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    Two senior posts go as CVE restructures

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Two senior Chrysalis Visual Entertainment (CVE) executives, managing director Julie Blessyn and Chrysalis Television International (CTI) managing director Nick Witkowski, are understood to be negotiating redundancy packages.The redundancies are said to

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    THE MILL JOINS LIST OF CUSTOMERS FOR SPIDDR

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Mill is the latest facility to order Post Impression's SpiDDR. Mill technical director Roy Trosh said SpiDDR would be used as more than a replacement for the facilities D1 vtr.

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    FLAT ERIC RETURNS FOR LATEST LEVIS COMMERCIALS

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Flat Eric (left) makes a return performance for Levis in a new commercial post-produced by The Mill. Directed by Quentin Dupieux for Partizan Midi Minuit and written by Kym Papworth for

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    Sky Television's in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for new Sky News IT and computer programme Technofile. Designed and directed by Darren Kelly, the titles use a combination

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Sky Television's in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for new Sky News IT and computer programme Technofile. Designed and directed by Darren Kelly, the titles use a combination of

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    Hartswood takes Road to Colditz

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Hartswood Films has gone into production on a 2 x 50-minute documentary for BBC 1, The Road to Colditz, writes Tim Dams.Featuring interviews with former prisoners of war from Colditz and

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    Pubs and clubs get Sky Inn Practice

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB is gearing up to launch its first business-to-business service next month with 20 hours of programming targeted at the pubs and clubs trade, writes Alice Macandrew.The new programme, Inn Practice,

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    ITC clears ITV's Tonight

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has ruled in favour of Tonight's decision to interview the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder case, writes Wale Azeez.In its ruling the ITC said the

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    Turner to rebrand classic film offer

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Turner Broadcasting Systems is set to relaunch its 24-hour movie channel TNT Classic Movies as Turner Classic Movies (TCM) this autumn.The relaunch, scheduled for 15 October, will involve a complete rebranding

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    REPORT - Who's top of the class in UK TV?

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Teacher's pet or class clown? As the industry packs its bags for next week's Edinburgh TV festival, and with an eye on the autumn schedules, Broadcast gives three contrasting views of terrestrial performance over the past year.

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    WHIZZIWIG RETURNS TO CITV FOR THIRD SERIES

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Carlton Television children's drama Whizziwig has been recommissioned for a third series by ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Nigel Pickard. The 7 x 30-minute run, which features the antics

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    Sky denies rift as digital chief exits

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB digital chief Ian West has left the company suddenly, just two months after the arrival of the satellite broadcaster's new chief executive Tony Ball.The departure of West after 10 years

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    OSMAN AND CHAPMAN TAKE TO LIFE ON THE FARM

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Farm has appointed former Tele-Cine editor Tam Osman and audio mixer Dan Chapman, who joins from Magmasters. The Soho Square facility also said it had promoted Clyde Kellet to editor,

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    CELADOR CASHES IN ON MILLIONAIRE SERIES

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Celador Productions is to launch a range of new consumer products based around its successful ITV series, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (right). Slated for release this September are a

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    VNU BUYS RATINGS FIRM

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Nielsen Media Research, the television ratings service, has been bought in the US by Dutch media company VNU for $2.5 billion (£1.6 billion), which also assumes $200 million (£124 million) in

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    The Brits are coming

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    GB Productions' LA launch last week generated favourable column inches Stateside but mixed reviews in the UK. Jason Deans on the new BBC Worldwide and Granada joint-venture.

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    BRIGHTER RAISES RAMAN

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Brighter Pictures has appointed Nav Raman to the newly created head of production role to work under creative director Remy Blumenfeld. Raman, who joined Brighter Pictures last year as series producer

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    OFF THE RECORD - Elstein's brain

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Still on the subject of Channel 5, OTR was as pleased as punch when its favourite movie, The Man With Two Brains, was screened last week. But just how does chief

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    OFF THE RECORD - Brahms and eclipsed

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Anyone left underwhelmed by last week's cloud-ridden eclipse may be heartened to hear that darting off to the zone of totality was no guarantee of the full-corona effect either. Take GMG

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    On the box - Stuart Murpny

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy on Weekender and BBC News 24's Zero 30.

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    FORT BOYARD BOOSTS EXPAND'S REVENUES

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Expand, the French company that owns the Fort Boyard entertainment format, has announced a 10 per cent increase in revenues for the first half of 1999, to FFr 604 million (£61