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    Rushes lures Sillery and Man

    2001-04-05T16:49:00Z

    Commercial facility Rushes has signed Allen Sillery and Phil Man to its Inferno team, writes Dominic Timms.Sillery joins the Old Compton Street facility from rival VTR where he worked across Flame

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    Working Title to make Lucky Jim for ITV

    2001-04-05T16:35:00Z

    Working Title is to make a two-hour film of the classic Kingsley Amis novel Lucky Jim.Stephen Tomkinson will star as the book's eponymous hero, alongside Helen McCrory, Robert Hardy and

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    Granada goes Wild

    2001-04-05T16:16:00Z

    Jettisons inherited United Wildlife brands Partridge and Survival in favour of Granada Wild

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    Kingfisher scores with soccer series

    2001-04-05T16:08:00Z

    Kingfisher Television has landed a 10-part documentary series, Frankly Football, for Carlton TV. The half-hour shows will feature interviews with players and archive and recent footage.Each show will deal with

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    Channel Health wins pregnancy brief

    2001-04-05T15:57:00Z

    The NHS has commissioned Channel Health to produce a new interactive series on pregnancy as part of a£1.2m award to the broadcaster.The Sky Digital channel is to make a

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    Radio 3 to go rural for an evening

    2001-04-05T15:44:00Z

    BBC Radio 3 is to devote an evening of programmes to issues surrounding rural Britain as foot and mouth continues to ravage the countryside.The themed evening, entitled In a Green

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    Citizen wins double order from ITV

    2001-04-05T15:31:00Z

    ITV has commissioned a sporting archive series and a half-hour comedy special from Dele Oniya's Citizen Television.The 6 x 30-minute series, Sporting Vintage, will be produced and directed by Krishna

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    Imago to make Gobi desert documentary

    2001-04-05T15:25:00Z

    Independent Imago Productions has been commissioned by Hit Wildlife to make a documentary on life in the Gobi desert for transmission on the National Geographic Channel.Entitled Legends of the Gobi,

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    Hitch-hiking show heads for Horizons

    2001-04-05T15:22:00Z

    Indie Aimimage Productions has sold a 6 x 30-minute series on hitch-hiking in America to the UK Horizons channel.The series, Roadside USA, directed and produced by Austin Vince and executive

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    CITV favourites get go-ahead from Grace

    2001-04-05T15:15:00Z

    ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Janie Grace has recommissioned four long-running series from Gullane for CITV.The indie will produce a 13 x 20-minute run of Sooty, taking the

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    Sky reveals£500m summer season line-up

    2001-04-05T15:10:00Z

    Sky One is to show reality series Boot Camp as part of its spring and summer schedule, after buying rights to the show from Granada International, writes Lucy Rouse

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    Wellington documentary series for BBC 2

    2001-04-05T15:08:00Z

    United Productions set to follow the success of Elizabeth with biographical account of The Iron Duke

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    Carlton cashes in on family tree fad

    2001-04-05T14:54:00Z

    Carlton is hoping to cash in on public interest in genealogy with a new series for ITV - Find Your Family, writes Steve AstonThe 6 x 30-minute series is

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    Wellington documentary for BBC 2

    2001-04-05T14:51:00Z

    United Productions set to follow the success of Elizabeth with biographical account of The Iron Duke

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    Wall to Wall nets Egyptian series

    2001-04-05T14:37:00Z

    C4 asks indie for Walking With Dinosaurs style historical series

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    Second BBC-derived vod service hits capital

    2001-04-05T12:28:00Z

    Yes TV launches BBC-branded video-on-demand service as Video Networks claims 11,000 subcribers for rival service

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    Granada signs Israeli deal

    2001-04-05T12:02:00Z

    International arm ofm UK media group inks deal with At Media to create international co=productions

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    Longitude hot favourite for Bafta craft awards

    2001-04-05T11:57:00Z

    Channel 4 historical documentary series nominated for a record eight times

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    CFC launches Northlight

    2001-04-05T11:21:00Z

    New film scanner designed to digitally master entire feature films

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    BBC ISP profits in face of dotcom gloom

    2001-04-05T08:40:00Z

    Beeb.net expected to show operating profit for first time since launch two years ago