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Paramount ties up three comedy acquisitions
The Paramount Comedy Channel has announced three acquisitions, including a deal with Avalon Television for Harry Hill and The Frank Skinner Show, writes Tabitha Cole.Paramount director of programming Sally Habbershaw has
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LAMBERT LEAVES AVID SIX MONTHS AFTER RESTRUCTURE
Avid Technology UK country manager, Peter Lambert, has resigned unexpectedly, less than six months after the company underwent a major restructure.Lambert, who joined Avid's UK office as its fourth employee in
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GNU'S NEW PROJECT COMPLETED FOR OUR TOWN STORY
Gnu has just completed designing and animating the opening titles for new Sky Digital series McDonalds - Our Town Story. The series of programmes from Brewers Productions gives students from towns
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COLLIS TAKES SONY DIRECTOR OF BROADCAST BUSINESS JOB
Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe has promoted Ian Collis to director of broadcast business, responsible for Sony's Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Collis has worked at Sony for 18 years
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BBC RESOURCES TO TAKE ON RUSHES FOR BAND OF BROTHERS
BBC Resources has won the rushes work for new HBO 11-hour mini-series Band of Brothers, a story based on Stephen Ambrose's non-fiction best seller about a Second World War army unit.
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STANDARDISED SCRAMBLING SYSTEM TESTED BY EBU
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said this week that is has successfully tested a simple standardised scrambling system, suitable for digital satellite news gathering, that can work with all makes of
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Chyron in $20m placement
Chyron Corporation has secured $20 million (£12.6 million) funding in a private placement that it intends to spend on developing a range of products to meet the advancing convergence of traditional
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Apple/Pinnacle to launch CineWave
Apple and Pinnacle Systems have revealed the joint development of a product that they believe will send shockwaves throughout the industry.On the first day of the NAB broadcast technology exhibition in
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Panavision offers Sony cam
Sony announced at NAB this week that Panavision, the leading supplier of film cameras to the Hollywood motion picture industry, is to begin offering film and TV producers Sony's 24P high-definition
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Panasonic boosts HD
Panasonic is seeking to boost the take-up of its high-definition TV formats with other manufacturers by introducing easily integrated mini board codec modules and standalone codec packages for its D5-HD and
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CARLTON INTERNATIONAL SIGNS BIG JAPAN DEAL AT MIP-TV
Carlton International Media signed a number of programme deals at Mip-TV this week, including its biggest Japanese deal to date, a $3 million (£1.9 million) broadcast, video and merchandising rights package
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NewsHarries cites Queen in plea for film cash
Andy Harries has called on ITV executives to invest more money in film.
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MAN EATERS SOLD BY ITEL TO AUSTRALIA'S CHANNEL 9
Itel has sold a 6 x 30-minute run of wildlife documentary Man Eaters to Australia's Channel 9. The Tigress-produced series, which features footage of real animal attacks on humans, is expected
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AARDMAN'S ANGRY KID KICKS OFF ON NET ON 7 MAY
The first episodes of Aardman Animation's latest series, Angry Kid (left), will only be available to audiences on the internet following a deal with online broadcaster AtomFilms. The 25 x 1-minute
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COOPER JOINS BBC WORLDWIDE'S BUSINESS AFFAIRS BOARD
BBC Worldwide director of business affairs Sarah Cooper has joined the board of the directorate to head a new business and legal affairs division, while adding responsibility for fair trading to
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CARLTON AMERICA IN LANDMARK DEAL FOR FAMILY SHOWS
Carlton America has teamed up with Landmark Entertainment Group to jointly produce a host of family and children's programmes. Carlton International will act as worldwide distributor for the programmes, with Landmark
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ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS BECOMES BTDA'S 23RD SIGNING
Entertainment Rights, formerly SKD Media, has become the 23rd company to join the British Television Distributors Association (BTDA), currently chaired by Andrew Macbean. Entertainment Rights distribution managing director Jane Smith said:
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PAYNE TAKES SOUTHERN STAR SALES CHIEF EXEC ROLE
Cathy Payne has been promoted to chief executive Southern Star Sales after the departure of Robyn Watts, who left the company last week. Watts has not announced further details of her
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PEPPERMINT TASTES WORLD CUP MASCOT ANIMATION
New German distributor Peppermint, which launched at Mip-TV this week, is to handle sales of a 26 x 30-minute animated series based on the 2002 FIFA World Cup mascots. The series
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Merged giant may float by end of year
The newly merged Pearson TV/CLT-Ufa broadcast-production company could be floated on the London stock exchange with a new name by the end of the year.Speaking at Mip-TV in Cannes this week,