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English + Pockett has created the latest channel identites for The Travel Channel. Designed and directed by Patricia Choy and produced by Helen Booth, they take an abstracted view of natural
English + Pockett has created the latest channel identites for The Travel Channel. Designed and directed by Patricia Choy and produced by Helen Booth, they take an abstracted view of natural
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Diverse Design has designed the titles for new C4 documentary series White Tribe
Diverse Design has designed the titles for new Channel 4 documentary series White Tribe.
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Films of Record to tackle crime
Roger Graef's independent, Films of Record, is working on a new 4 x 60-minute series for BBC 2 about global crime, writes Tim Dams.
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Ackerman signs for Somethin' Else
Radio indie Somethin' Else has poached USP Radio Projects director of programmes and production Steve Ackerman to spearhead its drive into commercial radio.Ackerman, 30, is expected to join the indie later
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C4 kicks off football documentaries
Channel 4 has commissioned the first of four hour-long documentaries about football, scheduled for broadcast around the Euro 2000 championships in June, writes Ashley Davies.
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BRETT SIGNS FOR METRO TRYELL AS JOINT MD
Avid Technology's UK reseller manager, Simon Brett, is quitting to join reseller Metro Tyrell as joint managing director. Brett, who takes up his position this week, will work alongside fellow joint
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MEDIA 100 TAKES CONTROL OF WIRED INC
Media 100 is to acquire US MPEG streaming media company Wired Inc for an undisclosed sum. Media 100 chief executive John Molinari said it would help 'break down the barriers of
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HARDWIDGE QUITS MPC TO JOIN PIXAR
The Moving Picture Company's (MPC) creative head of computer animation, Nigel Hardwidge, is leaving the company to join Californian effects house Pixar Animation Studios. Hardwidge, who has been in his role
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JACK MORTON BUYS OUT CREATION COMMUNICATIONS
Corporate production company Creation Communications has been acquired by US communications outfit The Jack Morton Company, a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group. While financial terms were not disclosed, Creation has a
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SPIELBERG AND HANKS TO RETURN TO HATFIELD
Director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks are to return to Hatfield Aerodrome - where they shot part of Saving Private Ryan - to film Band of Brothers, a $100 million
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PANASONIC AND POST GROUP SEAL LONG-TERM DEAL
Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems has signed a long-term deal with Hollywood-based Post Group to develop new digital post-production processes for TV and film. Panasonic will also use Post Group as
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Jobs to go as Mill and Magic merge
Mill Film has merged with sister company Magic Camera in a move that is expected to result in Soho's biggest wave of redundancies since the collapse of facility Wiseman four years
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Clear has completed the latest promo for The Super Furry Animals, Do or Die. Taking around 200 hours of Flame and Inferno time, the promo gives the band members cartoon bodies
Clear has completed the latest promo for The Super Furry Animals, Do or Die. Taking around 200 hours of Flame and Inferno time, the promo gives the band members cartoon bodies
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Todd-AO restructures its UK businesses
Todd-AO Corporation has reorganised the management structure of its UK businesses, Todd-AO UK and Telecine.Todd-AO managing director Graham Hall becomes UK managing director while former Tele-Cine general manger Jeff Emerson becomes
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Carlton sells off SSL for£43.5m
Carlton Communications has sold its audio manufacturer, Solid State Logic (SSL), to its management team backed by venture capital company 3i.The deal, predicted in Broadcast last November (12.11.99), values the 30-year-old
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GMG SUBSIDIARIES GRAB MISS WORLD
GMG Endemol Entertainment subsidiaries Initial and Gem have signed separate deals to produce and distribute the Miss World competition in 2000. The two companies have produced and distributed Miss World for
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ITEL SELLS RAFT OF PROGRAMMING TO FRANCE'S AB SAT
UK distributor Itel has sold French channel AB Sat a package of 150 hours of documentary and wildlife programming from Survival, Partridge Films, the BBC 2 Timewatch strand, Wall to Wall
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WORLD SERVICE AND BRITISH COUNCIL TARGET EDUCATION
The BBC World Service and the British Council have signed a collaborative agreement designed to 'maximise the impact of Britain's educational work overseas', according to the BBC. The two bodies will
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CARLTON HIVES OFF THUNDERBIRDS GAME RIGHTS TO SCI
Carlton International has licensed worldwide computer and video game rights for Thunderbirds to SCI Entertainment. SCI is planning to develop games both for next-generation consoles systems such as Play Station 2
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DIGITAL SATELLITE REVENUES PASS $10 BILLION
Global digital satellite TV (DST) operators took more than $10 billion (£6.2 billion) in revenue in 1999, according to Baskerville Communications' report, Global Digital and Satellite TV - Second Edition. The