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CHANNEL HEALTH WINS PREGNANCY BRIEF.
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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RDF buys stake in drama launch Touch Paper.
RDF Media has taken 30 per cent of a new populist drama indie Touch Paper, launched this week by Carlton Productions executive producer Rob Pursey, writes Katy Elliott. In a double
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HAHABONK TALENT CALL.
Cross-media production company Hahabonk is offering the chance to get multi-platform entertainment ideas commissioned. Anyone with a concept for a sitcom, gameshow or animation to work across two or more media
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CFC film scanner outperforms Telecine variants.
THE Computer Film Company (CFC) in Soho has developed a film scanning machine that out-performs the image quality of Telecine-based equivalents, writes Barbara Marshall.
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CHIEF LEAVES TLRC.
The Local Radio Company (TLRC) chief executive Ian Axton has left the group after a restructure by parent company Radio Investments Limited (RIL) meant he no longer had a role. The
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CITIZEN WINS DOUBLE ORDER FROM ITV.
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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CITV FAVOURITES GET GO-AHEAD FROM GRACE.
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 (pictured), taking
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Slump forces Pittard Sullivan to close down.
US-based main title, on-air design and branding producer Pittard Sullivan has 'closed for business' resulting in the loss of at least 95 jobs.Managing director of Pittard Sullivan's UK operation John Holland
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SPORTAL AND CNN LINK.
Sportal has signed a deal with CNN to provide European sports content for a new website, CNN.Sportal.com. The site will be used as the core sports offering for CNN.com Europe and
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ZIG ZAG COMMISSIONS LED BY UGLY SHOW.
Zig Zag has won three commissions from Channel 5 and Channel 4. The success of London's Ugly Model Agency is explored in Ugly, commissioned for C5 by Michael Attwell, senior controller
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Granada International signs major co-production deal.
Granada International has signed a co-production partnership with Israeli media company At Media to produce factual programming for the international market, writes Colin Robertson.
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Corley returns to ITV as GMTV MD.
Former Border TV chief executive Paul Corley has been appointed as the new managing director of GMTV.Corley left his position at Border in July last year shortly after it was taken
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Ideal World creates new Scottish role.
Ideal World is beefing up its Glasgow operation and has hired producer/director Peter Jamieson to the newly created role of head of television, Scotland, writes Penny Hughes.
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EMAP SETS DATE TO LAUNCH SMASH HITS TV.
Emap Performance is to expand its digital TV channel portfolio with the launch of a Smash Hits channel next month. The new channel will go on air on Sky Digital on
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DISNEY IN NTL DEAL.
Disney is close to finalising a carriage deal with cable operator NTL for its pre-school channel Disney Playhouse. The channel, which was voted best pre-school channel at the 2001 Cable Guide
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SES DEAL SEALS GLOBAL SATELLITE NETWORK.
Astra satellite operator SES has struck a deal with US counterpart GE Capital to provide a global direct-to-home satellite network. As part of the deal, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator has bought
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SEVEN SON OF GOD DEALS.
BBC Worldwide has licensed BBC 1 documentary series Son of God to seven European territories. It has also licensed the entire 52 x 10-minute series of Bill and Ben to ABC
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IMAGO TO MAKE GOBI DESERT DOCUMENTARY.
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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'NO DIGI REVOLUTION'.
Outgoing RTL Group director of strategy and content Richard Eyre has cast doubt on digital take-up by saying there would be 'no digital revolution'. Eyre said people would not flock to
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ITV must diversify to prosper.
Depending on who you believe, ITV is either facing a gloomy future in which advertising revenues are destined to keep tumbling, or a short-term blip in revenue following last year's boom.In