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Ex-Sky chief sets up indie venture
Black Diamond Films (BDF) has teamed up with one of the architects of Sky Sports to launch a new business to generate programme ideas.The indie, which specialises in action and extreme
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September goes clubbing with Israelis
September Films is to explore the lives of clubbers in troubled Israel with a documentary for Channel 4's news and current affairs department, writes Paul Revoir
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Granada International takes Comfort
Granada International has secured worldwide TV rights to the new series of Creature Comfortsfrom Oscar-winning model animation studio Aardman, in a deal which also ties up the original Academy Award winning short film.
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Silicon cuts jobs
High-end US computer manufacturer Silicon Graphics is to make a further 600 of its staff redundant. According to the company: ?The steps will bring costs in line with revenue targets for fiscal year 2004.? Together with the elimination of approximately 400 positions announced in May this year, the company's headcount ...
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Zeal nets Wall to Wall distribution deal
Wall to Wall has appointed Zeal Television to distribute three of its programmes - Secret Admirer, Five Things I Hate About Youand The History House. Secret Admireris set to debut ...
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GMTV and E! strike deal
GMTV has agreed a deal with entertainment news broadcaster E! Networks to provide content for the US broadcaster's new UK channel. GMTV's Entertainment Today showbiz programme will air from now until December on E! Entertainment Monday to Thursday at 11.00 after its original broadcast on the previous Friday on GMTV.
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Discreet IBC launch
Discreet will reveal a new version of its non-linear editing and finishing system Smoke at this week's IBC in Amsterdam. Smoke 6 will feature a new flexible software design for multi-resolution post-production, including the ability to work at any resolution at any time, and to mix resolutions within projects ...
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PBS picks up Five's Two Towers Doc
Michael Attwell Productions' Bafta-nominated documentary featuring survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been sold to the American PBS network. 9/11: A Tale of Two Towers was produced for Five and has been sold by UK distributor Electric Sky.
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Evolutions expands
Evolutions Television has hired former Technicolor DVD and video streaming specialist, Daniel Hurley, to run a new digital media division. With broadcasters looking to encourage more audience participation and add value to their programmes, the new department will help to re-purpose content for digital delivery via inter-active TV, DVD, ...
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French exclusive
French 3D digital animators Florian Perrett and Martine Delage-Vanderhaegen have signed an exclusive contract with Soho Editors to head the company's Softimage XSI team. Soho Editors head of animation Sarah Cloutier said: ?With projects such as The Matrix, Titanic and Dante's Peak to their credit, Florian and Martine will add ...
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SMG 'optimistic' in face of sharp slide in profits
SMG this week reported a 50% drop in profits for the first half of the year, but pledged to
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Filmlight ups scanner range
UK manufacturer Filmlight has developed a new dual-gauge version of its successful Northlight film scanner that will now scan 16mm as well as 35mm film.Originally introduced in February last year as a 35mm scanner for feature films, the Northlight has proved so popular that the company decided to introduce a ...
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Inspector Lynley to make a return
Detective series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries has been recommissioned by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey for a 4 x 90-minute run. The third series, which will again star Nathaniel Parker as Inspector Lynley, will include two adaptations of the Elizabeth George novels and two original scripts. The writers are Kevin Clarke ...
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ITV rebuilds the Titanic
ITV has signed off one of its biggest ever factual commissions, with a£1.75m 'blue-chip' documentary about the building of the Titanic using state-of-the-art computer-generated images, writes Paul Revoir.
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BBC1 beefs up daytime current affairs series
BBC1 has thrown its weight behind current affairs in daytime by commissioning another series from the department behind Britain's Secret Shame, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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12 Yard pushes gameshow to the limit
12 yard, the company behind Dog Eat Dogand Without Prejudice?, has come up with a new format that it claims will be the 'toughest gameshow on TV', writes Gavin Stamp.
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Budapest xchange
Global financier George Soros and Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, retiring director general of the World Health Organis-ation, are to address the News Xchange conference in Buda-pest. The event takes place between 6 and 7 November.
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NewsSMG's profits fall£6m
SMG today reported a drop in turnover and profits, blaming tough trading conditions in the first half of the year.
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NewsAd chief blasts ITV 'monopoly'
The head of Europe's leading media buying agency has dismissed the significance of the intended Granada, Carlton merger claiming it would do little to affect the ?monopolistic practices? in the way ITV sells advertising, writes Gavin Stamp.
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NewsBBC2 marks start of Iraq war
BBC2 is to screen a week of special programmes to mark six months since the beginning of the war in Iraq, writes Leigh Holmwood.