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London facilities take Discreet kit
Three major London post companies have upgraded their facilities with the purchase of Discreet kit. Among the orders are the first installations of the manufacturer's new Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro workstation. Discreet did not reveal how much the deals are worth, writes ...
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MacQuarrie takes control
BBC Scotland head of programmes Ken MacQuarrie is to become the national division's controller in April, taking over from John McCormick who is retiring, writes Glen Mutel.
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Granada plans Xmas comedy
The Granada team behind Bob Martin are making a comedy drama for ITV1.
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New Classic gold MD
Former Jazz FM programme director John Baish is to become managing director of UBC-owned station Classic Gold. Basih, who has been working as operations director at Classic Gold since last October, will take over from Colin Wilsher who steps down in early April. Wilsher will continue to consult for Classic ...
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DG in charter special
BBC acting director general Mark Byford is to put the case for Charter renewal on a special Panorama programme next month. The studio-based show, What's the Point of the BBC? , will also feature David Attenborough, David Elstein and Endemol ...
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US women's channel picks up Nighty Night
BBC3's dark comedy Nighty Night has become the latest British comedy to cross the Atlantic after it was sold to a US cable network, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Bubble TV finds jobs from start
Sound mixer Chris Phinikas' new London audio facility, Bubble TV , has opened its doors with a string of jobs already underway.
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Milligan to leave Five for BSkyB
Five is set to lose its deputy chief executive, Nick Milligan, who is quitting to join BSkyB in a move that fuels speculation about a bid by Rupert Murdoch for the terrestrial channel, writes Conor Dignam.
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The Hive brings T-rex to life
The Hive has animated a tyrannosaurus rex in X-ray form for BBC2's Horizon science strand, which explores new research casting the dinosaur in a new light. T-rex: Warrior or Wimp? is a 50-minute programme produced and directed by Johanna Gibbon at the BBC's science department. ...
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ITV nabs boat race
ITV has poached the exclusive TV rights to the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race, which the BBC has been broadcasting since 1926. Sources said that both broadcasters offered similar amounts of money for the 2005 to 2009 package, but ITV had offered broader coverage, including a documentary in advance of ...
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Blackburn dropped
Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn is to be dropped from Jazz FM's evening schedule and replaced by former BBC Radio 1 presenter Clive Warren from Monday (1 March). Blackburn pre-records the late-night show but the GMG London station wants more live programming in its schedule. Blackburn will continue to present a ...
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Black writer to join the crouches team
The BBC's first ever black sitcom, The Crouches , has been commissioned for a second series - but this time it will include a black writer. The BBC came under fire with the first series after it emerged that it had been written by a ...
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Ideal World in bid to expand factual fare
Ideal World is looking to increase its contemporary factual output with the appointment of its first head of documentaries, writes Glen Mutel.
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ITV fails in bid to woo Rageh Omaar
A secret plan by ITV News to poach BBC 'scud-stud' reporter Rageh Omaar has ended in failure after the two sides could not agree a deal, it emerged this week. Omaar is currently a freelance at the BBC since his contract expired. Now Channel 4 is understood to be making ...
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Brainiac pilot being made for us channel
Granada's Sky One science series Brainiac is to be made into a non-broadcast pilot for US channel The WB. The pilot will be managed out of Granada's LA office by head of production Sam Zoda. The executive producer is David Franzke, whose credits include MTV show ...
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The BBC's licence to bill
Charter review must address the future of the licence fee in the digital marketplace.David Elstein did the industry a favour this week by outlining a radical broadcasting policy that would first dismember and then destroy the BBC. It was the kind of intelligent, coolly rational argument that one might expect ...
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BBC expands big cat week format
The BBC is to follow up the success of its Big Cat Week of stripped programmes with a look at the lives of elephants and monkeys, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC inks fresh three-year deal with RFL
The BBC has signed a new three-year deal with the Rugby Football League (RFL) to show live coverage of the Powergen Challenge Cup from next year. The tournament will take place in the summer with the final in August. The BBC has also signed a four-year deal with the RFL ...
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BAFTA wins for BBC
The BBC's The Darkhouse , an interactive radio drama, has picked up the award in the technical innovation category at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. The drama has also been adapted for the web. The BBC was also nominated for its ...
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Doubleband backed
Channel 4 and the NIFTC/ Invest Company Development Fund are to put£165,000 into Belfast-based DoubleBand Films, as part of C4's Creative Cities programme. DoubleBand regularly pitches to C4 - its recent output for the channel includes George Best's Body, Seven Days that Shook Sven ...