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Extreme alliance
Extreme Video has collaborated with unmanned blimp specialist 2PiR to develop 'tele-eye', the world's smallest and lightest remote-controlled HD aerial TV camera system. It was used for the first time this month for Sky TV's coverage of the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham's NEC.
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VooDooDog talks popcorn for Sky
Sky Creative Agency and animators VooDooDog have created a series of trailers for the Sky Movies channels, featuring talking popcorn. Viewers were recorded talking about their favourite films and the voices were then edited to three 30-second spots and adapted to the popcorn, which VooDooDog's Charlie Lovett animated on Maya ...
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Nats grades Five Hannibal job
Nats Post Production has performed the grading for Hannibal of the Alps, a two-hour HD special from Atlantic Productions charting the life of the legendary commander. The programme draws on the latest evidence in archaeology, science and military history to tell his story. Nats colourist Nick Adams graded the documentary ...
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Directors Cut posts pop doc
Directors Cut Films has completed the post-production for BBC music entertainment's Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop, a 4 x 60-minute documentary series about British pop music from the 1960s onwards and how it affected attitudes to sex and sexuality. DCF's Andy Willsmore, Guy Crossman and Claire Guillon did ...
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At It cracks US with TLC orders
At IT Productions has secured its first US series commissions with a brace of shows for Discovery-owned cable network TLC.
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Zeal fails to find UK terrestrial berth for Miss World
Miss World will be shown to its largest potential global audience ever this year but Zeal Television has failed to secure UK distribution on a terrestrial network.
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C4/NatGeo tie-up marks disaster anniversary
Channel 4 and the US National Geographic Channel have jointly backed a major drama-documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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Minotaur pre-sells new Rebus films
Minotaur International has pre-sold two new 90-minute Rebus movies - The Falls and Fleshmarket - to BBC America, TVO in Canada and ABC in Australia. Meanwhile, video and DVD rights for the two shows, made by SMG TV Productions, have been licensed to John Williams in the UK and Acorn ...
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It's Me or the Dog format goes French
French network M6 has bought the format to the Ricochet series It's Me or the Dog, which screened on Channel 4 earlier in the year. C4 International has also sold the finished UK series to TV Norge (Norway), YLE (Finland), TV4 (Sweden), TVB (Hong Kong), SBS (the Netherlands) and TV2 ...
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ITV4 set to air Wahlberg's Entourage
ITV4 has signed a deal for HBO comedy Entourage, the series executive produced by Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg. Entourage looks at the day-to-day life of fictional Hollywood actor Vincent Chase (played by Adrian Brenier) and his group of hangers-on, who follow him from New York to Los Angeles.
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September's weighing in down under
September Films has sold its BBC1 fat camp daytime series, Weighing In, to Australian broadcaster Channel Ten. The 10-part series, presented by Richard Bacon, goes behind the scenes at Europe's first weight-loss camp for children, based in Leeds.
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FX takes on Fuel TV for weekday outing
FX has struck a deal with sister companies Fox Entertainment and Fox Sports in the US to bring the Fuel TV brand to the UK men's channel. Fuel TV is a sports and lifestyle brand that exists as a cable and satellite channel in its own right in the US. ...
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Stelios cruises Caribbean for US show
Two Four Productions has secured a deal to produce a US version of the Sky One documentary series Cruise with Stelios for the Travel Channel. Renamed Cruiseline, the series will be shot in the Caribbean. ID Distribution has also sold the 20 x 30-minute UK series to The Travel Channel.
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Format focus: All star record breakers
You know celebrity reality shows are far from finished when Guinness World Records TV gets in on the act.
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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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Fremantle signs deal with Goodwin indie
Daisy Goodwin, the format creator behind How Clean Is Your House? and Sex Inspectors, has signed a distribution and production deal with Fremantle.
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Chan joins firefly
Indie Firefly has poached Channel 4 commissioning editor Angela Chan just nine months after she joined the broadcaster. Chan is to quit her role in C4's news and current affairs department, where she has worked on Unreported World and Dispatches. She will start in November as executive producer at Firefly ...
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Betty appointment
Indie Betty has appointed director Alannah Richardson as executive producer to boost its features and formatted documentary output. Richardson was previously a freelance producer and director, although she worked with Betty on the ITV1 documentary Love in a Foreign Climate and was series producer for the first series of Spendaholics. ...
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Clifton confirmed
Pete Clifton has been confirmed as head of BBC interactive, and will take over the running of the corporation's news website, as well as the news division's interactive and broadband elements. Clifton has been overseeing the post since May, when former head Richard Deverell left to become chief operating officer ...
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Twofour tie-up
Twofour Broadcast and Australian production company Landmark Television have struck a format and co-production deal. Landmark is already developing Twofour's format Family Firm for TVNZ, and Twofour is pitching several Landmark formats to UK broadcasters. The two companies are also developing a global lifestyle series for Discovery Asia and Discovery ...