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Leaf call for 3d entries
The London Effects and Animation Festival (Leaf) is calling for entries from 3D artists and companies for the 2003 awards. With a new structure this year designed to recognise skills, techniques and technology applications, the awards take place on 28 October and the submissions deadline is 5 September.
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BBC3 gives The Bachelor another date
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has recommissioned dating format The Bachelordespite the show playing a large part in the channel's worst ever ratings night, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Carlton to produce junior Eurovision 2004
Carlton will be the host producer for next year's Junior Eurovision Song Contestand will also produce this year's national final on ITV1. The hunt for the young musical act to represent the UK in November's final, held in Denmark, will be broadcast on ITV1 on ...
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Exit puts the titles on BBC2's smartass
Nobody Likes a Smartass is a new early evening comedy quiz show due to broadcast in the middle of June on BBC2. Presented by Jo Brand, the show pits an audience of viewers against a panel of experts. The graphics and titles were done at ...
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BBC2 orders second batch of masterworks
BBC2 has ordered a further 10 x 50-minute episodes of The Private Life of a Masterpiecestrand which looks at major works of art. The new run, which is due to air next year, was commissioned from indie Fulmar Productions through BBC Wales by BBC2 controller ...
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Llewelyn-Bowen hosts BBC2 lifestyle hour
Changing Rooms -star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to front a new block of lifestyle shows on BBC2 at Sunday lunchtimes. BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has ordered a 36 x 60-minute run of Sunday Home and Garden, which will see ...
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Immigration is BBC1's next special topic
BBC1 is to look at the controversial issue of immigration and asylum in the next instalment of its day-long current affairs specials. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks have greenlit the project, which will aim to look at all angles of asylum. Programme details are ...
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NewsITN loses Purvis after 31 years
ITN chief executive and editor-in-chief Stewart Purvis is to retire before the end of the year after 31 years at the news provider, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsITV set for full ITN ownership
ITV could be allowed to have complete ownership of news provider ITN from the end of the year, according to media minister Baroness Blackstone, writes David Rose
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NewsVoice of horse racing dies
Peter Bromley - former BBC racing correspondent and radio's voice of horse racing for 41 years, has died aged 74.
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NewsFash to present Man Versus Beast
TV tough-guy John Fashanu has landed a presenting job on a new Gladiator-style show, Man Versus Beast - in which humans compete against animals writes Sam Matthews
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'If your mum could see this...'
With their Channel 4 show How Clean Is Your House? Aggies MacKensie and Kim Woodburn have made housework more fashi...
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Is Channel 4 bringing down the curtain on televised sport?
Pulling the plug on Lord's Test may be sign of things to come, writes Paul Kelso. ...
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This is as dumb as it gets
The communications bill is yet another attack on the notion of public service broadcasting. ...
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Puttnam acts to shield Channel 5
Lord Puttnam, the chief cheerleader of Labour rebels in the Lords, last night put forward a compromise to extricate...
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Fash lands the beast job on TV
I'm A Celebrity star John Fashanu has signed a deal to present a new Gladiators-style show - in which humans compet...
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Murdoch faces Channel Five 'public interest' test
Rupert murdoch would face a special 'public interest' test if he makes a bid for Channel Five under a proposal intr...
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NewsBig Brother creator quits chairman post
Endemol chairman John de Mol, creator of the groundbreaking reality format Big Brother, has stepped down as chairman of the company to concentrate on creative strategy, writes Penny Hughes
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FA faces cash crunch as TV bids fall short
The Football Association is facing a cash crunch after the value of bids for its next television contract covering ...
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Kumars take on the world
Foreign telly chiefs are ordering their own Indian takeaways to make the Kumars a world hit. ...