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Jimmy's Farm (BBC2) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
?The sight of the night was an Iron Age sow giving birth.?...
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Lean times for kids TV
If junk food advertising on children's TV is banned it won't just be the kids who get thinner - cash-starved channels will slash originality and stuff schedules with repeats and cheap programming
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Suggs on Virgin
Virgin Radio is giving Madness frontman Suggs his own evening show but has dropped specialist DJ Captain America. Suggs will host a three-hour show, Virgin Party Classics, from 19.00 every Friday. The show will play tracks from the likes of Robbie Williams, the Beatles and Soft Cell. Nick Stewart, who ...
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Trouble run for MTV's Undergrads
Trouble has inked a deal with Decode Entertainment to screen MTV Animation series Undergrads. The 13 x 30-minute series follows the misadventures of a group of friends in their first year at college. It will begin its run on Trouble next month.
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Mentorn looks at urban myths
Indie Mentorn is to make a series for Channel 4 exploring the truth behind a range of urban myths such as the tale of the fisherman who was skewered through the eye by a leaping swordfish, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Symphony kit at Sanctuary
Sanctuary Post has bought an Avid Symphony online edit system in response to client demand, shortly after buying two Nitris DS HD systems earlier in the year.
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Waller joins red
Colourist Tim Waller has joined Red. Waller, who started at SVC grading classic promos such as Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love before moving to MPC, has joined from his post as head of telecine at Dublin's Windmill Lane Pictures. His work included commercials for Guinness, Vodafone and Carlsberg. Red managing ...
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Granada promotion
Granada development producer Clare Thompson has been appointed head of development for the company's entertainment division. Thompson, who devised Granada show American Princess for NBC, will now oversee the merger of Carlton and Granada's development teams. She replaces Siobhan Greene who has left to join Simon Cowell's new production company.
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Fox to launch Fuel
Fox International Channels is launching another of its US channels in the UK. Targeting 13 to 24 year-olds, Fuel will launch in the fourth quarter of this year and show music, entertainment and extreme sports such as skateboarding, surfing and BMX. Fox, which launched FX on Sky in January, is ...
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Skillset training for first jobbers
Skillset is piloting a£250,000 scheme to help train first jobbers working in post-production.
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Jump tackles war film titles
Jump has produced opening titles and programme graphics for BBC documentary One Day at War. The titles introduce 16 people who were filmed for a day on 22 March 2004. The trait they had in common was that they live in places affected by conflict. Keith Livingstone designed and composited ...
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Man enough for the job
Less mean than Birt, less impulsive than Dyke, we can expect the new DG to captain a sensible ship
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Eight takers for monster garage
Granada International has clinched several deals for mechanical makeover series Monster Garage and spin-off Monster House. The first series of Monster Garage, which has already aired on Channel 4, has been picked up by a further eight broadcasters including AB Sat in France, Ananey in Israel and Discovery International. In ...
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Sewell to front rolls-royce doc for five
Art critic Brian Sewell is to present another show for Five - fronting a history of Rolls-Royce. The two-parter, which will air later this summer, is timed to coincide with the luxury car manufacturer's centenary year. The series, produced by Wag TV, was ordered by Five controller of daytime, arts ...
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Monkey to produce spielberg doc
Monkey Kingdom is to produce a documentary on movie director Stephen Spielberg for Five, featuring exclusive interviews with the director. Five controller of music and youth Sham Sandhu has commissioned the 60-minute programme, Hollywood Heroes: Spielberg, to air in September to tie in with the UK release of Spielberg's new ...
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US makeover for Judge John Deed
BBC Worldwide and US production outfit Reveille are to rework BBC1 crime drama Judge John Deed for a US audience. Colin Jarvis, director of programming and operations at BBC Worldwide, is working with Ben Silverman, who heads the Universal-owned Reveille, to find writers to adapt the original scripts for the ...