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BBCi joins up with daytime cooking show
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchenhas been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as part of a wider push to get BBCi services into daytime, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Real-life west wing
The smallest room in the White House, in which all major international crises are debated, is to be recreated for a new BBC 4 programme in which a panel of eminent American decision-makers will be forced to react to a hypothetical global catastrophe, writes Leigh ...
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Brown eyed boy given C4 comedy lab slot
Indie Brown Eyed Boy, set up by former Chrysalis executive producer Gary Reich in June, has finished production on a 30-minute one-off, My Mouth Shalt Speak the Praise of Thy Lord Part 3, for Channel 4's Comedy Lab strand. Reich is the show's producer and ...
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Granada puts life into flagging careers
Granada has developed yet another talent show format, this time one aimed at reviving the careers of ageing British performers. Reborn in the USwill feature turns such as Alvin Stardust performing in front American audiences on a road trip of dates in a bid to ...
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ISIS Media looks at showbiz on the edge
Indie Isis Media is to produce a four-part series looking at local characters who exist on the peripheries of showbusiness. Nearly Famous, set to air in the Carlton Central region, will follow TV extras working on commercials and programmes such as ...
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Big Brother's Adele fronts YTV youth show
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV (YTV) to produce a 4 x 30-minute youth magazine show series fronted by former Big Brothercontestant Adele Roberts. Attitude!, described as a 'place to get things off your chest', will ...
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Puppets Ripley and Scuff get 40 episodes
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered a second series of Children's Company's pre-school puppet programme Ripley and Scuff. Grace has doubled the commission to 40 episodes of the 20-minute programme. Once again Robert Howes is the series producer and Alison Havell ...
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BBC to launch multimedia fightbox game
The BBC is launching a new multimedia entertainment format fusing gaming and technology to allow viewers to fight virtual gladiators in front of a live studio audience. In Fightbox, which airs on BBC 3 from autumn next year before being repeated on BBC 2, viewers ...
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Promax calls review after BBC cleans up
The BBC's dominance of the 2002 Promax Awards has attracted stinging criticism from the industry and led to promises that the way prizes are awarded will be changed next year, writes John Oates
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Media 100 latest to offer low-cost post alternatives
US product manufacturer Media 100 is the latest company to actively try to drive down the cost of post-production by introducing cheaper versions of its products, writes Will Strauss
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5D customers wait for news
Customers and creditors of 5D are still waiting to hear the fate of the British manufacturer, writes John Oates
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Soap crashes
Wimbledon-based company Any Effects was responsible for the dramatic helicopter crash seen on Mersey Television's soon-to-be-axed soap Brooksideearlier this week. Dubbed by producer Nicky Higgens as 'the most ambitious sequence ever attempted by a soap' the stunt involved a full- size model helicopter built by ...
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Eskenazi joins Nats
Nats editor Marc Eskenazi has left the company to join the creative team at Oasis Television. Marc joins long-time colleagues Pat Gale and Liz Hayward who are now business development and marketing managers at Oasis respectively. Oasis has recently finished work on BBC's The Ship, ...
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More Discreet for MPC
Soho visual effects facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has ordered another Discreet Inferno HD compositor. The purchase comes as demand for high-end commercials work is soaring. The purchase brings its total of Discreet systems to 10, which includes four Infernos, two Fire effects editors, three Combustion desktop compositors and ...
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Dunton wins award
The Moving Image Society recognised innovator Joe Dunton's services to technology development by giving him the technical and scientific achievement award at last week's BKSTS prize-giving ceremony. Dunton was praised for his invention of a product that is an Ikegami HD digital video camera squeezed into the confined space of ...
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Broadcast competition
Broadcast , its monthly supplement B+and Soho Editors are offering three people the chance to win£1,000 worth of professional audio training. Up for grabs are three prizes of three days fully accredited Digidesign pro-tools training with a Soho Editors tutor. ...
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NewsMPs to lobby for reduced BSkyB carriage fees
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to face demands from MPs to force BSkyB to reduce the fees it charges terrestrial broadcasters to carry their services, writes David Rose
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Everybody's doing it
Millions of Britons have gone DIY barmy and are now 'obsessed' with doing up their homes. ...
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TV's Brent will be back. Fact!
Cringe-making boss David Brent is definitely returning to our screens, to the delight of millions of fans. ...
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The Office stays open
Hit comedy The Office will return to our screens, it was confirmed yesterday. ...