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Dinosaur creators set up own indie
The creators of the BBC's award-winning Walking With Dinosaursseries are to leave the BBC to set up their own company, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Disney cosies up to Fox
Walt Disney is to bring its acquired Fox Kids Europe service and its own branded channels closer together with a new content-sharing agreement. This could mark the first step towards an eventual merger of the two channels, writes Paul Revoir
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Ofcom should have say on ITV merger
The ITV companies should not be allowed to merge until new super-regulator Ofcom is up and running, according to Liberal Democrat peer and member of Lord Puttnam's joint scrutiny committee on the communications bill Tom MacNally, write Leigh Holmwood and Georgina Lipscomb
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UK History faces legal challenge
The History Channel may seek a judicial review over the launch of rival UK History, claiming that a secret deal struck between the government and UKTV to allow it to launch as many channels as it wants should have been discussed in the open, writes ...
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BBC wildlife awards
The BBC scooped six gongs, including three for The Blue Planet, at this year's international Wildscreen Panda Awards, which recognises excellence in natural history production. British companies took 10 out of the 17 categories, confirming their leading reputation in the genre. ...
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Leopard takes on BBC daytime
Indie Leopard Films has won its biggest terrestrial commission with a new 25-part daytime series for BBC 1, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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ITV to tell story of royal romance
The relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles is to be explored in a new documentary for ITV from the producer of the channel's acclaimed profile of the Queen , writes Paul Revoir
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Beauty salon to open on C4
Endemol UK Productions and Channel 4 are planning to open a beauty salon in London as the setting for a new fly-on-the-wall series, write Georgina Lipscomb and Penny Hughes
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Planet 24's Mechanick
Channel 5 controller of children's Nick Wilson has ordered a 40-part kids series from Planet 24 animation division Impossible TV, writes Steve Aston
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Emap recruits Splinter for C4 Q awards
Splinter Films has been signed up by Emap, publisher of Broadcast, to produce this year's Q Awards being held next Monday (21 October) for Channel 4. The 60-minute programme will air the following night at 23.30. The Q Awards programme was ordered by C4 commissioning ...
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Somethin' Else to film jazz festival for BBC 4
BBC head of music entertainment Mark Cooper has commissioned indie Somethin' Else to make two programmes covering the 10th London Jazz Festival, which takes place on the South Bank between 15 and 24 November. The 60-minute shows will air on BBC 4 at the end of the month and feature ...
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New faces banged up as Bad girls returns
Filming has begun on the fifth series of Shed Productions' women's prison drama, Bad Girls. The latest 16 x 60-minute run of episodes is slated to begin on ITV 1 early in 2003. Among the new inmates this series are Amanda Barrie and Stephanie Beacham. ...
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Pioneer snares oil rig gig for discovery
Pioneer Productions has begun filming a 50-minute HD documentary for The Learning Channel about the new generation of oil and gas rigs. Extreme Machines: Offshore Rigswill premier on Discovery HD Theatre before being broadcast on The Learning Channel and on Discovery networks worldwide. The programme ...
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Xena to look at real-life female warriors
October Films has lined up Xena Warrior Princess star Lucy Lawless (right) to present a new Discovery Channel commission tracing the history of female fighters. Ordered by Discovery commissioning editor for history and event programming Bettina Hattami, Warrior Women will focus on Joan of Arc, ...
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Barrymore-ex spills beans to Channel 5
The ex-wife of troubled former TV star Michael Barrymore is to be the subject of a new Channel 5 documentary produced by Vera Production. Cheryl Barrymore has allowed cameras to follow her for the past month for the 60-minute programme, The Cheryl Barrymore Story, in ...
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Facilities want in on ITC indie inquiry
Facilities bosses are urging media secretary Tessa Jowell and the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to include studios and post-production in its planned investigation into the programme supply market, writes Will Strauss
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5D folds under tax bill
UK visual effects systems developer 5D unexpectedly went into administration last week with the potential loss of 50 jobs, writes Barbara Marshall
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Over 300 jobs to go at OpenTV
OpenTV, the interactive TV firm that owns Static 2358, is to restructure with the loss of 315 positions, writes Barbara Marshall
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Leaf gongs go to Framestore and Glassworks
Framestore CFC and Glassworks led the pack at the 2002 London Effects and Animation Festival (Leaf) awards held at London's Hippodrome last Wednesday (9 October), writes Barbara Marshall
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Arri's Uxbridge acres
The Arri Group has bought a new four-acre site in Uxbridge that will enable it to bring together its three sales and rental divisions. Arri Lighting Rental moved in last week and will be followed in three weeks time by Arri Media and sales division Arri (GB). The new site ...