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Blue Turtle posts FHM cover girl contest
Blue Turtle Pictures has completed post-production on the finale to RDF Media and Sky One's search for an FHMcover star. High Street Honeys 2002follows a competition between 10 'girls next door' to become a cover girl for the magazine. The ...
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Music talent search
Production music producer Extreme Music, in association with Broadcast, is launching a production music talent search in order to find the UK's best new composers. A judging panel will pick the best of the tracks submitted and Broadcastreaders can then ...
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Blue adds two staff
Soho facility Blue Post Production has taken on a new senior producer and a new Avid editor. Producer Alison Wendt has been poached from SVC, where she worked for eight years. Editor Kelvin McKeown joins Blue to complete a five-strong team cutting programmes, on-air promotions, music videos, documentaries and commercials. ...
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VE projects expands
Video Europe's VE Projects venture is supplying two children's primetime entertainment shows with multi-camera de-rig systems. The series are a third run of the BBC's Storymakers, an educational programme for Cbeebies, and a series about computer gaming, Lan Jam, produced ...
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4MC restructures TK
Facility house 4MC is reorganising its telecine (TK) department. The changes are part of group-wide TK changes at parent Liberty Livewire. According to the company, the restructure will make it easier to book individuals and facilities across the whole group. As a result of the changes, colourist Rob Wickings is ...
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Freeview sellout wrongfoots rivals
Freeview is struggling to keep up with demand from potential new customers ...
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Aha? Ta-ra! TV's Partridge over
Comic Steve Coogan has revealed he will never make another series of ...
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Launch success for free BBC digital TV
The new BBC-backed digital television service, Freeview, has enjoyed on of the most successful launches in broadcas...
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100,000 sign up to BBC digital
The Government's plan to switch off analogue television signals by 2010 has received a boost after one million view...
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Freeview celebrates buoyant sales of adaptors
Freeview, the new multi-channel TV service backed by the BBC and British Sky Broadcasting, has celebrated its succe...
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Aha! It's over for Partridge
Comedian Steve Coogan revealed last night that he will kill off comic creation Alan Partridge ...
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Tories turn to 'Big Brother' for a bright idea
The Conservative Party has called in Peter Bazalgette to help it work out why people have switched off Iain Duncan-...
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Sharon Osbourne to play Queen for 4
Sharon Osbourne, the wife of Brummie rock fiend Ozzy Osbourne, is to present Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message this year, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Stars line up for new London radio station
Chrysalis Radio has signed up a raft of household names including Angela Rippon, Katie Derham and Matthew Wright to present shows for its new radio station LBC 97.3 FM, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV strike vote delayed til after Christmas
A ballot on pay and conditions at Granada has been deferred by broadcasting unions until the end of January, leaving the spectre of industrial action hanging over the company, writes Steve Aston.
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Lifestyle channel hopes for third time lucky for new name
UKTV's new lifestyle offering for digital terrestrial platform Freeview has been given its third and final name - UK Bright Ideas - after its previous two names ran into copyright problems, writes Paul Revoir.
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Sex, guns and Esther Rantzen
Jamie Oliver is in trouble with the Independent Television Commission after it received six complaints about his language in the first episode of his show Jamie's Kitchen, writes John Oates.
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Pop Beauties are too sexy for our kids
Pop singer Christina Aquilera's steamy dance routine has been branded too raunchy for kids by telly watchdogs ...