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Freeview gets off to strong start
Consumers appear to have given a respectful thumbs-up to the new Freeview service, with one major UK retailer claiming to have shifted over 10,000 set-top boxes since its launch last Wednesday (30 October), write Broadcast reporters
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ITV Digital staff in row over pay
Former ITV Digital employees have hit out at Carlton and Granada, claiming that the two former digital partners still owe them thousands of pounds after their notice payments were wrongly taxed, writes Paul Revoir
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News50 jobs go as Granada slashes GSB production
Around 50 jobs are to go in Manchester after Granada slashed original production in its Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) joint-venture, writes Steve Aston
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NewsRise gets major overhaul
Rise, the struggling Channel 4 breakfast show, is to be overhauled and moved from its Isleworth base to new studios in an effort to turn around its disastrous ratings performance, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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NewsMaidstone Studios sold for£4.25m
Telewest owned TVS Television has sold The Maidstone Studios to a consortium of local businessmen for£4.25 million, writes Will Strauss
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NewsFox poaches BBC's Glazier to head UK arm
US producer Fox Television Studios is setting up a UK outpost in order to roll out European versions of its formats and has poached the BBC's editor of light entertainment Jonathan Glazier to head up the operation, writes Leigh Holmwood
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TWI snares BBC 1 Saturday LE slot
TWI has kicked off its move into entertainment securing an eight-part Saturday night LE show for BBC 1, writes Colin Robertson
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A triple whammy at Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect has won a trio of commissions including a Channel 5 vehicle for XFM DJ Christian O'Connell, write Georgina Lipscomb and Penny Hughes
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BBCi joins up with daytime cooking show
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchenhas been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as part of a wider push to get BBCi services into daytime, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Real-life west wing
The smallest room in the White House, in which all major international crises are debated, is to be recreated for a new BBC 4 programme in which a panel of eminent American decision-makers will be forced to react to a hypothetical global catastrophe, writes Leigh ...
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Brown eyed boy given C4 comedy lab slot
Indie Brown Eyed Boy, set up by former Chrysalis executive producer Gary Reich in June, has finished production on a 30-minute one-off, My Mouth Shalt Speak the Praise of Thy Lord Part 3, for Channel 4's Comedy Lab strand. Reich is the show's producer and ...
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Granada puts life into flagging careers
Granada has developed yet another talent show format, this time one aimed at reviving the careers of ageing British performers. Reborn in the USwill feature turns such as Alvin Stardust performing in front American audiences on a road trip of dates in a bid to ...
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ISIS Media looks at showbiz on the edge
Indie Isis Media is to produce a four-part series looking at local characters who exist on the peripheries of showbusiness. Nearly Famous, set to air in the Carlton Central region, will follow TV extras working on commercials and programmes such as ...
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Big Brother's Adele fronts YTV youth show
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV (YTV) to produce a 4 x 30-minute youth magazine show series fronted by former Big Brothercontestant Adele Roberts. Attitude!, described as a 'place to get things off your chest', will ...
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Puppets Ripley and Scuff get 40 episodes
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered a second series of Children's Company's pre-school puppet programme Ripley and Scuff. Grace has doubled the commission to 40 episodes of the 20-minute programme. Once again Robert Howes is the series producer and Alison Havell ...
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BBC to launch multimedia fightbox game
The BBC is launching a new multimedia entertainment format fusing gaming and technology to allow viewers to fight virtual gladiators in front of a live studio audience. In Fightbox, which airs on BBC 3 from autumn next year before being repeated on BBC 2, viewers ...
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Promax calls review after BBC cleans up
The BBC's dominance of the 2002 Promax Awards has attracted stinging criticism from the industry and led to promises that the way prizes are awarded will be changed next year, writes John Oates
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Media 100 latest to offer low-cost post alternatives
US product manufacturer Media 100 is the latest company to actively try to drive down the cost of post-production by introducing cheaper versions of its products, writes Will Strauss
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5D customers wait for news
Customers and creditors of 5D are still waiting to hear the fate of the British manufacturer, writes John Oates
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Soap crashes
Wimbledon-based company Any Effects was responsible for the dramatic helicopter crash seen on Mersey Television's soon-to-be-axed soap Brooksideearlier this week. Dubbed by producer Nicky Higgens as 'the most ambitious sequence ever attempted by a soap' the stunt involved a full- size model helicopter built by ...