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Mosaic films goes back underground
Mosaic Films has been commissioned to produce a follow-up to its RTS award-winning series The Tube. ITV London commissioning editor Emma Barker has ordered the 6 x 30-minute series, which will go behind the scenes of the London Underground and follow staff's day-to-day activities. Will Grovewhile and Dan Waring will ...
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Rival RDF shows compete for RTS award
Indie RDF Media will be battling against itself in the forthcoming Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Two of its shows, Holiday Showdown for ITV1 and Wife Swap for Channel 4, have been shortlisted together in the features and factual entertainment ...
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One hires animators
One Post has taken on two 3D animators for its CGI operations. Duncan McWilliams joins One from The Hive, where he worked on projects for AOL, Bloomberg and Disney. Before The Hive, McWilliams worked at DigM Digital Media and as a freelance graphic designer. Also joining is Michiel de Kraker, ...
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Novel joins pocoyo animation show
Novel Entertainment has teamed up with Carlton International and Spanish animation company Zinkia Entertainment to develop and produce pre-school co-
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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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Secret Policeman among winners at RTS awards
Mark Daly, the investigative reporter behind the acclaimed BBC documentary The Secret Policeman , has been awarded young journalist of the year by the Royal Television Society (RTS), writes Lisa Campbell.
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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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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 ...
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Halmi to be honoured for achievement
Robert Halmi Sr, chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year's MipTV market in Cannes. The veteran producer has over 200 made-for-TV movies, series and miniseries to his credit. He has also picked up 97 Emmy Awards and 13 Golden Globes for ...
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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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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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C4I takes on HBO factual output
Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed a deal with US pay-TV operator HBO to distribute over 200 hours of its factual programming, writes Glen Mutel.
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3 Mills to be sold and used for Olympic bid
East London facility 3 Mills Studios is being sold to the London Development Agency (LDA), which plans to use it as a media centre if Britain's bid to host the 2012 Olympics is successful, writes Farah Jifri.
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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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M2 to leave camden
M2 Television has abandoned its Camden branch and moved all the kit and staff to its Soho headquarters. The move will be completed within the next four weeks. Although the two branches currently operate as separate companies, M2 says that no redundancies are planned and the majority of staff will ...
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BBC4 gets extra£10m to make drama
The BBC has confirmed an extra£10m annual boost for BBC4 to allow it to produce more homegrown drama, comedy and science programmes. The extra cash will take BBC4's overall budget to£40m. BBC3 by comparison has a budget of£97m. BBC4 controller Roly Keating said he was keen to develop more drama ...
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R1 lines up new duo
Radio 1 duo Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley will hand over their headphones to Colin Murray and Edith Bowman when they leave the BBC station next month, as exclusively revealed in Broadcast last week. Murray and Bowman, who present the 10.00 till 13.00 slot across the weekend on R1, are ...
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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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Mills lines up to take over Cox slot at R1
BBC Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox is to be replaced by Scott Mills when the drivetime presenter takes maternity leave at the end of May. Mills will swap his weekend afternoon slot for the weekday position and fellow R1 DJ Edith Bowman will cover on Sunday afternoons. In addition, R1 ...
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NewsITV cuts 400 jobs in Central 'massacre'
Up to 400 jobs will be axed at Central Television as part of ITV plc's cost-cutting drive, Broadcast has learned.