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Nortan rap for 'joke'
Chat show star Graham Norton has been rapped by television watchdogs for a crass joke about Maurice Gibb after his ...
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Evans was 'unstable'
Chris Evans had become 'unstable , irrational and unprofessional' in the weeks leading up to his sacking from Virgi...
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Tony Marchant, one of Britain's leading dramatists, has teamed up with the producer behind Clocking Off and Queer as Folk to launch a stinging attack on Channel 4 - accusing the broadcaster of a lack of clarity, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsTop 3 indies rule television
Endemol UK, The Television Corporation and TWI supplied over 50 per cent of the output of the UK's top 150 independent producers last year, according to Broadcast's first ever survey of independent production.
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Sci-Fi's latest landings
Sci-Fi channel has picked up the latest series from Buffy the Vampire Slater creator Joss Weedon as part of a batch of programmes from 20th Century Fox. Firefly, set in the wake of a civil war 500 years in the future, will air in 15 ...
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Frontline offers HD
Frontline Post Production is to offer HD editing from April, after upgrading its Avid DS. The suite was bought through Root 6 and runs version 6.02 of the software. Managing director Tim Mein told Broadcast: 'We continuously monitor the needs of our clients and feedback tells us that this is ...
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Foyle's War to run and run
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott looks to have found his elusive long-running detective series to replace Inspector Morse, writes Jon Rogers.
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Ferdenzi to triangle
Soho 601's Sinead Ferdenzi has joined Triangle Post Production as head of bookings. Ferdenzi had been at the Ascent Media company before it merged with SVC to become One Post, but turned down the offer of a senior role. Managing director Tom Horton said that Ferdenzi's experience with big facilities ...
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Disney to play Faking It for kids
Disney Channel has commissioned a new in-house series with shades of Channel 4's Faking It, which will give young sport stars a crash course in a completely new discipline, writes Paul Revoir.
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Sony and Panasonic make staff cuts
Two of the industry's biggest kit manufacturers, Sony and Panasonic, have been forced to make a small number of job cuts in their UK operations as a result of the struggling broadcast technology market, writes Sam Espensen.
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National Geographic homes in on hellish creepy-crawlies
National Geographic Channel has commissioned indie Steel Spyda to produce Insects from Hellkicking off with a one-hour special Mosquito Hell. Insects from Hell,is a 6 x 30-minute series, presented by Jake Willers, which looks at ...
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War coverage first
News crews from CNN and Sky have begun using a standard videophone system connected to a specialised tracking satellite phone antenna to shoot what they are calling 'historic images' during coverage of the war with Iraq. CNN told Broadcastthat the antenna has the ability to ...
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Clear doubles in size
Clear Post Production has spent£650,000 on doubling the size of its Soho premises. According to managing director Greg Caplan, most of the money has gone on building new suites, restructuring the offices and buying kit. Clear bought more space in its Great Marlborough Street office in September last year.
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Framestore CFC turns Japanese
Framestore CFC was invited by its client PMC to pitch ideas to Wowow, Japan's biggest satellite channel, for a 10-second channel ident, with a completely open brief. Designer Adam Parry came up with two, both of which have been adopted by the channel. The first ident is called Wave and ...
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UTV buys OB truck
UTV has taken delivery of a£2m OB truck for use on light entertainment and sports shoots. The unit is built on a Mercedes Atego chassis, and has 12 cameras, a Thomson mixer and an Aston Red character generator to enhance its new graphics department. Work for the truck will include ...
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D-day landings to be target of BBC co-pro
The BBC is to join with German and American co-production partners to make a major drama documentary series based on the D-Day landings. The series, which is being overseen by the BBC specialist factual department in collaboration with the drama division, will be made by the team behind the forthcoming ...
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Barcud buys Picardy Media
Welsh TV and film group Barcud Derwen has paid a six-figure sum for the ownership of Scotland-based Picardy Media Group, which went into receivership at the end of January, writes Sam Espensen.
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MTV issues war ban list
MTV has pulled a host of music videos from its playlists, fearing they may offend or upset viewers during the military conflict in Iraq, writes Paul Revoir.
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Andrew kicks off at ITV with Enjie Benjy
ITV's new director of children's programmes Steven Andrews has commissioned his first programme since joining the network, ordering a second series of Enjie Benjy from Cosgrove Hall, the animation company owned by his former employer Granada. The 26-episode series will be ready to air in the autumn.