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September Films to expand Hollywood franchise
September Films is to expand its Hollywood franchise to Channel 4 with a series exploring religion, writes Steve AstonThe 2 x 60-minute series, Hollywood Religion, ordered by C4 editor for religious
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Manhunt returns as series called NCS
BBC 1 crime double drama Manhunt has been commissioned by channel controller Lorraine Heggessey for a full series.Entitled NCS (National Crime Squad), the series will air as 6 x 60-minute episodes
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Kiss 100 gets new saturday night line-up
Kiss 100 is launching a new line-up on Saturday nights. The station, which is owned by Emap, the publisher of Broadcast, kicks off Kiss Saturday this week (20 October) with three
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Calligrapher subject of 3BM commission
BBC Wales head of arts Paul Islwyn-Thomas has commissioned a 50-minute programme from 3BM Television about the UK's leading scribe, Donald Jackson. The Calligrapher, His Art and the Bible
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BBC 1 to get longer series of Clocking off
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a third longer series of the popular Manchester factory drama Clocking Off from Red Production. The 60-minute episodes, to be produced by Juliet Charlesworth
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MediaArc cuts back
BBC MediaArc plans to close the graphic design department in Birmingham with the loss of 13 posts. BBC MediaArc said: 'Given the continued reduction in business and little prospect of recovery,
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NewsJowell confirms licence fee
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has confirmed the BBC's licence fee settlement and said she expects the corporation to make 3% cash-releasing savings annually from next year.
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McMillan ups board
Reseller and broadcast specialist McMillan has created two additional board directorships with the appointment of national marketing manager Kay Gilmour and national product manager for Avid Gordon Watson. Both take up
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Root6 hires Avid expert
Soho-based reseller Root6 has appointed Richard McGuinness as product specialist for Avid DS HD and the integrated workflow environment from 5D.McGuinness joins from Avid where he was UK product specialist for
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Animators go to MPC
The Moving Picture Company has expanded its 3D animation department by appointing two additional animators. Simon Clutterbuck has joined from Smoke & Mirrors and Martin Carroll from FrameStore.Current projects include BBC
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Resolution promotion
Resolution has promoted director of post-production Mike Saunders to managing director, replacing outgoing managing director Roger Moffatt. Saunders has been a director with the company for five years as well as
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Simmons wins junior animator's award
The winner of this year's European Junior Animator's Award, organised by Softimage, is Owen Simons, currently working for Blue Monkey Studios in Cardiff.He was presented with the award for The Vet
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Liberty Livewire starts to restructure
The first evidence of plans to restructure the Liberty Livewire group emerged this week with the creation of a sales team for the media services division, writes Barbara MarshallFormerly known as
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BBC Resources appoints Southgate as MD
BBC Resources has appointed RTL technical division chief executive Mike Southgate as managing director, writes Barbara MarshallSouthgate will take up the position on 1 December, replacing acting chief executive David Green,
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NewsTessa Jowell's statement on the licence fee
Media secretary Tessa Jowell's statement to the House of Commons over the licence fee settlement
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TV Corporation appoints Anderson as group facilities MD
Visions managing director Martin Anderson has been promoted to the TV Corporation board as managing director for group facilities, responsible for outside broadcast facility Visions and post facility Molinare writes Barbara Marshall
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BBC and ITV finally net World Cup rights
Broadcasters strike deal with German rights holder Kirch for all 64 matches in£140m deal that also includes rights to 2006 World Cup finals in Germany
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Champions League coverage scores again for ITV1
8.5m watch Manchester United's game against Spanish leaders Deportivo
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Oneword director plans action against BBC's Network Z
Concerns over greenlight for corporation's new spoken word service as Oneword faces a programming shift