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    Platform Post grows

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Platform Post is expanding its facilities to occupy all four floors of its D'Arblay Street site. Around£400,000 has been invested in upgrading its three Avid Symphony suites, and installing a fourth, which will be fully integrated with a shared media storage system. The investment also covers a 5.1 audio suite ...

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    DGP invests in HD

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    DVD and post facility DGP has spent around£100,000 on a DS Nitris version 8. The system has a dual boot option for Symphony Nitris, dual-link RGB 444 and 5Tb of raid-protected storage. It will be used for managing all HD formats and to help clients work across platforms on both ...

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    FD leaves VTR

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    VTR's finance director, Peter Samengo-Turner, has left the company to work in the financial sector after 11 years at the company. He has been replaced by Prime Focus' vice-president, strategy and business development, Anshul Doshi, who joined VTR's board of directors last month.

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    Tapeless at Flextech

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Flextech has completed the switch of its linear channels to tapeless playout two weeks before the planned date of 18 July, with the move of Living TV to Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. FTN, Bravo, Challenge, Living TV2, Trouble and associated timeshift channels are now being played ...

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    Evolutions posts Sunday Service

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions is working on the online and audio post for Radar Productions' Christian O'Connell's Sunday Service, a new 10 x 60-minute entertainment programme. The show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, is similar to O'Connell's radio show, with one-off features, regular items and ...

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    Jump shows impact of sport

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Jump has created the titles and graphics for BBC's Sport Relief 2006. The graphics were inserted in real environments with contact information on billboards and roadwork signs lighting up to show how the surrounding environment affects the way people live. Commissioned by BBC executive producer ...

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    Edinburgh puts technology centre stage

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.

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    On the box: African escapades

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    The story of Mark Thatcher and the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea failed to sustain its pace while C4's Sugar Rush was rude and slick, says Cassian Hall

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    Redback to make Real Jackal doc for ABC

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Indie RedBack has signed a deal with the ABC Network to co-produce a two-hour documentary on one of the world's most famous identity thieves, to be presented by Martin Bashir.

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    Francis heads This Morning

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    ITV is planning to overhaul its flagship daytime brand This Morningwith a new journalistic edge and revamped on-air look, following the promotion of Anya Francis to the role of editor.

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    Talpa TV inks Dutch first-look deal with C4I

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    John de Mol's Netherlands-based broadcaster Talpa TV has signed a first-look deal with Channel 4 International.

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    Format Focus: Extra Extra

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    A European panel format is attracting interest following a US deal with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest

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    Leopard wins big down under with Living commissions

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    UK indie Leopard Films has made further inroads into the Australasian market, selling a raft of programming to the Living Channel in New Zealand and an original documentary to Australian public broadcaster ABC.

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    BT strikes film deal with Momentum

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    BT has secured a film deal with independent distributor Momentum Pictures for access to titles including Lost in Translation and O Brother Where Art Thou?

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    Lazarus takes on DVD sales

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    London-based business consultancy Lazarus Consulting has been appointed the UK agent for Edel Music, which releases DVDs across Europe.

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    Regan to Target entertainment post

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment has appointed former Living TV commissioning editor Steve Regan as its new head of entertainment and factual entertainment. He effectively replaces the former managing director, Ed Forsdick, who defected in March to run Ant and Dec-owned indie Gallowgate Productions. Reporting directly to Target chief executive Alison Rayson, Regan ...

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    Barrymore turned down quiz show

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Michael Barrymore's New Zealand-based agent said the star turned down the offer to present new Challenge TV quiz show Take It or Leave It, contrary to claims that he had not been hired over fears of negative publicity. Karen Kay said Barrymore rejected the offer ...

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    Sky launches its text to record service

    2006-07-06T11:38:00Z

    Sky has launched a service allowing customers to text their Sky+ boxes from anywhere in the world, instructing it to record programmes.

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    World Cup watch: 10.3m see France kick Portugal out of competition

    2006-07-06T12:15:00Z

    BBC1's coverage of the absorbing semi-final between France and Portugal scored a huge number of viewers; 10.3 million (44.9%) on average tuned in from the kick-off at 8.00pm for the match, which resulted in a 1-0 victory for France.

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    UK shows prominent on Emmy shortlist

    2006-07-06T15:45:00Z

    UK talent, formats and series feature heavily in the Primetime Emmy nominations, with The Office, Dancing with the Stars, Bleak House, Helen Mirren, Elizabeth I, ...