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SUNSET + VINE MAKES THE DOG LISTENER
Channel 5 senior programme controller Michael Attwell has commissioned Sunset + Vine North to make a 1 x 30-minute documentary about a woman who claims to be able to alter the
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Wall to Wall/Bazal Discovery win
Discovery Home & Leisure has signed its biggest output deal and its first with Wall to Wall Television and Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Bazal for both to provide 45 hours of original programming, writes Penny Hughes.
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NewsGavin & Stacey laugh all the way to the Baftas
BBC3 comedy Gavin & Stacey and ITV entertainment format Harry Hill's TV Burp were the big winners at last night's Bafta TV Awards.
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Edinburgh winners in E4 TV deal
Kim Noble and Stuart Silver, whose Noble and Silver double act won them the Perrier Award for the best newcomers in Edinburgh this year, have signed a TV deal with E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel which launches on 18 January, writes Ashley D
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SOLID STATE MD TO QUIT
Solid State Logic (SSL) managing director John Jeffery is to step down from 1 January and will be replaced by Colin Pringle, who is currently group marketing director. Pringle joined SSL
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MANUFACTURER MOVES
A number of recent appointments have been made at manufacturers and their resellers. Jayson Chase has quit Tyrell to join the Root 6 sales team. He will be replaced in January
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ENGLISH & POCKET WIN
English & Pockett is the only non-Asian company to win at this year's Promax Asia. The company scooped two golds - one for best launch campaign with Discovery Animal Planet Asia
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422 TO MODERNISE
422 has dropped the colons and is positioning itself as 'more than just a television design company', according to chief creative Andy Davie-Coward, who added: 'It's a simpler, cleaner look. Those
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Thomson in£1.4bn Technicolor deal
French electronics group Thomson Multimedia is to buy Technicolor in a deal which values the video and DVD processing and duplication business at around£1.4bn.Carlton Communications confirmed on Monday that it
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Saatchi to sell off Megalomedia facilities to FrameStore founders
Megalomedia, the media investment company set up by Maurice Saatchi, has agreed to sell its facilities subsidiaries, FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC), to a new company set up by FrameStore founders Sharon Reed and William Sargent, writes Dom
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Horton joins The Facilities Group
SVC creative director Tom Horton has quit the Soho facility to become director of television at Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary The Facilities Group (TFG), writes Barbara Marshall.
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Reuters backs news software
Reuters is stepping up its support for the news delivery specification NewsML by teaming up with news software developer Wavo to launch an open source NewsML toolkit.NewsML is a web-based programming
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GRIFFILMS MAKES S4C IDENTS
Griffilms produced the on-screen Christmas idents for S4C. Animators Hywel Griffith, Dylan Jones and Eryl Jones based the sequences on drawings by the children of Maesybont primary school, animating them in
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Freedom and accountability
The white paper published on Tuesday finally provides operators across the industry with a blueprint for their development next year - and the year after that until this white paper turns
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FREE TO AIR - Regulation, my arse
At time of writing, the communications white paper was still at the printers in bundles and by the time I'm able to grace these pages again it will have been as
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NewsTV critics 21 April '08
'... the dialogue went well beyond the merely wooden'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on the weekend's TV.
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TRADE TALK - Indie champion
Former punk rocker turned training and investment guru John McVay is leaving Scotland behind and heading south to be the new chief of Pact.
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IN MY VIEW - David Docherty
On how the British lack the courage to build media empires and embrace new technology.
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ON THE BOX - Staying streets ahead
BBC News 24 presenter Christopher Morris loves Corrie's festive 40th but says we should Take a Girl Like You at face value.
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YULETIDE ANALYSIS - All I want for Christmas is ..
What will Santa bring this year? Winning drama for 21.00, hit new entertainment channels, an ITV chief executive, horse racing rights ... TV types will be shaking their presents anxiously.