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Tiger Aspect wins C4 orders
Channel 4 has ordered more than 40 hours of lifestyle programming from producer Tiger Aspect to fill daytime slots.
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Pepper pot comedy for Baby Cow
Pepper has graded new Johnny Vegas comedy series I Dealfor Baby Cow Productions. Vegas plays a small-time dope dealer in Manchester who lives and works from his bedsit, and who sees himself as providing a service to the community. Colourist Jet Omoshebi worked with director of ...
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Mainframe titles BBC sitcom
Mainframe has designed the titles for comedy According to Bex. The BBC comedy department-produced sitcom stars Jessica Stevenson ( Spaced, Sean of the Dead) as a secretary in a world of near misses. Lead designer Mike Alderson created the titles in After Effects ...
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Benny Hill in the US
BBC America is building on the recent popularity of The Benny Hill Showby acquiring another string of episodes. After debuting the show in October last year, the BBC's US service has signed up for a further 85 episodes of the Thames Television show.
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Russia buys The Bill
Russian terrestrial broadcaster Center TV has licensed 140 episodes of ITV's The Bill. The channel, which has already aired 50 instalments of the Thames-produced series, will screen the new episodes early this year. Meanwhile, Estonian free-to-air channel TV3 has picked up 130 episodes of Australian soap ...
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ITV sets out to transform extreme Brits
ITV controller of factual Bridget Boseley has commissioned a new factual strand which will see extreme characters given 'mental makeovers'.
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Brook Lapping duo given CBEs
Husband and wife documentary team Anne and Brian Lapping were among the broadcasting figures recognised in the new year honours list.
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Framestore buys kit
Framestore CFC has invested in Panasonic equipment with the purchase of an AJ-HD3700BE VTR. Framestore CFC senior supervising engineer Andy Howard said: 'With worldwide acceptance of this format and the ability to deliver HD on 16:9, 4:3 and Cinemascope [as well as] DVD and film transfer, we felt secure in ...
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Sit-up to launch two movie channels
TV shopping broadcaster Sit-up is to expand by launching two movie channels in the spring. Real-movies.tv will feature TV and cinematic releases based on real-life events, and Movies on 333 will consist of westerns and showcase the best student films. Sit-up is currently sourcing material and is set to do ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Maxine Watson
With What Ron Said and Who Do You Think You Are? on her CV, the commissioning executive BBC documentaries and contemporary factual would like to steal - and star in - Channel 4's Musicality
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MBO gives Kanjee control of Evolutions
Evolutions Television is set for major expansion following a multimillion-pound management buyout led by managing director Simon Kanjee.
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Crow TV opens second facility
Crow Television is doubling its capacity by setting up shop on the doorstep of Endemol, Atlantic Productions and National Geographic.
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Deayton to host guru series
ITV1 has commissioned a six-part, studio-based entertainment series, fronted by Angus Deayton, which explores the world of self-help gurus.
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Digital triumphs in Xmas ratings
The terrestrial broadcasters suffered their lowest combined Christmas audience share ever as multichannel broadcasters continued to gain ground.
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Ofcom urges digital radio expansion
Ofcom has proposed a radical expansion of the radio industry, including the launch of at least 100 local digital stations. In the first of a two-stage industry review, a block of local licences is proposed to plug gaps in the UK's digital radio map. On medium wave, 10 new analogue ...
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Sky goes early with Five news
Five brought forward the handover of its news operation from ITN to Sky News by two days following the Asian tsunami disaster. Instead of launching on Monday (3 January), Sky News produced two short updates on the disaster that were broadcast on Five at 9pm on Saturday and Sunday (1 ...
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TSI hires YTA finalist
TSI Post has hired BroadcastYoung Talent Awards best young editor 2004 finalist and non-linear editor Duncan Hill. Hill had worked at Skaramoosh for two years as an offline editor and his credits include Paul Burrell: A Royal Servant, a documentary for October ...
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Resolution gets flint
Resolution has bought Flint and Smoke on Linux, boosting its compositing and visual effects capabilities. The kit was bought through Discreet reseller XTFX.
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New MD for FOR-A
Equipment manufacturer FOR-A has appointed Jackson Kitahara and Haruyuki Tomihara as managing director and technical director. Kitahara returns from the US after setting up the UK branch in 1985 and replaces Hiroshi Nakao who returns to the Tokyo headquarters. Tomihara also moves from the US, where he had been west ...
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Gearhouse serves
Gearhouse Broadcast will be providing host facilities for Australia's Seven Network for the Australian Tennis Open in 2005. Facilities being provided include three edit suites, 59 cameras and seven vision mixers.