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Format focus: prank patrol
In this show kids play all manner of practical jokes but will it fall foul of parents' campaign groups, asks Geoff White
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BBC's Hiroshima sells to 29 markets
The BBC's 90-minute drama-doc Hiroshimahas been sold to 29 territories by BBC Worldwide, with Hungary becoming the latest country to buy the programme. Hiroshima, which was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the bombing, has been sold to Magyar TV, ...
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Desperate Housewives set for China
London-based channel operator Zone Vision has bought the rights to US drama Desperate Housewivesin China. The ABC show is scheduled to premiere in the autumn on CCTV-8. It will run nightly in the international movie and drama block Everyday Jiayi, which Zone Vision operates through Encore ...
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HD interest grows for Electric Sky
Distributor Electric Sky has reported a surge in sales of high-definition (HD) programmes across Europe, the US and Asia. The company has signed deals for The World of Nat King Cole - The Definitive Documentary, a 90-minute piece made by Double Jab Productions, with PBS in ...
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Five makes first multichannel move
Five has launched its first venture into multichannel TV with a joint-venture with interactive media group YooMedia. From this week, YooPlay TV on Sky is piloting an extended version of Five's daily quiz show Brainteasers. After the initial 13 weeks, there is an option to extend ...
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Homewood takes Hit distribution role
Hit Entertainment has taken on Disney's former European sales chief Alison Homewood as its key TV distribution executive. Homewood joins Hit on 30 August as executive vice-president, worldwide tele-vision distribution, with the job of overseeing global TV licensing and co-production of existing brands such as Bob ...
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Facilities move to 'Valleywood'
Dragon International Studios, the£330m film and TV studio complex being built in South Wales, has already spawned its first post-production start-up - film and TV facility Digital Dragon.
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Soho shows appetite for 4K Telecine
The Mill is the latest Soho post house to splash out£1m on a 4K Telecine, bringing the number of companies to own one of the high-spec Grass Valley film scanning machines to five.
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BBC OB scrubs up to film kidney transplant operation
BBC Outside Broadcasts, which crewed last year's award-winning Breast Cancer: The Operation, has been called in again on a BBC1 show about kidney transplant operations. The unit, headed by manager Steve Hall, worked closely with St Mary's Hospital to ensure health and safety. The shoot used ...
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Slowdown forces Lynx into administration
Denham-based Lynx Digital, one of the UK's oldest facilities, has gone into administration, writesDavid Wood.
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Al Jazeera graphics
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera has ordered real-time 2D and 3D graphics from Norwegian graphics specialist Vizrt. The system will run in Al Jazeera's four broadcast centres in Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur and Washington from the beginning of 2006 and will provide news graphics through the Octopus newsroom editing system. ...
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Arqiva playout deal
Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast, has signed a£2m, five-year deal to provide integrated playout, uplinking and satellite capacity for Home Entertainment Corporation's ChoicesUK TV, a DVD retail channel launching on Sky Digital this week. HEC will manage playout using the remote scheduling and file-transfer capability at Arqiva's Broadcast Media Centre in ...
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Stanley in HD move
Dubbing house Stanley Productions has invested£84,000 in Sony's top-end HDCam SRW-5500 VTR. The format offers 1080 HD-quality recording and playback at multiple frame rates. Applications range from HDTV to digital cinematography and digital intermediates.
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The Mill hires duo
The Mill has hired two graduates from French animation college Supinfocom on the strength of their abstract end-of-year film 90 Degrees. Jules Janaud and Francois Roisin will join the facility in September as 3D animators.
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Artem 3D capture
Artem Digital is expanding its 3D scanning service with the purchase of six more Canon 350 eight-megapixel cameras following increased demand from commercials producers and the computer games industry. The cameras will enable Artem to capture 3D images faster and at better quality.
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Podcasting event
The UK's first conference devoted to podcasting is to take place on Saturday, 17 September at the Berners Hotel, London. The line-up of PodcastCon UK 2005 will include BBC head of interactive radio Chris Kimber, Virgin Radio head of strategic development James Cridland and international award-winning podcaster Richard Vobes.
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Skillset launch
Skillset has launched its Indie Business Development Scheme, funded by the European Social Fund and aimed at independent producers. Over the next year it will give 45 companies a tailored package of support including business planning, consultancy and training bursaries for staff.
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Lipsync designs fatherhood FX
Lipsync Post designed and produced 30-second and 10-second titles and graphics for Hat Trick Productions' BBC3 series He's Having a Baby, based on the journey from bachelorhood to fatherhood. In one sequence a roadsign turns into a mobile of cascading£20 notes as storks fly by. A ...
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Blue illustrates Nazi mentality
BBC Broadcast's brief to post house Blue for UK History's six-part Inside the Nazi Statewas to shed light on the mentality of those who supported the Nazis. Blue came up with a reconstruction of a Nazi throwing a brick into of a Jewish bakery, but played ...
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BDH projects onto crime screen
Animal Crime Sceneseries producer Hilary Jeffkins commissioned designer Steve Burrell from agency BDH to work on opening titles and content graphics for the BBC natural history unit's new whodunnit animal series. Burrell created a large transparent crime screen onto which graphics and footage are projected using movie ...