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  • News

    UK Post looks beyond London

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Post-production trade body UK Post has so far failed to 'fulfil its brief', according to its own chairman.

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    TSI spends£500,000 to boost audio facilities

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    TSI Post Production is spending£500,000 on audio facilities following a huge increase in audio bookings over the past year.

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    Phillips to TSL as CEO

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Former Thomson UK managing director David Phillips has joined broadcast integrator and manufacturer TSL as its chief executive officer. Phillips will report to managing director and founder David MacGregor and will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the company. Phillips said of his newly created position: 'I'm bringing a ...

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    Pepper hires TK man

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Pepper Post has appointed Aubrey Wooliwiss as assistant colourist. He joins from Framestore CFC. Wooliwiss will work with senior colourists Chris Beeton and Jet Omeshebi and colourist Dan Coles. Managing director Patrick Holzen said Wooliwiss' appointment had increased overall staffing at the department and that the newcomer had great potential.

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    Martinez to Liquid

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Freelance designer Victor Martinez is set to join design agency Liquid TV in January. Martinez will report directly to managing director Azra Alikhan as a senior designer. He won a Sportel award for ITV's The Premiership 2002/2003 idents and has been nominated for both Bafta ...

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    Blue adds to HD

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Blue has expanded its HD facilities with an Avid DS Nitris because of increased demand for high-definition editing, such as work on Fat Fiancés , a 50-minute documentary for Cicada Films. Fat Fiancés will air on the Discovery Channel in ...

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    Devilfish gives new look to Five

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Devilfish has redesigned Five's on-screen ident package. The package places the Five logo within the branding, appearing on pregnancy scans and being borne by leaf-carrying ants. Devilfish's Sean de Sparengo directed the sequences. The idents were post-produced at VTR and worked on by colourist Tareq Kubaisi, Flame

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    Pepper grades Lawless for ITV1

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Pepper has completed grading and special effects on Newcastle-based police drama Lawless. The two-part ITV1 series produced by Company Pictures focuses on corruption within the police force and stars Trevor Eve. Pepper's effects team, Scott Hinchcliffe and Simon Giblin, created special effects including a ...

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    The Station titles Berlin journey

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    The Station has produced the title sequence for ITN Factual series The Road to Berlin. The series follows pub comedian Al Murray as he follows in the footsteps of the Allied forces from Normandy across Europe to Berlin in the final months of the ...

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    Little Britain again

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 comedy sketch show Little Britain , the digital channel's biggest hit, is set to return for a third series. BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy and head of comedy entertainment Jon Plowman have ordered a 6 x 30-minute series, which is due to air first on ...

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    US comedy venture

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Tom Gutteridge, the former group creative director of UK indie Mentorn, has set up a comedy production unit at Fremantle Media North America. The Instant Comedy Project aims to bring half-hour sitcom ideas to the screen in one week rather than the usual nine-month cycle from script to pilot. Gutteridge, ...

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    RTS issues shortlist

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    The Royal Television Society has released the nominations for its London awards with

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    Sharp Capital return

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Former Heart DJ Pat Sharp is to rejoin the Capital Radio Group hosting a new evening show on the Century network. Sharp, who left London station Heart 106.2 in August, will broadcast a new evening show across three Century stations covering the north-east, north-west and the East Midlands from January.

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    Humphrys about

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    John Humphrys, the presenter of Radio 4's Today programme and scourge of Big Brother , has been lined up as the star turn at the Media Society's Great Reality TV Debate next week. Humphrys will join fellow reality television baiter, ...

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    UKTV hires Beaton

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    UKTV has hired former Action Time joint managing director Caroline Beaton to help market its channels. Beaton, who will continue to run her own consultancy Road Trip Media, will become 'brand champion' and be charged with creating a single brand strategy for programming, marketing and commercial relationships across UKTV's nine ...

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    The passionate regulator

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Ofcom's plans for a public service publisher should not dominate debate to the detriment of existing PSB, writes Conor Dignam, Editor

  • Ratings

    BBC1 wins The US election coverage

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 won the ratings battle for coverage of the US election results. The corporation's coverage, which was anchored by David Dimbleby, started at 11.50pm on Tuesday (2 November) and ended at 1.55am. It averaged 900,000 viewers, almost a quarter of all viewers at that time. ITV1's ...

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    Stokes replaces Hutchison on Holby

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has promoted drama development producer Richard Stokes to executive producer of the hospital-based show Holby City. He replaces Kathleen Hutchison who was appointed executive producer of EastEnders. Stokes, who has previously worked as a series producer ...

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    Rajar hits out at ?Publicity' Mackenzie

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    The Wireless Group chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie was this week accused of launching a legal action against Rajar to court publicity for his radio stations. Rajar's QC, Nicholas Green, made the comment at a High Court hearing to decide whether MacKenzie's case citing that Rajar's methods of audience measurement discriminates ...

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    Goes set to leave Endemol in January

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Endemol Holding's chief operating officer and executive board member Ronald Goes is to quit the company on 1 January 2005. Endemol confirmed that he will be replaced. Goes, a co-founder of the Netherland's SBS Broadcasting group, joined Endemol in 2001. His departure comes as speculation mounts over the company's sell-off ...