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Clear buyout goes ahead saving 32 jobs
Inferno artist Simon Huhtala has completed the buyout of visual effects house Clear, saving 32 jobs.
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Pumpkin opening
Bristol Film Studios has set up shop in the south-west at the£2m Pumpkin Studios run by regional producer Phil Barry. Former Discovery and Avante channel producer Colin Burgess has joined the studios as studio director. The company has been set up by Barry, Burgess and Visual Impact sales director Richard ...
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Aardman's new kit
Bristol-based Aardman Animation, famous for the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Runand many other hit films, has bought a Pyramix system from Merging Technologies' UK distributor Total Audio Solutions. The system will be used for track laying for broadcast productions and will ...
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Solid State move
Audio manufacturer Solid State Logic vice-president Phil Wagner has stepped up to become the company's new president. Wagner will be responsible for business across North America where Solid State Logic has a strong presence. The promotion followed the recent change in management that was brought on by the takeover of ...
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BBC in Nat Geo deal
BBC Broadcast has been signed up by the National Geographic Channel to provide it with access services for the next five years. The contract will cover National Geographic's subtitling and audio description com-mitments as set down by Ofcom last summer. BBC Broadcast will provide the services that cater for the ...
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Playhouse's summer feeling
The Playhouse Disney Channel is launching new idents for its summer season, produced by in-house executive producer Annabel Phelps and director Chris Heary. Heary shot the idents outside to help capture the feeling of summer and the sense of freedom and enjoyment that pre-schoolers get from playing outside. The campaign ...
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The Hits idents come alive
Emap Performance Design has redesigned its channel identity package for music channel The Hits. The brand wanted to be big, friendly and fresh in expressing its essence, 'Such a good feeling!', to its 16- to 34- year-old market. The idents aim to express how The Hits can fill the world ...
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Triffic job for Catherine Tate
Triffic has produced the titles for a new 6 x 30-minute series of The Catherine Tate Showfor Tiger Aspect. Triffic animation director Tim Searle designed and directed the sequence. The camera introduces Tate's main comedy creations by zooming into and out of her eye. Ben Joiner ...
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The lure of the Golden Triangle
Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly important destination for UK drama productions seeking tax breaks and cheaper rates on studios, craftspeople, crews and kit hire. Is it worth the headahce and are there any hidden costs? Andy Stout reports.
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NewsArqiva buys Inmedia for£68.5m
Arqiva - the newly rebranded NTL Broadcast - has bought Inmedia Communications from The Carlyle Group for£68.5 million.
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NewsNews websites struggle to meet demand
Yesterday's terrorist attacks on London left news websites struggling to keep up with demand from people seeking news on the bombings.
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Clear creatives take over in MBO
Visual effects house Clear is being bought out by senior creatives a week after managing director Greg Caplan said that the company was going through a 'blip'.
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Clear Cut buys£400,000 Avid Unity system
Clear Cut Pictures is spending£400,000 on buying and setting up the UK's first 4 gigabit fibre-channel Avid Unity system which will allow producers to work remotely at the west London facility.
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Jim Henson confirms 23 job cuts from Camden site
The axe hanging over the London base of Jim Henson's Creature Shop has fallen, cutting 23 full-time jobs.
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Red move to Blue
Broadcast post facility Blue has grabbed account manager Kabir Malik from Red Post Production. Malik has worked at Ascent Media Group, M2 and Oasis Television during the past six years, with clients including MTV, BBC Broadcast and Fox Kids Europe. Malik follows former Red colleague Chris Mortimer who joined Blue ...
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New Red colourist
Meanwhile, Red Post Production has picked up colourist George Mellors. Formerly at SVC and One Post, Mellors has previously graded on projects including idents for MTV, Sky Sports bumpers and trailers for the forthcoming series of Top Gear.
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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.