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Granada takes reshuffle path
Granada has called off the search for a controller of entertainment for its content division and instead has reshuffled its existing staff.The move is the latest change of direction from the
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NHU'S HI-TECH PILOT
The BBC is piloting a state-of-the-art asset management system at its Natural History Unit in Bristol. Project Mercury is intended to be a fully networked system allowing desktop access to all
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OFF THE RECORD - Just kidding..
Next up on the stocks, sorry, podium was the ITC's Patricia Hodgson. Dispensing with her doubtless scintillating speech on the future of this, that and the other, dear old Pat opted
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Tapscott warns of kids' know-how
'Welcome to the post-dotcom world ... eyeballs were the wrong part of the body - hearts are what counts.' So began a presentation by New Paradigm Learning Corporation president Don Tapscott
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TX - Unravelling a mystery
The director of indie TV 6, Richard Reisz, was filming an archaeological series for Channel 4 in Egypt when the curator of Cairo's national museum first got a call from a
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NEWS ON TAP
Simon Ellery takes a look at whether the 24-hour rolling news channels came of age in reporting the tragic events in the US.
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Overseas ownership threat to regions
Regional production in the UK would be threatened if a foreign media company were to buy Carlton or Granada, Granada chief executive Steve Morrison said at the weekend, writes Colin Robertson.Speaking
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SNELL WINS TUCKER
Roderick Snell has won this year's IBC John Tucker award, the international honour for excellence. Snell, who founded Snell & Wilcox with Joe Wilcox in 1973, was presented with the award
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My Finest Hour...Vince Narduzzo
Co-founder of telecine specialist Pepper describes the thrill and enjoyment of working with living legends while mastering both old movies and modern television series
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Egg goes interactive
Static 2538/Playjam deal marks first interactive TV campaign by financial services provider
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Soccerpunch
How MPC turned empty football grounds into packed super stadia for a high definition produced soccer film
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Homer Economics
It takes up to a year to make one episode of The Simpsons, but at $3m a show it's still a relatively cheap programme to produce
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Music special event to be screened on C4
Splinter Films has bagged a commission to produce a one-hour special on Emap and Qmagazine's forthcoming Q15 event at London's Scala nightclub.The event, which was staged over two nights
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Two new series for CBBC Autumn line-up
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has ordered two new series for BBC 1's autumn line-up, writes Leigh HolmwoodDrama I Was a Rat was adapted from a children's book by Philip Pullman and
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New BBC London News service to launch
BBC London News , the BBC's revamped regional news service for the capital, will go live on 1 October.The service is part of a tri-media operation based at the corporation's broadcasting
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Flextech orders motor-heavy raft for Bravo and UK Horizons
Flextech has announced details of six new series for its wholly owned men's channel Bravo and its BBC joint-venture UK Horizons.Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice has ordered three series including 15
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Carlton to show escape from London series
Freeform Productions has been commissioned by Carlton head of regional programmes Emma Barker to produce new factual series A House in the Country.The 10 x 30-minute series will air in
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The History Channel to commemorate WWII
Indie Flashback TV has been commissioned by The History Channel US to produce another 6 x 60-minutes of Battle Stations, a series looking at the men and machines that made a
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Chrysalis to make history of TV doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon ElleryOrdered by commissioning editor factual
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Morrissey signed up for CyberDodo series
Former Men Behaving Badly star and voice of Bob the Builder Neil Morrissey has been signed up to do the voiceover of a new kids series being supported by the World