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Waheed Alli heads bid for gay London digital radio franchise.
Former managing director of Carlton Productions Waheed Alli is spearheading a bid for a new London digital radio franchise, after the consortium behind it agreed to provide a service for the gay community, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C4 orders two one-offs from Maverick.
Channel 4 has ordered two one-off specials and a series of shorts from indie Maverick TV. Head of C4 Ideas Lab Liz Warner has ordered Jailbait, a 50-minute piece looking at
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BBC 2 puts contestants through SAS tests.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have commissioned a new BBC 2 survival series SAS - Tough Enough? In the 6 x 30-minute show, presented by
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Shipwrecked to run for third series.
Channel 4's reality show Shipwrecked, is to return for a third series. RDF Television has begun pre-production and it is hoped filming will begin in the spring. An appeal for young
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Another stars and their lives for ITV.
Regional independent Hanrahan Media is to produce a third series of Carol Vorderman-fronted Stars And Their Lives for ITV. The£2m order will be co-produced with Carlton TV for delivery later
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Popper calls for comedy lab ideas.
Channel 4 entertainment editor Robert Popper is looking for ideas for this autumn's 9 x 30-minutes Comedy Lab series. He will also commission a handful of 11 and 12-minute pieces to
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Ideal world to make car scam show for C4.
Ideal World is making a 6 x 30-minute Channel 4 motoring series designed to inform car-buyers of the newest and most frequent rip-offs and scams in the motoring trade. Working-titled Tricks
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S4C commission details on website.
S4C, the Welsh arm of Channel 4, has posted details of the kind of programmes it is looking to commission on its website. The address for the bilingual site is www.s4c.co.uk.
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UKTV reveals first cluster of orders.
UKTV has unveiled the first tranche of orders from its£15m new programming fund, ordering six new series to run on its factual channels UK Style and UK Horizons. OR Media is
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BBC chiefs order four documentary projects.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have ordered four documentary projects to be produced in-house by BBC documentaries, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV asks Baby Cow and Avalon TV to co-produce new sketch series.
Baby Cow Productions, the independent run by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, has bagged its first ITV commission, writes Colin Robertson.
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Live video-to-web transfers made faster.
The Grass Valley Group (GVG) is to market an internet encoder which it claims will speed up the process of taking live video straight to the web by combining all the necessary steps into one box, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Ikegami unveils new Editcam2.
Camera manufacturer Ikegami has revamped its Editcam2 hard disk. camera to enable news teams to edit and transmit footage to broadcasters or post-production facilities from the field, write Adrian Pennington and Will
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Online TV music site launches.
Former Virgin Music Group executive Maria Forte has launched an online audio service that allows television, commercial and film producers to download broadcast-quality soundtrack music from the internet. Intended to fill the
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Skill shortage poses risk to UK animation.
Softimage UK product manager for XSI Richard McGuinness has lamented the lack of animation talent in the UK, writes Will Strauss.
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Carter joins Llip Sync.
Post-production specialist Michael Carter has joined Lip Sync Post's audio team. Carter arrives from Pinewood Studios where he worked for 32 years on projects such as Goldeneye, Eyes Wide Shut and,
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Hollis quits S&M.
Co-founder of high-end post house Smoke & Mirrors (S&M) Jon Hollis has left the company to become a full-time director. An Inferno artist at S&M, Hollis leaves after five and a
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New kit at Tele-Cine.
Post-production facility Tele-Cine has added a Virage video logger to its encoding and compression department to provide indexing for encoded video clips used for streaming on the internet. Video logger processes
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Red prepares for Red-i.
Soho creative facility Red has added two new members of staff in readiness for the launch of its e-media arm Red-i. Zak Ezzati joins as senior Mac designer and will head
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Rogue signs Warwick.
Rogue Films has signed award-winning director Ben Warwick. Best known for his culinary programmes, including Nigella Bites and Monty Don's Fork to Fork, Warwick has recently completed commercials for the Bird's