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Target enters DVD market
Rights management company Target Entertainment is moving into the DVD market and has secured Graham Norton's US chat show for its first release.
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Sci fi stocks up on drama
Sci Fi has made a host of drama purchases, including Canadian paranormal series ReGenesis. Produced by Shaftesbury Films and distributed in the UK by Portman Television, the 26 x 30-minute series follows a team of genetic crime investigators. The initial 13-episode season has been completed and a ...
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Canada's Cineflix opens London office
Canadian-based producer/distributor Cineflix has set up a London office and poached Outline Productions managing director Simon Lloyd to run it.
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Under construction goes to Scandinavia
Zeal TV has sold its house-building reality format Under Constructionto Norway and Finland. Monster TV in Norway will produce 24 episodes, which will air twice weekly on TV2 this spring, and Channel 4 in Finland will also develop the format. In addition, Belgium's VTM has commissioned ...
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Julian Clary format sells to Russia
Distraction Formats has secured a raft of new deals for three of its shows. In the Dark, the UK format hosted by Julian Clary on ITV in 1996, will be remade by Russia's Muz TV. TPI in Indonesia has also taken the format, in which three ...
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Electric Sky shifts BBC tsunami doc
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made several sales of the BBC's Asian tsunami documentary, The Killer Wave. The 52-minute special, broadcast earlier this month, has been picked up by broadcasters in six countries including the US.
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BBC Worldwide lines up shows for US
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to bring British comedy, drama and factual programming to video-on-demand viewers in the US. Akimbo Systems, which offers content via broadband, signed a deal at this week's Natpe market for content such as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroyand ...
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C4's Bromwell High toon Heads for Oz
Channel 4's new multicultural animated series Bromwell Highhas been picked up by the ABC and Comedy Channel in Australia. The 13 x 20-minute series, co-produced by Hat Trick and Decode Entertainment, follows three unruly girls in a London school.
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ITV signs£1m beer sponsorship deal
ITV has signed a£1m deal which will see Cobra beer sponsor more than 300 movies on ITV2 and ITV3 this year. The project, titled CobraVision, will also invite movie-makers to submit short films that will air in the breaks of the main feature. It will launch on 31 January with ...
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Casino threat to BBC media centre
The proposed conversion of Alexandra Palace into a new media campus has been thrown into doubt by the BBC reviews and interest from the gambling industry.
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BBC turns to virtual camera to spread rugby's appeal
BBC Sport is to pioneer a new virtual stadium technology in the Six Nations Rugby Championship next week in an effort to maintain the popularity of the game after the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
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UK Post sets up broadcast working group
UK Post chiefs have set up a broadcast working group to confront the issues facing the sector ahead of impending changes at the BBC.
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DGP EXPANDS TEAM
Soho-based post facility DGP has expanded its team with the appointment of ex-Carlton head of design, Central region Amanda Robinson and former Corinthian Television online editor Ollie Aslin. Robinson has joined to lead DGP's graphics and design department as senior design producer having performed a similar function at ITV's Birmingham-based ...
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PRIME ADDS CAMERAS
Broadcast hire company Prime Television has invested£30,000 in 12 new Sony HVR-Z1 high-definition cameras and three recorders, which it will be showing at Broadcast's Engaging HD conference on 3 February at the Waldorf Hilton, London.
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Red Battlefield job
Manchester-based Red Vision has successfully won the pitch for the BBC sequel to Battlefield Britain. The follow-up to the Peter Snow-fronted show will focus on international battles. Red Vision managing director David Mousley said early graphics work had begun and that its Legion software was being ...
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Broadcast surveys
Equipment resellers and television studio bosses are being sought by Broadcastfor two special magazine reports. Reseller Survey 2005 and TV Studios 2005 will feature statistics, analysis and business features that explore the size and condition of the reseller and studio markets. Both reports will be published ...
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Classic sound kit
Audio post facility Classic Sound has bought Merging Technologies' Pyramix and V Cube audio, editing and mixing systems from reseller Total Audio Solutions. The system offers 128-track editing and dubbing and also allows high-definition picture files to be imported for audio to picture post work.
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Court filming move
Bow Tie Television has supplied the recording facilities for a pilot scheme to record court cases in the Royal Courts of Justice, London. Using Sony robotic camera systems, the six-week pilot project is being conducted by a consortium of the main news broadcasters, including BBC News, Sky News, ITV News, ...
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MotionFX helps viewers to sleep
West London-based facility MotionFX has produced titles and graphic content for BBC1's How to Sleep Better. The science documentary studies the effects of disturbance on human sleep patterns. The graphics were designed by designer Keith Haynes who created surreal, dream-like sequences, which are used across both ...