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NewsGraphixasset does Garden vfx
Graphixasset has completed a match move visual effects shot for the title sequence of Christine's Garden, a 6 x 30-minute series by BBC Birmingham following horticulturalist Christine Walkden's passion for horticulture at home and work. The shot sees her walking across the lawn while grass ...
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Director Hamm sets up multiplatform indie
Bafta-winning TV and film director Nick Hamm has launched a multiplatform production company that specialises in comedy and drama with high production values.
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ETV opens specialist web agency
ETV has set up a digital agency that will specialise in web-TV, digital marketing and website design.
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ITV sets sights on Lottery draw
ITV is staging a serious bid to wrestle the TV rights to the National Lottery draw away from the BBC.
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RDF to make Ogilvy content
RDF Digital is to develop cross-platform content for Ogilvy Entertainment, the branded content division of advertising agency Ogilvy.
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R1's Parfitt in frame for CBBC post
BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has emerged as a contender for the job of controller of Children's BBC.
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Magic channel launches
Foreign BBC correspondent and magician Geoff Harrison has launched what is claimed to be the world's first magic channel, tvmagicians.com.
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NewsORTV takes on Resolution post premises
Production company ORTV has set up an independent post business in the old Resolution premises on D'Arblay Street, Soho.
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Morrison gets nations role
The BBC has moved to bolster programme-making in the nations and allay fears about in-house production by appointing Anne Morrison to help it meet its in-house production quotas.
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Chase goes to Whitechapel
Animation and sound studio Chase Imagination has moved from its County Hall premises on the south bank of the Thames to Backchurch Lane in Whitechapel.
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Still Game to return
Glaswegian indie The Comedy Unit has won a fifth series commission for BBC2 comedy Still Game, its first returning network commission since Rab C Nesbitt. The third series gained almost half the audience share on BBC Scotland when it was ...
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Thompson hires Mentorn duo
Steadfast Television, the indie set up by former Mentorn chief Charles Thompson, has poached two Mentorn development executives.
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Pub landlord opens doors at Virgin Radio
Comedian Al Murray is to step up to the mike to host Virgin Radio's Sunday 4pm to 7pm slot from Sunday (8 January) in his pub landlord guise. Filling in for regular presenter Tim Lovejoy for a month, Murray will continue with Lovejoy's celebrity interviews, but will add a pub ...
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Freudenstein leaves BSkyB for native Oz
BSkyB chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein is to leave the company. Freudenstein, who has been with Sky since 1999 and last year spearheaded the launch of the broadcaster's 19 mobile channels, has decided to return to his native Australia but has not announced his next move. A Sky spokesman said ...
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NewsRome comes to an end with 3m
A feature-length edition of BBC2's Rome, which marked the end of the series, gave the channel a boost last night with 3 million (13%) watching at 9pm.
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NewsSportech terminates ITV betting contract
ITV's partner in interactive betting services, Sportech has terminated its contract with the broadcaster, predicting operating losses of up to£4m in 2005.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC bonuses
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is it right for BBC staff to be paid£15.5m in bonuses?
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NewsTinopolis takes Wedi 7 into HD
8am:Llanelli-based indie Tinopolis is to start making its long running weeknight magazine programme for S4C, Wedi 7, in high definition (HD).
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NewsITV to unveil rebrand
ITV will next week unveil a radical overhaul of its on-screen branding in a bid to give each of its four channels a similar look.
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NewsUSP bags Five Live F1 contract
Radio indie USP has won the BBC Radio Five Live contract to cover the 2006 Formula 1 season - the first time the corporation has awarded coverage of a mainstream live sporting event to the independent radio sector.