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Endemol UK promotes paradise man
Endemol UK has promoted David Flynn to deputy head of its creative unit. Flynn, who joined Endemol in 1999, has spent the past two years as a development producer working on formats such as the forthcoming ITV reality series Trouble in Paradise. He will report to creative unit head Richard ...
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Lip Sync posts great escapes
Lip Sync Post has completed the animated titles for 7 x 30-minute series Escape From? for Five. Produced by 3BM the series is part of a larger 14-programme commission, the other seven being Missions, a series on great missions in the 21st century. ...
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Two firms finish Sky's Miriam
London Post and The TV Set have post-produced There's Something About Miriam a 6 x 60-minute series for Sky One. The series was onlined and graded using Symphony with Sapphire FX by Blue Turtle's Graham Carr at London Post with series director Dominic Bowls. Carr ...
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Midsomer goes to Germany for first time
All3Media International has made its first sale of ITV crime series Midsomer Murders to Germany. The first two series of the murder mystery series, made by All3Media offshoot Bentley Productions, will be screened on public broadcaster ZDF. An eighth season of the programme, starring John ...
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Foundry invents open VFX program
London-based company The Foundry has blown the visual effects market wide open with the development of a software program that will allow editors and compositors to use 'plug-in' visual effects from any company on any finishing system, writes Farah Jifri.
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NewsKerrang! tests in Manchester
Emap is to test Kerrang! Radio in Manchester on a restricted service licence (RSL) in preparation for the next swathe of FM licence bids.
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Sale for Sony kit
Surrey-based broadcast services company Presteigne Broadcast Hire is the first customer to buy Sony's new wireless camera systems. Presteigne took delivery of the WLL-RX55 wireless camera receiver and CA55 wireless camera transmitter from Sony last week. Presteigne already has a number of wireless camera systems from other manufacturers such as ...
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Teletext TV launch
Teletext is launching its first digital television channel. Teletext Holidays TV will begin broadcasting on Sky on 23 February backed by a£4m launch budget. The 24-hour station will be produced by indie New Era Television, and will feature destination guides, holiday news, weather reports and viewer competitions. If the channel ...
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Minicams launched
Prime Television has launched two minicams, which are the result of three years of development. They are a compact three-chip, pan and tilt camera and the Matchstick Minicam. The pan and tilt camera avoids the need for ARC (aspect ratio conversion) before widescreen broadcast. The minicam provides true 16:9 widescreen ...
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Turner and Nickelodeon make raft of promotions
Kids networks Turner Entertainment and Nickelodeon UK have both restructured their management line-ups.
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This Morning shift
Granada has promoted Simon Greenwood to the role of senior specials producer on ITV1 daytime show This Morning. He will now head the specials team with a specific brief to generate more human interest stories. He takes over from Vickie Stokes who is now ...
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S&V wins ocean race
Indie Sunset & Vine has won the contract to produce and distribute the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race. The Television Corporation subsidiary, which also produces cricket for Channel 4 and other sports coverage broadcast around the world, will be the race's global television production partner, producing several hundred hours of programming. ...
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NewsDyke's Manchester vision under threat
The BBC could scrap a controversial Charter review plan to move a huge chunk of the corporation to Manchester.
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NewsDigital debate hots up
Broadcasters this week stepped up their call on the government to give a precise date for analogue switch-off as they unveiled exactly how they would go about achieving it.
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NewsRoot eyes Discovery job
Jane Root, BBC2's controller, is considering quitting to take a senior executive role at Discovery Communications in the US.
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NewsWomen still lagging, says Skillset survey
Low pay and poor job prospects are endemic among women working in broadcasting, with the majority earning below£20,000.
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C4 hunts for new breakfast format
Channel 4 director of television Kevin Lygo is on the hunt for a new daily live breakfast show and hopes to get it on air by the autumn.
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NewsMiriam prepares to bare all in doc about 'her' life
Brighter Pictures has been commissioned to make a documentary about Miriam - the star of its controversial Sky One reality series There's Something About Miriam.
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Tait to sit on BBC news panel
Former ITN editor-in-chief Richard Tait is to join an internal BBC panel that will look into the corporation's editorial systems following Lord Hutton's assertion that they were 'defective'.
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Mark and Lard part ways after 10 years
BBC Radio 1 duo Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley are to split after 10 years on-air together.