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INDIE FINANCE - Heavyweight that can hold its own
Since Brook Associates merged with Brian Lapping four years' ago, high ratings have never been on the indie's agenda - but that has not hampered the creation of a successful business.
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TRADE TALK - Gift of the gab
Innovation TK's link-up with effects developer 5D is indicative of the ambitions joint founder Delphi Durrant has for her telecine company.
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PAT HAS NEW HOME
Entertainment Rights has bought the worldwide rights to Postman Pat via the acquisition of Woodland Animations for£5.1m. Woodland's library holds 85 episodes of programming including Postman Pat, Gran, Charlie Chalk
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INTERACTIVE REPORT
Technology rather than the needs of the viewer are driving developments in interactive television, according to a report by Shelley Taylor & Associates. BSkyB was judged the best interactive service in
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INTERVIEW - Winning on the web
BBC Online is flourishing while its commercial counterparts flounder. And Ashley Highfield reckons he can make the newly branded BBC i 'the number one digital destination.'
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SHORTT JOINS ZONE
Discovery Networks Europe deputy managing director Dermot Shortt has been poached as chief executive officer for London-based channel operator Zone Vision, which runs channels throughout eastern Europe and Latin America. Shortt,
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LEADER - Public needs news, not stories
It's been one of the biggest stories of the 'war' so far: how the media covers it. Next week those involved in the broadcast news business from Azebaijan to Algeria and
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Mortimer mooted quitting
BBC deputy controller of general factual David Mortimer has admitted he considered quitting the corporation after 129 posts were axed from the troubled factual and learning department.Mortimer made the disclosure at
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ITN signs£216 million ITV news contract
News operation secures longer-than-expected six-year deal running to 2009
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Aston goes into receivership
UK manufacturer that dominated video character generation market for nearly 30 years calls in receivers
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BBC1 orders hairdressing comedy drama
The BBC is beefing up its comedy drama output with a new series on 'the Manchester hairdressing wars' from the creator of The Riff-Raff Element, writes Leigh HolmwoodDebbie Horsfield has written
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September 11 programme commissions grow
The rash of programmes being commissioned in the wake of the 11 September attacks grew this week after Wall to Wall unveiled a 60-minute piece on Muslims in the US for
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The Stanford experiment to air on BBC2
BBC2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have commissioned a controversial 4 x 60-minute series based on the Stanford prison psychology experiment that took place in 1971.
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C4 to show extreme surfing action
Channel 4 is to screen a 60-minute surfing programme, The Newquay Boardmasters 2001 from Boomerang Productions.The 30-minute show, originally shown on the Extreme Sports Channel, will air on 31 December.
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SMG TV wins C4 fatcual commissions
SMG TV Productions has strengthened its relationship with Channel 4 after scoring two factual commissions, writes Steve AstonThe company has been commissioned by C4 editor of religion Elizabeth Clough to produce
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Flextech to air Company's bachelors final
Flextech women's service Living TV is to broadcast the Company Magazine Bachelors 2002 final in London as part of a sponsorship deal.The TV programme, which will air at the end
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BBC asks for Brooklyn bridge film reshoot
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has asked director Lucy Blakstad, who was commissioned to make a series about bridges, to reshoot her film about New York's Brooklyn Bridge in order to
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BBC loses new Star Trek series to BSkyB
The BBC will not show the new series of Star Trek after failing to win the terrestrial rights for the first time since it began screening the programme in the 1960s.
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Brighter to turn spotlight on pitfalls of celebrity
Endemol Entertainment UK-owned Brighter Pictures has bagged a range of commissions, including a show for the BBC which highlights the pitfalls of celebrity.An as yet untitled 6 x 40-minute documentary series,
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Brook Lapping and Kessler shoot Nazi doc
Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery