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    Zone Vision to show Horror Channel in Europe

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    The Horror Channel is set to be rolled out in Europe after being bought by Zone Vision Networks, the owner of a string of digital channels including Reality TV.

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    Without Prejudice set for Fox Reality

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    12 Yard Productions is set to sell the first series of its Channel 4 gameshow Without Prejudiceto US broadcaster Fox Reality.

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    Telewest Launches Broadband TV

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Telewest Broadband has launched a web-based TV service offering niche entertainment and sports programming, including Living TV, on its Blueyonder website. The trial service provides broadband users with free content via four channels. Blueyonder 01 offers highlights from Flextech's Living TV, Bravo, Challenge and Trouble channels, such as ...

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    Format focus: Fata Morgana

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    This socially minded format challenges people to co-operate in a bid to achieve the impossible.

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    Government inspector goes to Finland

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 International has sold dramas The Government Inspector, Hell Has Harbour Viewsand Lawlessand teenage behaviour format Brat Campto Finland's YLE. Finnish channel MTV3 has also bought Last Man Standing, ...

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    BBC prime to launch in Singapore

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC is expanding the reach of its international channels by launching entertainment service BBC Prime in Singapore later this year. The channel, which offers programming from the BBC's entertainment and drama portfolio, such as Fawlty Towersand Top of the Pops, will be joining ...

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    New VP for ER in the Americas

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Postman Pat rights-holder Entertainment Rights has poached Viacom executive Kathleen Hricik, who currently oversees programme enterprises for various Viacom brands including MTV. She joins in August in the new position of executive vice-president and managing director of the US, Canada and Latin America. Based in New York, she will be ...

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    Russians to get male stripper show

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Russian channel TNT has acquired rights to StripSearch? The Real Full Montyfrom Distraction Formats. The show turns ordinary men into professional strippers and will air on TNT this autumn. StripSearchwas created by Screentime Partners and has been sold into 11 territories including ...

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    RDF's Millichip quits for new zealand job

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    RDF director of acquisitions and development Jane Millichip has quit to head All3Media's New Zealand production company South Pacific Pictures. Millichip leaves RDF Rights at the end of August after just over a year in the job. She will take up the role of managing director at South Pacific in ...

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    Axe hangs over Creature Shop

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    A final decision has yet to be made about the closure of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and the fate of its 23 full-time employees.

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    Peter Gabriel buys a 50% stake in Solid State Logic

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Audio console manufacturer Solid State Logic (SSL) has been bought by musician Peter Gabriel and American businessman David Engelke for an undisclosed sum.

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    Two Way TV adds mobile phone service

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Post and transmission house TSI is doing a deal with interactive tv provider Two Way TV to provide mobile phone services to broadcasters using its playout centre.

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    Wright to Metro

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Former MTV Studios general manager Peter Wright has replaced Nicholas Taylor as chief executive of media technology group Metro Broadcast. Wright was previously responsible for heading MTV's broadcast facilities division, which served more than 30 MTV channels. It also worked with external clients including Nickelodeon, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five. ...

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    West dig gets kit

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    West Digital has completed its£200,000 relaunch after buying the Real Editing Company from Independent Post last year. Joint managing director Darren Cock ordered three Avid Adrenalines - one HD - from reseller Altered Images. The refurbishment, including digital cabling infrastructure, was completed last month. West Digital is currently editing ...

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    Childline Support

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Chromakey specialist Reflecmedia has supplied its Chromatte to the producers of a music video promoting the new Childline anti-bullying single, Stand Tall, sung by Just3. Reflecmedia lent producer Colin McKeown and director Samantha Janus a

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    Bib wins BBC order

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Bib Buoy TV has won the BBC contract to post-produce visual effects shots on The Virgin Queen. The job, around 20 shots, has been estimated at about 90 hours in a Flame suite and five days' shoot attendance. The shots range from crowd duplication of armies ...

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    Pepper prepares Girl in Caf

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Pepper Post Production has completed post-production, including visual effects and title sequences, for Richard Curtis' Girl in the Café. The drama focuses on a politician (Bill Nighy) who embarks on a relationship with a girl that he meets in a café (Kelly MacDonald) around the G8 ...

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    Glastonbury goes green on BBC

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    422 Manchester has produced graphics for this year's BBC coverage of the Glastonbury Festival. 422 graphic designer Gareth Price created the multilayered sequences entirely within After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop. The strong use of green - using digital stills - was used to create a distinctive theme for this year's ...

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    Directors follow the Romans

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Directors Cut has completed post-production on Life and Death in Romefor production company Shine. The 6 x 60-minute documentary series goes back 2,000 years to look at how the Romans lived, loved and partied. Online editor Andrew Elliott used digital film effects and lighting effects on ...

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    Sperber to leave CBBC drama in July

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    CBBC's head of drama has announced she is to quit the corporation for a move to the independent sector, but has no new job lined up. Elaine Sperber - who commissioned award-winning series such as Fungus the Bogeymanand Microsoap- will leave her ...