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    Footballers' Wives to make return to ITV1

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Shed Productions' sex and silky shorts drama Footballers' Wives is to return to ITV after securing a second series from controller of drama Nick Elliott.The next series, the length of which

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    Life of St Paul gets BBC 1 slot.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is to bring the life of Saint Paul to the small screen using computer-generated effects as part of a trio of high-profile religious programmes featuring major biblical figures, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    ITV 1 DAYTIME SLUMP.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    ITV 1 is believed to have reached its lowest ever daytime ratings with an audience of just 300,000 for the end of its coverage of British ice hockey and the start

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    RADIO 1 COMMISSIONS BOOTLEG PROGRAMME.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Somethin Else has been commissioned by BBC Radio 1 to produce 30-minute programme Get Ur Bootleg On. The programme, to broadcast as part of Lamacq Live at 23.00 on 22 April,

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    It's bad but it's not the end of the world for ITV 1.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    If Channel 5 were to achieve a consistent 10 per cent primetime share, how different would it make the ecology of television? It's worth posing the question in a week when

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    1,000 miles of cable: Britain's biggest ever OB.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    It was all hands on deck on Wednesday (10 April) as broadcasters began clearing up after one of the biggest outside broadcast operations in history - the live broadcast of the Queen Mother's funeral, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    BBC 2 beats sister channel with Food Junkies

    2002-04-11T14:41:00Z

    First part of study on the nation's eating habits sees off BBC 1's wildlife documentary Serpent but night belongs to Manchester United and ITV 1

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    PROMAX & BDA Europe 2002 Award Winners

    2002-04-11T11:49:00Z

    Promotion Categories:Best Television Image CampaignGold: The Lines You Wish You Said?,Turner Classic Movies, UKSilver: Do Not Campaign,MTV South, ItalyBest Television Image PromoGold: Network

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    Omneon's new server

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions.The

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    Star Wars colour first

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system.Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite

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    Sony chief says it's digital's year

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Sony president and chief operating officer Kunitake Ando has hailed 2002 as 'the year for digital', writes Barbara MarshallSpeaking at NAB in Las Vegas, Ando singled out the growth of digital

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    Boujou launches

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production.Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking

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    Avid opens up its kit

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to

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    Panasonic ties up with Apple

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Panasonic this week unveiled details of 25 new products as well as announcing it is collaborating with Apple on two technologies for the professional video industry, writes Barbara Marshall from NAB in Las Vegas

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    Discreet adds asset server to FX family

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary

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    BBC and Channel 4 win raft of gongs at Promax

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has scooped several gold and silver awards in the promo categories at the Promax and BDA Europe awards, writes Will StraussThe company picked up best on-air programme campaign for

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    Kasenna scoops $20m

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (£14.4m) in its latest round of funding.Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to

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    Teen spirited

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Channel 4 controller of acquisitions June Dromgoole has bought a 22 x 30-minute teen comedy series from the creators of Frasier for C4 and E4, writes Penny HughesDubbed 'Ally McBeal meets

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    Songs of Praise plans NHS tribute

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff.The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will

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    September to look at seamy side of Vegas

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    The Travel Channel in the US has commissioned September Films to produce a 6 x 60-minute series on the seamy side of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Confidential.Jointly funded by The