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    Canon's new camera

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Canon has unveiled its new broadcast quality, interchangeable lens digital video camcorder - the XL2. 'With more than double the resolution of the XL1s, the XL2 sets the new broadcast-quality mini-DV recording standard,' said Malcolm Hills, head of Canon consumer imaging, UK and Ireland. 'Canon expects this digital video camcorder ...

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    Nickelodeon orders prism cartoons

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Indie Prism Entertainment has won a commission from Nickelodeon Europe to make its planned Simpsons -style cartoon based on real families. Three families from Benelux, Scandinavia and Spain will be chosen to star in local versions of the show. They will feature in comedy-driven storylines ...

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    CDN opens in north

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    The Cultural Diversity Network - the organisation that aims to improve ethnic representation in TV on and off screen - has opened a branch in the north of England. CDN-North comprises representatives from nine organisations based in the north of England - BBC GMR, ITV Granada, Liverpool Film Studios, Media ...

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    I'm a Celebrity producer to run entertainment unit

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Natalka Znak, the executive producer of I'm a Celebrity? , has been given her own programme-making unit and charged with developing new formats for the UK and the US.

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    Jump rebrands news channel

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Jump has rebranded Indian news channel Aaj Tak, incorporating new technology to allow headlines to be embedded in the idents as news breaks. Jump was responsible for the idents, titles and interstitials and its design team was led by Russell Mann. The majority of footage was shot in Mumbai and ...

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    Ofcom scolds chef

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Ofcom has upheld a complaint about a recent episode of BBC2's Trouble at the Top in which former two Michelin star chef Tom Aitken exclaimed

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    Fox Kids chief exec in shock exit

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    The board of Fox Kids Europe surprised executives this week by removing chief executive Bruce Steinberg after 18 months at the helm.

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    Cineflix completes zero hour deals

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Cineflix International's disaster documentary series Zero Hour has been licensed to Australia's Seven Network, the Holland Media Group, New Zealand's TVNZ and Germany's Vox. The 4 x 60-minute series was co-produced by 3BM Television and Cineflix's parent company, Cineflix Canada, and received additional funding from ...

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    Talkback comedy

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is testing a topical comedy show from Talkback Thames. The show, entitled The News Never Sleeps , is a non-broadcast pilot, which is being overseen by C4 head of comedy Caroline Leddy. C4 is hoping that, if the trial is successful, the show ...

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    Five looks at ?human computer'

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Five has teamed up with four other broadcasters to make a programme about a boy dubbed the 'human computer'.

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    ITV hands UK's largest uplink contract to SISLink

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    SISLink, Europe's largest independent uplink services provider, has won the five-year contract to supply ITV with uplinks for its entire regional news network.

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    Olympics coverage

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    The BBC will give its biggest ever commitment to the Olympic Games this summer when it broadcasts more than 1,250 hours of coverage. More than 250 hours will air on BBC1 and BBC2 with another 1,000 hours on interactive television, where viewers will be able to choose from five different ...

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    Lion to restage the Crusades

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Lion Television has won a multimillion-pound commission from US broadcaster the History Channel to bring the wars of the Crusades back to life.

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    Hadlow start date

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    New BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow will take up the role on 26 July, the BBC has confirmed. However, because of holiday commitments she will not be at her desk full-time until the beginning of September, meaning she will also not be attending the Edinburgh Television Festival. Hadlow, previously Channel 4 ...

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    Format focus: TV diaries

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Public voting adds interest to a show based around what at first resembles Big Brother audition tapes

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    Diet Trials set for Germany

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide is to co-produce a new series of slimming reality series Diet Trials for German audiences.

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    Terms laid down for Teachers TV

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Education Digital, the consortium appointed by the government to run the new Teachers TV channel, will be hit with profit-related fines if it fails to meet rigorous standards.

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    Function does Downloaded look

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Function Design has designed titles and in-show graphics for One More Production's Downloaded. The programme showcases footage of the weird and wonderful from the near limitless library of the internet. Function Design's Tobin Goffe was creative director on the project and Oasis head of ...

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    Loos joins Edinburgh line-up

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Rebecca Loos, the former assistant to David Beckham, who sparked a media frenzy earlier this year by claiming she bedded the married Real Madrid star, is to appear at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival.

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    Elstein urges Ofcom not to forget radio

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    David Elstein, the new head of the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA), has warned Ofcom not to marginalise its work on the radio industry.