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    Sanctuary mixer

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Audio facility Sanctuary Post has signed up dubbing mixer Mark Restuccia to run the company's second dubbing suite at its Frith Street site. Restuccia joins from Silverglade and will work on a number of projects at Sanctuary, including work for Tiger Aspect and the BBC. Previous credits include ...

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    Pheonix7 selected

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Software provider Phoenix7 has been selected by Education Digital, managers of Teachers' TV, to supply its channel management software. Education Digital - comprising Brook Lapping, ITV plc and the Institute of Education - was chosen by the government last year to manage the channel. Zeus, provided by Phoenix7, provides channel ...

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    OB truck on order

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    dB Broadcast has won an order from BBC Resources, Radio & Music to fit-out a radio OB vehicle, Sound Four. The new sound OB truck will cover sports meetings, concerts and large public events. It will be completed early next year.

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    Boxers train to win in Five series

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Component Graphics has completed design and graphics for Boxing Academy. Talkback Thames produced the 5 x 60 minute series, which puts amateur boxers through intensive training before pitting the champions against each other at a Bethnal Green gym. Designers Steve Wilkes and Simon Pyke ...

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    BBC Broadcast creates drama

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has created the television trail for new drama, Conviction , one of three upcoming dramas commissioned for BBC3. The trail tracks one of the characters back from killer to drug dealer to reveal he started out as a police officer. Johnny Bongo editor ...

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    History series kicks off on Four

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Burrell Durrant Hifle (BDH) has designed titles and graphics for Granada Television series Monarchy. The series examines the relationship between the monarchy, its people and the forging of the British nation. The David Starkey-fronted programme kicks off with a sequence using bold colour and ...

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    Do we need BBC3 and 4?

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    If BBC3 and BBC4 are not working then the solution might not be to change their remit but to close them.

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    BBC Birmingham wins at RTS Midlands

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    BBC Birmingham swept the board at the Royal Television Society Midlands awards on Saturday (9 October), picking up eight awards from the 11 major categories it was nominated in. Among the winners were BBC1's One Life: Size Doesn't Matter for best factual programme and BBC2's ...

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    GMTV to ditch Disney's Diggin' it

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    GMTV is to dump Disney's weekend kids block, Diggin' it , because it wants to take the production in-house to save money. The slot, which provides wrap-around links to programming, will be renamed. Disney will still provide animated content for the strand after signing a ...

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    Piers Morgan to present This Morning

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Ex- Mirror editor Piers Morgan is to guest present ITV1's This Morning later this month. Morgan, who left the Mirror earlier this year over the paper's publication of faked pictures purporting to be of Iraqi ...

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    S4C's Jones to quit after decade in post

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    S4C chief executive Huw Jones has announced he will step down at the end of next year. Jones, who has been at the helm of the Welsh channel since 1994, said he will remain until December next year when a series of public service broadcasting reviews will have been concluded. ...

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    BBC3 attacked for being ?poor value'

    2004-10-14T07:50:32Z

    BBC3 could be radically redefined away from its 25 to 34-year-old target audience after a major government-backed review claimed it was not value for money.

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    Spot the difference

    2004-10-14T07:50:30Z

    They may have better teeth, but the line-up for the US version of hit BBC sitcom The Office is unmistakeable.

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    C4 backs Dispatches with permanent slot

    2004-10-14T07:50:14Z

    Channel 4 is to more than double the editions of its flagship current affairs strand Dispatches and finally give the show a regular peaktime berth.

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    Hat Trick to open office in Manchester

    2004-10-14T07:50:12Z

    Hat Trick, the indie behind Have I Got News For You , is to launch an office in Manchester to tap into the city's pool of talent and profit from regional commissions.

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    All3Media buys Company Pictures

    2004-10-14T07:50:10Z

    All3Media has concluded its long-awaited deal to buy Company Pictures, the producer of Channel 4's Shameless.

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    Bullen wins Jordan order for new indie

    2004-10-14T07:50:08Z

    Former Carlton executive Nick Bullen has launched an indie, having sealed an ITV commission to make a long-running series about glamour model Jordan and her pop star partner Peter Andre.

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    Sky rejects BBC offer of Freesat name

    2004-10-14T07:50:06Z

    BSkyB has rejected the BBC's offer to allow it to use the Freesat name for its planned free satellite service in a move that could disrupt the corporation's own plan to promote a similar offering.

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    Granada to remake Soldier Soldier for US

    2004-10-14T07:50:04Z

    Soldier Soldier , the long-running ITV military drama that turned Robson Green and Jerome Flynn into household names, is being remade for the US.

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    Springer gets Capital gig

    2004-10-14T07:50:02Z

    American talkshow host Jerry Springer has been hired by Capital Radio to help cover the US elections in November.