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Jelly explores Coast for BBC2
Jelly Television has created branding, titles and programme content for BBC2 factual series Coast. The show explores the British coastline using CGI to recreate historic events, such as the building of the Titanic and Britannia Bridge. Creative director Jan Golunski and designer Paul Clements designed and ...
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What do Playboy & Andy Duncan have in common?
Always keen to get ahead, the adult entertainment industry has pioneered new internet, video and mobile phone technologies - and the TV world is quickly wising up to what it can learn.
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NewsPlayboy launches broadband service
Playboy TV has launched a new multi-media package offering adult content to its subscribers across all platforms for a monthly£30 payment.
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NewsBBC mulls selling programmes over the net
The BBC is looking at selling content to viewers outside the UK via the internet.
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Europe's UBF buys CTV OB for£15m
CTV Outside Broadcasts has been bought for a fee believed to be around£15m by European resources group United Broadcast Facilities (UBF).
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Inmedia Communications sells to Arqiva
Arqiva, the company formerly known as NTL Broadcast, has bought Inmedia Communications from the Carlyle Group for£68.5m.
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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.