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    C4 unveils Celebrity Big Brother

    2004-12-10T14:30:30Z

    Channel 4 is cashing in on the success of Big Brother 5 by bringing back its celebrity spin-off, Celebrity Big Brother , for an extended run.

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    BBC makes commissioning change

    2004-12-10T14:22:12Z

    The BBC has unveiled the first major change to its commissioning structure following the review into its content supply arrangements, with the creation of four new commissioning areas in factual.

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    The Man Who Broke Britain gets 2.4m

    2004-12-10T11:41:38Z

    BBC2 one-off The Man Who Broke Britain managed a peak of 2.4 million (11%) but faced the might of Five's Hollywood blockbuster The Specialist.

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    Pearson shuts down Penguin TV

    2004-12-10T10:16:35Z

    Penguin Television, the TV production division of the Pearson-owned publishing group, is set to close after only one year in business.

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    Anglia Studios face closure

    2004-12-10T10:08:42Z

    Around 20 jobs are facing the axe at ITV's Anglia Studios because the company has failed to find any new work following Trisha Goddard's defection to Five.

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    MPC sale nets ITV£52.7m

    2004-12-10T10:06:30Z

    ITV has finally offloaded its post production facility The Moving Picture Company to French technology group Thomson.

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    Thomson takes on BBC strategy brief

    2004-12-10T09:53:54Z

    BBC director of policy and legal Caroline Thomson is to take on the added portfolio of strategy and distribution following the departure of its current head Carolyn Fairbairn.

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    Broadcast Awards: Channels and Indies

    2004-12-09T14:57:47Z

    Terrestrial and multichannel brands will slug it out for the title or the Channel of the Year at the 2005 Broadcast Awards in January with a shortlist of six channels.

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    I'm a Celebrity spin-off hits 6.7m

    2004-12-09T12:16:30Z

    ITV1 cashed in on the popularity of reality show I'm a Celebrity as a spin-off show peaked with 6.7 million (34%) at 10.05pm.

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    The good, bad and ugly

    2004-12-09T12:13:18Z

    The combined share of multichannel viewing looks set to grow by some 11% this year, outstripping both BBC1 and ITV1 for the first time as the two main terrestrial channels continue to lose viewers year on year.

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    ABC1 up on Telewest

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    ABC1, the UK entertainment channel owned by Walt Disney, will be available to Telewest digital TV customers as of Friday, 10 December. The US channel that includes in its portfolio shows such as Home Improvement and General Hospital , will ...

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    SMG puts£1.3m into boosting OB

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    SMG Broadcast and Event Solutions, the production resources arm of SMG, has spent£1.3m bolstering its outside broadcast capabilities to help it compete with the quality of Sky Sports.

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    Pepper spices up ITV1's Marple

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    Pepper has completed VFX work on the latest incarnation of OAP sleuth Miss Marple. Senior VFX artist Jamie Russell transformed summer scenes to a winter setting by adding backgrounds and winter mist. He also took Paddington station back to the 1930s by replacing modern-day elements with footage of gas lamps, ...

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    ITV1 idents get festive makeover

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    The Hive has created new graphics for the ITV1 festive season. The network logo's blue and yellow blocks transform to become animated 'fairy-light characters' that flick around the screen. The CGI images will be incorporated into all the channel's idents and break bumpers throughout the Christmas period. Creative director Phil ...

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    Emap spoofs 1970s for Kerrang!

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    Emap TV Design, Up Creative and Conkerco have produced idents for the Kerrang! music channel. The 4 x 30-second spots are based on 1970s public information broadcast warnings in a style reminiscent of Little Britain. The threat of caravan fatalities and rabies are parodied ...

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    Discovery H&L orders for i2i

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    Indie i2i Television has been greenlit to make five series for Discovery Home & Leisure.

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    Smooth operations lined up for R2 shows

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    Radio indie Smooth Operations has picked up a raft of commissions from BBC Radio 2. These include a six-part series on the history of comedy, a four-part series on plagiarism in music titled Same Old Song and a two-part programme to mark the 80th birthday ...

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    All3Media does Serious business

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    Distributor All3Media International has scored further worldwide sales for children's environmental adventure strand Serious... as a fourth series is greenlit by the BBC.

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    BBC rejects Barwise findings on BBC3 and 4

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has rejected the key recommendation of a government-backed report that called for its digital television channels BBC3 and BBC4 to become more mainstream.

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    Yipp gets C4 order about living with cancer

    2004-12-09T08:30:00Z

    YIPP Films is to follow up its award-winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off with a Channel 4 film exploring the friendship of two men brought together through chemotherapy.