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Molinare on the up
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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NewsDangerous driving show earns BBC second rap
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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NewsBSC survey finds drama wanting
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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Black to the future
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
Top of the Pops and The Generation Game look like becoming history - with BBC chiefs turning to the past to boost r...