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    Selling Houses (C4) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror

    2004-04-07T09:52:00Z

    'It was the sort of rubbish you could have at 10 in the morning or 2pm - daytime television posing as decent adult ...

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    Trump show set for 40 markets

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The Apprentice , the Donald Trump-fronted reality show that has taken the US by storm, is set to air in over 40 countries around the world.

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    Australia takes on BBC quiz show

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's ambitious new interactive quiz show, Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough , is to be made for the Australian market.

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    Fox buys new toons

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Fox Kids Europe has secured the rights to a brace of new animated series which will air in the UK later this year. The deals include 42 x 30-minute episodes of futuristic anime-adventure MegaMan NT Warrior , acquired from ShoPro Entertainment, and 26 x 30-minute ...

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    Format focus: Mad Mad House

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Format focus: Mad Mad House

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    Ragdoll sells Boohbah to Canadian TV

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie Ragdoll has sold hit pre-school series Boohbah to Canadian broadcaster Treehouse TV. The channel will air 52 episodes of the series, screened on CiTV in the UK, over a two-year period. It takes the number of channels airing the show to 12. ...

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    all3media wins biggest brood orders

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    All3Media International has made a raft of sales of its documentary Britain's Biggest Brood. The 52-minute series has been taken by TV2 in Denmark, SBS in the Netherlands, TVNZ in New Zealand, TV Norge in Norway and Canal 5 in Sweden. Originally screened on ...

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    Tell-Tale develops new series of Boo!

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Tell-Tale Productions is to develop a fresh batch of animated pre-school series Boo! for the BBC and is preparing to deliver the show's first Christmas special. Work on the 52 x 10-minute series has just begun and the finished product will be distributed by Universal ...

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    Indonesia and Malaysia take Pop Idol

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Pop Idol is to roll out across a raft of new territories including India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Slovakia. Slovack Television has signed up for 22 episodes plus 14 Idol Extras and its main channel - Jednotka - will air ...

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    Target picks up rights to I Dream

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment has picked up distribution rights to 19 Entertainment's new BBC teen show I Dream. The 13 x 30-minute series, is in production for broadcast on the BBC this autumn. The show is set in a fantasy theatre arts school and is based ...

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    DLT's My Family to air on BBC America

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 sitcom My Family is to be screened on BBC America from this spring. It has ordered all 49 episodes of the first four series with the option to license further episodes. The deal was negotiated by DLT Entertainment, which produces the series with Rude ...

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    Resolution wins three big deals

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Resolution has won three big post-production contracts, thanks to a new logging system that allows producers to organise rushes and cut sequences from their own offices.

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    Presteigne buys HD lenses for Athens

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Presteigne Broadcast Hire has responded to an increased demand for HD equipment by purchasing Canon HD Digi Super XJ field lenses worth£1m.

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    Triangle hires MD and staff

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Triangle Television has expanded its operations with the appointment of a new manager and the addition of three staff.

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    Two appointments

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Editor Tim Fulford has joined Soho offline facility Cut & Run from Red Square Editing. His recent work includes a BBC production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw plus ads for Vodafone for JWT and Ribena for Grey Advertis-ing. Meanwhile, Ascent Media-owned One ...

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    UK Post elections

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Momentum continues to build behind the new post-production trade body, UK Post, as the submission deadline for board nominations passed last Wednesday, 31 March. More than 30 individuals have been nominated for the seven elected seats that will make up the board under chairman Mike Luckwell. A further two to ...

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    Japanese show set

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Equipment supplier Mitcorp is building a Japanese kitchen-style set for this year's Broadcast Production Show to help demonstrate the capabilities of a range of new Sony and Pana-sonic cameras. A sushi chef will work on site while being recorded by cameras covering DV through to HD, including the new disk-based ...

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    NAB debut for JVC kit

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    JVC is to introduce a portable HD player/recorder at NAB to accompany its hand-held JY-HD10 HD camcorder. The CU-VH1EX will record 720p/30 and will output 1080i/60. It will allow video producers to spool HD content from their tape to any non-linear editing (NLE) system without tying up the camcorder. Once ...

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    Component's boy band designs

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Component Graphics has completed design on a 60-minute one-off special, Battle of the Boy Bands , created and produced by Shine Entertainment for Channel 4. CG elements were composited with footage and key words to create posters, billboards and newspaper headlines, which chart the ups ...

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    P3 spices up The Sex.com story

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    P3 has done effects, online and grading work on The Sex.com Story , a 60-minute documentary for Five made by Making Time. The show charts the extraordinary theft of the most valuable domain name in the world, sex.com. Online and grade was completed by Michael ...