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ITV nabs boat race
ITV has poached the exclusive TV rights to the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race, which the BBC has been broadcasting since 1926. Sources said that both broadcasters offered similar amounts of money for the 2005 to 2009 package, but ITV had offered broader coverage, including a documentary in advance of ...
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Shine picks Gwilliam
Indie Shine has appointed Sian Gwilliam as its deputy head of production. She will report to director of production Joe McLusky and be charged with helping to oversee the management of the production slate in features and entertainment and working with the creative directors to secure new business. Gwilliam was ...
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Doubleband backed
Channel 4 and the NIFTC/ Invest Company Development Fund are to put£165,000 into Belfast-based DoubleBand Films, as part of C4's Creative Cities programme. DoubleBand regularly pitches to C4 - its recent output for the channel includes George Best's Body, Seven Days that Shook Sven ...
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London facilities take Discreet kit
Three major London post companies have upgraded their facilities with the purchase of Discreet kit. Among the orders are the first installations of the manufacturer's new Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro workstation. Discreet did not reveal how much the deals are worth, writes ...
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3 Mills to be sold and used for Olympic bid
East London facility 3 Mills Studios is being sold to the London Development Agency (LDA), which plans to use it as a media centre if Britain's bid to host the 2012 Olympics is successful, writes Farah Jifri.
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Bubble TV finds jobs from start
Sound mixer Chris Phinikas' new London audio facility, Bubble TV , has opened its doors with a string of jobs already underway.
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One hires animators
One Post has taken on two 3D animators for its CGI operations. Duncan McWilliams joins One from The Hive, where he worked on projects for AOL, Bloomberg and Disney. Before The Hive, McWilliams worked at DigM Digital Media and as a freelance graphic designer. Also joining is Michiel de Kraker, ...
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M2 to leave camden
M2 Television has abandoned its Camden branch and moved all the kit and staff to its Soho headquarters. The move will be completed within the next four weeks. Although the two branches currently operate as separate companies, M2 says that no redundancies are planned and the majority of staff will ...
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Sanctuary found
Andy Matthews has joined Sanctuary Post's creative team as senior editor/project manager. Matthews has 20 years' experience in television and film production, having started out on TV show The Tube. His credits also include The Top 100 programmes for ...
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BAFTA wins for BBC
The BBC's The Darkhouse , an interactive radio drama, has picked up the award in the technical innovation category at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. The drama has also been adapted for the web. The BBC was also nominated for its ...
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Molinare finishes Mozart work
Molinare has completed CG and animation work on a series of promos for BBC2 to highlight a season of programmes celebrating the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The series includes a three-part drama, concerts and interactive content across the BBC. Work done by Molinare includes a specially made score that ...
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Skaramoosh animates bats
Skaramoosh has completed 3D animation and compositing on Superbat for Oxford Film and Television and Gedeon Television. The sequence done by Skaramoosh shows a bat chasing a mosquito ending in a Matrix-style time splice to illustrate how bats use sonar to detect their prey. 3D animation for the sequence was ...
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The Hive brings T-rex to life
The Hive has animated a tyrannosaurus rex in X-ray form for BBC2's Horizon science strand, which explores new research casting the dinosaur in a new light. T-rex: Warrior or Wimp? is a 50-minute programme produced and directed by Johanna Gibbon at the BBC's science department. ...
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BBC expands big cat week format
The BBC is to follow up the success of its Big Cat Week of stripped programmes with a look at the lives of elephants and monkeys, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Adam lands leading role in Channel 4 sitcom
Adam Buxton, one half of comedy duo Adam and Joe, will take the lead in a new six-part Channel 4 sitcom about a struggling Brighton-based rock band, writes Glen Mutel.
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Talkback turns inspectors' gaze on sex
Talkback has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a follow-up to Dinner Party Inspectors which will aim to transform people's sex lives, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC3 fresh out of good ideas
The BBC has failed to commission a single film for its new BBC3 flagship documentary strand, Fresh , after a senior executive claimed no decent ideas had been submitted.
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BBC Talent takes to the air
BBC3 is to clear its schedule as part of a BBC-wide week of programming generated by its annual BBC Talent initiative.
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Princess set to diversify
Princess Productions is to diversify into comedy and science programming with three appointments.
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Granada plans Xmas comedy
The Granada team behind Bob Martin are making a comedy drama for ITV1.