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SERIATE, Italy – Along with the risk of elimination – and the loss of all the accrued quiz show money to the eliminator – contestants on L'eredità (The Inheritance) on Italian TV (RAI 1) get cast in different colors every time they make a mistake. Director of photography Vittorino Piccolo, meanwhile, is mostly concerned that there won't be any errors in the color specified – or, worse, a fixture failure that would bring the whole TV show to a halt.

SINGAPORE – Impact Engineering, which supports productions in Singapore, Hong Kong and China, has purchased 116 Robe moving lights, including 50 ColorSpot 700E ATs and 66 ROBIN 300 Beams, in a deal handled by Louis Teo of Robe SEA.

LONDON – Back in mid-2010, Danish lighting designer Christian Bonde prepared to scale up the design for the Bullet For My Valentine's shows, which had appeared at a variety of club-type venues in the U.S., in preparation for European arenas.

KARRINYUP, Western Australia – The Lady Wardle Performing Arts Centre, a 509 seat auditorium at the St. Mary's Anglican Girls School, graduated to a new quality of light with recent gear from ETC Selador and Vari-Lite.

SINGAPORE – Robert Juliat provided the big guns for two big occasions when its largest followspots – Lancelot 4000W HTI and Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots. – were specified for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

BELFAST – Production Services Ireland (PSI) supplied lighting, video screens and media servers, trussing and rigging to BBC Northern Ireland for the 2010 Belfast Children In Need concert staged at Odyssey Arena.

LONDON – LD Yenz Nyholm used an Avolites Diamond 4 Titan console for an O2 Arena performance for Level 42, part of the band's 30th Anniversary world tour. Siyan provided the lighting gear.