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JACK MORTON BUYS OUT CREATION COMMUNICATIONS
Corporate production company Creation Communications has been acquired by US communications outfit The Jack Morton Company, a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group. While financial terms were not disclosed, Creation has a
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SPIELBERG AND HANKS TO RETURN TO HATFIELD
Director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks are to return to Hatfield Aerodrome - where they shot part of Saving Private Ryan - to film Band of Brothers, a $100 million
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PANASONIC AND POST GROUP SEAL LONG-TERM DEAL
Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems has signed a long-term deal with Hollywood-based Post Group to develop new digital post-production processes for TV and film. Panasonic will also use Post Group as
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Jobs to go as Mill and Magic merge
Mill Film has merged with sister company Magic Camera in a move that is expected to result in Soho's biggest wave of redundancies since the collapse of facility Wiseman four years
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Clear has completed the latest promo for The Super Furry Animals, Do or Die. Taking around 200 hours of Flame and Inferno time, the promo gives the band members cartoon bodies
Clear has completed the latest promo for The Super Furry Animals, Do or Die. Taking around 200 hours of Flame and Inferno time, the promo gives the band members cartoon bodies
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Todd-AO restructures its UK businesses
Todd-AO Corporation has reorganised the management structure of its UK businesses, Todd-AO UK and Telecine.Todd-AO managing director Graham Hall becomes UK managing director while former Tele-Cine general manger Jeff Emerson becomes
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Carlton sells off SSL for£43.5m
Carlton Communications has sold its audio manufacturer, Solid State Logic (SSL), to its management team backed by venture capital company 3i.The deal, predicted in Broadcast last November (12.11.99), values the 30-year-old
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GMG SUBSIDIARIES GRAB MISS WORLD
GMG Endemol Entertainment subsidiaries Initial and Gem have signed separate deals to produce and distribute the Miss World competition in 2000. The two companies have produced and distributed Miss World for
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ITEL SELLS RAFT OF PROGRAMMING TO FRANCE'S AB SAT
UK distributor Itel has sold French channel AB Sat a package of 150 hours of documentary and wildlife programming from Survival, Partridge Films, the BBC 2 Timewatch strand, Wall to Wall
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WORLD SERVICE AND BRITISH COUNCIL TARGET EDUCATION
The BBC World Service and the British Council have signed a collaborative agreement designed to 'maximise the impact of Britain's educational work overseas', according to the BBC. The two bodies will
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CARLTON HIVES OFF THUNDERBIRDS GAME RIGHTS TO SCI
Carlton International has licensed worldwide computer and video game rights for Thunderbirds to SCI Entertainment. SCI is planning to develop games both for next-generation consoles systems such as Play Station 2
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DIGITAL SATELLITE REVENUES PASS $10 BILLION
Global digital satellite TV (DST) operators took more than $10 billion (£6.2 billion) in revenue in 1999, according to Baskerville Communications' report, Global Digital and Satellite TV - Second Edition. The
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ALLAN JOINS JURY FOR MONTE CARLO TV PRODUCER AWARD
Former Carlton Television director of programmes Andy Allan is to be the UK member of the international jury judging the second European television producer award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
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VICTORIA MEDIA AND EM.TV SEAL CO-PRO ANIMATION DEAL
German film fund Victory Media Group and rights trader and merchandiser EM.TV & Merchandising have signed a co-production deal to become leading international players in children's animation. The two are planning
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NEWS CORP AND TIME WARNER SIGN US CABLE AGREEMENT
News Corp has signed a five-year US retransmission deal with Time Warner, providing further signals that the two rivals are prepared to bury the hatchet in the digital age. The agreement
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BIG BROTHER CORNERS MARKET SHARE FOR FINAL EPISODE
Big Brother, the Endemol-produced interactive show that asks viewers to vote on which contestants should be thrown out of a household of strangers, scored a 73 per cent share (3.5 million
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Euronews steps up German presence with new ZDF deal
Euronews has signed a distribution deal with German public broadcaster ZDF, winning a place on ZDF's new digital cable and satellite platform, writes Tim Dams.
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Carlton joins TF1 for online venture
Carlton Communications and leading French commercial terrestrial broadcaster TF1 are in exclusive negotiations to establish a pan-European online joint-venture, @lliance.The two partners have agreed to invest )100 million (£63 million) in
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Real Life's fly-on-the-wall hospital doc takes off
Real Life Productions has racked up three new deals for its 12 x 24-minute fly-on-the-wall documentary, Accident & Emergency, writes Tara Conlan.
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CLT buys News Corp Vox stake
News Corp is selling its 49.9 per cent stake in the German free-to-air TV channel Vox to Europe's biggest broadcaster, Luxembourg-based CLT-Ufa, for DM650 million (£210 million), writes Katy Elliott.