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    UK wins at Promax

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    UK companies last week dominated the European Promax & BDA awards, leaving the Athens Hilton with half of the night's 44 gold statuettes. Up-for-sale BBC Broadcast led the British contingent, picking up 10 of the 22 UK golds, including two for 1,000 Years of History in best ...

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    Dubber joins TSI

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Dubbing mixer Damian Reynolds has joined Covent Garden broadcast facility TSI. Reynolds joins from Soundstore where he completed work on projects including the Bafta-winning documentary The Many Lives of Richard Attenboroughfor the BBC Arena strand.

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    DGP books bronze

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    DVD and post-production facility DGP has appointed Kate Bronze as bookings manager and promoted Anthony Van Den Putte to assist her in bookings. Van Den Putte was previously head of bookings and sales at Todd-AO Media UK. Bronze was senior bookings manager at MTV.

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    Elstree tendering

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    The tender process for Elstree Film Studios - home of Big Brotherand Celebrity Wrestlinghas been opened

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    Kiss My Pixel finishes BBC4 job

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Bristol animation company Kiss My Pixel has supplied 3D graphics for Animation Nation.The BBC Bristol documentary series looks at the past 100 years of British animation, from the theatre to Hollywood. Kiss My Pixel creative directors Simon Brown and Christopher Vass created 3D virtual environments combining ...

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    Adams Trainor titles 25 parter

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Adams Trainor has created the titles and stings for Lion TV's Mum's on Strike. The 25 x 45-minute series looks at fathers who have been left in charge of the home and the kids while their partners take a much needed break. Creative director Jon Adams ...

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    Blue posts BBC2 gambler doc

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Soho facility Blue has completed the full post on The Confession. The 90-minute documentary, part of BBC2's Compulsionseries, looks at how compulsive gambling has affected addict James Burton. Director Henry Singer wanted to make the film feel like a series of still ...

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    Fox Reality gobbles up UK content at Cannes

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Fox'snew reality channel has gone on a shopping spree at Cannes this week, with Fox reality head David Lyle opening his cheque book and hoovering up a range of UK reality TV output.

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    Ginger gets Jack Osbourne fit for ITV2

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Rockstar offspring and notorious bon viveur Jack Osbourne is embarking on a six-month mission to get fit in a challenge series for ITV2.

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    Palmer to head September features

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    September Films has poached Dean Palmer from Scottish indie Caledonia TV to be its new head of features and documentaries.

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    Allen honoured

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Charles Allen will pick up the International Emmy Directorate Award this November in recognition of ITV's 50 years of independent, commercial programming in the UK. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents the award to organisations or individuals in management, administration, engineering, news, programming, and international relations for ...

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    BBC Cannes deals

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Docu-drama Supervolcanohas been snapped up by more than 30 countries as part of a series of BBC deals at Mip. The factual drama - a BBC Science co-pro with Discovery, ProSieben, NHK and Mediaset - will be on screens everywhere from Saudia Arabia to Serbia thanks ...

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    Flame S&M show

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    UKTV People has commissioned Flame TV to make Extreme Pleasures, a saucy late-night series about people who go to extreme lengths to fulfil their desires. Sunjournalist Kate Taylor has been lined up to present the 6 x 30-minute shows investigating sploshing (covering ...

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    London flooded in Power drama

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Indie Power is to flood tube tunnels, submerge the London Eye and drown the House of Commons in a big-budget 'mini-drama'.

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    Rantzen sets up entertainment indie

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Former That's Lifepresenter Esther Rantzen has set up an indie called Blue Reef Entertainment and is in talks with Endemol and Channel 4 over potential light entertainment shows.

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    Mirsky profiles female cons

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    THE executive producer who cleared a village of women for a BBC3 documentary is to probe the lives of two high-profile, white-collar female criminals.

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    C4 makes doc on Arquette sex change

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is continuing the trend for extreme make-over with a documentary about Hollywood actor Alexis Arquette's sex change.

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    Ragdoll latest is Blurrfect

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Teletubbies indie Ragdoll has unveiled its latest series, Blurrfect, to launch on CiTV in the autumn.

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    Freelancers slam Pact over low pay

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Freelancers fighting exploitation in the TV industry - well known for paying low wages - have slammed Pact members as some of the industry's worst offenders.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Ralph Lee

    2005-04-14T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, history is on the lookout for event television for next year and some presenters who can be the faces of it