TV for the two main channels has again reached an impasse, with C4's The Big Breakfast still mopping up youth viewers. Adrian Edwards reports.
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TX - Nero's alchemists.
Seventh Art Productions sets out to dispel the myth that Nero fiddled while Rome burned in this Timewatch documentary by ambitiously reconstructing the extravagant Domus Aurea, the Golden House that the