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Trade talk - Action woman.
Action Time has trebled its international revenues since sales specialist Caroline Beaton joined. What's next for its new joint managing director?
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RUSHES ADDS TO FX TEAM.
Rushes has added to its visual effects team with the appointment of Inferno artist Emir Hasham who joins from VTR. Recent credits include daytime idents for Channel 4 and Planet Funk
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Advertisers fear for ITV's future.
ITV is likely to emerge from the advertising recession in worse shape than Channel 5, BSkyB and the radio industry, according to advertisers.Despite recent forecasts from radio group GWR and investment
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FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR ITV'S ZHIVAGO.
Production is underway in Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Granada's multimillion pound ITV drama Zhivago, writes Steve Aston.
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Free to air - ITV must learn from failure.
As the administrators struggle to keep ITV Digital afloat, and the inevitable mudslinging reaches levels rarely heard in the UK outside the Palace of Westminster, the British communications industry can only
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UK skills base must improve, says Alli.
Massive skills gaps' are holding back the UK production industry's success in the US, former Planet 24 boss Waheed Alli has warned.On the eve of international programme market Mip-TV, Skillset patron
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HIT CHIEF GOES IT ALONE.
Former Hit Entertainment head of co-productions and acquisitions Peter Curtis has resurfaced with his own kids indie, Spellbound Entertainment. Curtis, who left Hit more than a year ago, aims to develop
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News analysis - Deal of the decade.
Will the extension of the BBC's co-production deal with Discovery for another 10 years put the squeeze on UK indies and cause compromises in programming as co-production potential becomes increasingly important?
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CRCA anger at Radio Authority.
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) has hit out at the Radio Authority's 'interference' in the radio business, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ANIMATION SEMINAR.
CITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace, Channel 5 controller of children's Nick Wilson, Tiger Aspect joint managing director Andrew Zein and BBC deputy head of children's acquisitions Estelle Hughes
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ASIA NEWS CONFERENCE.
Newsworld Asia is set to take place for the second year running in Singapore between 31 July and 2 August. Former CNN broadcaster Riz Khan will again chair the event, which
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Leader - Mail gets knives out for auntie.
The Royals are in the news again, and once again the BBC is under fire. The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, in particular, judged the BBC's coverage of the Queen Mother's
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BBC HEADS BAFTA LIST.
BBC 1's The Way We Live Now has led the field in this year's nominations for the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (Bafta) Craft awards to be held in
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ITV banks on Stars specials.
ITV is looking to reinvigorate its long-running Stars in their Eyes brand with a number of new spin-offs, writes Steve Aston.
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BBC Wales faces wrath of indies.
One of BBC Wales' key independent commissioning executives has quit amid concerns from indies that the broadcaster has 'no clear idea what the commissioning process is'.Commissioning executive Nick Evans leaves in
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BBC IMPROVES BITESIZE.
The BBC has launched a new interactive SMS tool to add to its BBC Bitesize revision service aimed at GCSE students. Txt Bites will offer students selected Q&As covering maths, physics,
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LITTLE BIRD DRAMAS SET FOR BBC AND ITV.
Little Bird Productions is poised to garner two drama commissions from the BBC and ITV 1. Little Bird co-chairman Jonathan Cavendish said that talks were underway with the BBC's independent drama
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BBC makes a mountain out of a ratings molehill.
The great thing about being the BBC is that it can rationalise its schedule in two different ways. Either it's competing for audience with ITV or it's doing a public good
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Bectu warns of compulsory OU job cuts.
Broadcast union Bectu has warned that up to 100 BBC staff in the corporation's Open University (OU) production centre in Milton Keynes could lose their jobs after 16 posts were axed, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Maya prices cut in bid for volume sales.
Canadian 3D graphics specialist Alias Wavefront shocked the industry this week by announcing it was cutting the price of its leading software Maya by up to 73 per cent.The 3D animation