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    Fifty-Fifty in bid to retain finishing work

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Fifty-Fifty Post Production has bought a DS Nitris HD to prevent promo and ident finishing from going to other faci...

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    BBC plays down tapeless trials concern

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has rejected claims that the corporation's upcoming tapeless production trials will benefit only a privileged minority of facilities, writes Rick Dacey.

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    Lawrence back at M2

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Editor Richard Lawrence has returned to M2 following stints at Molinare and Oasis Television after leaving M2 in 2003. Lawrence is taking a senior Editbox operator and Nitris operator role. His credit list includes promos for MTV, Discovery Channel and E4 and title sequences for the BBC's ...

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    JVC camera Launch

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    JVC is to launch its GY-HD100 camera at this year's NAB in Las Vegas. The high-definition camera has interchangeabl...

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    Quantel hires Mills

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Manufacturer Quantel has brought in commercial development manager Geoff Mills to look after sales in the London area after the departure of Jeremy Lutterloch earlier this month. Lutterloch has joined Imagineer Systems.

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    Workshop call

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    The Broadcast Production Show will feature three new workshop strands at this year's event at Earl's Court 2. Newly introduced for this year are the Producer's Room, the Channel Centre and Post Production, which have been put together to cover areas such as the future of television funding, how to ...

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    Audio facility opens

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Audio facility Noise has opened for business. Dubbing mixers Aidan McCarthy, Karl Mainzer and Jeff Richardson have opened the audio facility in Oxford Circus and will offer three high-definition sound theatres for broadcast and commercial projects. They are being financially backed by Directors Cut. The studios were built by Munro ...

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    Globecast win

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    GlobeCast has won three contracts for Satellite Contribution of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in France. GlobeCast is now delivering broadcast content to transmitters via its platform on the Atlantic Bird 3 satellite.

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    BBC Broadcast's Unthinkable job

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has produced UKTV History's Unthinkable campaign promoting UKTV History's ...

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    Blue and TMR finish Wives work

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Blue and The Machine Room (TMR) have completed the editing and effects on the latest series of Shed Productions' Footballers' Wives. Blue's Ronnie Newman onlined using Smoke for effects such as green-screen compositing and rotoscoping. Telecine operator Gerry Gedge at TMR then carried ...

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    Up Creative unveils Box promo

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Emap Performance Design and creative agency Up Creative has produced a promo identity campaign for the interactive music channel The Box. The spots feature dubiously styled dance teachers inviting the viewer to try such farcical moves as the Shoot the Guns and The Talk Show Host. The Box's tag-line finishes ...

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    C4 series tracks Asbo enforcer

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Terrorised estates and frightened residents are to come under the spotlight for a C4 documentary on the only private firm allowed to dish out the controversial Anti-Social Behaviour Orders.

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    C4 delves lost princes' death

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a docu-drama to uncover the truth behind Richard III's rise to the throne of England.

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    Odd couples' stories for ITV2

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    ITV2 has commissioned Manchester-based indie Turn On Television to make a 6 x 60-minute series on some of Britain's...

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    Commissioners Q&A: Emma Swain

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    BBC commissioning editor, specialist factual, and acting commissioning editor, formats and features wants indies to challenge her with bolder ideas to make the channel more surprising and risk-taking

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    Car focus for James Dean crash revisit

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Zig Zag Productions is to make a 60-minute special for Five and National Geographic USA about the car crash that killed movie icon James Dean . The Truth Behind James Dean's Car, made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the actor's death, will recreate the scene ...

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    C4 Dispatches looks at dying wishes

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is investigating British attitudes to death in a documentary for its flagship current affairs strand Dispatches. In the 60-minute film Last Rights(working title) Professor Laurie Taylor will be looking at why British people plan their funerals but give little thought ...

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    ITV spends a year at historic school

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Life behind the doors of Britain's oldest school is being caught on film for an ITV documentary. ...

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    Two Way sets up offshoot with HTI

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Interactive TV specialist Two Way TV has set up a production and distribution offshoot and has picked up its first two jobs from Sky Movies and Flextech.

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    C4 poaches Party in the Park from Five

    2005-03-31T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has snatched the rights to screen 95.8 Capital FM's music concert, Party in the Park, from Five.