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Tigress turns lost pooches into working dogs
Specialist factual indie Tigress Productions is training three abandoned dogs to competition standard sheepherders in the hope of finding them new homes.
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Five goes for Supersize She
Five is to explore the world of female body-building in documentary Supersize She. The 60-minute film will focus on the story of British female body-builder Joanna Thomas, in her bid to become Miss Olympia - the highest accolade in the sport. Producer Special Edition Films will ...
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Golden Square gets mobile
Soho's Golden Square Post Production has completed work on sponsorship idents for Formula 1 on ITV and T-Mobile. The idents feature a mobile phone passing itself off as various parts of a Formula 1 racing car, such as the car's wing-mirror or a spinning wheel, but soon reveal that the ...
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UKTV History orders WWII specials
UKTV History has commissioned two series as part of a special V for Victory season, marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in the second world war. Wingspan Fulcrum TV has been commissioned to make 1945, a 5 x 46-minute series on the last months ...
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Inman joins input
Mike Inman, the former executive producer for sport at Carlton, is joining production and post company The Input Video Group as executive producer. Inman is the second appointment in as many weeks, following head of business development Richard Markell. Inman brings a wealth of sports experience having been involved with ...
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MipTV launch for Wimps to Warriors
Distraction Formats is teaming with Tiger Aspect to make its format Wimps to Warriorsa global hit. The five-part show, which sends eight men off to a camp where they endure challenges to become 'real men', airs on Sky One later this year. Distraction Formats will launch ...
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ProVision in Manc
Granada-owned ProVision, the Leeds-based location equipment hire company, is set to open a Manchester office in early April at ITV Granada, Quay Street. The ProVision Manchester site will be headed by newly appointed operations manager Stuart Grant and supported by equipment co-ordinator James Jones. Grant joins from 3sixtymedia and Jones ...
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Pink MD on UK post
Anita Nandwani, managing director of Bristol's Pink House Post Production, has been voted onto the UK Post board as the second regional representative, joining Barcud Derwen managing director Bryn Roberts. Nandwani won her place by receiving over 30% of the regional members' vote. Nandwani highlighted increasing network commissions outside London ...
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Shoefield moves on
Former Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programming Gary Shoefield has joined Who Wants to be a Millionaire?owner Celador. Shoefield, who was made redundant from the multichannel broadcaster a fortnight ago following its takeover by ITV, is now working as a consultant at the indie's distributor Celador ...
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BBC's carte blanche?
The treatment of a complaint made by a participant in a 2002 BBC2 documentary shows how hard it is to hold the BBC to account for its mistakes, argues David Elstein
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The pop culture champion
After pioneering nostalgia shows at the BBC, Alan Brown is shaking off the licence fee shackles for Talkback Thames and populist programme-making.
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No job for a woman... or ethnic minorities
The strong line-up of female executives in the running for the BBC1 controllership doesn't mean the picture further down the ladder has changed. Skillset's new research shows women in broadcasting are still getting a raw deal.
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In My View - Is TV fair to teenagers?
Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture.
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Do you feel lucky?
Lottery fever is way past its peak in the UK so as Camelot turns to multichannel in an attempt to widen its audience, the BBC is casting around for new concepts for the Saturday night show, writes Peter Keighron.
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A job worth doing
Maxim Jago thinks that small budgets are the best way to judge the talent of newcomers to the industry.
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Man on the Street
This is the first interview Tony Wood has done since he became Coronation Streetproducer just over a year ago and, in some ways, it's wasted on Broadcast. When asked for an exclusive for Broadcast readers the best he can come up with ...
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So you wanna be in the mobiles?
Third generation mobile phones have tremendous potential, and the race is on to produce the first really compelling content. Peter Keighron reports.
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A Modest Revolution
Axing the BBC governors may sound dramatic but the government's green paper falls far short of radical reform.
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Thompson's PR problem
The price of the BBC's shift in management style from Greg Dyke to Mark Thompson is staff discontent. ...
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NewsGrade to head new BBC Trust
BBC chairman Michael Grade will remain at the head of the corporation despite the government's decision this week to abolish the board of governors after 77 years.