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Bottletop freezes Bernard's time
Bottletop, the Nottingham-based design company, has created titles and special effects for Granada's Bernard. The children's show focuses on Bernard , a boy who is able to freeze time with an antique pocket watch. Bottletop designers John Hunt, Dave ...
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Square Zero sets up The Heist
Square Zero has produced animated titles for The Heist for Five and Windfall Films. The programme follows five ex-cons as they attempt to plan and execute three perfect crimes. The first challenge is to steal a painting while it is being exhibited. Animator Olly Tyler ...
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The axe man cometh
As the BBC's review process draws to an end and staff wait to hear if 6,000 of them will be out of a job, Broadcast looks at where the axe is likely to fall, with news, factual and back-office staff expected to be among the worst hit.
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2012 for switch-off
Ofcom has said analogue switch-off should be completed by 31 December 2012 and that the country will undergo a phased switch-off with one ITV region going digital at a time. The regulator will set out the order in which the regions should be switched by April next year. The announcement ...
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Sci-Fi boss joins BT
Sci-Fi Channel head Dan Marks has quit to join BT's newly formed content division, BT Entertainment. He will join in the new year to oversee video-over-broadband services. BT is seeking to provide music, gaming, television and films over broadband into UK homes. New AC Nielsen figures show that more than ...
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Canter in venture
Andrew Canter, former head of broadcast at media agency Media Planning Group, has set up his own company, Contentworx, to work on advertiser-funded content. He said he had already secured three advertisers in the entertainment, music and household goods markets looking to back new TV shows.
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ITV hires Salmon
ITV has appointed Clare Salmon from motorists' organisation the AA to be its new marketing director. She joins ITV in January, reporting to ITV Broadcasting chief executive Mick Desmond and replacing Jim Hytner who left to join Barclays Bank.
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Spirit FM taken over
The Local Radio Company has taken full control of Spirit FM after buying South West Sussex Radio's 53% share for£1.7m. The station has an audience of 33,000 in the region and made a£137,000 profit in the year to 30 September on sales of£925,000.
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BBC bags kids Baftas
The BBC dominated this week's Bafta Kids awards, taking six prizes. Dick and Dom, presenters of BBC1 Saturday morning strand Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, bagged two awards. CiTV's animation Yoko! Jakamoto! Toto! from Collingwood O'Hare also took two awards. A full list of winners can be viewed at: ...
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Wall to Wall builds on A Life in? series
Wall to Wall is to follow up its Emmy award-winning arts programme George Orwell - A Life in Pictures with a special on James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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BBC focuses on missing persons
Leopard Films is to make a real-life version of US drama Without a Trace for the BBC, which will focus on the biggest missing persons unit in the country.
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Furneaux wins C4 commission
Former Channel 4 executive Charles Furneaux has won his first commission since being poached by Talkback earlier this year.
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Love gets Sky One order
Former Maverick TV managing director Richard Mckerrow is close to bagging his first commission for his newly formed indie, Love Productions.
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Paul Merton looks at the Comedy store
Comedian Paul Merton is to make his directorial debut in a BBC1 documentary charting 25 years of the Comedy Store. The 60-minute 25 Years of the Comedy Store - A Personal Historyby Paul Merton is written, presented and directed by the ...
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Five focuses on weird pets and owners
Landmark Films has been commissioned by Five controller of science Justine Kershaw to produce a 60-minute film on weird pets and their owners in the US. Strange Pets USA will feature a man with three tigers, another with two alligators and a woman searching for ...
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Tern TV scores a commissions Hat-trick
Scottish indie Tern Television has picked up three commissions including a documentary series that tracks a year in the lives of a group of trainee teachers. BBC Scotland has ordered 6 x 30-minute Teacher Teacher , which will be produced by Pamela Drynan. Discovery Home ...
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Radio 5's Fighting talk leaps to BBC2
BBC Radio 5 Live's sports format Fighting Talk is to transfer to BBC2 following a fast turnaround commission. Indie World's End will the make the three-part series, which will be presented by Johnny Vaughan. The show - the first to transfer to TV from R5 ...
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Five lets out secrets of the Beatles
Five controller of history Alex Sutherland has commissioned 90-minute documentary The Beatles' Biggest Secrets from indie Fulcrum TV for later this year. Friends, colleagues and relatives lift the lid on incidents such as Paul McCartney's split with Jane Asher. The executive producer is Richard Belfield.
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C4 sells Sex Traffic around the globe
Channel 4 thriller Sex Traffic looks set to become an international hit after selling to six countries around the world.
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Entertainment Tonight comes to UK
Sky One has signed a deal with US producer Paramount to make a UK version of its syndicated show Entertainment Tonight.