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MTV to go big on video music awards in NYC
The MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall on 28 August, presented by Hollywood star Chris Rock, will be broadcast in full on MTV UK & Ireland at 20.00 on 30 August. The 2003 awards mark the 20th anniversary of the ceremony and are the second ...
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Rosencrantz digs into archives
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has ordered two hour-long archive-based shows in the Best Everstrand from Yorkshire TV (YTV), writes Paul Revoir.
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BBC tests 'avatar' alternatives
Broadcasters could escape hefty payments on 'avatar' models of footballers whose image rights are licensed to game developers thanks to a new technology being developed by BBC R&D , writes Richard Dean.
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Five agrees emergency playout deal
Five has signed a two-year deal with BBC Broadcast for the corporation's commercial play-out division to provide 'second-line disaster recovery' for all of the commercial broadcaster's programme feeds.
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UK Style to add value to people's homes
UK Style head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned indie Reef Television to produce a 15 x 30-minute property series, Put Your Money Where Your House Is. The series, which will be repeated on sister channel UK Bright Ideas next year, will see property developer ...
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BBC3 commissions more Grease Monkeys
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has recommissioned comedy drama Grease Monkeys, about an Asian family who own a garage in Birmingham. The 10 x 30-minute run is expected to keep many of the original series' cast, such as Bend it Like ...
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ITV2 places order for party in the parks
ITV2 has commissioned Daisybeck Productions to produce a 60-minute music special on the broadcaster's own Party in the Parks concerts. The show will feature star-studded gigs in Leeds and Swansea and will include artists such as Busted, Sugarbabes, Atomic Kitten, Liberty X, Darius and Girls Aloud. ITV2's ...
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2d3 launches plug-in
Software manufacturer 2d3 has launched SteadyMove Pro, a shot stabilisation plug-in for film and video professionals. Users can load in a shaky video sequence and the application will automatically generate a smooth clip. It studies the images to calculate the relative camera movement from one frame to the next and ...
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MUTV to air all of 1999 Champions' League
Football club Manchester United has reached an exclusive agreement with the European Commission and Uefa to show the full archive of the 1999 Champions' League season on its own channel, MUTV. Celebrating the team's winning of the treble that year, the final match of the 13-game run will be the ...
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NewsEcosse Films revisits Brideshead
The production company behind Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray and the BBC series Monarch of the Glen is currently working on a film version of Brideshead Revisited, writes Jon Rogers
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NewsTalksport in the black for first time
Talksport radio station is trading profitably for the first time since it started broadcasting in February 1995, after recovering from a loss of£550,000 in the first six months of last year.
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TV hypocrite Alastair fired
Shamed Alastair Stewart ysterday lost his job fronting TV's Police, Camera, Action after being banned for drink-dri...
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Dyke in dock over dossier story
The BBC 'lies' war with Tony Blair was last night set to backfire disastrously on director general Greg Dyke. ...
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Take this man off the telly
Alan Yentob is on a mission - to revolutionise arts on the BBC. Great, says Patrick Wright, but does it all have to...
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Ministers back down on ITN
ITV licence-holders will be able to own outright the commercial news provider ITN, following a last-minute climbdow...