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Todd-AO buys eQ
Todd-AO has bought a£100,000 Quantel eQ editing system. The eQ provides editing, grading and versioning that can work at both standard and high-definition, a key reason for the purchase. Managing director Sam Webb said: 'We know the HD market is set for huge growth and while that growth is happening, ...
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UK Post elections
UK Post members have elected St Anne's Post managing director Keith Williams and Granada post-production boss Lance Tattersall to join last year's returning board. All but two members of last year's board were successfully re-elected with managing directors Nicky Sargent, The Farm Group and William Sargent, Framestore CFC choosing to ...
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New BBC Post role
BBC Post Production London has promoted post-producer Richie Cohen to fill a dedicated indies post-producer role, which starts this month. Cohen recently project managed BBC Broadcast's move from Television Centre to the hi-tech Broadcast Centre. BBC Post Production is part of BBC Resources, one of the remaining commercial arms of ...
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Maidstone booking
Maidstone Studios has picked up its first booking for its new 12,000sq ft studio for the second series of Geronimo TV/Scottish Media Group (SMG) production Prove It!for ITV. The 13 x 20-minute series is in the studio from 31 October to 11 November.
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BBC idents set '2' logo free
BBC Broadcast is setting BBC2 free in a new campaign pushing the channel's comedy offering. Comedy stars such as Stephen Fry, John Bird and Catherine Tate figure in the idents showing the BBC2 logo roaming free. The first sketches will include the cast of satirical BBC2 comedy ...
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TSI bears in on C4 comedy
TSI has completed the post-production for A Bear's Tail, a Channel 4 spin-off from comedy series Bo' Selecta!. A key challenge in the post-production process involved shots of comedian Leigh Francis - who dressed up as a bear for the series - ...
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The Mill/Blue do Lost promos
The Mill and Blue have completed post-production on the promo for Channel 4's new American import Lost. The promo for the drama series, which is based on how passengers cope after an air crash, included a one-day shoot in Hawaii. The Mill 3D animator Rob Petrie ...
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ITV2 aims to raise spirits
ITV2 is taking on Living TV's grip on paranormal TV with a new series called Haunted Homes.September Films is making the 6 x 45-minute series, in which a group of experts go into a home to establish the truth about a family's claims that ghosts and ...
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Mentorn wins trio of commissions
Mentorn has won a trio of commissions for Channel 4 and Discovery Health, including a programme which follows attempts to create a diet plan for the world's fattest man.
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Five helps viewers get dream job
Five is looking to help people to secure their dream job with a new series created by indies Maverick Television and Shine.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Jon Plowman
The BBC's head of comedy entertainment is looking for half-hour comedies which chime with the real world and have real characters
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Living TV orders two paranormal shows
Living TV is beefing up its paranormal output with two primetime orders.
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First timewatch order for Testimony
Testimony Films has been given its first commission for the BBC's Timewatchstrand. Children of the Doomed Voyagetells the story of the evacuee ship SS Benares, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1940. The 50-minute documentary uses archive footage and interviews ...
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Five to show its bottle for kids
Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson has commissioned Bottle Top Bill, an animated kids series for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. Produced by Southern Star, the 26 x 11-minute series follows Bottle Top Bill and his horse, Corky. The pair use ...
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Discovery to air businesswoman show
Discovery Home & Health vice-president and channel controller Clare Laycock has commissioned Tern Television to make an observational documentary looking at women entrepreneurs as they prepare to launch their businesses. Ladies That Launchis 15 x 30-minute series set to air later this year. The executive producers ...
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ITV1 launches on-demand repeats
ITV1 has made its first move into the on-demand market with the launch of a repeats service on HomeChoice.
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C4 signs up ABC's What About Brian
Channel 4 has bought another high-profile US sitcom, taking exclusive UK rights to ABC's What About Brian.
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RDFR in first-look deal with Firecracker
RDF Rights has signed a two-year first-look deal with indie Firecracker Films. RDFR has picked up all international rights to Firecracker's output, which includes Five documentary World's Strongest Boyand Channel 4's Real Attack of the 50ft Woman. This deal follows earlier first-look ...
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Banned pope cartoon gets DVD release
Popetown, the controversial cartoon series which was dropped by the BBC before it even aired, is to finally be released to viewers in the UK as a DVD. Revolver Entertainment has announced that it will be releasing a DVD of the£2.5m series, which the BBC pulled amid complaints from the ...
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Contender divides into two companies
Contender Entertainment Group, the kids character group chaired by former BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin, has re-formed into two new companies. Contender Home Entertainment will focus services such as DVD distribution while Rubber Duck Entertainment will look after all production and rights for Contender's properties such as ...