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Hunt for family to take on Homer
A family is to get the chance to be immortalised in a cartoon series based on their eccentricities and exploits. ...
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OFF THE RECORD - Wacky C4 lacks the party spirit.
TV is all about risk-taking. That's the gist of Mark Thompson's plans for the now Watercolour
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OFF THE RECORD - Mail joke flops.
The BBC is reporting little interest in the Daily Mail's 'send your old ties to the
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OFF THE RECORD - Sinful Sheilas.
And so to the judging of the Edinburgh TV Festival Channel of the Year Awards and
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ON THE BOX - Getting pally with Ally.
Charlie Hanson, producer of Alomo Productions' Believe Nothing, thought Ally McBeal was one of a kind, but the US Queer as Folk was one too many
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Taken for a ride?
Following on from the success of Big Brother, programme-makers are looking for increasingly extreme ways to strip human behaviour bare and find the next big ratings winner. But is TV now in danger of going too far?
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TX - Blame it on the sunshine.
It's not easy to ask people from other countries, who've never heard of ITV, to cover
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INTERVIEW - Breaking the rules.
With BBC America, Paul Lee ignored the expectation that he would pack it with cosy sitcoms and period drama and has instead won admiration for its hip and offbeat UK-sourced output
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INDIE FINANCE - Testimony to the people of Britain.
Testimony Films founder Steve Humphries' flair for making people open up to the camera has secured a string of commissions from the major broadcasters for his diversely themed oral histories of Britain
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PROGRAMMING BUDGETS - Just how low can you go?
Channel 5 has shown that low-cost programming need not mean low quality, but producers can only get away with the cut-price approach if they know when they can save money and when it's better to pay up. By David Collins
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - F1'S DEFINING MOMENTS.
Baraka Post Production has recently completed its first major project on the new Jaleo high definition digital cinema online system - a promotional film for the Toyota Formula One team, writes Barbara Marshall
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PROGRAMMING - EVANS RETURNS TO CHANNEL 4 ON NEW TERMS.
Channel 4 has cut a deal with Chris Evans for two weekly entertainment strands believed to
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PROGRAMMING - PRINCIPAL MAKES SHORT ABOUT DOLL AFFAIR.
Principal Media Group is making a five-minute short for Channel 4 about a man's affair with
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FREE TO AIR - Don't give me reality.
'A programme for real people about real people' is the unenticing teaser, if that's not a
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - LIQUID APPOINTMENTS.
Liquid TV has further expanded its animation and design divisions with two appointments. Andy Tusabe has
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PROGRAMMING - BBC RECOMMISSIONS RELIABLE DRAMA SERIES.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have ordered new runs
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Liquid Blue beefs up Pinnacle's systems.
Pinnacle Systems has added its broadcast editing system Liquid Blue to the Palladium-compatible line-up of products it will be showing at IBC in September, writes Barbara Marshall
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BIRMINGHAM FACILITY.
Neil Hillman, the sound designer on Butt Ugly Martians, has set up a new audio post
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Link develops 'holy grail' camera.
UK Firm Link Research has developed an Mpeg wireless camera system that has the shortest signal delay on the market, it claims, writes Barbara Marshall
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LEADER - Cruelty TV is price of freedom.
Even the most interesting debates about controversial issues tend to lose focus without concrete examples around