More News – Page 3378

  • News

    Pink MD on UK post

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Anita Nandwani, managing director of Bristol's Pink House Post Production, has been voted onto the UK Post board as the second regional representative, joining Barcud Derwen managing director Bryn Roberts. Nandwani won her place by receiving over 30% of the regional members' vote. Nandwani highlighted increasing network commissions outside London ...

  • News

    Inman joins input

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Mike Inman, the former executive producer for sport at Carlton, is joining production and post company The Input Video Group as executive producer. Inman is the second appointment in as many weeks, following head of business development Richard Markell. Inman brings a wealth of sports experience having been involved with ...

  • News

    Promax UK awards

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Promax UK is launching its annual student awards aimed at promoting the broadcast promo and marketing industry within colleges and universities. The competition involves challenging students to brand and promote a celebrity showdown format or an idea of their own choosing. The 2005 Promax Student Awards competition is being run ...

  • News

    Golden Square gets mobile

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Soho's Golden Square Post Production has completed work on sponsorship idents for Formula 1 on ITV and T-Mobile. The idents feature a mobile phone passing itself off as various parts of a Formula 1 racing car, such as the car's wing-mirror or a spinning wheel, but soon reveal that the ...

  • News

    Addiction gives us H Side Story

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Addiction has just finished a title sequence and content graphics for Blaze Television's H Side Story. The series follows pop group Steps' H as he embarks upon a musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. The sequence illustrates H's journey from pop megastar to ...

  • News

    Blue executes Murder in Rome

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Blue has completed full post on Murder in Rome, the first episode of the new series of Timewatch. The re-enactment is based around a trial taking place in an amphitheatre in Rome in 81BC. Audio post was undertaken by Blue ...

  • News

    FX lands Fat Actress for UK

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Multichannel broadcaster FX has acquired exclusive UK rights to Cheersstar Kirstie Alley's much-hyped new comedy reality show, Fat Actress.

  • News

    Lion follows Dickens' trip

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Lion TV Scotland is to produce a major new documentary for the BBC chronicling Charles Dickens' travels around the US.

  • News

    C4 suffers Friday night slump

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 suffered its second worst peaktime performance on a Friday since 1992 as comedy Nathan Barleydrew an average of just 700,000 (3.3%) at 10pm.

  • News

    Martin Burglar gives BBC interview

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...

  • News

    C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...

  • News

    VFG hire in administration

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...

  • News

    Fox quits capital after 17 years

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Capital Radio drivetime DJ Neil Fox has quit after 17 years and will be replaced by former Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon. Bacon, who has DJ experience on Capital-owned Xfm, BBC Radio Five Live and digital station BBC7, will take over the slot this spring. The move ...

  • News

    Thomson to make HDTV boxes for BSKYB

    2005-03-03T08:30:00Z

    Thomson is to be the first manufacturer of the set-top box for BSkyB's High-Definition Television (HDTV) service, set to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin on Wednesday (2 March), Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein also announced that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar ...

  • News

    A job worth doing

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Maxim Jago thinks that small budgets are the best way to judge the talent of newcomers to the industry.

  • News

    So you wanna be in the mobiles?

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Third generation mobile phones have tremendous potential, and the race is on to produce the first really compelling content. Peter Keighron reports.

  • News

    Do you feel lucky?

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Lottery fever is way past its peak in the UK so as Camelot turns to multichannel in an attempt to widen its audience, the BBC is casting around for new concepts for the Saturday night show, writes Peter Keighron.

  • News

    Man on the Street

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    This is the first interview Tony Wood has done since he became Coronation Streetproducer just over a year ago and, in some ways, it's wasted on Broadcast. When asked for an exclusive for Broadcast readers the best he can come up with ...

  • News

    No job for a woman... or ethnic minorities

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    The strong line-up of female executives in the running for the BBC1 controllership doesn't mean the picture further down the ladder has changed. Skillset's new research shows women in broadcasting are still getting a raw deal.

  • News

    In My View - Is TV fair to teenagers?

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture.