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    Shearman to rebrand as Tiger Aspect West

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect Productions is rebranding its wholly owned subsidiary company Shearman Productions as Tiger Aspect West, as part of a plan to beef up its factual output, writes Penny Hughes.

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    ARDENT POSTS PROFIT

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Ardent Productions has announced its first annual pre-tax profit of£30,000 in the year ending 31 December 2000. Turnover was£484,000 - up 50 per cent on the same period last

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    Sky Arabic Channel

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Arabic service Al Jazeera Channel is in final talks with BSkyB and Astra to launch in the UK by the end of May.The channel, which is known as the CNN of

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    BBC BUYS RUN OF KIDS ANIMATION UBOS

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC head of acquisitions and co-productions for CBBC Theresa Plummer-Andrews has bought 52 x 22-minute animated series UBOS (formerly Ultimate Book of Spells) (left) from entertainment company BKN. UBOS is a

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    ANIMATION AWARD OPEN

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The fourth European junior animators award is inviting entries from animators with less than two years' experience. The deadline to enter is 28 September. Further information is available from ejaa@bubblesqueak.co.uk.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Pearson under fire

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Pearson TV's merger with CLT-Ufa a year ago, and the subsequent spawning of the mighty RTL Group, seemed like an ideal match, but the top brass have become restless. So how good a deal was it for Pearson?

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    ALIAS PLUG IN FOR MAY

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    SGI-owned Alias Wavefront is developing an exporter plug-in that will enable the transfer of content directly from its 3D animation and effects package Maya to the web. Scheduled for a May

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    FREE TO AIR - The BBC's runaway train

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    A music hall ode to BBC 1 (to be sung to the tune of 'Oh dear, what can the matter be?'):'Oh dear, what can the matter be?Your primetime ratings have gone

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    Ofcom bodies still struggling to agree

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The five main industry regulators due to be merged to form Ofcom are struggling to reconcile their differences despite public protestations of unity, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    IMAGE ADDS TO BOARD

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Independent Image managing director David Wickham has appointed former Flextech senior vice-president Liz Howell and the former BBC news journalist and press aide to Mohamed Al Fayed, Michael Cole, as non-executive

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    ALL OUT RENEWS RADIO 5 LIVE CONTRACT

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio 5 Live commissioning editor, news Steve Kyte has asked indie All Out Productions to make a further 40 x 25-minute programmes for the Five Live Report slot over the

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    Soccer and Caine combo boosts Channel 5 figures

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Something very strange happened on Wednesday of this week - glance down the top 50 to eighth place, where Coronation Street (ITV, 28 March) recorded an audience of 11.72 million. Obsessive

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    422 Artist wins quantel prize

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    422 Bristol's Dave Corfield has been named the first UK Quantel artist of the year, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    C4 orders model talent show

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, entertainment Sharon Powers has ordered a Big Brother-style series from Princess Productions, which will attempt to discover a new supermodel, writes Penny Hughes.

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    RUGBY EXTENDED ON S4C

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    S4C is extending its rugby coverage after securing exclusive coverage of the first match in The Barbarians Scottish Amicable Tour against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 20 May.

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    Channel 4 gets rights to Rapido lesbian film

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, factual Jo Wallace has bought the rights to Planet Rapido's documentary about last year's Aqua Girl 2000 lesbian gathering in the US, writes Penny Hughes.

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    MAVERICK TO PROBE HOUSE SWAPPING FOR C4

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, daytime Jo McGrath has ordered a 25 x 30-minute series from Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television about house swapping. It will be filmed in the UK and abroad

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    CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS SCIENCE SERIES

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has ordered a 6 x 30-minutes series, Seismic, from Darlow Smithson. The popular science series will break down events - such as the Argentinian

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    News 24 clears schedule

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC News 24 is gearing up to clear its schedule during the general election campaign with an ambitious plan to focus almost entirely on the election.Broadcast has also learnt that BBC

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    Planet 24 production director quits to set up multimedia indie

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Planet 24 production director Paul Sandler has left the company and plans to launch a multimedia production company in the summer, writes Simon Ellery.