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    Blue Turtle posts FHM cover girl contest

    2002-12-04T13:43:05Z

    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

    2002-12-04T13:41:51Z

    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

    2002-12-04T13:40:43Z

    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

    2002-12-04T13:39:15Z

    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

    2002-12-04T13:38:14Z

    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

    2002-12-04T09:45:15Z

    Freeview is struggling to keep up with demand from potential new customers ...

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    Aha? Ta-ra! TV's Partridge over

    2002-12-04T09:39:36Z

    Comic Steve Coogan has revealed he will never make another series of ...

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    Launch success for free BBC digital TV

    2002-12-04T09:27:53Z

    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

    2002-12-04T09:27:25Z

    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

    2002-12-04T09:27:00Z

    Freeview, the new multi-channel TV service backed by the BBC and British Sky Broadcasting, has celebrated its succe...

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    Del and Rodders are Xmas crackers

    2002-12-04T09:13:20Z

    has been voted the top festive fare of all time ...

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    Aha! It's over for Partridge

    2002-12-04T09:12:59Z

    Comedian Steve Coogan revealed last night that he will kill off comic creation Alan Partridge ...

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    Del Boy and Rodney are back for another Christmas special

    2002-12-04T09:12:35Z

    The classic comedy ...

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    Tories turn to 'Big Brother' for a bright idea

    2002-12-04T09:12:11Z

    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

    2002-12-04T09:02:08Z

    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

    2002-12-04T08:57:21Z

    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

    2002-12-04T08:51:27Z

    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

    2002-12-04T08:47:52Z

    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

    2002-12-03T14:54:52Z

    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

    2002-12-03T09:43:26Z

    Pop singer Christina Aquilera's steamy dance routine has been branded too raunchy for kids by telly watchdogs ...