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    Molinare on the up

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    The fortunes of troubled Soho facility Molinare have taken a turn for the better with a significant increase in business. New managing director Mark Foligno told Broadcastthe company's turnover was up£60,000 on any of the previous 24 months, and included work done for the Tour ...

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    Westcountry line-up

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    ITV Westcountry has unveiled its autumn regional line-up with a series of documentaries including a dance programme presented by Lionel Blair. In the 6 x 30-minute series Dancing in the Dark, tap dancer Blair looks at the region's dance history. Plymouth-based independent Infinite Pictures has ...

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    Riverside to handle new SM:TV Live run

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Riverside Studios has poached the contract for what may be the last series of Blaze TV's SM:TVLiveand CD:UKfrom The London Studios, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Turn on goes forensic

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Manchester-based independent Turn On Television has been commissioned by the ITV Granada region and the Discovery Channel to make a 6 x 30-minute series following a group of forensic science undergraduates. Forensic Schoolwill air on 29 August on Granada and at the start of next ...

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    Disney endorses UK indie Talent

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Disney Channel UK has ordered its biggest ever commission from a UK indie, after asking Talent Television to develop a family gameshow series, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    Discovery on track

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Europe has ordered another series fronted by former Fast Showcomic actor Mark Williams. The 10 x 30-minute series, On the Rails, from Oxford Scientific Films Productions, will chart the history of rail travel to tie in with the bi-centenary ...

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    Dimmock in UK Style deal

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    UK Style has signed up Charlie Dimmock to front a new series charting the yearly cycle of a garden, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    DITG buys gointeractive

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    The Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG) has announced it has snapped up Gointeractive, the iTV technology and services company, making the merged companies the largest independent company in the UK's iTV industry. Gointeractive was jointly owned by Sony Pictures, Sony Venture Capital and Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. The company specialises ...

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    Jodie breaks silence for Bugsy

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster has given a rare interview to Tyne Tees Television for a 60-minute After They Were Famousshow on the stars of the 1976 film Bugsy Malone, in which she played Tallulah. The show will reunite the ...

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    Cartoon Network's Beastly bumpers

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Jellyfish Pictures has provided The Cartoon Network with break bumpers for channel sponsor Laughing Cow Cheez Dippers. The sequence shows various animals warming up for their own version of the Olympic Games, with Stuart Hall of It's a Knockout fame doing the voiceover. The horse, sheep, rat and cockerel all ...

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    Lion shares in BBC line-up

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Lion TV has picked up an order from BBC2 for a programme examining major historical events, as part of a 33-hour batch of new autumn BBC shows, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    422 to make HP promo

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    422 South has made a short film for Hewlett Packard (HP) to demonstrate the power of the PC manufacturer's experimental rendering service Frame Factory. The Painter,directed by Andy Power, is about a long-abandoned robot that lives in a basement. Produced by Anne Farrell, the film ...

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    Channel 4 puts on style with Living TV

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 and Living TV have commissioned the first-ever British Style Awards, featuring the world's top supermodels and performances from Elton John and Kylie Minogue, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Lion creates BBC2 3D show

    2003-07-31T08:30:00Z

    Lion TV will start recording a revolutionary new gaming series next week to air this autumn on BBC2 in the all-important 18.00 slot currently occupied by The Simpsons, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Playboy shows picked

    2003-07-30T16:11:53Z

    Flextech channel Living TV has picked up some more shows from Playboy TV International, including season two of Sexceteraand two new series, 7 Lives Xposedand Sex Court. Sexcetera takes a ...

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    Dangerous driving show earns BBC second rap

    2003-07-30T10:16:06Z

    The BBC has been given a ticking off by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for encouraging dangerous and irresponsible driving after it repeated a broadcast about a rally, which had already had complaints upheld against it.

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    BSC survey finds drama wanting

    2003-07-30T09:49:40Z

    Viewers' interest in drama has become 'dulled' and 'blunted' by an over-reliance on 'overworked' themes and storylines, a new report has found, writes Paul Revoir

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    R.I.P for TOTP

    2003-07-30T09:34:29Z

    Veteran music show to be shunted off to BBC3. ...

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    Black to the future

    2003-07-30T09:26:11Z

    BBC1 has unveiled its first black sitcom family. The Crouches are the stars of a new late-night show to be screened...

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    Top of the Pops is history

    2003-07-30T09:23:44Z

    Top of the Pops and The Generation Game look like becoming history - with BBC chiefs turning to the past to boost r...