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    Unions call off BBC pension strikes

    2006-05-17T18:00:00Z

    Broadcasting unions have called off plans for a strike after the BBC agreed to begin negotiations over changes to its pension fund.

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    In the eye of the BB storm

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    Profile of C4's commissioning editor for factual entertainment Angela Jain

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    Keeping an ear to the ground

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    Audio is often the first area of post-production to be squeezed by budget pressures

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    ITV to take on BBC in food fight

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    ITV and the BBC's battle of the weekend cookery wars is heating up, with ITV1 looking to launch a new food show to go head to head with BBC1 on Sunday as well as Saturday mornings.

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    Leader - Creative accounting

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    The inaugural BroadcastCreative Report shows the BBC is leading the way

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    Sky One puts celebs into circus ring

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    Sky One is to turn celebrities into circus stars for a multimillion pound reality TV series this autumn.

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    Waddington to head IMG Media

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    Alastair Waddington has been put in charge of IMG Media's UK and international TV operations - which will see him head up the parent group for TWI, Darlow Smithson and probably Tiger Aspect, which the group is expected to acquire within weeks.

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    It's Noel vs the World Cup

    2006-05-18T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is to screen Deal or No Dealin primetime next month as a means of World Cup damage limitation.

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    Job losses as TSI closes post arm

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Troubled facility TSI Post Production has shut down after 30 years in business, having made its remaining 28 staff redundant last Friday.

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    M2 poaches Narduzzo in£1m grading division set-up

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Post house M2 has poached one of Soho's top colourists, Vince Narduzzo, from St Anne's Post. He will now head a new grading division costing more than£1m, set up by M2 called Narduzzo Too, which will focus on high end dramas, documentaries and digital intermediate (DI) film work.

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    Sheen to Frontline

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Frontline Television has nabbed Arena P3's general manager of six years, Sue Sheen, who joins the company as senior producer. Sheen oversaw the facility management at Arena P3. In her new role she will project manage Frontline's broadcast and corporate clients.

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    UKTV automates

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    UKTV is set to be the first UK broadcaster to use a software system across its 10 channels specifically for broadcast management. Sintec Media's OnAir is designed to manage UKTV's network scheduling more quickly. The database will be used by around 240 UKTV staff including channel managers, editors and schedulers ...

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    UK strong at Promax

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    UK companies performed well at this year's European Promax & BDA awards, picking up 20 of the 45 gold awards. Red Bee Media was the big winner with seven Promax awards, including a gold for best themed campaign for BBC Pedigree Comedy and a BDA gold award for the best ...

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    Interfield maps out BBC's Coup

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Interfield Design has created the titles for BBC Productions' Coup, a 90-minute, one-off drama about Mark Thatcher's failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. The sequence, designed by Interfield's Peter Anderson and animated by Lewis White, has the camera panning over a map of the world, interspersed ...

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    Five News names Kaplinsky cover

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    Five News presenters Matt Barbet and Isla Traquair are to replace Natasha Kaplinsky when she goes on maternity leave later this year.

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    Urban Chef titled by Vitamin

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Vitamin has created the titles for Seven Stones' The Urban Chef, a 10 x 30-minute factual series which follows chef Ollie Rowe opening a new restaurant using food sourced entirely from within the London tube network. The titles, directed and designed by Vitamin creative director ...

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    Fremantle signs for first look at Ten Alps

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle International Distribution has signed a two-year deal with Ten Alps' drama division, giving the distributor a first look over the indie's projects in return for a six-figure investment. Ten Alps inherited a slate of drama projects with the February acquisition of Jo Willett's production outfit, Cottage Industry Productions. Its ...

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    Landmark scores international sales

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    RDF Rights has secured a raft of international sales for indie Landmark Films. Channel 4 special Strangest Village in Britain, about Botton Village, which provides a refuge for people with autism, Down's Syndrome, mental illness and other conditions, has been picked up by broadcasters in ...

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    RDF USA recruits Yates in senior role

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    RDF continues to add staff to its growing American operation, hiring one of the executive producers of the US Supernanny as chief operations officer. Tony Yates, who has also worked on The Bachelor and Beauty ...

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    Zig Zag heads for Klingon summer camp

    2006-05-18T08:30:00Z

    Zig Zag Productions is making a two-part factual series for Discovery Travel Channel in the US about people who attend weird summer camps.