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    Thomson moves

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Thomson Technicolor Creative Services has made three new appointments. Polly Magner joins from Ascent as director of client services at Technicolor's Perivale HQ. Sean McGrillen and Richard McCarthy join as scan and film record operator and engineer respectively. Both join from One Post.

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    Blue Room talks

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Third Eye and Orion TV are in confidential talks with a number of companies, including a major US media outfit, over their immersive reality television studio set, Blue Room. Blue Room gives participants a 360-degree experience without the need for additional aids, such as headsets or goggles, and aims to ...

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    Hive idents for BBC News 24

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The Hive has created graphics for BBC News 24's new Top of the Hour idents.

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    Pepper seasons ITV1 drama

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Covent Garden facility house Pepper has completed the grade and online edit of Malice Aforethought.

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    Evolutions brands Motors TV

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions has produced the new idents for inter-national satellite TV channel Motors TV. The sports channel wanted to build on a freshly created brand identity and logo reflecting the dynamic aspects of motorsport. The Evolutions design team, led by senior graphic designer Mark McKenna, used Discreet Flame and Smoke to ...

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    Danish deal for Paradise

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Mentorn's exotic reality show ...

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    German outfit buys BBC1's Cutting It

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    , the BBC drama about warring hairdressing salons, is to be remade for German audiences. ...

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    Fremantle to fund Atlantic productions

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle International Distribution (FID) is to plough cash into new documentaries produced by factual specialist Atlantic Productions, as part of an exclusive two-year deal.

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    ABC1 to introduce Kevin Hill to UK

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Disney's daytime entertainment channel ABC1 has secured the UK premiere of US drama Kevin Hill. The 22-part series, which was first broadcast in the US last year, focuses on a successful lawyer whose life is turned around when he adopts a baby girl. It will begin airing this autumn on ...

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    ID Distribution to handle Stelios doc

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has awarded the international rights for observational series Cruise with Steliosto ID Distribution. The series (9 x 60 minutes and 20 x 30 minutes) is being made by Twofour Productions. ID Distribution hopes to make pre-sales of the series at MipTV but will officially ...

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    GI takes Nat Geo's megastructures

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has picked up the rights to National Geographic's factual strand ...

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    Portman signs Robert Carlyle drama

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Portman Film & Television, the rights group recently taken over by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright, has signed up the distribution rights to Zenith Entertainment's new ITV1 drama Class of 76, starring Robert Carlyle.

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    Three deals for 12 Yard quiz format

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    12 Yard Productions has secured three new deals across Europe for its quiz show format ...

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    Raft of deals for Turn On Television

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Turn On Television has sold its The Real Coronation Streetto Living TV2. The series, first shown in the ITV Granada region, follows the lives of people who live on a real Coronation Street. The indie has also sold two series to Sky Travel. The first, 6 ...

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    Format focus: TV TRAP

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    A Candid Camera-style show, which has unwitting contestants taking part in spoof TV programmes. ...

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    Indies team up for Green drama

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Touchpaper TV has teamed up with actor Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, to make a family drama for an early evening slot on BBC1.

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    Spooks' Hawes to star in Ecosse drama for ITV1

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Ecosse Films, the indie behind BBC1 series ...

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    Reef wins BBC daytime order

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie Reef Television has been commissioned to produce 23 hours of daytime programming for the BBC focusing on property in foreign climes.

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    Dragon's Den to return in autumn

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC2's Dragons' Denis to get a second run after being recommissioned. The 6 x 60-minute series is in pre-production and is due to go out in the autumn. It will follow a new group of budding business entrepreneurs as they pitch their ideas to a panel ...

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    BBC1 goes on the buses with Landmark

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The life of a London bus driver is being brought to the screen for a BBC1 documentary series. Big Red Bus(working title), by indie Landmark Films, follows the instructors as they put rookie drivers through their paces. The 8 x 30-minute series, due for transmission this ...