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Consumer interest is key to HD adoption says BBC
The BBC's production modernisation guru Andy Quested has revealed that he thinks that consumer interest in better quality television pictures will help to drive the amount of production done in HD by the broadcast sector.
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Facility M2 has Big Finish in view
Soho facility M2 is in negotiations to buy a majority share holding in post-production group Big Finish, write Sam Espensen and Will Srauss.
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BBC post facility wins Weakest Link tender
The new producer of BBC's Weakest LinkJo Street has completely overhauled the way the shows are made for the forthcoming fifth series, writes Sam Espensen.
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Welsh Assembly backs animation venture
A new animation studio, partially funded by a grant from the Welsh National Assembly, will open in Cardiff Bay this week, writes Sam Espensen.
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422 South brings the human chimp to life
422 South has provided graphics and content for Granada's show The Human Chimp, part of the Unsolved Mysteries strand on Five. The programme uses archive footage to speculate about a human/chimp hybrid species and whether such a species is already in existence. 422 designer Will ...
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Knight goes to Nats
Nats Post Production has added Louise Knight to its team of post-production managers. Knight was previously joint managing director of Rainbow Post where she worked for six years. 'I wanted to concentrate on the post side,' she said. 'Because of my position at Rainbow I was often involved in things ...
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Mediahouse living deal
TWI's Mediahouse studio has won the contract for Living TV's new daily live talk show Loose Lips, produced by Scream Films. The show will kick off on 31 March and run for 20 weeks. Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe told ...
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Runners get advice
Skillset is to hold a careers advice day next month for runners wanting to get ahead in TV. Offering access to producers, directors and broadcasters, the event features workshops and talks from such luminaries as 1Xtra programmes editor Wilber Wilberforce. Skillsformedia advisors, who are experienced working freelancers, will also be ...
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Rushes needs shorts
Talented short film-makers are wanted for this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. Entries must have been produced in the last 12 months (up to 6 May 2003) with a running time of up to 12 minutes and can be entered in one or more of the following categories: short film; ...
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Watchpoint in London
Interactive specialist WatchPoint Media has opened a London office. The company offers solutions for creating, broadcasting and collecting responses for interactive TV applications and its biggest product is Storyteller, an authoring system and graphical tool built on a proprietary visual programming language.
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Machine Room hiring
Soho facility The Machine Room has added former 4MC/Ascent Media colourist Brian Metherell to its telecine team to help with an increase in TK projects. Metherell, who has 25 years' experience, has previously worked at VTR and TVP among other facilities. His credits include The ...
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Ascent redundancies
Thirty five Ascent Media staff have been axed as a result of the merger of post houses Soho 601 and SVC into One Post. Those affected are being encouraged to apply for other jobs within the group. One Post will have 58 employees comprising 23 people from SVC, five from ...
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Gong for Morris film
Chris Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, which was posted at The Mill, has won a Bafta for best short film at this year's awards. The project was co-produced by Mark Herbert ( Phoenix Nights), and was adapted ...
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Simple treatment for Sky show
The Sky News graphics team has created images for a new live evening talk show called 3Dto air on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 March.
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BBC buys news software for war
The BBC has ordered 13 LNG (laptop news gathering) software systems from web and newsgathering partners TVZ and 4BN, for journalists to use in covering the impending war in Iraq.
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Video Europe spends£1.5m on OB equipment
London kit hire and studio facility Video Europe has invested£1.5m in OB trucks and kit for its new events division.
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P3 to axe office and shrink workforce
Soho post facility P3 has denied rumours it is going bust but has admitted that it will have to close one of its two offices and make staff cutbacks, writes Sam Espensen.
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Clear wins BBC deal
Post house Clear has won 10 weeks' work from the BBC on three promos for its DTT platform, Freeview, after posting the first 'mask changing' films. Directed by Tim Pope, the next three promos will have people 'taking their faces off' in different environments. Clear has also appointed a new ...
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Advanced awareness
The growing importance of 'interoperability' will be the talking point at an event taking place in London next week. The AAF Technology Awareness Event is run to promote the development and adoption of the Advanced Authoring Format, a multimedia file format which enables content creators to exchange digital media and ...
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Homeless gets kit
The 400 Company has supplied kit, crew and an offline suite for a new BBC Everymanstrand called Headhunting the Homeless. Walsh Bros Ltd is producing the 3 x 40-minute shows, which follow homeless people trying to get back to work. ...