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BT Sport – studio construction videos
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Journalists attending the press launch for the new BT Sport channels were given a tour of the studios and production centre, but while we were able to look and ask questions, we were forbidden from taking pictures or filming. Just five official pictures of the studios have been provided to the media by BT who…
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New BT Sport ad targets Virgin Media users
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BT has stepped up efforts to use its forthcoming sports channels to win over customers from Virgin Media. The channels will offer sports fans 38 Barclays Premier League matches per season, exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and 800 hours of live tennis, including the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. Earlier this month BT announced…
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Xbox One launch causes TalkTalk network spike
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Broadband provider TalkTalk says Microsoft’s launch of the Xbox One games and media console earlier this week caused “a big spike in traffic” on t its network. As the tech giant held two launch events simultaneously, in London and Seattle, traffic on one of the Content Delivery Networks within TalkTalk’s infrastructure rose from 80 Gigabytes…
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Filming starts on new London-based nuclear thriller
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Filming starts next month on a new thriller set in the political back rooms of London. War Book, directed by Tom Harper (The Woman in Black: Angel of Death), is described as “a chilling chamber piece” which explores the likely aftermath of an international nuclear attack. Written by Jack Thorne (Long Way Down,…
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The Americans – ITV trailer
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Here’s the trailer for The Americans, a new US spy drama starring Golden Globe award-winning actress Keri Russell and acclaimed actor Matthew Rhys, and coming to ITV next month. The show focuses on the arranged marriage of two KGB spies, Phillip (Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell), who pose as Americans in suburban Washington, D.C. shortly…
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David Threlfall to play Tommy Cooper in new ITV biopic
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David Threlfall has been cast as iconic comedian Tommy Cooper in a new ITV one-off drama. The Shamless star will be joined by Amanda Redman as his wife Dove in the biopic which has been written by Simon Nye and is being produced by multi award-winning production company, Left Bank Pictures. Nye’s script focuses…