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Five commissions El Greco documentary
Michael Attwell, former senior programme controller at Five, is making a 60-minute film on the forthcoming El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery for his old employer. Hanging El Grecowill follow curators and staff at the National Gallery as they choose and negotiate the loan ...
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Hive hires Flame man
Effects and finishing house The Hive has poached Flame artist Matt Wilmshurst from The Mill. He joins as senior digital artist and will do compositing work as well as on-set visual effects supervision. Of particular interest to The Hive was his experience working in compositing live action with computer-generated 3D ...
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Formats showcase
The Production Show 2003 is giving over two full days of conferences sessions to new and emerging acquisition formats. Essential HD day and Essential DV day will provide producers and directors with an inside track on shooting effectively with the current and next generation of digital video with presentations from ...
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Production show premieres latest in technology
A number of the world's biggest broadcast technology developers will be using The Production Show 2003 to show off their latest new products - some of which will be seen outside of the US for the first time, writes Will Strauss.
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MTV's Mandela tribute
MTV is producing a 60-minute special on the life of human rights campaigner and former South African president Nelson Mandela, and is offering second rights to the programme for nothing. Set to be premiered globally on MTV's channels in July, the programme will launch this year's Staying Alive HIV/Aids awareness ...
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NewsFive Live loses Payne to Sky Sports
BBC Radio Five Live sports anchor Ian Payne has defected to Sky Sports to accompany Andy Gray and Richard Keys as a major face of the channel's football coverage from the start of next season, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsCathy Come Home writer dies
Jeremy Sandford, the writer of the ground-breaking BBC television play Cathy Come Home, has died aged 69.
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6.7 million now reach for the sky
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB signed another 150,000 households in January, February and March, taking the total to 6...
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Digital surge helps Sky hammer rivals
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is still hammering its cable rivals, winning a further 150,000 subscribers in the past ...
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Sky's stark warning to struggling soccer clubs
Broadcaster may put TV riches into Champions League instead. ...
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BSkyB scans Freeview option
BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball confirmed yesterday that the pay-TV group was considering starting a mass market e...
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Sky TV threat poses money worry for FA
The Football Association is facing the prospect of further financial difficultie after Tony Ball, the chief executi...
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NewsMore Emap brands on Freeview
Emap is launching three more of its brands as national digital radio stations on the Freeview DTT service after securing encouraging results for its existing digital only stations in the latest Rajars.
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NewsBids flood in for West Midlands licence
The Radio Authority has confirmed it has received 11 bids for the West Midlands FM licence - one of the last regional independent radio licences, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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Barbara Taylor Bradford accuses TV of plagiarism
The best selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford accused a television network of stealing from her most famous wor...
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Murdoch rules out bid for C5
Rupert Murdoch has dismissed suggestions he is lining up a takeover of Channel Five and said he would oppose any at...
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Abacus sees no light on the horizon for its industry
Abacus said it saw no upturn in the electronic components industry this year as it unveiled a 12.5 per cent fall in...
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Murdoch has no plans for spending spree
Rupert Murdoch yesterday ruled out a spending spree on US television and newspaper assets despite the expected rela...
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News3,000 BBC journalists to boycott 'Big Con'
Three thousand BBC journalists are set to boycott the corporation's biggest ever internal corporate event this Thursday in protest at the sacking of two colleagues, writes Luke Satchell