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Frapa sorts Idols fight
Australian producer Screentime and distributor Target have settled their dispute with Thames Television (formerly Pearson TV) and 19 TV over ITV's forthcoming Pop Idol series, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The dispute was resolved
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GSB FINDS NEW PLUS ROLE
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has promoted its planning and acquisitions manager, Katie Denton, to the newly created role of channel manager, responsible for the Plus channel. Denton joined GSB three years
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Whereitsat poised to fold
Digital satellite channel whereitsat TV will close unless it finds new funding within a month, according to insiders, writes Leigh Holmwood.The channel, which launched in May and specialises in music and
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Morse outfit folds
Ken Morse Rostrum Cameras, widely dubbed the 'grandfather' of facilities houses, has called in the liquidators, it emerged this week.Letters from insolvency firm Haines Watts have been sent to the company's
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PROSPECT FOR FOOD ON TV
UK TV has commissioned Prospect Pictures to produce the live food show planned for its forthcoming food channel. Prospect has produced lifestyle programming for a number of channels including the BBC
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GOLDEN TO GO HIGH-END
Golden Square Post Production is gearing up for a push into high-end effects work with the appointment of French Inferno artist Marc Jouveneau who joins from Digital Film Lab in London.
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JOWELL REAPPOINTS GOFFE TO ITC POSITION
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has reappointed Independent Television Commission member Jude Goffe for a further extended period on the regulatory body. Goffe, who is a chartered accountant by profession, will now
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NICK RAIDS GRANADA
Nickelodeon Europe has poached Granada International head of programming Jules Borkent to oversee content for the children's broadcaster. As senior director of programming he will be responsible for all acquisitions for
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HOTSHOTS - Where they are now
From a former producer of Generation Sex to the brains behind The Weakest Link, former Broadcast hotshots are living up to their promise and emerging as broadcasting's movers and shakers of the future.
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RTS INVITES NOMINEES
The Royal Television Society is inviting applications and nominations for the Young Person's Technology award. Candidates should be under 35 and either have been personally responsible for a project or have
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ITV SOAP TO BE TAILORED
ITV is to tailor its new United Productions-produced soap Night and Day for two different audiences. In addition to its three showings a week in daytime it will have a more
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PROMOTION AT ITV SHOW
Wish You Were Here producer Kim Robson has been promoted to the role of series producer of the ITV travel series, working alongside executive producer John Longley. Ruth England also replaces
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SKY AND NICK TEAM UP
BSkyB and Nickelodeon UK have struck their first ever joint programming deal, in which they share UK rights to Japanese animation series Yu Gi Oh!, writes Jon Rogers. The deal was
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SKY WINS US OPEN
Sky Sports has won the live rights to the US Open tennis event. Sky Sports and the US Tennis Association have signed a four-year deal, extending a partnership which has seen
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NewTek launches LightWave 3D version [7]
NewTek has announced and simultaneously started shipping the major upgrade of its 3D animation software, LightWave 3D version [7], writes Joanna Scott.Included among the features in version [7] is Sasquatch Lite,
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Have broadcasters lost the will to innovate?
The Broadcast debate asked leading industry figures Endemol's Peter Bazalgette, Cinema Verity's Verity Lanmbert, Telewest's David Docherty, ITV's Sioned Williams and Antelope's Mick Csáky to voice their opinions on the creative health of UK television
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BBC Natural History plans 'electronic museum' internet archive
Unit plans to create online database of over 1,000 hours of footage
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Whereitsat TV set to close
Digital satellite channel specialising in music and features will be taken off air within a month if new investment not found
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S4C pumps£6m into animation
Welsh broadcaster starts search for new animation projects following launch of a children's strategy group chaired by former BBC head of children's television Anna Home
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BBC Natural History plans internet archive
Unit plans to create 'electronic museum' with online database of over 1,000 hours of footage