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Mentorn chief moves to TV Corp top spot
Mentorn chief executive Tom Gutteridge is to give up responsibility for the indie he founded 18 years ago in order to take up a new post as group creative director with parent company The Television Corporation, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsOriginal programme commissions down
Broadcasters are 'playing it safe' and commissioning far fewer original programmes than they were 10 years ago, according to new ITV research, writes David Wood
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Thomas takes on allies' guns
Mark Thomas, the self-styled scourge of the British establishment, is making a one-off special for Channel 4 in which he will assume the role of a weapons inspector and attempt to uncover Britain and America's own weapons of mass destruction, writes Paul Revoir.
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Thames back inside for Channel 4 lifers update
Thames TV is making a two-part follow-up to its Channel 4 Lifersseries, which charted the lives of a group of prisoners serving life sentences, writes Penny Hughes.
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Talkback piles up C4 lifestyle shows
Channel 4 head of features group Ben Frow has ordered a brace of expert-driven lifestyle series from Talkback Productions, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC Wales to find best 'biz'
A new business reality show in which viewers get the chance to vote for a start-up company they think has performed the best is being launched by BBC Wales, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Big Brother's Adele returns with attitude
Former Big Brother 3housemate Adele Roberts has been asked to front a second series of her youth TV show, Attitude, for Yorkshire TV. The 5 x 30-minute series will again be produced by Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions. It features reports ...
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BBC World Service unveils February line-up
BBC World Service has unveiled a number of new series to air at the end of February, including a 4 x 30-minute landmark series exploring the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The Giving Game, to be presented by former World Service correspondent Tim Whewell, will ...
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BBC1 daytime to find more hidden treasure
BBC head of daytime Alison Sharman and BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey have commissioned Leopard Films to make a second 25 x 30-minute series of Cash in the Attic. Presented by Alistair Appleton, each 30-minute episode sends a team of valuers into people's homes looking ...
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Fame Academy spawns BBC Sport imitator
The BBC is to launch a new sports series along the lines of Fame Academywhich will help 'nurture young British talent'. The series, dubbed Sports Academy, due to air later in the year, is being made as a co-production between ...
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Top soprano leads BBC 4 opera masterclass
BBC 4 is to screen a live opera masterclass featuring leading lyric soprano Barbara Bonney giving advice to amateur singers. The BBC Wales 90-minute special, which will be filmed in Bath, will give singers the chance to take on board Bonney's advice and sing in front of a live audience. ...
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Carlton's Waterworld back for fourth dip
Carlton is to screen a fourth series of Waterworld, its factual series about the canals of the Midlands. The 8 x 30-minute series is filmed on location on and around the region's canals and also makes use of archive footage to show how the waterways ...
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Liberty creates new post house
After two years of speculation US company Liberty Livewire has finally announced plans for the last merger within its stable of UK post facilities, writes Sam Espensen.
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Discreet to replace Colossus
Kit manufacturer Discreet and Hungarian software developer Colourfront are secretly planning to ditch the popular Colossus grading product - as used on both Lord of the Ringsmovies - and replace it with a new Discreet-branded digital colour-grader, writes Will Strauss.
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Apple and Avid launch lower cost versions
Software manufacturers Apple and Avid are offering watered down versions of their editing packages in an effort to entice new customers.
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Golden Square bids for ad work
London post and effects facilities Golden Square Post and Double Negative have formed an alliance in an effort to attract more commercials work.
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Rise unveils new look
Skaramoosh has produced the new titles for the relaunch of Princess Productions' Rise, along with new idents for the breakfast show. Shot in HD and finished in DS HD, facility manager Will Stern believes more companies are working in the format, because 'now Sony has ...
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Shots plans expansion
Outside broadcast facility Shots Television has appointed Nick Badham as business development manager. Badham was previously at The Picture Canning Co as head of development. Shots founder and MD Chris Butler revealed that the appointment forms part of Shots expansion plans, commenting that 'there is a growing demand for PSC, ...
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3D Maya wins Oscar
Alias Wavefront's 3D software Maya has won an Oscar for its 'significant and dominant impact on the motion-picture industry', according to the Academy, which has awarded it an Academy award of merit. Maya, an animation, modelling and rendering tool, won the award for being a 'robust and commercial vfx tool'. ...
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HD video conference
Broadcast magazine is bringing together some of the biggest names in programme and film production for a conference on high-definition video. The one-day event, which will take place on 6 March 2003 at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel in London, will offer discussion and analysis ...