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Production - Money for new rope.
Howard Webster asks television graphics producers how the trend for movie-style visual effects in factual programmes has affected their businesses and whether it means more money or more headaches.
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Production - Millar puts£4m into Whitfield St Studios.
Robin Millar, the new owner of London facility the Whitfield Street Studios (see Broadcast, 13.2.04), is investing around£4m to get the facility up and running, writes Farah Jifri.
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PRODUCTION - FLAXTON JOINS HD BILL.
Director and DoP Terry Flaxton has been added to the bill for next week's Harnessing High
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Production - Luckwell given trade body role.
Mike Luckwell has been appointed chairman of a new post-production industry association being set up by
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Production - Foundry invents open VFX program.
London-based company The Foundry has blown the visual effects market wide open with the development of
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Interview - Finding the X factor.
Xfm's new programme controller, Andy Ashton, has a tough job ahead balancing the needs of indie fans, who don't want a mainstream station, with those of owner Capital which is pursuing bigger audiences.
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Skillset Survey - Workforce survey: 2003.
Skillset's biennial snapshot of working life in the audio-visual industry reveals women lagging behind in salary, although they make up the majority of new entrants.
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Opinion - Comment - How Broadcast was born.
Marc Alexander remembers a fellow founding father of Television Mail, now Broadcast, and how the idea for a magazine for the broadcasting industry was dreamt up in 1960.
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Opinion - Taking the Mickey.
A takeover of Disney should be big news, but who cares when it is unlikely to herald anything but creative moribundity?
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Opinion - In My View - A spring in the step of ITV.
While no one at ITV enjoys the BBC's discomfort, the ecology of UK broadcasting will emerge healthier as a result, writes Simon Shaps.
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COMMISSIONS - OBJECTIVE MAKES OVER E4 DATING SHOW.
Objective Productions is to revamp its E4 dating show Five Go Dating and will deliver 30
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FORMATS & DEALS - C4I SECURES DEALS WITH FRENCH CHANNELS.
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales in France, including the acclaimed arts reality
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BBC script error hinders ABC deal.
Plans to adapt BBC crime series Murder in Mind for the US could be scuppered after
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Analysis - Profile - Serious about creating comedy.
Phil Clarke, the man behind hit comedies including Bo' Selecta! and Brass Eye, is leaving the comfort zone of a leading production company for a new challenge.
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FORMATS & DEALS - ITALIAN CHANNEL TO ADOPT KUMARS FORMAT.
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is to make a local version of comedy chat show The Kumars at
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FORMAT FOCUS: THE AMAZING RACE.
The Emmy award-winning reality show is about to enter its fifth series. Michael Rosser looks at what makes this show such a 'globe-trotting' success.
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FORMATS & DEALS - BBC AMERICA BUYS IDEAL WORLD'S LOCATION.
Indie Ideal World has sold 13 hours from the first three series of Channel 4 property
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Analysis - The future of ITV news.
Radical changes taking place at Meridian are being seen as a blueprint for ITV's other regions but many fear that, in chasing a streamlined, hi-tech ideal, the inevitable result will be a poorer service, says Peter Keighron.
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On the Box - Singing reality's praises.
Despite choirgirl Laura-Jane's failure, Faking It is still hitting the high notes for Colin Gilbert, who also reckons Freddie Starr could be the next king of the jungle.
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FORMATS & DEALS - CELADOR SCORES MORE BRAINIEST SUCCESS.
Celador International has won further international success for its Brainiest ... quiz show with a new