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    Talent on trail of notorious bigamist

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Talent TV is to follow a manhunt for one of the world's most infamous bigamists for its first commission for Channel 4.

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    Paul Danan to front dating show

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Paul Danan, the former Hollyoaks actor whose grating appearance on ITV1's Celebrity Love Island became this summer's watercooler talking point, has been given his own show. ITV2 has commissioned Target Entertainment to make a dating show in which Danan plays Cupid by

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    French to profile comedy heroines

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Dawn French is to interview her comedy heroines for a new in-house BBC1 series on the world's funniest females. Dawn's Funny Women will see the comedienne tour the world talking to famous entertainers. No names have yet been confirmed, but those being approached include Whoopi Goldberg and Ruby Wax. The ...

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    Reef antiques show gets second run

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Reef Television's Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting has been picked up for a second series on BBC2 and will be hosted by Angela Rippon. Each day the daytime show will take teams of two to antiques markets in France or Italy to buy the best items they can find within ...

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Gilly Hall

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Gilly Hall, commissioning executive, BBC entertainment commissioning, on the search for entertainment formats to ru...

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    Grand Central buys e-cinema

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Soho-based audio specialist Grand Central Sound Studio's£5m, two-year transition into a 'luxury' post facility has culminated in the acquisition of a range of electronic cinema projectors.

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    Frontline posts interactive Shakespeare

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Frontline Television has completed the post-production for BBC interactive drama and entertainment's Shakespeare's Stories to accompany BBC1's modern adaptation of the Bard's plays.

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    Promax gets Doctor Who preview

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Doctor Who visual effects supremos at Mill TV are set to give delegates at Friday's Promax conference the lowdown on work carried out on the first series of the award-winning drama, as well as outlining prospective plans for the new 13-part series. Mill TV producer Will Cohen will be on ...

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    Avid unveils latest

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Avid has unveiled its next-generation shared-storage solution, the Avid Unity ISIS. It claims to provide a real-time shared workflow to deliver increased storage of up to 64 terabytes, and client connectivity. It is designed to support digital media production environments including broadcast news and network production operations, and reality television. ...

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    Nat Geo subtitling

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    National Geographic has chosen Broadcast Text International to provide its subtitling services and signed a 'multi-year' agreement for the Scandinavian feed. The deal will enable National Geographic to access all the aggregated language knowledge within the Broadcast Text Group, including research databases and translation memories.

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    Hive hires animator

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    The Hive has recruited Condor's senior 3D artist Bryan Servante. Servante, who had previously worked at Banbury-based AudioMotion, was lead animator on BBC1/Box TV's The Legend of the Tamworth Two, animated for Discovery and the Disney Channel, and idents for BBC History. He joins The Hive as senior animator.

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    Spooks goes mobile

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    BBC spy series Spooks has been launched as a Java-based mobile phone game. MS4:Mobile Spooks was developed by interactive media company Magic Lantern and telecoms specialist YDreams Entertainment in conjunction with production company Kudos Film and Television, and contains both stand-alone games to download and a series of mobile Missions ...

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    Astbury in move

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media's Soho Images is losing colourist Simon Astbury to Clear Cut Pictures, where he is to work in a dedicated grading environment. Astbury spent four years at Todd-AO before moving to Soho Images where he operated Pogle Platinum and Symphony. His credits include the grading on dramas BBC/A&E's The ...

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    Disney apes Virgin

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Disney has hopped on the mobile bandwagon with a plan to launch Disney Mobile, a 'virtual' operator similar to Virgin Mobile. The company announced its plans in the US in partnership with network operator Sprint. Disney expects its family-friendly content will attract customers in the competitive US market, but would ...

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    Big Squid gives rocket boost

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Big Squid has produced the special effects sequences and titles for children's comedy drama Patrick's Planet. The 13-part, 30-minute series by Tiger Lily Films tells the story of a boy whose life changes when he builds a rocket for a school competition. 3D animator Chris Hawkes used 3D Studio Max ...

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    Dark Horse makes Mischief

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Dark Horse FX has created the titles and branding for Mischief, a new documentary series by BBC documentaries and contemporary factual. It will deal with serious subjects, from binge-drinking to MRSA, in a subversive way. Jean Cramond accomplished the graphic design with Adrian Woodward doing the animation and compositing using ...

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    Skaramoosh titles thriller

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Skaramoosh has completed the titles for The Best Man, a two-part thriller from Touchpaper Productions about two best friends who share a dark secret. Skaramoosh senior designer Bob Hough conceived the sequence along with producer Hugh Warren. Warren was looking for a simple, clean, uncluttered look, and Hough wanted the ...

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    Manchild reborn in US and Russia

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Cancelled BBC2 comedy Manchild has been reborn overseas, with a Russian series in production and Sex and the City creator Darren Star reviving hopes of a US version.

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    PBS seals US deal for number 1 doc

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    Impossible Pictures' documentary The Story of 1 will air throughout the US after Fremantle International Distribution (FID) secured a deal with public broadcaster PBS.

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    US set for 'Muppet idol'

    2005-11-03T08:30:00Z

    The Muppets are on the comeback trail after US network ABC commissioned a script and five-episode outline for a new