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BT BIDS FOR TV SERVICES
BT has made a bid to use its telephone network to provide TV services to its customers. The telecoms company has applied to the Independent Television Commission for a local delivery
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DEADLINE FOR CELTIC
The deadline for entries to the Celtic Film & Television Festival, taking place between 20 and 23 March next year in Brittany in France, closes today (9 November). Competition categories include
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Kids ITV to suffer as budgets are slashed
ITV can no longer compete with the BBC's kids output and is being forced to scale back its children's programming ambitions radically as budgets at the network become slimmer, ITV controller
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OSF hires natural history chief
Oxford Scientific Films (OSF) has appointed former United Wildlife producer Mark Strickson as head of programming for its natural history unit, writes Steve Aston.
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NewsLiving TV sends WAG on US modelling mission
LivingTV is to follow Britain's Next Top Modelstar Abbey Clancy as she attempts to crack the US market with the help of legendary supermodel Janice Dickinson.
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Telewest director poached for Japanese post
Telewest director of content acquisitions and business development Andrew Shaw has been poached by one of the company's biggest shareholders, Liberty Media, to join its Japanese joint-venture company Jupiter Programming, writes Simon Ellery.
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TVF boss lured to head RDF acquisitions
RDF International has lured TVF International head Lilla Hurst to become its first head of acquisitions, writes Penny Hughes.
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Stars secure Brighter future
Endemol Entertainment UK-owned Brighter Pictures has bagged a range of commissions, including a show for the BBC which highlights the pitfalls of celebrity.An as yet untitled 6 x 40-minute documentary series,
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C4 gives Ramadan order to SMG
SMG TV Productions has strengthened its relationship with Channel 4 after scoring two factual commissions, writes Steve Aston.
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Indies reflect on US attacks
The rash of programmes being commissioned in the wake of the 11 September attacks grew this week after Wall to Wall unveiled a 60-minute piece on Muslims in the US for
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Eyewitnesses to Eichmann
Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery.
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Hairdresser wars make BBC drama
The BBC is beefing up its comedy drama output with a new series on 'the Manchester hairdressing wars' from the creator of The Riff-Raff Element, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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THE STANFORD EXPERIMENT TO AIR ON BBC 2
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have commissioned a controversial 4 x 60-minute series based on the Stanford prison psychology experiment that took place in
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Robinson double wins Promax award
Anne Robinson's virtual-reality double scooped a gold gong at the Promax UK awards last Saturday (3 November), writes Jon Rogers.
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Nats and others still expanding
Nats Post-production has made an array of appointments in light of the company's expansion, writes Jon Rogers.
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Thomson drops Philips brand
Thomson Multimedia has ditched the Philips name across its broadcast product range, following the merger of the Philips Broadcast and Thomson Broadcast systems divisions over the past 12 months.All products within
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FARMER JOB FOR SKARAMOOSH
Skaramoosh designed the titles and graphics for The Farmer Wants a Wife, produced by Thames Television for ITV 1. The series follows a group of farmers - originally featured in a
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RTS TECH AWARDS
The Royal Television Society (RTS) credited Texas Instruments' digital light processing display technology as 'the engineer's dream' at the RTS Technical Innovation awards, held last Monday (5.11.01), and gave it the
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IBC CHANGES FOCUS
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) has scrapped its production festival, known as the Nombre D'Or, and instead will focus on developing the producer briefing and conference sessions in order to attract
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WALES ANIMATION EVENT
The Swansea Institute is hosting its second one-day animation event, to be held on 20 November at the Taliesin Theatre. The Swansea Animation Day is part of Swansea Bay Industry Week