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IN PRODUCTION - OPTEX TO SELL SONY.
London-based reseller and rentals company OpTex has inked a deal with Sony to become the latest
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Production - Pepper pours£1m into HD kit.
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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Interview: Stuart Murphy - A happy first birthday for BBC3?
Critics have ruthlessly dissected the ratings for the BBC's 12-old-month baby and questioned whether its£97m budget is money well spent. So does Stuart Murphy, BBC3's controller, have cause to celebrate?
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Opinion - Comment - Confessing all over dinner.
Television increasingly relies on serving up private revelations for entertainment. It's all part of a rather worrying outbreak of confessionalitis in our culture, says Tessa Mayes.
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Genre Focus: Drama - The American way.
US subscription channel HBO has built both a business and a creative reputation based on quality drama which taps into the Zeitgeist; can UK producers ever hope to emulate such success? Meg Carter reports.
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Production - Buyers line up for BBC Tech.
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04).
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Genre Focus: Drama - Breaking the Silence.
Hear the Silence writer Timothy Prager on the challenges of turning real events and people into a drama about autism.
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Production - Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell.
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs.Staff
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Genre Focus: Drama - Creating fiction from fact.
Drama-documentary is taking advantage of TV drama's increasing sensationalism and is attracting viewers with topical storylines and provocative subject matter.
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Opinion - 'I'm a DG ... get me in here!'.
There are more difficult jobs in the world than the role of director general at the BBC, but it's hard to think of any.
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Genre Focus: Drama - Dramatic licence.
Laura Mackie relishes the opportunities her position as BBC head of drama serials affords for her to bring dynamic projects to screen. She talks to Leigh Holmwood about the future of the genre in an age of reality TV.
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Opinion - In My View - Here's to you ITV plc.
ITV might be the darling of the Competition Commission, but has Charles Allen come to the end of his nine lives, asks Dawn Airey.
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Interview - Red's storyteller.
Putting the writer at the centre of the creative process is key for successful drama, says Nicola Shindler, whose indie, Red Production, is behind some of the most original television dramas of recent years.
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In Production - The Nile put through The Mill.
Mill TV has completed work on The Nile, a three-part documentary for BBC Bristol. The show
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FORMATS & DEALS - AMERICAN IDOL 3 SET FOR GLOBAL AIRING.
American Idol 3, the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol, is to be screened
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COMMISSIONS - C4 ORDERS TWO NEW WIFE SWAP SERIES.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife
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FORMATS & DEALS - C4I DOES BRISK BUSINESS WITH AUSTRALIA.
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a
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FORMATS & DEALS - ACTION TIME DOES FORMAT DEALS IN EUROPE.
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow
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FORMAT FOCUS: ALTERNATIVE LOVE.
The BBC is taking a risk with a version of this on-location dating show with a 'love triangle twist', writes Michael Rosser.
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Analysis - Profile - The view from 'Reality Row'.
After three years building up one of the biggest US outposts of a UK indie, RDF executive producer Cathy Rogers is heading home in search of fresh formats.