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    Soundbites from Nations and Regions Conference

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    No cash in, honest

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    Hive staff depart to establish Lime

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    Four members of The Hive have left VTR Media Services to set up a new company, funded by M2 Television's finance director.

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    C4 upgrades broadcast servers

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    Channel 4 has spent more than£300,000 upgrading its broadcast servers.

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    Century opens Leeds office for drama push

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    Century Films, the producer of Channel 4's Pornography - The Musicaland Robbie Williams documentary Nobody Someday, is opening a regional office in Leeds to spearhead a push into drama.

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    Tapeless BBC will save cash on transfers

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    The BBC spends£8.5m a year transferring footage to and from tape.

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    Outpost puts£100k into HD

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    Outpost Facilities at Pinewood Studios has invested more than£100,000 on HD equipment.

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    Five finishes dentist doc's titles

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    Five Creative Services has made the titles for upcoming documentary series Can You Trust Your Dentist? The titles evoke the nightmarish experience of being at the mercy of shady dental practitioners. Senior designers Timothy Evans and Barney Steel completed compositing and created the 3D waiting ...

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    Liquid's Celeb work completed

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    Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...

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    Frontier finalises So Solid film

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    Frontier Post has completed post-production on Maroon Productions' Sticks and Stones for C4. The one-hour documentary follows So Solid Crew's Asher D as he asks why some racially offensive language is part of modern life. The show was produced and directed by Paul Blake, edited ...

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    BBC post moves

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    BBC Post Production has granted greater autonomy to its Bristol and Birmingham sites with the appointment of facilities managers at the two operations. Stephen Reilly will join staff at the Mailbox in Birmingham, having performed a similar role at a large post house in New Zealand for the past five ...

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    Big Bang begins

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    Big Bang Post Production has been opened in Bristol by Mastertracks owner Neil Hipkiss and online editor Tim Bolt. Dubbing mixer Hipkiss and Bolt have based the new company in the same building as Mastertracks. Bolt, who left Pinkhouse Post in July, will offer an online post-production capability with a ...

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    Saint's BBC job

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    Newly formed agency Saint has produced promos for BBC Broadcast, designing a package for BBC series Hard Spell. They were designed and art directed by Nicky Thompson from Saint and the 3D and compositing was done at The Hive. The promo's director was BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudior and the producer ...

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    No Peroxide opens

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    Film and TV composers agency No Peroxide has opened offices on Newman Street. The current roster includes Rob Lord and Mark Tschanz, previously of EMI and Warner Brothers. Television credits include The Big Breakfast ad campaign for Rainey Kelly and the Sky One documentary ...

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    Malik to Red Post

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    Kabir Malik has joined Red Post Production from Ascent Media. Malik has been appointed business development manager, having had similar roles at a number of post companies.

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    Strictly Come Dancing to be remade for Russian TV

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    The BBC's hit entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing is to be made for Russian audiences as part of a series of deals in the country.

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    Challenge signs first CGTV show

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    Challenge is making its first foray into factual entertainment as part of its multimillion-pound co-production deal with recently launched US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).

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    Carter hired by Fremantle

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    Gary carter, the former Endemol executive behind the international roll-out of Big Brother , is to be given in a full-time senior role at Fremantle Media, writes As senior executive vice-president of worldwide entertainment, he will oversee the development of new shows and format ...

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    Talent picked for Japan job

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    Indie Talent Television has secured a raft of new international commissions, including a second instalment of Test the Nation in Japan.

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    Format Focus: The Empire

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    Five is on the lookout for new reality series, and a trip back in time to a medieval Polish castle could fit the bill.

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    Target sells footballers' wives to M6

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    Target Entertainment has sold Shed Productions' sex and soccer drama Footballers' Wives to French broadcaster M6. The terrestrial channel has picked up the first two series of the drama, screened in the UK on ITV. In addition, Target has sold all four series of ...