All Broadcast articles in 5 June 2014
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NewsDoghouse Post recruits senior colourist
Doghouse Post Production has appointed Fred Tay to the role of senior colourist and VFX specialist.
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NewsRoll to Record supports Educating Yorkshire follow-up
Roll to Record is working with Twofour on the next installment of the production company’s fixed-rig secondary school series.
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NewsLorenzo joins Foundry board
Former Frog Design president Doreen Lorenzo has joined The Foundry’s board of directors.
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NewsFilmscape Media opens Bristol base
Hire firm Filmscape Media has opened a new facility at the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol.
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NewsQuantel releases Pablo Rio update
Quantel has released updated software for its Pablo Rio finishing system that adds support for XAVC and ProRes 422.
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NewsIndustry leaders hail state of UK VFX industry
The UK’s visual effects industry is in rude health, according to senior industry figures at this week’s Creative Week event.
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NewsITV nets French Open until 2018
ITV has fought off competition from the BBC to hold on to the French Open until 2018.
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NewsLord Coe mulling BBC Trust role
Lord Coe, the man who oversaw the delivery of the London 2012 Olympics, is mulling whether to apply to become the next BBC Trust chairman.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV claims half-term victory
The World Cup looms, promising fame like a faintly sinister hawker; all the fun of the Fifa fair is to be had if you’re rich.
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s joy of Springwatch
Every year as I settle into my ‘it may be raining persistently but summer’s here because it’s the cricket season’ mode, I am beseeched by BBC2 to watch spring.
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RatingsGong goes to Gogglebox
Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld and writer/star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, once said he carried his Emmy with him wherever he went, but was very casual about it.
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RatingsCHARTS: Sky shows slip slightly
I worry about Jack Bauer. It must be exhausting being that clenched all the time, and then there’s all that running and waving his pistol while perpetually pointing out that he’s trying to save the world here, people.
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RatingsCHARTS: ITV3’s sleuths secure results
With pay drama channel ITV Encore heaving in to view, ITV3 was determined to show its sibling upstart how it’s done, with its detective greatest hits. Meanwhile, BBC4 pulled on its white stetson and set off for Dodge City.
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FeaturesThe delivery challenge
With the deadline for file-based delivery looming, Broadcast partnered with the DPP for two panel discussions at Rada in London to discover if the industry is ready for the change.
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FeaturesRio kicks off the 4K era
If the four years since the last World Cup have been a long time in football, they have been a geological age in broadcast technology
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PodcastTalking TV: Media Summit & Andrew Davies
A special edition of the Talking TV podcast brings you the key action from the Media Summit and includes an interview with drama writer Andrew Davies.
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NewsDRG strikes Latimer deal
DRG has struck a first look deal with Latimer Films, the indie behind Penny Woolcock’s forthcoming dog-fighting doc Going to the Dogs.
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NewsOlly Lambert prepares latest Dispatches
Bafta-award winning director Olly Lambert is preparing to embark on his latest Dispatches project for Channel 4.
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NewsHasselhoff returns to Berlin Wall for Nat Geo
David Hasselhoff is to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by fronting a Darlow Smithson film for Nat Geo.
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Behind The ScenesDrag Queens Of London, London Live
Making a ten-part ob doc series on a microbudget is not impossible, but you do have to take risks with where you cut corners, says Jason Mitchell.