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DGP diversifies
Digital post house DGP has leased extra office space to make room for DVD post-production kit plus an Autodesk upgrade to accommodate extra graphics work. The facility also offers two Flint visual effects systems, one of which has been upgraded to version 9.5 for faster compositing and advanced graphics.
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Dinosaurs test MPC
MPC has completed 220 visual effects shots totalling 40 minutes of screen time for the BBC's documentary mini-series The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs, a co-production with Discovery and ZDF. The complicated CGI process saw MPC create a new software programme for texturing lifelike feathers for the ...
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Animals animated
Bristol-based graphics house DarkhorseFX has created titles and graphics for Tiger Aspect's HD natural history series Final Chance to Save?Designers Adrian Woodward and Craig Higgins created and animated 2D animals and maps in Photoshop and Avid Illusion. The Farm posted the series which airs on Sky ...
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Cut-price training
Soho Editors Training is offering a series of Skillset-subsidised Final Cut Pro courses throughout September and October. The courses are likely to be in demand following the BBC decision to trial the Apple desktop editing system in its factual and learning department. Soho Editors Training is the first Apple-authorised training ...
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Smith rallies radio for digital deadline
Former culture secretary Chris Smith has urged the UK radio industry to move towards establishing a switch-off date for analogue radio.
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Projector on demo
Digital film mastering specialist FilmLight has installed a JVC DLA-HD2K projector to demonstrate its grading and post-production workflows. A Baselight grading and finishing system supplies the projector with a DVI signal providing real-time operation at resolutions of up to 4k. The system includes FilmLight's TrueLight 3D colour management system, ensuring ...
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Nat Geo orders terrorism series from ITN Factual
National Geographic has commissioned ITN Factual to make a mini documentary series examining the complex nature of modern terrorism.
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Tyler takes top comedy post at BBC Scotland
Alan Tyler, the head of Mentorn Scotland, is to return to BBC comedy.
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ITV4 goes to war
ITV4 has bought two hour-long war documentaries from distributor Mercury Media. The Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters, from French producer Les Films Grain de Sable, is an investigation into the sinking of the Russian super-sub. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, produced by Globalvision in the ...
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Rock station move
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, has promoted Adam Uytman to programme director of Birmingham rock station Kerrang! 105.2, replacing Andrew Jeffries who moves to Emap's London station Kiss 100. Uytman, who has been acting programme director since May, has been deputy programme director at the station since ...
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Stand-up rights deal
Paramount Comedy has signed an option deal with Universal Pictures UK for rights to showcase its future stand-up comic talent. The agreement for non-terrestrial TV rights to live DVD recordings is part of the channel's decision to broadcast more original content and homegrown talent. The deal was brokered by Paramount's ...
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Ex-C4 exec hits out at Quiz Call venture
Former Channel 4 strategy director David Brook has hit out at his old employer, claiming its new call TV channel goes against its remit.
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Forces order fresh serving of DIY show
British Forces Broadcasting Service Television, the TV and radio service exclusively for the armed forces, has ordered a fifth series of DIY show Hung, Drawn & Quartered. Avent Productions and Deborah McKenna Limited will co-produce the 6 x 30-minute show, which is set at British military ...
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Belfast documentary is last in trilogy
Five has commissioned a 40-minute documentary from film-maker Michael Grigsby looking at Belfast as it recovers from its violent past. Rehearsals, shot in high definition, revolves around a group of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes and pubs, set against images of Belfast. It is ...
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Walking on the wild side
Bethan Corney has perfected the art of reworking documentaries for broadcast on Five. Now she's taking on the BBC with original commissions.
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Howzat for a peaktime audience
Interest in Channel 4's live cricket coverage of The Ashes continued to grow and grow, giving the broadcaster its highest peak audience so far this year.
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Keating: extra cash for drama
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has pledged to 'ramp up' investment in UK dramas in a bid to tackle the channel's mid-life crisis.
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Curtis defends doc
Documentary-maker Adam Curtis has hit back at critics of his series The Power of Nightmaresand said he 'couldn't see the fuss' about Peter Taylor's BBC2 documentary The Real Al-Qaeda. Taylor's programme was billed as a counter-argument to Curtis's authored BBC2 documentary, in ...
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Love Island return
ITV's Celebrity Love Islandlooks set for a second season with royal cad James Hewitt as a potential contestant. Granada's controller of factual entertainment, Natalka Znak, who produced the first series, told a session at the Edinburgh TV Festival that talks with ITV were in 'advanced stages'.