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    GCap risks hostile takeover as shares slump

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Embattled radio group GCap Media could face a takeover approach if its share price dips below 250p, City figures have warned.

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    Red Bee goes for growth with restructure

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Multimedia and playout facility Red Bee Media is restructuring in a bid to expand the business over the next year.

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    TWI takes Gfx man

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Production and distribution company TWI has recruited Blue Gfx head of animation Andrew Gould to work at Mediahouse, its video and audio post-production arm, as head of graphics. Gould has been involved in broadcast animation and effects for 15 years, and was previously head of 3D at DVD and graphics ...

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    Hit in licensing deal

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Hit Entertainment has signed a licensing deal with Portuguese channel RTP for Angelina Ballerina. The deal, which runs from January 2006, includes all 39 episodes of Angelina Ballerina and three 50-minute specials featuring the dancing mouse. The latest sale comes on top of Hit's Angelina deal with Nickelodeon France. RTP ...

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    Skaramoosh hire

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Post-production and animation specialist Skaramoosh has taken on MPC animator Michael Parker to join its 3D department as 3D Maya artist. During his two years at MPC Parker animated on The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs for the BBC and on commercials. In addition, the company has recently boosted its kit ...

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    Celador in cable tie

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Celador International has linked up with interactive group Two Way TV to create a cable TV game of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Launching on NTL and Telewest next month, customers will be able to access the red-button application for 60p, and have access to a full screen TV ...

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    VTR MD moves on

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    VTR's managing director, Kate Sturgess, has left to join Shoreditch-based DVD production company The Pavement as director of operations. Sturgess will work in the new role, which includes managing the production team and developing future product innovations. She will also oversee The Pavement's UMD video production for Sony's Playstation Portable.

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    Fiftyfifty edit move

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Soho post-production house Fiftyfifty has recruited Avid online editor Coco Lorenzo. Lorenzo, who has freelanced for Class Films on Bravo's Sin City series and on Granada's Counting Sheep, will focus on promos and corporate projects. She replaces Abraham Teweldbrhan, who has joined TSI.

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    FCP offered online

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Clear Cut Pictures is launching a web-based sales department. Clear Cut Pro will sell and support a range of Final Cut Pro edit stations and other Apple products. The two-strong team includes Clear Cut's former machine room co-ordinator Ben Plumb who will act as product specialist and Oliver ...

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    Beeton honoured

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Pepper Post-Production colourist Chris Beeton has scooped the lifetime achievement award at this year's RTS Craft & Design Awards, the first colourist to win the award. Beeton has been a colourist for 30 years and has worked at the BBC and TVI. He has worked on programmes including Central TV's ...

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    TCM hires Sony exec as launch nears

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Turner Classic Movies (TCM)has poached Sony Pictures Television executive Chloe Norman to the role of programming manager as it gears up to launch a second channel.

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    Evolutions' Psychic Challenge

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions has designed the titles and branding for Britain's Psychic Challenge, a new series by Town House TV for Five. In the 7 x 60-minute programme, hosted by Trisha Goddard, participants undertake challenges and tests to convince a panel of sceptics of their psychic abilities. The titles depict how psychics ...

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    ArenaP3's Abnormal job for Sky

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    ArenaP3 has finished the post-production on the Media Trust's Abnormally Funny People. The documentary follows a group of disabled comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Colourist Blair Wallace graded the difficult lighting conditions of the footage on Pogle Platinum to give it a ...

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    Jump rebrands Record show

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Jump has rebranded ITV Productions' The Record of the Year, an annual show where the public votes for their favourite chart song, performed on the night. The title sequence, commissioned by ITV's Lee Connolly, shows shapes fusing together to reveal the performers. Senior designer Keith Livingstone modelled the logo in ...

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    Zig Zag show to test out fitness

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Zig Zag Productions is to put the top 10 celebrity fitness videos through their paces for a new Channel 4 show.

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    Strictly Baby Ballroom for Channel 4

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is attempting to cash in on viewers' current thirst for ballroom dancing with a dance show involving kids.

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    BBC lines up TV chef Martin for Leopard'sStately Suppers

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a daytime cookery show featuring celebrity chef James Martin.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Graham Smith

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Five's commissioning editor, comedy on a black comedy thriller we have to look forward to and his department's ongoing search for original half-hour series.

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    Still Game wins BBC1 Christmas slot

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Scottish comedy Still Game has won a place in BBC1's Christmas line-up, three months after getting its first network outing on BBC2. Glasgow-based indie the Comedy Unit will make a 30-minute festive special of the sitcom, which revolves around two pensioners in a fictional Glasgow suburb. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham ...

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    BBC3 tells Christ's story through pop

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is planning a live Easter event which tells the story of the passion of Christ on the streets of Manchester to a soundtrack of pop songs. Members of the public will be invited to join in, with the procession culminating in the city's Albert Square. The programme, due for ...