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MAVERICK TO PROBE HOUSE SWAPPING FOR C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor, daytime Jo McGrath has ordered a 25 x 30-minute series from Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television about house swapping. It will be filmed in the UK and abroad
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CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS SCIENCE SERIES
Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has ordered a 6 x 30-minutes series, Seismic, from Darlow Smithson. The popular science series will break down events - such as the Argentinian
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422 Artist wins quantel prize
422 Bristol's Dave Corfield has been named the first UK Quantel artist of the year, writes Barbara Marshall.
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ALL OUT RENEWS RADIO 5 LIVE CONTRACT
BBC Radio 5 Live commissioning editor, news Steve Kyte has asked indie All Out Productions to make a further 40 x 25-minute programmes for the Five Live Report slot over the
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Soccer and Caine combo boosts Channel 5 figures
Something very strange happened on Wednesday of this week - glance down the top 50 to eighth place, where Coronation Street (ITV, 28 March) recorded an audience of 11.72 million. Obsessive
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IMAGE ADDS TO BOARD
Independent Image managing director David Wickham has appointed former Flextech senior vice-president Liz Howell and the former BBC news journalist and press aide to Mohamed Al Fayed, Michael Cole, as non-executive
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Ofcom bodies still struggling to agree
The five main industry regulators due to be merged to form Ofcom are struggling to reconcile their differences despite public protestations of unity, writes Lucy Rouse.
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FREE TO AIR - The BBC's runaway train
A music hall ode to BBC 1 (to be sung to the tune of 'Oh dear, what can the matter be?'):'Oh dear, what can the matter be?Your primetime ratings have gone
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ALIAS PLUG IN FOR MAY
SGI-owned Alias Wavefront is developing an exporter plug-in that will enable the transfer of content directly from its 3D animation and effects package Maya to the web. Scheduled for a May
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Pearson under fire
Pearson TV's merger with CLT-Ufa a year ago, and the subsequent spawning of the mighty RTL Group, seemed like an ideal match, but the top brass have become restless. So how good a deal was it for Pearson?
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BBC BUYS RUN OF KIDS ANIMATION UBOS
BBC head of acquisitions and co-productions for CBBC Theresa Plummer-Andrews has bought 52 x 22-minute animated series UBOS (formerly Ultimate Book of Spells) (left) from entertainment company BKN. UBOS is a
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ANIMATION AWARD OPEN
The fourth European junior animators award is inviting entries from animators with less than two years' experience. The deadline to enter is 28 September. Further information is available from ejaa@bubblesqueak.co.uk.
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Sky Arabic Channel
Arabic service Al Jazeera Channel is in final talks with BSkyB and Astra to launch in the UK by the end of May.The channel, which is known as the CNN of
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ARDENT POSTS PROFIT
Ardent Productions has announced its first annual pre-tax profit of£30,000 in the year ending 31 December 2000. Turnover was£484,000 - up 50 per cent on the same period last
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Shearman to rebrand as Tiger Aspect West
Tiger Aspect Productions is rebranding its wholly owned subsidiary company Shearman Productions as Tiger Aspect West, as part of a plan to beef up its factual output, writes Penny Hughes.
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DTI mulling spectrum auction
Chancellor Gordon Brown is sitting on a treasure trove of unused digital terrestrial TV spectrum which he plans to auction to broadcasters over the coming years in a move which could raise billions of pounds for the government, writes David Rose.
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Chrysalis chief exec steps back from Heart
Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley has stepped down from his dual role of managing director of the group's London station Heart 106.2 FM because of work pressures, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BADHAM MOVES TO PCC
Picture Canning Company (PCC) has appointed Nick Badham as project development manager. PCC is moving into multi-camera outside broadcast and studio production and Badham will promote this part of the business,
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Sky One makes Bafta shortlist
Sky One has received its first Bafta nomination for a non-factual programme it was announced this week, but BBC 1 has once again reeled in the highest number of nominations.Sky One's
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BBC to promote free-to-air digital
The BBC has created a new department to focus on promoting free-to-view digital TV, write Georgina Lipscomb and Simon Ellery.