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    BBC Broadcast lands Five subtitling and signing deal

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has won a four-and-a-half year contract with Five to provide audio description and sign language services as it looks to capitalise on an Ofcom ruling in July.

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    Lip Sync maps out Kids Awards

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Lip Sync post has provided the branding and animated graphics for Walt Disney Productions Disney Channel Kids Awards 2004. An animated pirate's treasure map was created, with the camera zooming in on a different area for each award. The design, map, visual effects and final compositing was done by senior ...

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    Todd-AO posts Winstone drama

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Todd-AO Creative Services has completed post-production on She's Gone for ITV1. The 120-minute drama, which was shot on 16mm, follows Ray Winstone's character as he searches for his missing daughter in Istanbul. Film editor John Stottart oversaw the editing process. The online and confirm were ...

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    Jump in Millionaire makeover

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Jump has completed a redesign of the titles and graphics for Celador's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Franchise holders in more than 90 countries will pick up the new design. Jump's senior designers, Russell Hilliard and Russell Mann, designed the sequence, while the 3D ...

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    Thomson man goes

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Manufacturer Thomson Grass Valley's UK managing director and sales director, David Philips, has left the company suddenly and is now on gardening leave. Jan Looijmans, sales director for the Benelux region, has stepped in to assume the role of sales director, northern Europe and Benelux. Thomson Grass Valley global communications ...

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    LPC loses its MD

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Managing director Maurizio Cimelli has left London Playout Centre (LPC) after 11 years at the facility - three of which as managing director. Bob Gentry, the director of network services, will fill the slot for the immediate future. Cimelli started at LPC as finance controller when it was owned by ...

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    Online appointment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Online music research tool Play has hired Simon James as its new director of operations and development. James leaves BMGZomba Production Music where he was director of marketing. Play launched in April 2002 and has 20,000 subscribers worldwide.

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    UP Satellite in UK

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media Group chief executive Ken Williams has predicted that there will be an upsurge in commercials finished in digital intermediate and even more growth in feature films. As a result, Ascent plans to put forward UP Satellite in the UK, a service currently available at Ascent companies in the ...

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    EBU HD amendment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.

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    Sky One orders Easycruise show

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.

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    Hunniford returns with celeb homes series

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.

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    League of Gentlemen writer is signed for new BBC3 comedy

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the writer of The League of Gentlemen.

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    BBC signs Lancashire to play Cannings

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a BBC1 docu-drama. Cherished will be based on the case of Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her children and spent two years in prison ...

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    C4 orders refugee doc from insight

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Indie Insight News Television has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a documentary about refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. A co-production with the Discovery Channel, Living with Refugees follows journalist Sorious Samura in eastern Chad as he travels with families forced to ...

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    Gamer.tv to produce new bravo series

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Bravo has commissioned a new series for video games players to replace long-running series Gamepad. Dominik Diamond will host 20 x 30-minute series When Games Attack , which will be made by indie Gamer.tv and shown this autumn. The ...

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    Pact launches indie rights body

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Producers' alliance Pact has launched a new division to help producers better exploit and protect their programmes and is in talks to merge the BTDA into it.

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    Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.

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    Cosgrove Hall develops teens toon

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Cosgrove Hall Films is to develop a new animated show around a group of streetwise friends with Manchester-based indie Streetplay Design. The Slums, which will target 15 to 24-year-olds, is part of Cosgrove Hall's strategy to expand out of producing shows for just the pre-school market. Writers working on the ...

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    Beaton sets up TV consultancy

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Former Action Time managing director Caroline Beaton has launched a TV consultancy which will offer advice on anything from international distribution to advertiser-funded programming.

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    Format focus: the immortals

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.