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    Redhead to Hat Trick as drama head

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Independent Hat Trick Productions has appointed Bafta-winning producer Mark Redhead as its new head of drama, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    EPN takes on new director

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Emap Performance Network (EPN) has named Piccadilly Radio managing director Phil Roberts as its new group programme director, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Pinewood to invest in digi studio

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Pinewood Studios has announced a seven-figure investment in television facilities while construction and remodelling begins on a 9,000 square foot digital television studio due to open this autumn, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    Omnibus devises fingerprinting tool

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Omnibus Systems has invented a new technique for recognising video that could solve many of the problems facing broadcasters wanting to track use of their programme material in the digital multi-channel

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    OFF THE RECORD - It takes deadication

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Tofu-eating Big Brother loser Sada could learn a thing or thing or two from one of the game birds taking part in BBC 1 doc Surviving the Iron Age which has

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    U>DIRECT PICKS UP UK RIGHTS TO WORLD CUP QUALIFIER

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Pay-TV company U>direct has bought exclusive UK TV rights to the World Cup qualifier game between England and Finland from the Finnish FA. The move has come under fire from the

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    OFF THE RECORD - What a load of crop

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    As if those crazy cats at the GWR radio empire haven't got enough to do. Not content, it seems, with integrating the radio assets of the Daily Mail and General Trust,

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    Cost of entry dropping for tx

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The falling cost of broadcast technology will allow many more entrants to become broadcasters, according to John Pittas, vice-president of broadcast products at Seachange International, writes Nick Radlo.

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    COOGAN OUTFIT PILOTS WALKING WITH DIANA DORS

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Comedy indie Baby Cow Productions, co-founded by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, has co-produced a comedy sketch show pilot, Walking With Diana Dors, for BBC 1. Made with Avalon Television, the

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    UBC MEDIA TO PROVIDE CONTENT FOR GWR INTERNET PORTAL

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    UBC Media Group has signed a deal to provide entertainment and music content including text, audio and video for an internet portal set up by GWR's new media arm, ecast ventures.

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    Granada unites compliance

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media is bolting together the separate legal and compliance arms at its four franchises into single entities and is bringing in Granada managing editor for factual programmes Ian McBride to

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    Marks quits VOD company

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Video Networks head of programming Dan Marks has left the video-on-demand (VOD) company in the same week that former Walt Disney TV International executive Etienne de Villiers was named a non-executive director, writes Simon Ellery.

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    GRANADA MEDIA SIGNS FORMAT DEALS WITH US COMPANIES

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media has notched up a raft of format deals with US broadcasters for a number of its most popular shows including The Royle Family (right). Negotiated by LWT director of

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    OCTOPUS PRODUCTIONS WINS FIRST FULL COMMISSION

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Octopus Productions has secured its first full commission since it was launched by parent company Octopus Publishing last year to develop its titles for TV. Super Herbs is a 15 x

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    SILICON GRAIL TO INCORPORATE KODAK'S CINEON INTO RAYZ

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Silicon Grail is collaborating with Eastman Kodak's entertainment imaging division to incorporate Cineon software code into Silicon Grail's next generation compositing tool Rayz. Kodak has bought licences of Rayz to provide

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    Fox Kids targets pre-school children

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids UK has announced a drive to target the pre-school market for the first time, with the launch of a new 90-minute weekday strand, writes Simon Ellery.

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    VLV CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS CHILDREN AND TELEVISION

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The sixth conference of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Association (VLV) is to address the issue of children and television. Entitled 'Children and television: a public service or a

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    OFF THE RECORD - Change the record

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    OTR's favourite thrusting TV exec James Baker has made headlines again. It seems the latest reshuffle over at Isleworth sees the erstwhile Sky One sultan lose his entire TV production empire.

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    ITV MULLS CELEB TV

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    ITV director of programmes David Liddiment is sounding out potential presenters for a new celebrity-based tea-time show, which is believed to have the working title Celeb TV, to replace its planned

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    Kemistry has created the opening titles for Catalyst Television's new documentary for ITV, Women Who Kill. The series examines the circumstances that can lead women to murder and tells the stories

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Kemistry has created the opening titles for Catalyst Television's new documentary for ITV, Women Who Kill. The series examines the circumstances that can lead women to murder and tells the stories