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Projector on demo
Digital film mastering specialist FilmLight has installed a JVC DLA-HD2K projector to demonstrate its grading and post-production workflows. A Baselight grading and finishing system supplies the projector with a DVI signal providing real-time operation at resolutions of up to 4k. The system includes FilmLight's TrueLight 3D colour management system, ensuring ...
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Nat Geo orders terrorism series from ITN Factual
National Geographic has commissioned ITN Factual to make a mini documentary series examining the complex nature of modern terrorism.
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Tyler takes top comedy post at BBC Scotland
Alan Tyler, the head of Mentorn Scotland, is to return to BBC comedy.
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ITV4 goes to war
ITV4 has bought two hour-long war documentaries from distributor Mercury Media. The Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters, from French producer Les Films Grain de Sable, is an investigation into the sinking of the Russian super-sub. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, produced by Globalvision in the ...
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Rock station move
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, has promoted Adam Uytman to programme director of Birmingham rock station Kerrang! 105.2, replacing Andrew Jeffries who moves to Emap's London station Kiss 100. Uytman, who has been acting programme director since May, has been deputy programme director at the station since ...
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Stand-up rights deal
Paramount Comedy has signed an option deal with Universal Pictures UK for rights to showcase its future stand-up comic talent. The agreement for non-terrestrial TV rights to live DVD recordings is part of the channel's decision to broadcast more original content and homegrown talent. The deal was brokered by Paramount's ...
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Ex-C4 exec hits out at Quiz Call venture
Former Channel 4 strategy director David Brook has hit out at his old employer, claiming its new call TV channel goes against its remit.
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Forces order fresh serving of DIY show
British Forces Broadcasting Service Television, the TV and radio service exclusively for the armed forces, has ordered a fifth series of DIY show Hung, Drawn & Quartered. Avent Productions and Deborah McKenna Limited will co-produce the 6 x 30-minute show, which is set at British military ...
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Belfast documentary is last in trilogy
Five has commissioned a 40-minute documentary from film-maker Michael Grigsby looking at Belfast as it recovers from its violent past. Rehearsals, shot in high definition, revolves around a group of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes and pubs, set against images of Belfast. It is ...
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Walking on the wild side
Bethan Corney has perfected the art of reworking documentaries for broadcast on Five. Now she's taking on the BBC with original commissions.
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Howzat for a peaktime audience
Interest in Channel 4's live cricket coverage of The Ashes continued to grow and grow, giving the broadcaster its highest peak audience so far this year.
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Keating: extra cash for drama
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has pledged to 'ramp up' investment in UK dramas in a bid to tackle the channel's mid-life crisis.
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Curtis defends doc
Documentary-maker Adam Curtis has hit back at critics of his series The Power of Nightmaresand said he 'couldn't see the fuss' about Peter Taylor's BBC2 documentary The Real Al-Qaeda. Taylor's programme was billed as a counter-argument to Curtis's authored BBC2 documentary, in ...
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Love Island return
ITV's Celebrity Love Islandlooks set for a second season with royal cad James Hewitt as a potential contestant. Granada's controller of factual entertainment, Natalka Znak, who produced the first series, told a session at the Edinburgh TV Festival that talks with ITV were in 'advanced stages'.
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Five ponders Trisha
Five is looking for more vehicles for talkshow host Trisha Goddard. Director of programmes Dan Chambers said he has lined up a 'reality event' show and another involving 'quirky individuals', but had yet to decide between the two. Trisha currently hosts Trisha Goddardon Five.
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Living branches out
Living TV director Richard Woolfe said the channel was no longer looking to commission shows for its pink and paranormal strands and was on the look out for the 'next big, noisy breakthrough genre'. He said the channel's budget is£20,000 per half hour for daytime and£100,000 plus for primetime.
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Discovery reinvents
Discovery UK senior vice-president and channel director, Jill Offman said she wanted to shake off the Discovery Channel's image of 'sharks and Nazis' and is looking to commission more drama with a human element. Where possible programmes would be shot in high definition.
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News more X-rated
News coverage has become more X-rated in Britain over the years, according to a new survey. Festival organisers commissioned a YouGov poll of 159 industry figures asking whether news footage was at its most graphic and 57% of those surveyed agreed. The figures were revealed as part of a session ...
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A missed opportunity
Lord Birt's MacTaggart lecture failed either to deliver the top-slicing manifesto which had been widely expected or to confound the commentators by coming up with his own big idea.