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Chairman for PMA
The PMA (Production Managers Association) has picked Ian D Tootle as it's new chairman. He replaces Justin Johnson who steps down after three years. Tootle brings more than 20 years of television experience to the chair. His most recent credits include Reborn in the USAand ...
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Brighter sends contestants on cruel holiday
Brighter Pictures has created another version of its Cruel?format for Flextech channel Trouble. Cruel Holiday, a 20 x 30-minute series, will run over four weeks with 10 contestants battling to stay in the camp by undertaking a series of bizarre ...
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TSL scoops BBC contract
Television Systems Limited (TSL) has won a lucrative contract with BBC Broadcast to design, install, commission and integrate the playout and broadcast automation systems for the new Broadcast Centre currently being built in White City.
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Five Live goes backstage at British grand prix
BBC Radio Five Live is to offer listeners exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary from the British Grand Prix later this month after gaining access to the Williams team. Chief engineer Sam Michael will give a blow-by-blow account of each pit-stop during the race on 20 July and listeners will also be able ...
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TCM gets close to award-winning stuntman
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is producing a five-part close-up interview series with Oscar and Bafta-winning stuntman Vic Armstrong to introduce its Fall Guysseries of action films. Armstrong, who has worked on around 250 films, including Gangs of New York and ...
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Two quit ascent media
Two of Ascent Media's four-strong sales team have left the company. Director of group sales Ray Adams has retired after 40 years in the industry while Group sales manager Caroline Duncan, who joined six months ago, has left to join Fusion Post as sales and marketing manager. Adams' career included ...
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Bentley in 'lifecasting' advance
Worcestershire-based Bentley Chemicals has developed a new method of producing facial and body 'lifecasts' that could save special effects artists both time and money, writes Sam Espensen.
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Render-it addition
Computer graphics and animation render farm Render-it has added Mental Ray software to the list of its capabilities. The support will allow animators working for small to medium-sized CGI companies - those with limited processing power - to make the most of the software as they can outsource the rendering ...
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Ad producer starts Soho HD business
A renowned commercials producer has opened an HD facility in Soho after demand for his self-bought kit went through the roof, writes Sam Espensen.
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Teenage kicks turn nasty on Channel 4
London-based indie Firecracker Films has received its first order, a film called Backyard Fightingfor Channel 4. The 50-minute piece, ordered by C4 editor, independent film and video Jess Search, looks at the growing phenomenon of backyard wrestling in the UK. The 'sport', which has already ...
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BBC3 gives parents reality check
The craze for reality shows exploring the family dynamic has reached BBC3, which has commissioned a series in which working parents and grandparents have to stay at home and look after kids, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Shriek makes ITV2 idents sing out
Music production outfit Shriek has produced all the music for ITV2's nine new channel idents. Each spot had to be both stylistically and melodically different and signalled the first time the company has taken on a job from storyboard to audio master with no visual intervention as the music was ...
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BBC2 to look at Britain's railway heritage
Leeds-based factual indie True North has secured two commissions from the BBC looking at the nation's railway heritage. The first is a 30-minute documentary for BBC2's England on Filmstrand using archive and testimony to assess the golden age of the train. The second is another ...
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Church leaders discuss gay bishops on ITV1
CTVC has received a quick-turnaround commission from ITV1 with a 45-minute discussion programme examining the issue of gay bishops within the Church of England. Fiona Foster has been lined up to
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NewsLygo takes C4 role
Five director of programmes Kevin Lygo will later today be confirmed as the successor to Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam, who announced his resignation two weeks ago
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We've lost the plot: Have you got one?
EastEnders producers are asking cast and crew to think up new storylines in a bid to boost ratings. ...
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Lords decline to bar Murdoch from bidding for Channel 5
An attempt to block the media baron Rupert murdoch from buying Channel Five was narrowly defeated in the House of L...
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Capital Radio shuns possibility of deal with Clear Channel of US
The chief executive of Capiotal Radio yesterday dousedthe chances of his group bowing to a takeover from Clear Chan...
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Peers fail to impose curb on Murdoch
The prospect of Rupert Murdoch owning a terrestrial television channel sparked a row in the Lords yesterday after o...
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BBC rejects deal on naming dossier source
The BBC and government were last night engaged in an extraordinary game of cat mouse over the source of the story w...