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    St Anne's posts romantic drama

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    St Anne's Post has post-produced the new Channel 4 drama NY-LON. The series follows a passionate love affair that spans 3,000 miles from London to New York. Senior online editor Simon Brook used Avid Nitris to create a split-screen environment in which events in separate ...

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    BBC Post bears Olympic torch

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast and BBC Post Production have produced the titles for the BBC's Olympic coverage. The sequence follows a torch bearer as he passes through Greece and is confronted by the natural elements rising up in the shape of athletes, which were created by using green-screen technology with Inferno, Shake ...

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    Oasis makes Sheila Quigley doc

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Oasis Television has finished The Making of Sheila Quigley for Shine Productions. Film-maker Chris Terrill spent a year following Sheila Quigley, a grandmother from County Durham, to see how her life changed after receiving a£300,000 advance for her first novel, ...

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    Russia takes C4 clean-up format

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Russian audiences will be offered a peek into the messy homes of their neighbours in a local adaptation of Channel 4's How Clean is Your House?.

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    Sci-Fi appoints UK acquisitions chief

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    The Sci-Fi Channel UK has created a new role to oversee programme acquisitions.

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    Fremantle takes on a wild world

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle International Distribution has signed up to distribute two shows from wildlife enthusiast Nigel Marven. The two 60-minute shows - Venom Hunter and Animal Crimebusters - have been made as a co-production between Five in the UK and WNET in New York. Venom Hunter looks at the two uses for ...

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    Granada sells dramas to Albania

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has made its first package sale into Albania with a deal that includes more than 100 titles. The package has been sold to Viziontrade for free terrestrial network distribution and comprises 300 hours of programming such as The Forsyte Saga, Island at War ...

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    BBC America takes fifth my family series

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    BBC America has picked up the fifth series of sitcom My Family from indie DLT Entertainment after buying the first four seasons earlier this year. The deal includes 13 episodes, a one-off flashback episode and a Christmas special. The show, which stars Robert Lindsay as ...

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    US shows draw in the desired demographic

    2008-04-09T15:34:21Z

    US acquisitions might not always bring in huge audiences, but they can bring in the type of viewers that broadcasters like.

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    Target represents new pre-school show

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment is to represent the new pre-school show from Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman. Target will look to sell the international TV rights of Fifi and the Flowertots in territories excluding the UK, US and Canada. Chapman ...

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    Paramount buys Flipside TV series

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Flipside TV , the multichannel show in which famous people are filmed channel hopping, has been bought by the Paramount Channel. The show, which airs on the Nation 217 channel, will be screened from the end of August for eight weeks. It has also ...

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    Belgian network buys more neighbours

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Australian drama Neighbours is to be screened on Belgian network VRT for a further two years following a deal brokered by Fremantle International Distribution. The sale includes 624 x 30-minute episodes of the long-running soap, which is made by Fremantle Media-owned Grundy Television and is ...

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    Format focus: the one that got away

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    A bachelor is holed up in a mansion for 10 days with seven ex-girlfriends. The 'winner' gets another shot at romance with the guy who dumped her, writes Michael Rosser

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    Orion trades its Treasures to ITV

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    ORION TV, the indie set up by former LNN Factuals head Bob Whittaker, has won two commissions - a rare order from Artsworld and a second series of a daytime show for ITV that originally aired on BBC1.

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    Tern covers weather for Discovery

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Discovery has commissioned its second series from Scottish independent producer Tern TV, with a show looking at extreme weather and its effects on war.

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    Sky One spins off Road Wars

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has commissioned a crime spin-off series of its successful police traffic footage show Road Wars.

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    CBBC orders dog adventure

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    The company behind cult children's drama Press Gang has been commissioned to make a kids comedy drama for the BBC.

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    Tiger Aspect makes CBBC animation

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Tiger Aspect is to produce a new 26-part animated series for the BBC. Charlie and Lola is based on Lauren Child's children's books of the same name. Aimed at four to six-year-olds, the series, which is voiced by children, focuses on the adventures of seven-year-old ...

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    Brian Waddell revs up top TV cars

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Brian Waddell Productions is making a two-hour special for Sky One exploring the best cars that have featured on TV shows over the past 40 years, such as Knight Rider's Kitt. TV's Greatest Cars will count down the top 40 ...

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    Five targets women with initial show

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Initial is to film a star-studded charity concert for Five as part of a night targeting the channel's female audience. The event, titled the Asda Tickled Pink Girls' Night In: Live , will be staged at the Albert Hall next month. Produced by Clear ...