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    nvidia launch

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    New PC video technology to be released later this year from Nvidia is expected to provide a major boost to live-performance animation characters. As PC manufacturers switch from AGP-based video boards to the higher bandwidth PCI Express, real-time render rates will leap forward. The boost comes from specially built motherboards ...

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    Lambie-nairn rival

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Former Lambie-Nairn managing director Sharon Wheeler has set up a new company, Turquoise, in Covent Garden in direct competition with her former employer. Wheeler, who left Lambie-Nairn in June last year, said: 'I didn't intend to set up Turquoise when I left - it grew organically.' Twelve months after leaving ...

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    Kerrang! rolls out

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Emap, publisher of Broadcast , is to roll out rock station Kerrang! across seven digital radio multiplexes, growing its coverage to two-thirds of the UK. The station, which was only available to digital listeners in London and Aberdeen, will cover Yorkshire, the north-east, north-west, West ...

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    ITV watches naturists at work

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Naturists of all professions are to star in an ITV primetime show called Going to Work Naked. Indie Hanharan Media, which is making the show, claimed to have found people doing a diverse range of jobs who can work unclothed. Ordered by ITV controller ...

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    Rights for lion shows go to screentime

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Screentime Partners has picked up the rights to a brace of entertainment formats from Lion Television. The indie, r...

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    Uncle to set up Endemol facility

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    The Farm Group subsidiary Uncle has won the contract to build a dedicated post facility for Big Brotherproducer Endemol in Bristol.

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    New Design Outfit

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Three former senior designers from Carlton this week set up a graphics design company, Bottletop. Dave Beeson, John Hunt and Anne Whitley decided to form the business to capitalise on the vacuum that would be left with the closure of the Nottingham studios. Bottletop is due to move into the ...

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    Dee takes lead in Simon Nye film for ITV

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Jack Dee is to star in an ITV film penned by Men Behaving Badlycreator Simon Nye, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Hoaxer made death threats to indie execs

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Senior executives at indie Zig Zag Productions, including managing director Danny Fenton, were issued with death threats by Britain's most notorious prankster, a court heard this week.

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    Thomson fifa deal

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Thomson has been selected by Swiss-based HBS (Host Broadcast Services), host broadcaster of the 2006 Fifa World Cup, to provide HDTV OB vans for its coverage of

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    Italian prospect of straight dates

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Indie Prospect Pictures has sold the format of reality show ...

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    Jump creates Sport Relief look

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Jump has designed and produced graphics for the BBC's live charity event Sport Relief. Title sequences and graphics for the charity telethon were based upon the concept of a video wall. The 16 x 8 grid allowed Jump to avoid TV design conventions and borrow ...

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    Spain cooks up own Takeaway

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Spain is to be the first country to show its own version of hit ITV show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

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    Company's trio of Gold Nymphs

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Company Pictures, the indie behind Shameless, walked away with a hat trick of Gold Nymph awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

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    Commissioner's Q&A : Gary Shoefield

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    GSB director of programming has a maximum of£10,000 an hour to spend so has little chance of realising his dream of poaching The Sopranos, but he can afford another Sold in 60 Seconds

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    chandos at TV corp

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    The Television Corporation, producer of Paradise Hoteland Robot Wars, has named Labour peer Tom Chandos as its new chairman, replacing Michael Grade, who left to become chairman of the BBC in May.

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    Living takes celebrity snaps

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Living TV has commissioned new indie Thumbs Up to make a 20 x 30-minute reality show about photographers who snap celebrities for a living.

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    Celador wins comedy order

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Celador Productions has been given a rare comedy commission, with a new half-hour show for Channel 4.

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    Zeal music rolls Cd:Uk to swiss market

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Blaze Television's ITV1 chart show CD:UK is to be remade for the Swiss market. The deal, handled by Zeal Music, will see the music show air on SF2, owned by public terrestrial network SFDRS, from September. Zeal will make the Swiss version, which will be retitled CD:Live. The format has ...