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S4C reorganises
S4C has restructured its commissioning department. Factual output will be separated into three areas: co-productions, headed by Cenwyn Edwards; factual entertainment, headed by Nici Beech; and a new yet to be filled post for general factual. Commissioning editor, light entertainment Huw Chiswell is leaving and will not be replaced. Meirion ...
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Morning to return
Granada has received an early recommission from ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard for its This Morning daytime show. The 17th run will start in September and run through until summer next year. The series editor will again be Shu Richmond and it will have ...
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Reseller start-up xtfx bucks tough market
New reseller XTFX, set up by former Tyrell managing director Simon Brett, has begun trading with a number of sales already under its belt, writes Farah Jifri.
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TSI to post C4's The Art Show
London facility TSI has been awarded a project to post-produce 18 episodes of the next series of The Art Show for World of Wonder.
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Extra Avid support
Woody Lidstone and Jody Neckles have joined Avid to boost support services for UK post customers. They will support editing products like Avid Xpress DV software and Media Composer Adrenaline, eventually covering Unity, DS Nitris and Digidesign Pro Tools. Lidstone has joined Avid from CBC in Canada where he was ...
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Arena refits OB unit
Surrey-based Arena Television has installed a Calrec Zeta 100 digital audio console in one of its OB vans. The purchase is part of a complete refit of Arena's outside broadcast unit 5 by broadcast audio specialist Andy Unsworth. The Zeta 100 desk, configured as 40 mono and 16 stereo channels, ...
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MPC buys truelight
The Moving Picture Company has installed two Truelight colour calibration systems from FilmLight for use with its Quantel IQ colour grading suites. MPC will use the systems to calibrate its two film grading suites. The decision to invest in Truelight followed a trial of the system on Michael Winterbottom's film ...
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Facestation returns
UK reseller Pixelution is distributing FaceStation, the facial-motion-capture plug-in for 3ds Max and Maya, which is available again. The software has been off the market since its developer, Eyematic, folded last year and the move follows the acquisition of FaceStation by US company Vidiator Technology. With this acquisition, an updated ...
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Proof of the pudding
Broadcast's annual survey of the independent sector published in this week's issue reveals indies are in upbeat mood. Over the past 18 months, they have gone from being virtually ignored by legislators and regulators, to becoming the apple of Tessa Jowell's eye. The media secretary has warned that broadcasters must ...
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BBC and C4 scrap over the apprentice
The BBC and Channel 4 are in a bidding war to screen a local version of hit US reality show The Apprentice. The show, in which 16 candidates compete to win a job and six-figure salary with a high-profile businessman, will be made by ...
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Neville-Jones out of BBC chair running
BBC governor Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, tipped as one of the leading contenders for the vacant BBC chairmanship, is understood not to have applied for the post. Broadcast understands none of the present 10 governors have put their names forward for the post, vacant since Gavyn Davies resigned in January over ...
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ITV books MIT in Autumn peaktime slot
ITV1 is looking to bolster its Saturday night schedule in the autumn with a second series of Murder Investigation Team. The cop drama from Thames, which was originally a spin-off from The Bill , has been recommissioned by ITV ...
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Five in profit as RTL climbs out of red
Five has posted profits of£10m for 2003 - its first positive yearly profit figure since its launch in 1997. The channel attributed this to a 6% increase in advertising revenue. Five's majority shareholder, RTL Group, is back in the black after posting profits of E14m (£9.49m) for the year of ...
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Frasier (C4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Now in its 11th series, it is sharper and funnier than ever.'...
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: the True Story (Five) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
?Another amalgam of hobbyist enthusiasm and serious history.?...
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The Alan Clark Diaries (BBC2) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
?It's a bit pedestrian but John Hurt's performance and Alan Clark's own words mad this superior stuff.?...
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Animal Camera (BBC1) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
?This has been a great programme - a refreshing antidote to the Attenborough style.?...
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The Great Escape: Revealed (Five) - Joe Joseph, The Times
?Rehearing the story of the ?great escape? and not finding yourself being moved in a new and different way would be...
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RatingsViewers turn off BBC2's If...
The second episode of BBC2's drama-documentary series If? crashed in the ratings last night to just 1.6 million (7%).