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New Music Television

New Music Television poster
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United Kingdom
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This half-hour music show aired late at night on ITV. Each episode featured six music videos from global artists and an interview with a known or emerging act. The series had a retro, fun style and helped introduce several new bands to UK charts.

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What happens

New Music Television / New Music TV (NMTV), presented by Marc Almond (of Soft Cell) was a weekly series of 26 half-hour music programmes first aired in the UK at 11:30pm in July 2001 on ITV and ITV2. Each show featured six videos from artists and bands around the world together with an interview with a well known or up-and-coming artist/band. The series was formatted to portray a retro, fun and quirky style. It went on to sell around the world into 48 countries via Southern Star distribution and was responsible for helping to break 24 then unknown artists or bands into the UK top 20. e.g. The White Stripes, Feeder, The Hives and P.J. Harvey. The NMTV executive and series producer was Stephen Benham (formally known as Bo Benham of The Pleasers) the series was directed by Enrico Lando. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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