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Zeppotron lands C4 smut show
Endemol UK subsidiary Zeppotron is to help Channel 4 sex up its late evening slot with a new show chronicling the smuttiest moments from TV and cinema.
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Tara P-T to chart posh rockers
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is to front a new BBC Radio 1 documentary examining the power of the class system in the music business.
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BBC2 series to organise lives
Personal time management could be the hot new lifestyle genre after BBC2 controller Roly Keating ordered a series that aims to help streamline people's lives.
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Trainspotting actor to star in C4 drama
IWC Media has recruited Trainspotting star Ewan Bremner (above) for a one-off drama about an ME sufferer and a wheelchair-bound war film fanatic with multiple sclerosis who get together to perform a terrorist act. The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show , ...
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Televideo to film celebrity poker match
Outside broadcast specialist Televideo has been commissioned by Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programmes Gary Shoefield to cover the first ever Celebrity Poker UK Challenge. The event, held at Brighton's Rendezvous Casino at the end of August, features celebrities playing alongside members of the public for a prize fund of£120,000. ...
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Adrian Chiles to front MOTD spin-off
Working Lunch presenter Adrian Chiles is to front a new Match of the Day spin-off to air on Sunday evenings on BBC2. Match of the Day 2, which will air at 10pm from 15 August, will include highlights from that day's games as well as ...
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IWC media bags BBC piping hot order
BBC Scotland has ordered a one-off documentary for later this year centred around Glasgow's international bagpipe festival in August. The programme, provisionally titled Piping Hot , will be made by IWC Media. IWC's Hamish Barbour will executive produce and Jill Cumberbatch and Tim Maguire will ...
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BBC1 lines up fourth series of spooks
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have ordered a fourth run of hit spy drama Spooks. The series, about a group of MI5 agents, will be made by indie Kudos. The third series, due to air on BBC1 in ...
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Two more leave TSI for Evolutions
Evolutions Television has poached two more senior staff from rival TSI, bringing the number of ex-TSI staff at the Berners Street facility to four.
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Ascent sets up TV and film restoration arm
Ascent Media has brought in Martin Poultney from Technicolor to head their new group restoration, archiving and mastering team aimed at the film and TV markets.
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TV Set duo set up TK business
Alf Penn and Dave Yeo, sales managers at the TV Set, have quit the post house group to set up telecine company TK One.
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Dubbs axes nine
Soho duplication service Dubbs has laid off nine members of staff in what chairman John Reiss called 'a proactive initiative to protect the staff that remain'. Reiss attributed the decision to cut the staff to the technological changes that have affected the duplication business and said: 'We hate doing this ...
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Glassworks flames
Glassworks has bought four HD-compatible Flames to cater for an increase in HD work. Managing director Hector MacLeod said: 'The new Discreet suites can work at HD but when they work at standard definition the difference will really be noticed.' Glassworks is due to work on the new Robbie Williams ...
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Fifty Fifty sci fi deal
Fifty Fifty Post Production has signed a two-year deal to set up and manage in-house audio services for the Sci Fi channel. The Sci Fi channel will pay a monthly management fee to the Soho company, which will supply two in-house audio engineers to operate and service the HD Pro ...
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New pepper kit
Pepper has installed Finaliser, the Edifis colour processor and finishing system, to replace the Ursa Diamond that it sold to TK One in May. Finaliser provides extensive creative capabilities in disk-based and tape-to-tape colour correction, in HD as well as standard definition. Managing director Patrick Holzen said: 'We were looking ...
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HD first for UK TV
Metro Broadcast, BowTie TV and ntl last week aired the UK's first commercial 4:2:2, MPeg-encoded, high definition transmission in Dolby 5.1 surround. NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, chose Metro to project manage the first European transmission of Nodojiman , the long-running Japanese karaoke entertainment show. It ...
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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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Pepper shakes up love story
Pepper has completed picture post on BBC2 drama When I'm 64. The film is an unconventional love story about two gay men who reach retirement, and look back on the difficulties they experienced coming out in their youth. Colourist Chris Beeton graded and Simon ...
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Oasis posts Olympic Dream
Oasis has completed My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream , a Bite Yer Legs production for BBC3. The documentary followed Radio 1's part-Greek DJ Nemone for 12 months, as she chased her dream of competing at the Olympics, trying to prove that she ...
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Govt backtracks on switchover
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.