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NewsCrimewatch turns to SMS to catch criminals
8am:Crimewatch viewers will be able to shop criminals by text message through a new confidential service.
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NewsITV ventures into online bingo
ITV is launching a series of online bingo games based on some of its highest rating shows.
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NewsFirst UK made-for-mobile soap to launch
8am: New London-based indie Farringdon Road Films is making the first UK soap, specifically designed for mobile phones.
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NewsC4 pumps new media money into Hollyoaks
8am: Channel 4 is launching new broadband and mobile services for flagship soap Hollyoaks as part of the broadcaster's seven-figure investment into new media.
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BBC F&L reveals Final Cut plans
The BBC's factual & learning department has outlined its plans to save between£4m and£6m a year over three years by bringing 20% to 25% of its post-production in-house.
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Molinare buys four Grand Central studios
Molinare has bought the Marshall Street premises of Grand Central Studios for an undisclosed sum, as part of an expansion of its audio department.
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Red Bee goes for growth with restructure
Multimedia and playout facility Red Bee Media is restructuring in a bid to expand the business over the next year.
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TWI takes Gfx man
Production and distribution company TWI has recruited Blue Gfx head of animation Andrew Gould to work at Mediahouse, its video and audio post-production arm, as head of graphics. Gould has been involved in broadcast animation and effects for 15 years, and was previously head of 3D at DVD and graphics ...
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Skaramoosh hire
Post-production and animation specialist Skaramoosh has taken on MPC animator Michael Parker to join its 3D department as 3D Maya artist. During his two years at MPC Parker animated on The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs for the BBC and on commercials. In addition, the company has recently boosted its kit ...
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VTR MD moves on
VTR's managing director, Kate Sturgess, has left to join Shoreditch-based DVD production company The Pavement as director of operations. Sturgess will work in the new role, which includes managing the production team and developing future product innovations. She will also oversee The Pavement's UMD video production for Sony's Playstation Portable.
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Fiftyfifty edit move
Soho post-production house Fiftyfifty has recruited Avid online editor Coco Lorenzo. Lorenzo, who has freelanced for Class Films on Bravo's Sin City series and on Granada's Counting Sheep, will focus on promos and corporate projects. She replaces Abraham Teweldbrhan, who has joined TSI.
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FCP offered online
Post facility Clear Cut Pictures is launching a web-based sales department. Clear Cut Pro will sell and support a range of Final Cut Pro edit stations and other Apple products. The two-strong team includes Clear Cut's former machine room co-ordinator Ben Plumb who will act as product specialist and Oliver ...
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Beeton honoured
Pepper Post-Production colourist Chris Beeton has scooped the lifetime achievement award at this year's RTS Craft & Design Awards, the first colourist to win the award. Beeton has been a colourist for 30 years and has worked at the BBC and TVI. He has worked on programmes including Central TV's ...
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Evolutions' Psychic Challenge
Evolutions has designed the titles and branding for Britain's Psychic Challenge, a new series by Town House TV for Five. In the 7 x 60-minute programme, hosted by Trisha Goddard, participants undertake challenges and tests to convince a panel of sceptics of their psychic abilities. The titles depict how psychics ...
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ArenaP3's Abnormal job for Sky
ArenaP3 has finished the post-production on the Media Trust's Abnormally Funny People. The documentary follows a group of disabled comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Colourist Blair Wallace graded the difficult lighting conditions of the footage on Pogle Platinum to give it a ...
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Jump rebrands Record show
Jump has rebranded ITV Productions' The Record of the Year, an annual show where the public votes for their favourite chart song, performed on the night. The title sequence, commissioned by ITV's Lee Connolly, shows shapes fusing together to reveal the performers. Senior designer Keith Livingstone modelled the logo in ...
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Fremantle Media in mobile TV launch
Fremantle Media is set to enter the burgeoning UK mobile TV market with plans to launch a local version of its upcoming US service Thumbdance.
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Netting the future post profits
The traditional role of the post-production house is coming under imminent threat from cost-cutting and in-house operations, so how are the facility houses planning to earn their keep in the future? Kate Large reports.
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NewsArchers crowned BBC's download king
8am:The Archers has beaten Chris Moyles' Radio 1 breakfast show to take the top spot for the corporation's most listened-to radio programme online.
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Ascent reshuffle will simplify ops
Ascent Media is to restructure its facilities and management team in a move which its European managing director, Brenda Smith, said will simplify the company's operations and turn its facility brands into complementary rather than competitive businesses.