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    ITC fines Sky£50,000 for faked report

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Sky news has been forced to pay a£50,000 fine for broadcasting a faked report from a Royal Navy submarine during the Iraq war.

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    Films to boost Friday night Living

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Flextech has sealed its biggest ever movie deal with Sony Pictures Television in an attempt to strengthen Living TV's Friday night offering. In the multimillion-pound deal, 50 movies from Sony's Columbia Pictures will be broadcast on Living TV over the next three years, with a small portion of the films ...

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    Forth board recruit

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Radio Forth has appointed former Kiss producer Nik Goodman to its board. Goodman has been with the Edinburgh-based station as programme director for just over a year. He joined from Emap-owned London station Kiss, where he produced the Bam Bam Breakfast Show.

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    Fox Kids posts profit

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Fox Kids Europe has recovered from its $28.9m (£17.2m) loss last year and posted a $3.8m (£2.26m) profit for 2002/03. The broadcaster, which is 76% owned by Disney, upped advertising revenues by 36% to $30.3m (£18.0m) for the 12 months ending 30 September. Overall revenues were up by 14% to ...

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    Discovery commissions five original pilots for 2004

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    DISCOVERY Channel UK director Katy Thorogood has commissioned five broadcast pilots for the first quarter of next year, including a genealogy investigation and a programme which looks at the world's luckiest people, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Five looks at extreme plastic surgery

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Yorkshire Television has been commissioned by Five to explore just how far people will push the boundaries of plastic surgery. Drastic Plasticwill track the extreme enhancements taken by both men and women across 2 x 60-minute programmes and is due to be broadcast early next ...

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    Trouble to examine celebrity bodies

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Flextech channel Trouble has commissioned September Films to make a 15 x 30-minute series on how celebrities get their physiques. Celebrity Bodies, ordered by Trouble commissioning editor Lucy Pilkington, will give a detailed head-to-toe analysis of stars such as Justin Timberlake and David Beckham. It ...

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    Elliot orders third Wire In The Blood

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    ITV has commissioned a third series of Robson Green vehicle Wire in the Blood, before the second series has aired. Controller of drama Nick Elliott has ordered four more episodes of the detective series, which

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    BBC2 to make three-part diet junkies

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a third instalment of its ?Junkiesstrand with a look at dieting. The 3 x 60-minute in-house Diet Junkies, which was co-commissioned by head of current affairs Peter Horrocks, will look at the history of ...

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    Molinare to host Sky daytime show

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Molinare has secured the contract for Sky One and Shine's new daytime show, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Mitcorp set to plug gap left by McMillan

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Following the closure of broadcast equipment reseller McMillan last week, Mitcorp UK has announced that it is to set up a subsidiary to fill the gap in the regional market left by the company's demise.

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    Discreet's US parent in move to shed jobs

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Discreet is to streamline its management operation as part of a rationalisation process announced by its US parent company, Autodesk.

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    Lipsync hires fyvie

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Lipsync Post has hired Stuart Fyvie as senior colourist to utilise its Quantel iQ-based grading system. Previously at Resolution, his credits include Band of Brothers and Dreamkeeper. This year he has worked with Ray Harryhausen on the restoration of archived 16mm material.

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    844/X price slash

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Media 100 has announced a significant price drop in its 844/X editing system. It is also thought the price cut will anticipate and drive a large software expansion in the company, due for January. The price for the 844/Xi was£16,495 and is now£7,095; the 844/Xe was£29,595 and is now£14,195; and ...

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    Post co promotions

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Editors' agency The Independent Post Company has given two booking employees new jobs. Anthony Crossby has been promoted to general manager from head of bookings, and Holly Ryan has become senior booker. The agency's recent credits include Little Britain and ...

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    Condor ups game

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    The Condor Group has placed an order for a fifth Da Vinci grading system and is upgrading all of its international systems as part of£500,000 of investment. The new system is to go into the London office, with the Millennium ITK datacines being upgraded to the new Millennium II machine. ...

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    HD 'around corner'

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Carlton International's controller of operations and engineering, Simon Fell, said HD is just around the corner for UK consumers. At a conference in London last week, Fell predicted that 33 million homes will have HD in the US by 2008, and that the UK will be close behind. He added ...

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    Rushes makes 1960s come alive

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    The second series of the Bafta-nominated comedy 15 Storeys High starts on BBC3 early next year. Rushes Post Production's 3D department has been commissioned to do the titles, and director Mark Nunnely requested a sequence which would recreate the style of 1960s architectural drawings. So 3D artist Hayden Jones designed ...

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    Clear Cut explanation of Big Bang

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Project Poltergeist is a Horizon episode from documentary outfit Dox about neutrinos - sub-atomic particles which are emitted from the sun and may explain the origins of the universe. Clear Cut Pictures has created graphic content and producer David Sington explained: 'We had to find a way to visualise the ...

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    Pepper finishes Outback art doc

    2003-12-18T08:30:00Z

    Pepper has completed the picture post on a documentary for Five about the sculptor Antony Gormley. Inside Australia was shot near the tiny outback town of Menzies on the huge Lake Ballard in Western Australia. The area has become home to Gormley's most ambitious work to date, an installation of ...