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    Felt Music launches Soho facility

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The music composers that worked on the BBC's animated series Hamilton Mattress have opened a composition company in Soho called Felt Music.

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    Ames to frontline

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Gavin Ames has joined Frontline Television as a senior editor. He leaves London Post after three and a half years at the TV Set Group company. Ames has worked on promos for the BBC, Channel 4 - including new drama NY-LON - and the MTV ...

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    Cole joins Angelfish

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Angelfish, the broadcast promotions agency launched earlier this year, has appointed Matt Cole as creative director. Cole was most recently a freelance promotions director working with BBC, ITV, Sky and Nickelodeon. He was previously creative manager at Turner Classic Movies and a senior producer at Paramount Comedy and is a ...

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    CNBC Live In Europe

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Pan-European finance and business news channel CNBC is launching a live video streaming service to mobile handsets in 17 European countries. Subscribers will be able to view the channel continuously on mobiles throughout Europe. The service will be provided by Newmediacom, part of the Phones International Group. Users can register ...

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    Clear promotion

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Clear's Peter Bach has been promoted from executive producer, film to the head of the film department, replacing Steve Garrad who has moved to film specialist Double Negative. In addition senior producer Pierre Fletcher has joined Clear from Smoke & Mirrors. Before becoming a post producer Fletcher worked as an ...

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    Globecast goes HD

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Satellite service provider GlobeCast is planning to kit out all its satellite newsgathering trucks for high-definition broadcasting. GlobeCast has one of the largest fleets in Europe, with more than 40 newsgathering vehicles, and the largest fleet in France. GlobeCast is a subsidiary of France Telecom.

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    An Oasis for BBC1's Fat Nation

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    OASIS TELEVISION has finished post-production on trails for the BBC's Fat Nation - The Big Challenge. The series focuses on one street in Birmingham and the attempts by its many residents to turn their lifestyles around over eight weeks. The challenge is to reduce ...

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    Ready Steady Cook Jumps up

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    JUMP has designed and produced the opening titles for the latest series of the long-running cookery game show Ready Steady Cook. The titles pit a red pepper against a green tomato as they race against the clock around a kitchen. Senior designer Russell Hilliard ...

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    Ricky's Animal instinct at Suite

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    CHARLOTTE STREET editing house Suite has cut Animals , the Ricky Gervais-led stand-up tour. The feature-length show follows the Golden Globe-winner's preparations and frustrations in the lead-up to the sell-out West End run of Animals , as well as showing ...

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    Challenge bets on US co-pros

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    CHALLENGE, the Flextech entertainment channel, has signed a multimillion-pound co-production deal with new US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).

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    The Contender fails to floor rival Champ

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Mark Burnett, the British producer behind forthcoming NBC boxing show The Contender , has lost his first bid to block a rival show airing on Fox.

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    C4 set to co-pro new Aussie soap

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has teamed up with the maker of Australian soap Home and Away to co-produce a new teen soap.

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    Basil brush heading for the US

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Entertainment Rights is hunting for partners to bring children's character Basil Brush to US audiences. The company, which also owns the rights to Postman Pat, said the popular fox puppet would probably remain English with a supporting US cast. Entertainment Rights is meeting with studios and is unlikely to produce ...

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    Skinner's Shane taken by Paramount

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Paramount Comedy 2 has acquired Frank Skinner's ITV1 sitcom Shane and will screen the first series next year. The 7 x 30-minute comedy series, produced by Avalon Television, features Skinner as a wise-cracking minicab driver whose career and family life is slowly disintegrating. It will ...

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    BBC Gnome rights go to Southern Star

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Southern Star International has secured the international distribution rights to new BBC pre-school animated show Gordon the Garden Gnome. The 52 x 11-minute series, which follows the daily adventures of a garden gnome and his friends, is produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment and narrated ...

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    More planet rock for Biography channel

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The Biography Channel has picked up a further batch of Planet Rock profiles for a forthcoming music month. The deal, with Ireland-based indie Monster Distributes, will see profiles on musicians such as Moby, Air and Beyoncé air in October. The batch of 14 episodes marks ...

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    Target poaches Celador's Eastaff

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Celador International director of consumer products and marketing John Eastaff has been hired by distributor Target Entertainment. He will look to raise the profile of Target's portfolio, which includes Footballer's Wives and Bad Girls , as well as seeking opportunities ...

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    Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...

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    Format Focus: The Money Game

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The format

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    Thames signs up talent for ITV sitcom

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Thames TV has assembled an established team of comedy talent including the writer of Murder Most Horrid for a new ITV1 sitcom.