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NewsSony offers new releases to UK VoD customers
Sony Pictures Television International has become the latest major producer to enter the burgeoning UK video-on-demand market.
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NewsIzzard stars in Five kitchen drama
Five will bring comedian Eddie Izzard's serious side to the fore in an edgy new drama inspired by Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential.
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NewsBattle begins over future of kids TV
Former BBC head of children's television Anna Home has set up an action group to campaign against the proposed regulatory changes that threaten the future of kids TV production in the UK.
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NewsBB delivers one in five of C4 16-34s
The Big Brotherfranchise accounts for almost a fifth of Channel 4's advertiser-friendly 16 to 34-year-old audience, new research has shown.
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NewsBaraka opens offline editing facility Chop
Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.
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BBC radio reporters file by mobile
BBC radio reporters will be able to send broadcast-quality content from a mobile phone-style device, following trials in Lincolnshire.
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Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire
More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...
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Fracture gets Asbo Fever
Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...
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Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
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NewsBig Brother ejects Dennis
Channel 4 has ejected a second housemate from this series of Big Brother - kicking out Dennis McHugh for spitting in the face of another housemate.
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St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
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DGP hires TMR trio
DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.
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Negatives service
Film laboratory and digital post-production specialist Soho Images has launched a negative cutting service. The new department is being headed by Danny Coulson with three full-time staff.
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Cohen moves
Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...
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Smalls Festival
A festival showcasing short films for mobile phones and MP3 players is set to launch next month. Branding agency Devilfish is launching The Smalls in conjunction with the London Design Festival and online magazine
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Editworks buys kit
Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.
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Fireworks in US broadband content deal
UK distributor Fireworks International, which is owned by Content Film, has entered an agreement with broadband entertainment network Heavy to sell all its original and library programming outside the US. The three-year deal covers Heavy's existing library of 35 programming hours as well as new content. Heavy's slate includes ...
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ITV and Five eye controversial 9/11 doc
ITV and Five have expressed an interest in buying the controversial 9/11 conspiracy documentary Loose Change following a high-profile feature article on the programme in Vanity Fair. The 90-minute documentary, which is being sold by UK distributor Mercury Media, ...
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New York TV Festival welcomes UK entries
The New York Television Festival is to open up its independent pilot competition to UK indies. Next month's event will showcase independently produced non-broadcast TV pilots directly to US network executives and industry leaders. After last year's festival three US pilots aired were purchased by US networks. Details are at ...
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GI sells classic ITV drama to Scandinavia
ITV-owned distributor Granada International (GI) has sold a number of its literary titles to Kanal 5 in Sweden and renewed output deals in Norway and Finland. Kanal 5 has acquired a collection of adaptations from GI's catalogue including Moll Flanders, ...