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Hackenbacker takes on Morris
Hackenbacker Audio Post production has completed work on the Chris Morris production Nathan Barley. Certain sequences needed to appear as if the viewer was looking directly at the internet so an old analogue system was used to give a different, more metallic sound. The series was ...
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Jump make Ant and Dec leap
Jump has designed and produced the titles for the new series of ITV1's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The sequence shows Ant and Dec performing superhuman feats to reach the studio. They run down a street before leaping on to a skip that launches them ...
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Top Up TV wins 160,000 subs
Top Up TV, the 10-channel pay-TV service for Freeview viewers, has attracted around 160,000 customers since its launch last April.
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Newman hails new era of C4 primetime
Channel 4 head of entertainment Andrew Newman has unveiled a brace of new Friday night shows after spending the past year piloting ideas.
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ITV2 to look at ?out there' lifestyles
ITV2 is to launch its first documentary strand, Extraordinary Lives, which will focus on stories of people living unusual or edgy lifestyles.
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Buyback ok for ITV
ITV has been given the green light by shareholders to buy back shares from smaller US investors - a move that it hopes will save it millions of pounds. The£3.5m buyout will see ITV acquiring back the stakes of about 600 shareholders in the US, who each own fewer than ...
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Extasi restricted
The government is to restrict access to pornography channel Extasi TV, which broadcasts outside the UK but can be picked up in Britain via satellite, over concerns that the adult service was screening 'frequent episodes of sexual violence'. From the end of this month it will become illegal to supply ...
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Big Bro boosts ads
Channel 4's recent reality series Celebrity Big Brotherhas helped push television advertising revenues to a five-year high, according to a new report by media buying agency Starcom Group. The agency said that the show, which pulled in 4 million viewers, helped to boost the overall level ...
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Jetix streamlines
Kids broadcaster Jetix Europe has confirmed that it has no plans to replace senior vice-president of programming and acquisitions Benoit Runel, who left the company unexpectedly last week. Director of European acquisitions Henrietta Hurford Jones and creative and development director Michael Lekes will now split Runel's role between them and ...
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C4 cracks 4m with Da Vinci Code
Channel 4's marathon investigation into the claims made in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Codebrought the broadcaster an audience of over 4 million.
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Ofcom gets it mostly right
Ofcom's reports have made a valuable contribution to the debate about the future of PSB - and that includes the BBC.
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Sky signs performer for Jackson trial
Sky has signed up a professional Michael Jackson impersonator to play the troubled singer in its daily reconstructions of the pop star's trial. Actor Edward Moss has been performing as Michael Jackson since 1996. The Michael Jackson Trial, a co-production with E! Entertainment, will air as ...
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Jono moves into weekend slot at LBC
Jono Coleman, the breakfast DJ axed from Chrysalis-owned Heart 106.2 last week, is to host a new weekend show on its sister speech station, LBC 97.3. Coleman will host his last show at Heart on 24 March and will take up his 10am to 1pm slot at LBC on 9 ...
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UK leads international TV format sales
The UK has cemented its position as the world leader in TV formats, as new figures show British titles represent nearly half of all global format sales. Shows such as Pop Idoland Who Wants to be a Millionaire?helped British distributors claim a ...
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Elstein to be Digital Classics chairman
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has been named chairman of arts programming distributor Digital Classics. Digital Classics owns a library of concert footage by artists including Miles Davis, and is valued at£9m.
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NewsE4 gets new chief and£20m boost
Channel 4 is set to pump an extra£20m into its digital entertainment service E4 and has appointed Julian Bellamy to run it.
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NewsHeggessey: on way out?
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey looks likely to be the replacement for Peter Fincham at Talkback Thames, creating a vacancy for one of broadcasting's biggest jobs.
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NewsBBC sets up regional indie fund
The BBC is launching a£500,000 annual development fund to encourage indies to make programmes outside London.
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NewsFox in talks to buy indie Scream Films
Fox Television Studios is in talks to buy indie Scream Films, the producer of BBC3 spoof documentaries Dale's Weddingand Sex Lies and Michael Aspel.
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NewsMen and Motors lined up for ITV4
ITV is looking at launching lads channel Men and Motors on Freeview and eventually turning it into ITV4.