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NewsFrontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
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NewsBig Brother ejects Dennis
Channel 4 has ejected a second housemate from this series of Big Brother - kicking out Dennis McHugh for spitting in the face of another housemate.
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St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
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DGP hires TMR trio
DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.
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Negatives service
Film laboratory and digital post-production specialist Soho Images has launched a negative cutting service. The new department is being headed by Danny Coulson with three full-time staff.
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Cohen moves
Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...
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Smalls Festival
A festival showcasing short films for mobile phones and MP3 players is set to launch next month. Branding agency Devilfish is launching The Smalls in conjunction with the London Design Festival and online magazine
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Editworks buys kit
Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.
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Fireworks in US broadband content deal
UK distributor Fireworks International, which is owned by Content Film, has entered an agreement with broadband entertainment network Heavy to sell all its original and library programming outside the US. The three-year deal covers Heavy's existing library of 35 programming hours as well as new content. Heavy's slate includes ...
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ITV and Five eye controversial 9/11 doc
ITV and Five have expressed an interest in buying the controversial 9/11 conspiracy documentary Loose Change following a high-profile feature article on the programme in Vanity Fair. The 90-minute documentary, which is being sold by UK distributor Mercury Media, ...
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New York TV Festival welcomes UK entries
The New York Television Festival is to open up its independent pilot competition to UK indies. Next month's event will showcase independently produced non-broadcast TV pilots directly to US network executives and industry leaders. After last year's festival three US pilots aired were purchased by US networks. Details are at ...
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GI sells classic ITV drama to Scandinavia
ITV-owned distributor Granada International (GI) has sold a number of its literary titles to Kanal 5 in Sweden and renewed output deals in Norway and Finland. Kanal 5 has acquired a collection of adaptations from GI's catalogue including Moll Flanders, ...
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Tinopolis lines up Welsh hall of fame
Welsh indie Tinopolis has been commissioned by ITV Wales to create a three-part series on the country's first hall of fame.The Cool Cymru Photographic Collection features portraits of celebrated Welsh men and women such as Dame Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Gavin Henson, Ryan Giggs and Bryn Terfel. The as-yet-untitled series ...
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True North makes archive programmes
Leeds-based indie True North has been commissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute religious series called The Way We Worshippedfor ITV1. Greenlit by ITV controller of current affairs and documentaries Jeff Anderson, it will air from September and will explore changing religious habits in Britain.
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Deadly Knowledge Show returns to C4
Channel 4 schools commissioning editor Deborah Ward has greenlit a second series of The Deadly Knowledge Showfrom Princess Productions. The new 20 x 30-minute series will again be hosted by Dave Berry. Executive produced by Dean Nabarro, it will begin production soon and screen from ...
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McGregor to voice biography of Sheene
Actor Ewan McGregor has signed up to narrate a documentary about legendary motor-cycling champion Barry Sheene. The 75-minute programme, being made by Leeds-based Double Jab Productions North, was commissioned by EMI for commercial release in 2007 and The Biography Channel for broadcast this winter. It is the first official biography ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Clare Hollywood
Living TV's head of commissioning is on the hunt for formatted series to go in slots from 8pm to 11pm and for weekend events - but no more paranormal please
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Tigress captures game reserve commission
Five has commissioned Tigress Productions to make Game Ranger Diaries, a series looking at day-to-day life in Kenya's busiest private game reserve, Lewa.
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Bravo to screen Life on Mars
Flextech-owned Bravo has bought the pay-TV rights to BBC hit drama Life on Mars to lead the channel's push into drama.
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Pilkington handed C4 slot
Karl Pilkington, the radio producer who gained cult status after appearing alongside Ricky Gervais in the most popular podcast ever, has landed his first TV commission for Channel 4.