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Insight films in 'extended' school doc
Indie Insight Films is set to produce a film about Quintin Kynaston School, the first school in London to be given 'extended' status by the government. Ordered by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, the 60-minute piece will follow a year in the life of the school, which is open between 07.00 ...
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Sergeant ordered to lead OSF growth
Oxford Scientific Films, the natural history-focused indie, has hired Leopard Films producer Will Sergeant in an ongoing effort to expand its output, writes Gavin Stamp.
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UK History orders war series
UK History has commissioned its first original series, which will look at the role of women in war.
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Leopard leaps into US market
Indie Leopard Films is preparing to open an office in Washington after receiving two commissions from networks in the US.
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Swain in for Moyle
BBC specialist factual commissioner Emma Swain is to add the arts and performance brief to her role when head of arts commissioning Franny Moyle goes on maternity leave later this month. Swain will be assisted by specialist factual development producer and commissioning newcomer Hannah Beckerman in the role. Moyle is ...
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NHU nets new Oddie series
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) has secured a brace of commissions, including a follow-up to Wild in Your Garden that will be the department's biggest ever series order, writes Colin Robertson.
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Radio revenue rise
Commercial radio revenue has grown for the sixth successive quarter, according to new figures from the Radio Advertising Bureau. Ad expenditure from April to June 2003 grew 3.3% year-on-year to£144.1m, with household goods manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Lever Faberge Homecare looking for a cheaper alternative to TV ...
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Voluntary redundancies at YTV
The entire production team at Yorkshire Television's documentaries and factual department have been invited to apply for voluntary redundancy, in a bid to downsize the struggling department, writes Paul Revoir.
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Touch upgrade
Lightworks has released the latest version of its software for its Lightworks Touch editing system. Version 1.5 has more than 300 enhancements after seven months R&D. The most significant change is that the software now includes low bandwidth shared storage networking as a standard non-chargeable feature. V1.5 is now shipping ...
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BBC admits to error over Kelly
The BBC has admitted it wrongly inflated the importance of Dr David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's source in a statement issued after the BBC governors' emergency meeting in July, it emerged this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC renews faith in docu-soaps
The BBC has given a new lease of life to the docu-soap - which went out of favour in the late 1990s after a glut of cheap imitations - by commissioning a raft of new series on subjects including the Sylvia Young Theatre School, writes ...
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'Cot potatoes' gorge on TV
First it was the couch potatoes - now a new breed of 'cot potatoes' is emerging. A new study out today has revealed that over 80% of children under six are watching up to six hours of television a day, ' writes Sam Matthews.
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NewsEmap to get its Mojo working on radio
Emap is preparing to extend its Mojo magazine brand into the digital radio arena, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsScottish indies at disadvantage
Scottish production companies are being held back by a lack of clout with network commissioners and by 'weak monitoring' of commissioning targets, a new report has concluded, writes Gavin Stamp.
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NewsOne giant leap into the news archives
Astronaut Neil Armstrong's 1969 moonwalk is the most requested news clip, according to a new top 20 archive moments list compiled by ITN Archive.
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NewsWireless Group makes first ever profits
Kelvin MacKenzie's Wireless Group has reported its first ever half year profits and confirmed it will launch legal action against radio industry body Rajar, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsGilligan's report made 'forceful claims'
The daughter of Dr David Kelly yesterday told the Hutton inquiry he could not understand the 'forceful claims' made in Andrew Gilligan's original story on the Iraq dossier, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsD-Day gets the ...In Colour treatment
ITV1 has commissioned Carlton and TWI to make a new one-hour instalment in its ...In Colourstrand about the D-Day landings, to air during the 60th anniversary of the historic event next summer, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsHodgson takes C4 corporate role
Channel 4 has lured a senior venture capitalist to be its new head of corporate development, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Reuters to provide news on single digital files
Reuters will be the first news agency in the world to deliver video, scripts and story information to broadcasters in a single integrated digital file when it debuts a new service at the end of 2003, writes Will Strauss.