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MADMAC TO MAKE GARDENING TIPS SHOW.
UK Style channel editor Nick Thorogood has commissioned a new horticultural tricks of the trade show from indie Madmac Productions. The 15 x 23-minute series Garden ER features a team of
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FUTURE OF ITN - Looking for good news.
The last year has been a tough one for news supplier ITN. It has faced increasing competition for its domestic news contracts, editorial interference from ITV, the downgrading of the ITN news brand and job cuts. Is it time to scale back while it weathers
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TWO FOUR TO MAKE URBAN GARDENING SERIES.
Channel 4 has commissioned a 10-part urban gardening series from Plymouth-based Two Four Productions. Urban Gardener will feature new presenter Matt James showing city dwellers how to overcome the space constraints
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Players line up for Scots footie.
Granada, SMG, Chrysalis and a joint-venture comprising Wark Clements and TWI are believed to be on the shortlist to produce the proposed digital channel for the Scottish Premier League.Under the League's
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OFF THE RECORD - AND FINALLY.
Minotaur vice-president Sarah Tong on how to make an impression at CannesWhat's the cruellest thing you've ever done?Left in charge of the office fish a couple of years ago, I conveniently
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lTV plans to increase primetime factual.
ITV is set to stuff its peaktime schedule with more cost-effective factual programming over the next year to help fund expensive commissions such as drama and entertainment, writes Steve Aston.
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Technology & Facilities - Northlight scanner.
Framestore-CFC spin-off Film-Light has joined forces with telecine specialist Innovation TK to produce the ITK Northlight scanner. Originally developed by the Framestore-CFC team that now runs FilmLight, the CCD digital scanner
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Technology & Facilities - Workstation XSI.
Softimage has introduced an entry-level version of its XSI non-linear animating system. The new version, called Workstation, runs on a single workstation and starts at under $5,000 (#3,520), compared with the
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Technology & Facilities - Lynx equipment theft.
Middlesex facilities company Lynx Digital has been rocked by the theft of four digital beta video recorders worth #100,000 from their premises in Denham on Tuesday night last week (5 February).
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Technology & Facilities - Soho shorts entries.
Entries are invited to the fourth Rushes Soho Shorts festival which will be held between 27 July and 1 August 2002. Submissions should have been produced in the 12 months up
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Technology & Facilities - Encoda picks finance man for EMEA job.
Encoda Systems EMEA chief financial officer David Martin is to replace EMEA president Roy Freeland as head of the European, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) region, writes Barbara Marshall.
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NEW EDITOR FOR TRISHA.
Granada controller of daytime James Hunt has appointed Jackie Heffer as editor of ITV 1 show Trisha. Heffer was formerly acting editor on the show, having joined as a researcher in
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OFF THE RECORD - A pox on Dubya.
According to Jonathan Hewes, deputy chief executive of Wall To Wall and executive producer of Smallpox 2002, which aired on BBC 2 last week, the programme caused quite a stir amongst
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Shine sets up standalone drama outfit.
Shine Entertainment is continuing its expansion drive by creating a new standalone drama division, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Digital uptake sees slowdown.
The number of consumers wanting pay-TV services appeared to have almost peaked after BSkyB and ITV Digital this week revealed around a 50 per cent slump in new subscribers during the
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Segal leads co-pro search.
The BBC is set to expand its co-production activity on the west coast of the US and has appointed senior vice-president programme acquisition Rebecca Segal to oversee the push, writes Jane Marlow.
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OFF THE RECORD - Greg's fan club gets together.
At vast expense, the BBC created a kids paradise in a huge marquee in Battersea, south London on Monday to celebrate the launch of its two new digital kids channels, CBBC
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CLEAR GUNS FOR OXFORD.
US radio operator Clear Channel has lodged a bid for the Oxford analogue licence as part of a consortium with Town & Country - the outfit set up by former Wireless
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ITV COMMISSIONS GOODBYE MR CHIPS REMAKE.
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned SMG TV Productions to create a two-hour remake of classic school film Goodbye Mr Chips. The new version, set to star Men Behaving
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Zenith heads to Sesame St for kids chief.
Zenith Entertainment has hired Sesame Workshop vice-president, European operations Julian Scott as its new head of children's drama and animation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.