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Post industry backs UK talent
The UK post industry is investing£100,000 to fill a domestic talent gap caused by the booming VFX market.
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BBC orders teen drama
Southampton-based indie Resource Base has been commissioned to make a BBC2 drama, co-written and directed by acclaimed playwright John Godber.
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BBC scores more tests from talent
The BBC has locked down the rights to its hit interactive quiz format Test the Nationuntil 2006, ordering 15 hours of new specials from indie Talent Television. The next batch of six specials of the primetime BBC1 quiz, presented by Anne Robinson and Phillip Schofield, which ...
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Wise Buddah wins seven BBC orders
Radio indie Wise Buddah has picked up seven commissions from BBC Radio 2 and the World Service. Elton John will be the subject of a three-part series for R2, which will air weekly in July, while Tom Waits and Coldplay will be the subjects of documentary specials airing in April ...
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BBC worldwide takes the grid to Europe
BBC Worldwide has made a number of European broadcast deals for terrorism drama The Grid. The miniseries, co-produced by BBC, TNT, Carnival Films and Fox Television Studios, has been sold to France 2, Norway's NRK, Finland's YLE and DR in Denmark along with SVT in Sweden, ...
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BBC unlocks Hollywood secrets
BBC Scotland has completed the graphics for Secret Map of Hollywood, a 6 x 40-minute series for BBC1. Presenter Jonathan Ross explores the dark under-belly of life in the movie capital of the world using a 3D map to focus on its most famous and scandalous locations. ...
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BBC needs new body
A new independent body should oversee the BBC's accountability and advise on how much public funding it should receive, the government-backed Charter review panel has said. The panel, led by Lord Burns, said a Public Service Broadcasting Commission should be tasked with ensuring the BBC's Charter obligations are met and ...
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BBC rapped over EU
The BBC's coverage of the European Union needs to be more impartial, according to an independent report ordered by the corporation's board of governors. The inquiry, led by Lord Wilson, said the BBC was not deliberately biased but that coverage could be improved. It blamed ignorance of the EU among ...
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Heart pins hope on fresh blood
Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley has defended the poor ratings of flagship London station Heart 106.2 and claimed it will claw back listeners with its new look.
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NTL brings on OneTV
NTL Broadcast has signed up shopping channel OneTV to a five-year transmission contract. NTL will supply fibre linkage from the channel's Colchester studio with uplinking and transmission space on Eurobird. NTL Broadcast is also supplying playout until the channel's own studios are operational. OneTV launched on 17 January.
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Orion hires Burgin
Indie Orion TV has poached BBC development producer Petra Burgin to lead the company's expansion into formats. She created successful BBC daytime brands Mind Your Own Business, Feather Your Nestand Sunday Escape.
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Target buys Jackson re-enactments
Target Entertainment has picked up the international rights to a raft of new programmes including reconstructions of Michael Jackson's forthcoming trial. The series of 30-minute courtroom re-enactments will be shown on Sky One and Sky News in the UK and Target is sharing rights with E! Entertainment. It will also ...
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VCT buys Music Stake
VCT buys music stake Leisure & Media VCT has bought a 7% stake in media music supplier Audio Network plc for£250,000. Audio Network has signed up over 100 composers and sound designers in the past three years and supplies all music with worldwide clearance.
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University buys Central studio site
Central Television's Lenton Lane studio complex, one of the largest TV complexes in Europe, has been sold to the University of Nottingham, which plans to house new science companies there. The 17-acre site, which was once the home to shows such as Crossroadsand ...
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Hive hires CG head
VTR's CGI arm The Hive has appointed Glenn Griffiths as its new head of CG. Griffiths joins from Baraka Post Production and will take charge of ongoing projects, recruitment and the sales operations at The Hive. VTR managing director Kate Sturgess said Griffiths is 'ideally placed to fill this role'. ...
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ITV drama goes to top of class
ITV's Julie Walters one-off Ahead of the Classgave the network's drama chief Nick Elliott some welcome new year cheer this week.
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Clyde's gold medal
Bruce Dunlop & Associates (BDA) senior creative Andrew Clyde has won a Gold World Medal at the New York Festival's 48th International Television Programming & Promotion Awards for The Hallmark Channel promo 'The Kiss'. The promo (the precursor to the creative brief on the facing page) was created by BDA ...
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Local radio co nears million mark
The Local Radio Company, the group launched early last year by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatley, has recorded a combined audience of nearly 900,000 around the country. The latest figure includes results from LRC's recent acquisitions of Spirit FM in South West Sussex and KCR FM in Liverpool.
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Devilfish's Valentine's Day job
Devilfish has created the Hallmark Channel's Valentine's Day promo campaign. The 30-second spot shows how the power of love can overcome all barriers, whether between a prisoner and guard or a cowboy and indian. Grading was carried out at Rushes to add to a nostalgic 1950s movie feel, with additional ...
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Screentime Partners in Russian deal
Screentime Partners has signed three format deals that will see Wife Swap, To Catch a Thiefand Popstarsremade for Russian viewers. A 26-episode run of RDF Media's Wife Swapwill be made by Studio 2V for the TNT network. Lion ...