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Sky One picks up Transformers Armada
Sky One has acquired animation Transformers Armada- starring the Autobots and Decepticons - from Entertainment Rights. The 52 x 30-minute episodes will run at 08.00, seven days a week, with second screenings scheduled on Animix, the daily block on time-shift channel Sky One Mix.
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Wales' Avanti to make another Cable TV
Welsh indie Avanti Television has been recommissioned to make music show Cable TVfor BBC 2 and BBC 1 Wales. The 6 x 30-minute show, hosted by Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, will launch in April and run for six weeks, airing on Friday nights. It may ...
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The BBC remembers the holocaust
The BBC is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January with a series of programmes including a week-long drama on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour. Thea's Diarytells the story of a teenager's struggle to understand her war-torn homeland of ...
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Nicholas Lyndhurst joins Murder in Mind
Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is to star in the third run of BBC 1 thriller Murder in Mind. The 8 x 60-minute series, which is due to air later this month, will also feature TV presenter Jamie ...
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Wise Buddah wins raft of commissions
Indie Wise Buddah has been commissioned to make a string of programmes for the BBC and GWR radio networks, including two 6 x 30-minute series for BBC Radio 2 featuring saxophonist Courtney Pine and jazz legend Billie Holliday. The station has also ordered 2 x 60-minute documentaries on David Gray ...
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Facilities struggle to shift used FX kit
An influx of second-hand high-end editing and FX equipment swilling around the UK facilities market as a result of company closures is failing to attract buyers because of manufacturers' red tape, writes Sam Espensen.
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MTV spends£1m to refit studio
MTV Broadcast Services is spending more than£1m overhauling its studio facilities in Camden, writes Sam Espensen.
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Compositing tool wins thumbs-up
Glassworks Post Production used a new ?retiming' plug-in, developed by The Foundry for Apple's Shake compositor, on a new commercial for mobile phone company Orange.
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Ex-Mill Film staff get jobs at Cinesite
Nine former Mill Film employees, including former managing director Anthony Hunt, have joined rival effects house Cinesite Europe. Also among the recruits is Jose Granell, previously director of miniature effects, now visual effects supervisor/director of models. The new recruits were among staff left without jobs when Mill Film closed for ...
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BBC unveils bright ideas look
BBC Broadcast is behind the brand identity for the new UKTV daytime channel Bright Ideas, which launches on 15 January. The lifestyle channel consists of four programme genres - food, home, garden and miscellaneous (health, beauty and travel). The idents from BBC Broadcast reflect these genres and will run alongside ...
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Quantel training move
Kit manufacturer Quantel has appointed Soho Editors as the first UK training centre for its new generationQ product range and its Legacy Systems. Training available will include eQ and the PC-based QEdit Pro plus Legacy's Hal, Editbox and Paintbox. Soho Editors' Brian Cantwell said: ?GenerationQ is catching on fast, and ...
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Sanctuary fills posts
Sanctuary Post has appointed a post-production manager and sales/marketing manager who will both start this month. Louise Townsend, formerly with Diverse and Telecine, will manage post projects throughout the facility, while Jason Elliott, who was at Squash DVD and LipSync Post, is to develop new business for Sanctuary's editing, ...
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Cheerful scout moves
Communications company Cheerful Scout is moving to Noho. The new premises in Riding House Street, W1 will occupy five floors and forms part of a£500,000 investment. The company will now be a ?full-service facility', with multimedia and TV development arms. New personnel will be hired for in-house editor positions, development ...
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VMI backs training
Broadcast facility VMI is launching a series of free seminars and workshops in Soho, covering subjects from DV shooting and sound/radio microphones to Digi-Beta shooting and lighting and editing techniques. The sessions are available on a first come, first served basis and will be a mix of seminars and hands-on ...
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Gearhouse rebranding
Gravity Media Group, which owns Gearhouse Broadcast, Evolve Digital, Inertia Productions and Inertia Events Solutions, is to rebrand all of its businesses under the Gearhouse Broadcast name. Gravity Media Group chief executive John Newton insisted that the decision was made ?to make it easier for the group's clients to understand ...
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NewsEXCLUSIVE - TV's Iain Lee gets Durden-Smith job
Outgoing Rise anchorman Mark Durden-Smith is to be replaced by former 11 O'Clock Show presenter Iain Lee, writes Luke Satchell
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Superman Reeve in a TV return
Paralysed Superman star Christopher Reeve is making his acting comeback. ...
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Racing Channel faces shutdown
The future of the Racing Channel, one of two specialist stations covering rthe sport on cable and satellite televis...
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ITV duo steal limelight with options bonanza
The row over fat-cat pay is reignited after bumper share and option awards to bosses at hard-hit TV firms Carlton a...