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Sanctuary found
Andy Matthews has joined Sanctuary Post's creative team as senior editor/project manager. Matthews has 20 years' experience in television and film production, having started out on TV show The Tube. His credits also include The Top 100 programmes for ...
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BAFTA wins for BBC
The BBC's The Darkhouse , an interactive radio drama, has picked up the award in the technical innovation category at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. The drama has also been adapted for the web. The BBC was also nominated for its ...
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Molinare finishes Mozart work
Molinare has completed CG and animation work on a series of promos for BBC2 to highlight a season of programmes celebrating the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The series includes a three-part drama, concerts and interactive content across the BBC. Work done by Molinare includes a specially made score that ...
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Skaramoosh animates bats
Skaramoosh has completed 3D animation and compositing on Superbat for Oxford Film and Television and Gedeon Television. The sequence done by Skaramoosh shows a bat chasing a mosquito ending in a Matrix-style time splice to illustrate how bats use sonar to detect their prey. 3D animation for the sequence was ...
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The Hive brings T-rex to life
The Hive has animated a tyrannosaurus rex in X-ray form for BBC2's Horizon science strand, which explores new research casting the dinosaur in a new light. T-rex: Warrior or Wimp? is a 50-minute programme produced and directed by Johanna Gibbon at the BBC's science department. ...
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BBC expands big cat week format
The BBC is to follow up the success of its Big Cat Week of stripped programmes with a look at the lives of elephants and monkeys, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Adam lands leading role in Channel 4 sitcom
Adam Buxton, one half of comedy duo Adam and Joe, will take the lead in a new six-part Channel 4 sitcom about a struggling Brighton-based rock band, writes Glen Mutel.
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Talkback turns inspectors' gaze on sex
Talkback has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a follow-up to Dinner Party Inspectors which will aim to transform people's sex lives, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC3 fresh out of good ideas
The BBC has failed to commission a single film for its new BBC3 flagship documentary strand, Fresh , after a senior executive claimed no decent ideas had been submitted.
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BBC Talent takes to the air
BBC3 is to clear its schedule as part of a BBC-wide week of programming generated by its annual BBC Talent initiative.
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Princess set to diversify
Princess Productions is to diversify into comedy and science programming with three appointments.
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Granada plans Xmas comedy
The Granada team behind Bob Martin are making a comedy drama for ITV1.
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Savage's eyes down set to return to BBC1
Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady's BBC1 comedy Eyes Down , set in a Liverpool bingo hall, has been commissioned for a second series. The new 6 x 30-minute run, which was ordered by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush, is ...
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DG in charter special
BBC acting director general Mark Byford is to put the case for Charter renewal on a special Panorama programme next month. The studio-based show, What's the Point of the BBC? , will also feature David Attenborough, David Elstein and Endemol ...
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Blackburn dropped
Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn is to be dropped from Jazz FM's evening schedule and replaced by former BBC Radio 1 presenter Clive Warren from Monday (1 March). Blackburn pre-records the late-night show but the GMG London station wants more live programming in its schedule. Blackburn will continue to present a ...
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Promotion at TWG
The Wireless Group has promoted Michael Franklin from operations director to managing director of its national speech station Talksport. Franklin, who joined the station in August 2000, will take up the newly created role immediately and will report to TWG chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie.
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Telewest MD leaves
Telewest managing director Charles Burdick has left the company to 'pursue other opportunities'. He will be replaced by US cable veteran Barry Elson who becomes acting chief executive. Elson joined the company last November as chairman in waiting, but now Cob Stenham will remain in the chairman role. Burdick will ...
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New Classic gold MD
Former Jazz FM programme director John Baish is to become managing director of UBC-owned station Classic Gold. Basih, who has been working as operations director at Classic Gold since last October, will take over from Colin Wilsher who steps down in early April. Wilsher will continue to consult for Classic ...
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Optomen to make C4 aristocrats doc
Channel 4 has commissioned Optomen Television to make a documentary series about the Fulfords - an aristocratic family who have lived on the same country estate for 800 years. The series will chart the Fulfords' eccentric adventures, including their plans for celebrating their eighth century in residence. The show will ...
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BBC to air in dentists
Dental patients in Canada will soon be able to watch the BBC while they undergo treatment after BBC Worldwide sold eight hours of programming to Canadian practice Entara Dental Media. The deal will allow patients to watch three-minute bursts of BBC natural history shows set to music as well as ...