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NewsFlextech promotion
Flextech has promoted Edward Humphrey to the position of head of interactive, in advance of Jason George's departure next month. Reporting to Jon James, director of commercial and operations, Humphrey, currently executive producer for the interactive team, will be responsible for all interactive developments across the company's portfolio of channels ...
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Howden to Support
Technical support and integrations company Support Partners has recruited producer Ross Howden from film director Baz Luhrmann's production company, Bazmark, as professional product manager. Howden will instigate projects and manage Support Partners' clients such as the BBC.
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Foundry plug-ins
Visual effects software developer The Foundry has launched a new image-processing plug-in, Furnace 3 for Shake, designed to enhance workflow and productivity for Shake artists. It offers an additional 10 plug-ins for compositing tasks for Linux and OSX operating systems, and includes new features such as MotionMatte and Depth.
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The Station titles killer kids doc
The Station has completed the titles and post for Redback Films' new production Killing Mum and Dad. The 4 x 60-minute programmes investigate four well-known cases of parents being killed by their children. The Station designed the titles with a blend of live action and ...
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Skaramoosh's Nat Geo idents
Skaramoosh and National Geographic (Nat Geo) have created the idents for the National Geographic Channel. Nat Geo's senior promo producer, Lee Parker, and Skaramoosh's head of design, Piers Helm, conceived the idea for the five idents, which Parker directed, including the moving cogs inside a robot. Head of 3D Seb ...
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Nats posts Mossad revenge doc
Nats has completed the post on Atlantic Productions documentary Munich: Mossad's Revenge, a Discovery/Channel 4/Fremantle Media co-production. The 50-minute programme reconstructs the true story of Israel's response to the massacre at the 1972 Olympics through the eyes of those involved. Online editor Alan Jones conducted ...
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MEM merges production into Scarlet TV
MEDIA group Medal Entertainment & Media (MEM) has merged all its production arms under a single brand and has also secured a major series commission from the Discovery Channel.
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Fox joins Steadfast
Former Mentorn boss Charles Thompson has poached another Mentorn executive to join the creative team of his new indie, Steadfast Television. Ben Fox joins as executive producer for the Apace Media-backed indie. Steadfast has also signed Oliver Manley, former head of development at Ronin Entertainment, as a development executive.
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Optimistic LA move
Optimistic Entertainment will open a Los Angeles office in a move to boost US business. It will be headed by Carolyn Maze, managing director of Optimistic's production arm, who is already recruiting US staff. The company aims to build on its commission from E! Entertainment, for which it produces a ...
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Job changes at ITV
Jane Turton, ITV Productions' director of business affairs for factual, entertainment, daytime and international production, has a new role at network centre. She becomes director of rights and business affairs, ITV Channels, overseeing programme licensing, and reporting to Simon Shaps. Meanwhile, ITV Channels commercial director Jonathan Rogers has been made ...
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Unions in talks over News Channel cuts
The National Union of Journalists and Bectu will go to arbitration service Acas today (Thursday), to try to resolve a dispute with ITN over compulsory redundancies at the ITV News Channel. Talks had broken down between the parties after the joint unions wanted to ensure there would be no compulsory ...
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True North wins daytime animal order
Indie True North has secured its first daytime order from the BBC, with a series about people who protect the nation's wildlife and pets. The Leeds-based company will make a 20 x 45-minute run of Animal 24/7, featuring the work of wildlife crime officers, RSPCA ...
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ITN Multimedia to supply MSN channel
ITN Multimedia has signed a deal with MSN to supply news and entertainment programming for its new video channel MSN Video, which launches in mid February. Content includes On This Day in History, 60-second video vignettes of historical events that happened on a particular day, ...
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Leader - Formidable force of Four
C4 is Broadcast's channel of the year and is making a strong case for support to maintain its PSB status, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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NewsJackson joins Ask Jeeves company
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson has been appointed president of programming at US new media company InterActiveCorp, which owns search engine Ask Jeeves.
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NewsPEER POLL: HD
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is the BBC right to invest heavily in HD programming?
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NewsLiving TV transforms mobiles into 'paranormal detectors'
Living TV is launching a paranormal mobile project to coincide with the next series of Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns.
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NewsHotel Babylon takes 5.5m bookings
BBC1's slick drama series Hotel Babylonextended its lead over ITV1's Eleventh Hourlast night at 9pm with 5.5 million (23.4%).
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NewsSMG TV makes Alexander responsible for new business
Glasgow-based SMG TV Productions has promoted Helen Alexander to the newly created role of head of business development as the group launch a creative development drive.
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Opinion - Comment - Whose show is it anyway?
It started off as a simple consultancy gig to a BBC programme on who owned Britain and it ended up as a mess in the courts. Kevin Cahill is bemused by how wrong it all went.