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    Rushes hires Aubry

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Post production house Rushes has signed up French Flame and Inferno artist Philippe Aubry. Aubry most recently worked at Cinesite, where he was responsible for the Inferno shots on the feature films King Arthur and Harry Potter and the Prisoner ...

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    Shameless picks up Prix Italia award

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Shameless , Channel 4's comedy drama about a dysfunctional Manchester family, has been named best drama series at the Prix Italia Awards, while the BBC has won four awards.

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    BBC team visit the Shoebox Zoo

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC Post Production's 3D animation and digital team has designed CGI-animated characters for new CBBC series Shoebox Zoo. The show sees teenager Marnie discover ancient Celtic woodcarvings in an old shoebox. The creatures spring to life to enlist Marnie's help in finding a magical ...

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    BBC promotion

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has promoted Karen Smith, the executive producer of Strictly Come Dancing , to editor, format entertainment across all four BBC channels. She will also executive produce the second series of Strictly Come Dancing , as well as the ...

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    GWR in licence bid

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Classic FM owner GWR is to bid for a new FM licence covering Greater Manchester, with a rock format that champions new music. The Storm will give extensive airtime to unsigned bands and actively promote live music throughout the city if selected from a range of competitive bids by regulator ...

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    Ofcom receives Edinburgh licence bids

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Bids for Edinburgh's new FM licence, believed to be worth£15m in ad revenues a year, were submitted to Ofcom this week. Emap, which publishes Broadcast , is bidding as part of the Castle FM consortium, SMG has proposed Virgin Radio Classic Rock, Guardian Media Group ...

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    Bravo ties up with Men's Health for series

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Bravo has teamed up with magazine publisher Rodale to air a masthead series based on fitness title Men's Health.

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    ITN Factual handed documentary brief

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    ITN Factual has been commissioned by A&E Network in the US to make six documentaries for the Biography Channel.

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    Format Focus: How to Build Your Love

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    This dating and DIY hybrid follows 15 singles as they go all out to build a house and find love in the process, writes Michael Rosser

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    UK indie gets Canada extreme-sports job

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Indie and distributor Black Diamond Films has been commissioned to produce two extreme-sports series by Global Broadcasting in Canada. The cable broadcaster X-Treme Channel will air bike sports series Spoked and skating series Concrete and Chaos , Both series will be 65 x 30-minutes long.

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    Lion to catch a thief format goes Dutch

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Lion TV format To Catch a Thief is to be remade for Dutch audiences. The BBC1 daytime show, in which two ex-convicts burgle a house on camera to expose its security deficiencies, will be reworked by indie Palazzina TV Productions in the Netherlands. The show is believed to be set ...

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    Final chapter for Hutton

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Dyke's continued ire against the government may be justified but for the BBC there is no point in revisiting Hutton.

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    Cicada and Dutch indie sign disaster deal

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Factual specialist Cicada Films has inked a new co-production deal with Dutch indie Off the Fence for two disaster documentaries. Off the Fence will seek other partners for the documentaries and market the productions worldwide, starting at Mipcom. The Day the Earth Split in ...

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    Cineflex mass sell to german networks

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Five documentary series The Ultimates is among a raft of programming that has been sold to German networks by distributor Cineflix International. The 6 x 60-minute technology series has been taken by Kabel 1. Cineflix has also sold MayDay , ...

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    Stars win Shine a clutch of orders

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Shine has secured a raft of entertainment commissions, including a show for Five examining how ugly celebrities manage to pull beautiful people.

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    Winkleman to host come dancing spin-off

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Former Liquid News presenter Claudia Winkleman has been signed up to front the new daily stripped spin-off of Strictly Come Dancing. The 40 x 30-minute order of Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two ...

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    Commissioner's Q&A: Kim Peat

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Five controller of daytime, arts and religion thinks Spitalfields in London is a great example of religion and art crossing over and has an idea in development that will help to make drawing sexy

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    Green Inc nets RTE contract

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Comedian Patrick Kielty's Belfast-based indie Green Inc has secured an order for 150 hours of programming from Irish state broadcaster RTE.

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    Euro success for undercover cops drama

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC undercover police drama In Deep has been sold to France, Switzerland and Belgium. French broadcaster M6 has taken all three series from distributor Indigo and will screen it on cable channel Teva while French pay-TV channel Canal Plus has bought the third series. Swiss ...

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    RDF series looks at historical crimes

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    RDF Media is developing a drama series about real-life murders from Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of country house whodunnit Gosford Park.