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Shorts fest back
Brief Encounters, the Bristol short film festival, returns for its ninth year between 12 and 16 November this year. The five-day festival includes a new award, the Momentum Pictures Best of British Award, with a£1,000 cash prize for the most innovative UK short. Also on offer is a four-day film ...
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Rapture jumps on Ibiza bandwagon
Youth channel Rapture TV is making its first piece of original programming since relaunching on Sky on 12 May, with 4 x 30-minute series Ibiza as it Happens. Shot on location and produced in-house, the series will look at the island's famous music and club ...
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HD at forefront of next BBC epic
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) will start filming its most expensive natural history series ever this month and nearly all of it will be shot in HD, writes Sam Espensen.
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September hires Braham for sales role
September International has appointed Fremantle International Distribution's James Braham as its new sales director, replacing Alessio di Capua, who has quit to sell DVD and video at VCI. Braham will report to September Films president Sally Miles and work out of the indie's Hammersmith offices. He will oversee sales of ...
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Uncle's VTR pods set to save time and cash
The new£3m facility being set up in west London by The Farm Group will have a revolutionary engineering infrastructure according to its chief engineer, writes Sam Espensen.
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New company up
The founder of broadcast technology manufacturer Omnibus Systems has left to launch IdeasUnlimited.tv, a company that will specialise in transmission verification and content monitoring. Glyn Powell-Evans believes the company will address an urgent need among broadcasters for automated remote TV and audio-signal monitoring. The company will introduce the Content Probe ...
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Granada ships period drama to middle east
Granada International has completed a raft of sales of costume dramas to the Middle East as the genre continues to gain popularity in the region. Dramas including Agatha Christie's Poirotand adaptations of Catherine Cookson titles such as The Cinder Path, ...
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Open mike wins fifth series with Ross
Open Mike Productions has been recommissioned by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey to make a fifth series of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. The longer 28 x 50-minute run, co-commissioned by controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush and senior commissioning executive Jon Beazley, will be stripped ...
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Stream's new focus
DVD outfit Stream Digital Media is refocusing its business to concentrate on interactive design and authoring. The company will be working across all platforms and formats of interactive media, although it will still be doing high-end DVD design and production. Heading the new team will be Lucy Protheroe who joins ...
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Goldsmith leaves Universal Network
Universal Studios Networks UK managing director Janet Goldsmith has quit after five years at the company, writes Colin Robertson.
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Granada sells two to Greece
Granada International has sold home makeover series Home on their Own, which has recently finished its run on ITV1 to Greek channel Mega TV. A member of LWT's production team will go to Athens to consult during the making of the 20 x 30-minute series. ...
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ITV greenlights learners
ITV1 has has given the greenlight to a 'hair-raising' six-part series looking at why it is that some people cannot pass their driving tests, writes Colin Robertson.
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Second helping of Oliver for Ten
Ubiquitous TV chef Jamie Oliver has become a firm favourite down under and now Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has decided to strip the second series of his Oliver's Twistcookery show, writes Penny Hughes.
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The weakest link moves into Malaysia
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to take the hit quiz Weakest Linkto Malaysia. Under the agreement, brokered by BBC Worldwide director of programming Colin Jarvis, the show will debut on RTM later this year. The quiz is also in production in Slovenia, while a ...
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NewsC4 pilots online pitching
Channel 4 is about to pilot a system which could radically alter its commissioning process by forcing independents to pitch to the broadcaster online, writes Lucy Rouse.
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NewsBBC's Watts attacks 'misguided' bosses
BBC Newsnight science editor Susan Watts has revealed a damaging split within the BBC in its response to the Hutton inquiry after claiming she was put under
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NewsCracks open in BBC defence
Two days of evidence from BBC journalists to the Hutton inquiry have seen serious cracks appearing in the corporation's defence of Andrew Gilligan's report into the
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NewsPop Idol creator storms up Rich List chart
Pop svengali Simon Fuller has seen a dramatic£170m rise in his personal fortune on the back of the Pop Idolformat, according to Broadcast's annual Rich List, writes Conor Dignam.
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NewsSpooks indie goes hustling for next drama
Kudos, the indie behind BBC1’s award-winning drama Spooks has been commissioned to make a new six-part drama this time focusing on con artists, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsSky sticks to tried and tested formula
Sex and soccer dominate Sky One's autumn schedule, unveiled this week, with new controller Sara Ramsden sticking close to a formula of US acquisitions and risque UK commissions, writes Rosemary Gallagher.