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    Five takes fishing to the extreme

    2008-08-06T18:28:32Z

    Five is to tackle some of the world's wildest marine life in Extreme Fishing with Robson Green.

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    BBC2 lines up ‘19th century Entourage'

    2008-08-06T18:31:29Z

    BBC2 is to lay bare the sex and drugs lifestyle of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, in a “rude gang drama” pitched as a 19th century Entourage.

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    UKTV shuffles its station controllers

    2008-08-06T18:33:56Z

    UKTV has appointed Adrian Wills as channel head of UKTV People and Richard Kingsbury as channel head of UKTV History in preparation for the network's 2009 rebrand.

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    British tech firms make strong Olympic showing

    2008-08-07T07:55:03Z

    British technology and facilities companies are taking their expertise to Beijing to help provide broadcasters with unilateral coverage of the Olympics, which starts Friday 8 August.

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    BBC beds down HD facility for Beijing

    2008-08-07T07:57:14Z

    BBC Sport and BBC Resources have constructed a 1,500sq m multiplatform HD production facility in Beijing to produce tele-vision and interactive coverage of the Olympics.

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    DVCPro HD records Games

    2008-08-07T08:02:29Z

    Host broadcast feeds provided by Beijing Olympic Broadcasting (BOB) at the Games will be produced using Panasonic DVCPro P2 HD solid-state cameras and recorders.

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    LDK 8300 on slo-mo team

    2008-08-07T08:04:42Z

    At least 40 of the new LDK 8300 HD Super SloMo cameras from Thomson Grass Valley will be in use at the Olympic venues around Beijing.

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    Avid workflow for NBC

    2008-08-07T08:06:15Z

    Avid Technology has installed an end-to-end editing workflow for NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympics.

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    FOR-A supplies converters

    2008-08-07T08:08:12Z

    HD frame-rate converters from FOR-A are part of the global delivery chain of the Olympic coverage with NBC, CBC and TSN all using FRC-7000 converters.

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    TV critics 7 August ‘08

    2008-08-07T09:25:37Z

    “Eye-popping, absorbing and at times even a little scary, this is wildlife film-making at its very best.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

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    Profits rise at Virgin Media as customers fall

    2008-08-07T09:52:18Z

    Virgin Media beat market expectations for underlying profit in the second quarter despite losing 19,500 customers.

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    Trinny and Susannah stripped of viewers

    2008-08-07T12:19:37Z

    ITV1's style gurus Trinny and Susannah look to be going out of fashion as last night's Undress the Nation only averaged 2.5m (11.9%), the show's lowest audience featuring the presenters since they moved to the commercial network.

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    BBC's Merlin heading Down Under

    2008-08-07T16:52:25Z

    Australia's Network 10 has picked up the broadcast rights to the BBC1 fantasy drama Merlin from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).

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    Sky One grabs JJ Abrams' Fringe

    2008-08-07T17:27:49Z

    Sky One has secured the rights to the new US drama series from JJ Abrams, the producer behind Lost, Alias and the forthcoming Star Trek movie.

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    Marr to cover Big Bang for R4

    2008-08-07T17:30:10Z

    BBC Radio 4 has been granted exclusive access to the CERN control room to cover physicists trying to recreate the aftermath of the Big Bang.

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    TV critics 8 August ‘08

    2008-08-08T09:16:01Z

    “The Farrelly brothers are credited as co-executive producers. But the kings of grossout have lost their mucky crown here.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

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    Goldhawk Media launches childbirth channel

    2008-08-08T10:24:35Z

    The indie that made ITV's Special Babies has launched an ad-funded internet television channel that it will use to launch most of its new programmes.

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    Cricket scores for Five

    2008-08-08T10:52:44Z

    Kevin Pietersen's first day as England captain got off on the right foot last night, as Five's coverage of the fourth Test averaged 969,000 (5.2%), the channel's second highest cricket audience so far this year.

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    ITV2 pulls off a Mission: Impossible

    2008-08-08T11:38:20Z

    ITV2's Hollywood blockbuster movie Mission: Impossible II pulled in its highest audience to date of 568,000 viewers (3.73%) last night at 9pm, despite having aired three times on the channel in the past.

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    Clarkson and BBCW form joint venture

    2008-08-08T11:49:39Z

    The BBC has formed a joint venture with Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman that will see the pair take a cut from international sales of the show.