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Discreet updates
Discreet has announced new versions of its Inferno, Flint and Flame effects systems. The releases will be available at no extra cost to clients with valid Level 1, 2, or 3 Discreet support service contracts when the versions are shipped early next year. The company has also entered a partnership ...
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Granada Factual's Sasha Jeffrey dies
Granada Factual series producer and editor Sasha Jeffrey has died suddenly after a battle against illness. The 35-year-old most recently worked on the casting of the next run of I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here!- a role she held on the last ...
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Hollyoaks sets up text connection
Hollyoaksfans will be able to get an exclusive look at what their favourite on-screen characters are texting to each other under plans being developed by Mersey Television, writes Sam Espensen.
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Macca rocks in ITV Christmas
ITV has snapped up a documentary charting Paul McCartney's recent trip to Russia where he performed to more than 100,000 people as part of his Back in the World tour. The one-hour programme, Paul McCartney: The Journey to Red Square, includes the story of the ...
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Chambers to outline Five's future plans
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has joined the line-up of speakers at this year's Broadcast Commissioning Conference. Chambers will talk about Five's approach to commissioning and its plans for the future at the event, held at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel from 25 to 26 November. For tickets or further ...
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Lux resurfaces in Celador MD role
Former Channel 4 head of entertainment group Danielle Lux has been appointed as managing director of Celador Productions, the maker of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.
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Sky one tell full story of Blaine fast
American illusionist David Blaine's recovery from his 44-day fast in which he was suspended in a Perspex box near Tower Bridge in London is to be documented in a one-off film for Channel 4 and Sky One. Blaine's friend film director Harmony Korine has made the 60-minute David Blaine: Above ...
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GMG joint bid succeeds in Dutch radio
Jazz FM owner Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to make its first push overseas by helping launch a jazz station in the Netherlands.
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Bed count is a winner at Carlton
How many different beds have you slept in? That's the subject of 77 Beds, a short film by Alnoor Dewshi. The film stars Ben Whishaw, whose character, Ishmael, decides one sleepless night to count all the beds he has ever slept in. The film is ...
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BBC spruces up star rooms
BBC Studios has finished the first phase of its redesign of the 'work and relaxation areas' at TV Centre in a bid to attract high profile celebrities to the BBC, writes Sam Espensen.
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BBC locates the body's visitors
Body Snatchers is a gruesome three-part series made by the BBC exploring the relationship between man and the parasites that attack our bodies. Directed and produced by Alice Harper, the series is full of specialist photography by David Barlow, who won the Lennart Lisson Award ...
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US looks to BBC library for JFK footage
BBC Library Sales has clinched several new licensing deals as broadcasters prepare to commemorate the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination. Footage from its CBS news archive will be used for a BBC3 documentary on the Kennedy dynasty as well as a BBC News production, JFK: ...
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BBC widens 'watering hole' to include more genres
The BBC is to extend its 'watering hole' scheme - in which groups of different people are drafted in to help develop new shows - across further genres after a pilot scheme in the factual department was deemed a success.
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Wall to Wall nabs Dormer from BBC
Indie Wall to Wall has poached BBC drama commissioning executive Mike Dormer in a bid to bulk up its drama output.
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ITV hunts for real Basil Fawlty
A light-hearted look at people who claim to be real-life Basil Fawltys working in Torquay's hotel industry is one of the highlights of ITV Westcountry's schedule for winter, writes Paul Revoir.
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EC awards chatsworth cartoon subsidy
The European Commission has granted television company Chatsworth a subsidy of more than£240,000 for a£1.9m children's animation series. Space Luniesis a
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Asylum seekers doc wins three RTS awards
A little-known October Films documentary for Channel 4 focusing on the prickly issue of asylum-seeking took all the plaudits at this week's RTS Craft and Design awards, writes Will Strauss.
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Asquith back with teen drama
Channel 4 is to take another hard-hitting look at teenage sex and bullying with a new factually based drama from film-maker Daisy Asquith, hot on the heels of Sunday's (16 November) controversial Pleasureland.
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TWG backs Ashford fm bid for licence
The Wireless Group is hoping to bolster its regional presence by backing a local radio station's bid for a new FM licence. Ashford FM has been campaigning for a new licence for the area since early 2000, which is now likely to be advertised by new super-regulator Ofcom next year.
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Sky hikes prices to hit ARPU targets
BSkyB is set to increase the price of its top-tier package in January from£38 to£40 in a bid to reach its self-imposed target of making£400 a year out of each subscriber by 2005.