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Sky One to seek out Britain's Angriest
Sky One has commissioned indie Landmark Films to find the nation's most enraged residents. Angry Britain has been ordered by Sky One commissioning editor Paul Crompton and will follow some of the nation's most short-tempered people as they seek anger management. The 2 x ...
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Black diamond deals in poker tournament
Indie Black Diamond Films is making The European Nations Poker Challenge for Sky Sports. The 4 x 120-minute series follows the poker event held in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia last month. Black Diamond holds all worldwide distribution rights to the event, which ...
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C4 and RDF Media open up Rock School
Channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make Rock School , a 6 x 30-minute series designed to turn a group of teenagers into rock stars in one month. The group will be tutored by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons in the history of rock, song ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Jay Hunt
The BBC's senior commissioning executive, daytime wants ideas for returnable factual strands for mornings on BBC1 and wants pitches for any genre to fill the 6pm to 7pm slot on BBC2
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Thomson buys in to Corinthian TV
Thomson has bought a majority stake of playout specialist Corinthian Television Facilities for an undisclosed figure.
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VTR profits surge following investment in K-Post
Facilities group VTR has revealed a 72% increase in profits to£901,554 for the year ending September 2004.
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BDA wins gold at Promax for Donkey promo
Donkey by Bruce Dunlop Associates and Like Family for the Disney Channel scooped two golds each at the Promax UK awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane on Saturday (6 November).
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Video buys tapeless
Video Europe has bought£500,000 of high-definition and tapeless broadcast equipment because of increasing demand for the new formats. Managing director Steve Green said: 'We held off until we thought that the demand was strong enough. We think that this equipment will cover the demand for now.' Video Europe's haul includes ...
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Photomec first
Todd-AO Creative Services has bought a 16mm/35mm Photo-mec film processor for about£80,000. The new machine will be able to process Super 8mm negative film and is believed to make Todd-AO the only company in the UK to offer this processing service. The availability of the processor in Camden will improve ...
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Machine Takes MTI
The Machine Room has spent£200,000 on a digital restoration suite from MTI. The VTR Media Services company, which specialises in film treatment, will be able to work up to 4K. The company is believed to have several projects lined up.
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Baker at St Anne's
Colourist Ross Baker has joined the St Anne's Post telecine department to work with colourist Vince Narduzzo. Baker leaves Pepper Post where he was telecine assistant and trained under Narduzzo before the colourist left in 2002. Baker has worked on projects such as Hell in ...
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BBC tops RTS Names
The BBC has scooped the lion's share of nominations for this year's RTS Craft and Design Awards, taking 40 of the 72 nominations. Channel 4 took all the nominations in the picture enhancement category with Aidan Farrell, head of telecine at The Farm Group, looking likely to pick up the ...
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Big Buoy does Blackpool
Big Buoy has produced visual effects for the BBC musical drama Blackpool. The 6 x 60-minute series follows Ripley Holden's (David Morissey) attempts to open an amusement arcade in the seaside town following the discovery of a dead body on the premises. The story is punctuated with fruit machine visuals ...
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Silks herald arrival of C4 Racing
Victor Martinez and The Mill have completed the titles and graphics for the launch of Channel 4 Racing for Highflyer Productions. Racing silks are seen weaving in and out of a race before coming together to form the shape of a galloping horse, charging towards ...
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BDA posts Promax winner
BDA has completed the Promax-winning Think Again campaign for the National Geographic Channels. In Donkey, which won a Promax gold for best corporate promotion, a donkey kills an old woman by accidentally disturbing a cart and sending watermelons crashing down on her. The promo finishes with the line: 'Every year, ...
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Channel 4's PR problem
Big Brother is the main reason C4 faces an uphill struggle to convince policy-makers it can do the PSB thing.
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Leopard films starts up drama arm
Indie Leopard Films is setting up a drama division, Leopardrama, to focus on developing new returning series and serials. The indie, which makes series such as Cash in the Attic and Car Booty for BBC1, has lined up a number ...
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CPS grants access to crime videos
Broadcasters look set to push for further concessions from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after it offered a partial climb-down on its decision to ban police from giving TV producers access to video evidence. The CPS has now told broadcasters 'non-contentious' types of video footage, such as scenes of crime ...
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Emap to appoint Kiss and Magic MDs
Emap Performance is hunting for two managing directors for its Kiss and Magic networks in a bid to establish them as national brands. The move follows the decision by Emap managing director of radio programming Mark Story to relinquish his combined role as managing director of Kiss and Magic in ...
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Thompson dismisses BBC job cut claims
BBC director general Mark Thompson has dismissed as 'preposterous' claims that up to half the corporation's 28,000 staff could be axed as part of the on-going reviews. Thompson, reacting to a newspaper report that up to 14,000 jobs could go, said in an email to staff: 'Inevitably, staff numbers are ...