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MOVING PICTURE COMPANY LAUNCHES ONLINE SERVICE
The Moving Picture Company is launching an internet-based client service on Friday (1 September). MPC Online offers Dailies, an online viewing facility, in addition to online booking facilities. Clients can view
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PLUG-IN DEVELOPER THE FOUNDRY SHIPS COLOUR TOOLS
Plug-in developer The Foundry is shipping Anvil 1.0, a collection of colour tools for Softimage DS. Originally developed by First Art managing director Paul Grace, Anvil consists of nine plug-ins for
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Rapture set to travel club class
Youth channel Rapture is planning to commission external producers for the first time, in a move that will see two new series ordered in the next few weeks, writes Simon Ellery.
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ICA AND FILMFOUR CO-HOST CONFERENCE ON CENSORSHIP
FilmFour and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) are hosting a conference on the future of UK film and broadcasting censorship. Delegates will include representatives from bodies such as children's charities,
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Carlton and United to make ITV soaps
Carlton TV's ill-fated soap Crossroads will return to screens next year, following ITV's surprise decision to choose two new weekday soaps for its daytime and early evening schedules.United Productions' Trafalgar Road
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FOX KIDS EUROPE EMULATES POKEMON-STYLE CARDS
Fox Kids Europe is launching a Pokemon-style trading card promotion based on characters in the UK channel's autumn schedule. Targeting four to nine year-olds, the cards (right) will feature stars from
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OFF THE RECORD - You can run, but you can't hide
A message to the Channel 4 executive whose exuberance/clumsiness (delete where applicable) caused an entire tray of champagne to come crashing to the ground at the Guardian party, and who then
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - PBS chief calls for UK indie ideas
President and chief executive officer of US public service broadcaster PBS Pat Mitchell told festival delegates that she wants British producers to pitch more programme ideas to her company, writes Ashley Davies.
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Libs call for footie rights
The Liberal Democrats are calling for at least one live Premiership football match to be shown weekly on free-to-air TV during the football season, writes John Lewis.
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OFF THE RECORD - Cagoule crisis
Somebody else who may have been on the verge of making a scene was Michael Grade. Having splashed out thousands on Pinewood Studios-branded anoraks to hand out to delegates, he was
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OFF THE RECORD - Hop on the bus, Gus
It was a weekend topped and tailed by transport hell for many of those poor lushes in Edinburgh this weekend. Train delays on the way up; out- and-out cancellations on the
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INTERVIEW - BSkyB grows up
Sky is maturing as a new strategy evolves and Mark Sharman, who is filling the shoes of the high profile Elisabeth Murdoch as head of broadcasting and production, is the man charged with keeping audiences growing.
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OFF THE RECORD - Brighter pitcher
Brighter Pictures' shrinking violet Remy Blumenfeld was bouncing about£20,000 richer after winning a programme-pitching competition in which three indies tried to outpitch one another for a hypothetical Channel 4 brief.
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - Shadow to oversee new Ofcom body
The current system of regulation could be replaced by a single body kept in check by a shadow strategic communications authority, according to one of the team formulating ideas for the forthcoming communications white paper, writes Tara Conlan.
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SYDNEY OLYMPICS - Let the show begin
The BBC is planning its most extensive coverage ever of the Olympics, with over 21 hours of programming a day. Naomi Marks talks to those in charge of running this major sporting event from September onwards.
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BBC's Olympian feat
The Sydney 2000 Olympics is an even bigger challenge for the BBC than the 1996 games in Atlanta, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Turner quits for BBC net operation
Granada Media director of online and interactive media and former City trader Julian Turner has defected to BBC Worldwide to become chief executive of new commercial internet subsidiary, Beeb Ventures, writes Colin Robertson.
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BBC mulls 'one newsroom'
BBC News is considering controversial plans to merge output for News 24 and BBC 1 news bulletins as part of a project dubbed internally 'one newsroom', write Tara Conlan and Colin Robertson.
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BBC plans CPU review
BBC head of factual and learning Lorraine Heggessey is to review the 50-strong Community Programme Unit (CPU) and its diversity database, after admitting that the database has failed, writes Simon Ellery.
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OFF THE RECORD - The occasional diary of a BBC director general
SATURDAYGregster, the Greg-meister, Gregorama. What a speech! What a performance!What on earth possessed Thommo to use as many words as humanly possible with Rs in? Genre this, genre that, watershed frigging