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Lola up for Emmy
Special effects facility Lola is up for an Emmy award for outstanding special visual effects for a miniseries, movie or a special for its work on the HD BBC/Discovery co-production Supervolcano. MPC is also up for an Emmy for outstanding individual achievement for its work on ...
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BBC goes on demand
BBC Broadcast has signed a three-year deal with Telewest Broadband to provide encoding and navigational services for its new TV-on-demand service, Teleport. BBC Broadcast will encode programmes, making them ready for broadcast on the digital platform and provide information which allows digital viewers to search for programmes which interest them. ...
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Zone/Two Way deal
Interactive TV specialist Two Way TV has signed up with broadcaster and channel distributor Zone Vision Networks to provide software which could boost mobile revenues for MTV and Discovery across Europe. Zone Vision last week signed a deal to become Two Way TV's agent for its Simcast technology across the ...
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Blue completes Naked Us work
Blue has completed post-production on the BBC's three-part series Naked Us. The show follows a number of couples as they not only strip themselves bare physically, but also of everything they own to pursue their dreams, such as one pair who head off to Spain to ...
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Golden Square finishes Sky job
Soho post-production house Golden Square has just completed work on the first two instalments of the new campaign for Sky. The spots focus on a dog that is confused by the services offered by Sky. His housemate, a duck, explains what is available. Split-screen composites and 3D CGI photo-realistic body ...
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C4 and ITV set to join NTL VoD service
NTL is close to signing licensing deals with Channel 4 and ITV for its video on demand service.
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Bombings fuel demand for news
The main terrestrial news bulletins have all increased their audiences since the 7 July terrorists attacks - notably ITV1 and Channel 4.
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Tombs moves to Paramount
Paramount Comedy has poached UKTV's head of entertainment and drama, Matt Tombs, to become its new director of programming and planning.
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Ex-Sky One factual head joins Diverse
Former Sky One head of factual programmes Matthew Paice has joined Diverse Production, the indie behind Operatunity.
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Sci Fi hires Farrar
Sci Fi UK has poached VH1's head of scheduling, Jon Farrar, as its new programming director. He will be responsible for the channel's day-to-day programming and long-term growth strategy. The news comes as the channel beefs up its autumn line-up with five acquisitions: Court TV's Psychic ...
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TV news debate
The Edinburgh TV Festival organisers have added a new session debating how much gory footage newscasters should show. The panel session will ask whether recent editorial decisions over tragedies such as the Asian tsunami and the 7 July bombings have pushed the limits of taste and decency too far. Panellists ...
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NewsBBC2 scores hits
BBC2 scored a trio of significant ratings hits last week. Ricky Gervais's new comedy Extrasattracted 4.6 million (23.5%) on Thursday (21 July) at 9pm and was the most-watched programme at that time. On Sunday (24 July) Top Gearpulled in 5.1 million (21.8%) ...
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Leopard pounces
Leopard Films, producer of BBC1 daytime show Cash in the Attic, has poached Ricochet head of development Sharon Stansfield to take the same job at its London office. Leopard has also promoted Cash in the AtticUSA producer Nick Rigg to vice-president of ...
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NewsJoey exits with 1.8 million viewers
Joey, Five's£450,000 an episode US comedy, attracted an average audience of 1.8 million (7.8%) over its five-month run.
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Marr to host BBC's European quiz show
The BBC's outgoing political editor, Andrew Marr, is to front a BBC2 quiz that will test the European credentials of British viewers. How Euro Are You?is being made by Talent TV, the indie behind inter-active quiz Test the Nation, and will test ...
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Ofcom wins legal battle over licences
Ofcom has won the first of two legal challenges over FM radio licences it has awarded. In the first such action taken against the regulator, A-Ten FM chairman Francis Wildman brought a judicial review to the High Court over its awarding of the recent Ashford licence to Local Ashford Radio ...
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News3.1m drawn to BBC2's Sherlock Holmes
BBC2's drama one-off, The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, gave the channel a respectable peak audience of 3.1 million (14%) at the start.
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NewsBBC hands out comedy cash
The BBC has issued the second of its comedy bursaries, to a new writer from Liverpool.
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NewsBBC dismisses WoCC report
The BBC has defended plans for its Window of Creative Competition (WoCC), after a report found serious concerns that it could kill off in-house production at the corporation.
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NewsBarenboim to give Reith lectures
Daniel Barenboim, the celebrated conductor, is to deliver next year's Reith lectures, which will run on Radio 4 in a new 9am slot to give them more impact.