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    RDF in LA wins Spike TV order

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    RDF Media's Los Angeles office has scored a commission for US men's cable network Spike TV.

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    Japanese show set

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Equipment supplier Mitcorp is building a Japanese kitchen-style set for this year's Broadcast Production Show to help demonstrate the capabilities of a range of new Sony and Pana-sonic cameras. A sushi chef will work on site while being recorded by cameras covering DV through to HD, including the new disk-based ...

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    Indonesia and Malaysia take Pop Idol

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Pop Idol is to roll out across a raft of new territories including India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Slovakia. Slovack Television has signed up for 22 episodes plus 14 Idol Extras and its main channel - Jednotka - will air ...

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    Triangle hires MD and staff

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Triangle Television has expanded its operations with the appointment of a new manager and the addition of three staff.

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    Grade and Thompson

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's new chairman Michael Grade must choose a director general with vision and charisma to match his own

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    UKTV Food puts Wozza special on menu

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Anthony Worrall Thompson, host of BBC2 cooking strand Saturday Kitchen , is to be the subject of a UKTV Food documentary series.

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    Format focus: Mad Mad House

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Format focus: Mad Mad House

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    UK Post elections

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Momentum continues to build behind the new post-production trade body, UK Post, as the submission deadline for board nominations passed last Wednesday, 31 March. More than 30 individuals have been nominated for the seven elected seats that will make up the board under chairman Mike Luckwell. A further two to ...

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    Target picks up rights to I Dream

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment has picked up distribution rights to 19 Entertainment's new BBC teen show I Dream. The 13 x 30-minute series, is in production for broadcast on the BBC this autumn. The show is set in a fantasy theatre arts school and is based ...

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    ... but who will he pick for DG?

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    New candidates for the vacant BBC director general role are expected to come forward following confirmation of Michael Grade's appointment as chairman.

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    NAB debut for JVC kit

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    JVC is to introduce a portable HD player/recorder at NAB to accompany its hand-held JY-HD10 HD camcorder. The CU-VH1EX will record 720p/30 and will output 1080i/60. It will allow video producers to spool HD content from their tape to any non-linear editing (NLE) system without tying up the camcorder. Once ...

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    CNN presents recalls Warsaw uprising

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    CNN International has lined up 60-minute documentary Warsaw Rising: the Forgotten Soldiers of World War II. The film, which tells the story of the 63-day Warsaw uprising during the city's occupation by the Nazis, is being made by the channel's CNN Presents team, with ...

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    Ofcom lets missing chink off the hook

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Ofcom is to take no further action over a Channel 4 series entitled The Missing Chink , despite receiving 191 complaints. Viewers complained that the title of the series of four short films, which broadcast in January, was racist and offensive. However, C4 argued that ...

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    Indies chalk up daytime orders

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Two indies have secured footholds in ITV1 and BBC1's daytime schedules.

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    Fox buys new toons

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Fox Kids Europe has secured the rights to a brace of new animated series which will air in the UK later this year. The deals include 42 x 30-minute episodes of futuristic anime-adventure MegaMan NT Warrior , acquired from ShoPro Entertainment, and 26 x 30-minute ...

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    Five marketing director quits to head FHM brand

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    David Pullan, the Five executive who oversaw a multi-million pound rebrand of the broadcaster, has quit the channel.

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    Ragdoll sells Boohbah to Canadian TV

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie Ragdoll has sold hit pre-school series Boohbah to Canadian broadcaster Treehouse TV. The channel will air 52 episodes of the series, screened on CiTV in the UK, over a two-year period. It takes the number of channels airing the show to 12. ...

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    Tell-Tale develops new series of Boo!

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Tell-Tale Productions is to develop a fresh batch of animated pre-school series Boo! for the BBC and is preparing to deliver the show's first Christmas special. Work on the 52 x 10-minute series has just begun and the finished product will be distributed by Universal ...

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    Blackmore changes role at UBC Media

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Radio veteran Tim Blackmore is relinquishing his executive duties at UBC Media Group and has been appointed a non-executive director of the company. Blackmore, who founded the company with chief executive Simon Cole in 1989, will continue to serve as chairman of Classic Gold Digital and Oneword Radio and will ...

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    Resolution wins three big deals

    2004-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Resolution has won three big post-production contracts, thanks to a new logging system that allows producers to organise rushes and cut sequences from their own offices.