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Shorts fest back
Brief Encounters, the Bristol short film festival, returns for its ninth year between 12 and 16 November this year. The five-day festival includes a new award, the Momentum Pictures Best of British Award, with a£1,000 cash prize for the most innovative UK short. Also on offer is a four-day film ...
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Stream's new focus
DVD outfit Stream Digital Media is refocusing its business to concentrate on interactive design and authoring. The company will be working across all platforms and formats of interactive media, although it will still be doing high-end DVD design and production. Heading the new team will be Lucy Protheroe who joins ...
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New company up
The founder of broadcast technology manufacturer Omnibus Systems has left to launch IdeasUnlimited.tv, a company that will specialise in transmission verification and content monitoring. Glyn Powell-Evans believes the company will address an urgent need among broadcasters for automated remote TV and audio-signal monitoring. The company will introduce the Content Probe ...
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Goldsmith leaves Universal Network
Universal Studios Networks UK managing director Janet Goldsmith has quit after five years at the company, writes Colin Robertson.
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Second helping of Oliver for Ten
Ubiquitous TV chef Jamie Oliver has become a firm favourite down under and now Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has decided to strip the second series of his Oliver's Twistcookery show, writes Penny Hughes.
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Granada ships period drama to middle east
Granada International has completed a raft of sales of costume dramas to the Middle East as the genre continues to gain popularity in the region. Dramas including Agatha Christie's Poirotand adaptations of Catherine Cookson titles such as The Cinder Path, ...
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RDF international takes falling apart
RDF International (RDFI) has signed its first drama distribution deal after taking worldwide rights to Century Films' Channel 4 drama Falling Apart. The Bafta award-winning film, which charts the course of
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September hires Braham for sales role
September International has appointed Fremantle International Distribution's James Braham as its new sales director, replacing Alessio di Capua, who has quit to sell DVD and video at VCI. Braham will report to September Films president Sally Miles and work out of the indie's Hammersmith offices. He will oversee sales of ...
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The weakest link moves into Malaysia
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to take the hit quiz Weakest Linkto Malaysia. Under the agreement, brokered by BBC Worldwide director of programming Colin Jarvis, the show will debut on RTM later this year. The quiz is also in production in Slovenia, while a ...
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Granada sells two to Greece
Granada International has sold home makeover series Home on their Own, which has recently finished its run on ITV1 to Greek channel Mega TV. A member of LWT's production team will go to Athens to consult during the making of the 20 x 30-minute series. ...
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NewsCracks open in BBC defence
Two days of evidence from BBC journalists to the Hutton inquiry have seen serious cracks appearing in the corporation's defence of Andrew Gilligan's report into the
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NewsSky sticks to tried and tested formula
Sex and soccer dominate Sky One's autumn schedule, unveiled this week, with new controller Sara Ramsden sticking close to a formula of US acquisitions and risque UK commissions, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsC4 pilots online pitching
Channel 4 is about to pilot a system which could radically alter its commissioning process by forcing independents to pitch to the broadcaster online, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Sky news reconstructs hutton inquiry
Sky News is this week and next week broadcasting nightly reconstructions of the Hutton inquiry with actors reading a transcript of each day's events. The first reconstruction was on day two of the inquiry and featured the witness hearing of BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan. Lord Hutton's closing statements will be ...
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NewsSpooks indie goes hustling for next drama
Kudos, the indie behind BBC1’s award-winning drama Spooks has been commissioned to make a new six-part drama this time focusing on con artists, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsBBC's Watts attacks 'misguided' bosses
BBC Newsnight science editor Susan Watts has revealed a damaging split within the BBC in its response to the Hutton inquiry after claiming she was put under
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NewsPop Idol creator storms up Rich List chart
Pop svengali Simon Fuller has seen a dramatic£170m rise in his personal fortune on the back of the Pop Idolformat, according to Broadcast's annual Rich List, writes Conor Dignam.
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NewsHutton inquiry: What the papers say
It is the third day of evidence in the Hutton inquiry, and the national newspapers are divided over who are the heroes and villians in the affair, writes Jon Rogers
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That'll Teach 'Em (C4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Indpendent
'The faint vindictiveness of That'll Teach 'Em (Channel 4) strikes me as intriguing - as though anyone over the age...
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Black Hawk Down: the True Story (Five) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'In order to tell the ?true? story, Black Hawk Down (Five) spent much of its time confecting re-enactments of scene...