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BBC Broadcast unveils rebrand
After months of brainstorming BBC Broadcast has finally come up with a new name and corporate identity: Red Bee Media.
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UK firm develops artificial presenter
Advanced media development company Televirtual has claimed it has built TV's first synthetic broadcaster, METman, an authentically voiced artificial speech engine.
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C4 showcases winning short films online
The Channel 4 Ideas Factory film and video initiative New Shoots is to showcase its winners' work online on 1 November.
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Broadcast Awards call
Broadcast is searching for the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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Free HD training
Soho Editors Training has collaborated with Leitch to run a series of free HD workflow training events across the UK, starting in November. SET will provide technology on the non-linear HD editing system from Leitch Velocity HD. The events are aimed at those in the industry wanting to learn more ...
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Angel buys Neve
Angel Studios - built and owned by music library specialist De Wolfe Music - has undergone recent refurbishments installing AMS Neve consoles in two studios and a Euphonix digital console. Recent work at Angel includes recording the score for the BBC's new adaptation of Bleak House.
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Eely to Molinare
Senior online editor Justin Eely is to join Molinare in December after a year-long stint at Pepper.
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Ascent offers iTV
Ascent Media Network Services Europe and Chellomedia have paired up to offer interactive TV (iTV) capabilities at Ascent's London-based playout facilities. Interactive content will be encoded for multiple platforms and inserted at the point of playout. The offering is due to kick off in November.
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Pro-Bel buys Vistek
Reading-based Pro-Bel, the manufacturer and supplier of workflow technologies, has acquired Vistek Electronics Limited for£8.45m. Vistek, which designs television signal equipment, is poised to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. Vistek is expected to boost Pro-Bel's HD output with its HD modular range. It will remain as a product line ...
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Flying TV's BBC job
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV has provided all the aerial camera shots for the December launch of the BBC local TV trial in the Midlands using its G-Pixx television helicopter. The helicopter covered 15 locations and 5,000 square miles in a day of shooting using four digital cameras. The local ...
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Rushes creates Rome effects
Rushes has created the visual effects for BBC/HBO's Rome, an epic 11 x 50-minute drama tracking Caesar's return to his empire. The major VFX task was to reproduce a view from Alexandria across the ancient harbour entirely in 3D. This was supervised by Jim Madigan and Pixar's Renderman software was ...
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Farm makes Perfect Scary Movie
The Farm Group has created the titles and completed the post-production for Visual Voodoo documentary The Perfect Scary Movie. The two-hour special exposes how psychological ploys were used by the world's scariest movies to frighten audiences and examines our deep-rooted fears. The Farm's Barney Jordan designed the titles with director ...
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Pepper completes Bleak House
Pepper has completed the post-production on Smallweed Productions' Bleak House, a 10-part adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel starring Gillian Anderson. Pepper's senior colourist, Chris Beeton, graded the series on the Da Vinci 2K+, while the online and conform was completed by senior editor Shane Warden on DS Nitris. Beeton graded ...
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Trouble snaps up Warner sitcoms
Flextech youth channel Trouble has picked up the rights to two US primetime comedies from Warner Bros, Freddie and Twins.
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Granada International to sell Impressionists
ITV distribution arm Granada International has scooped the international rights to upcoming BBC1 factual drama The Impressionists.
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Fantastic Four ride again
Cartoon Network Europe is co-producing a new 2D and 3D animated version of classic comic strip Fantastic Four. Made with Paris-based indie Moonscoop, French broadcaster M6 and Marvel Comics Heroes, the new series will be based on the same premise as the original strip but with a more playful tone. ...
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Format focus: Telenovelas
You couldn't go two minutes without hearing about the telenovela at Mipcom last week, but getting a UK broadcaster to risk making its own will be difficult.
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Two Way makes mobile phone co-pro
Two Way TV and Fat City Films are co-producing TheDweebz, an interactive cartoon series which allows kids to contribute via mobile phones. A 52 x 11-minute action comedy, the series features two schoolboys who use their supercomputer and superhero outfits to fight bullies and nasty teachers. During the interactive periods ...
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CBBC buys hipster & jack toon series
Create Media Ventures and 19 Entertainment have pre-sold their new 2D comedy music animation series Hipster & Jack to CBBC. The 30 x 14-minute co-production will be broadcast in 2007. The programme follows the adventures of a musical odd couple - a hippo and a Jack Russell terrier. Production on ...
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Clear Channel to make Bee Gees tribute
Clear Channel Entertainment Television has announced details of a concert tribute to the late Bee Gee, Maurice Gibb, organised by his twin brother, Robin Gibb. CCETV will produce a live concert next summer in New York featuring top artists, including Sir Paul McCartney, performing some of the Bee Gees' greatest ...