All Broadcast articles in 04 August 2006 – Page 3
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NewsBaraka opens offline editing facility Chop
Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.
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Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD
Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...
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Fracture gets Asbo Fever
Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...
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True North makes archive programmes
Leeds-based indie True North has been commissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute religious series called The Way We Worshippedfor ITV1. Greenlit by ITV controller of current affairs and documentaries Jeff Anderson, it will air from September and will explore changing religious habits in Britain.
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Apace hires Carsey
Steve Carsey has joined Apace Media's new TV division, Steadfast Television, as deputy chief executive. Carsey, who joins from Endemol UK production company Initial, will also be creative director and head a new intellectual property and content creation division working across the entire group.
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St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster
St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...
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Deadly Knowledge Show returns to C4
Channel 4 schools commissioning editor Deborah Ward has greenlit a second series of The Deadly Knowledge Showfrom Princess Productions. The new 20 x 30-minute series will again be hosted by Dave Berry. Executive produced by Dean Nabarro, it will begin production soon and screen from ...
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Pilkington handed C4 slot
Karl Pilkington, the radio producer who gained cult status after appearing alongside Ricky Gervais in the most popular podcast ever, has landed his first TV commission for Channel 4.
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ITV and Five eye controversial 9/11 doc
ITV and Five have expressed an interest in buying the controversial 9/11 conspiracy documentary Loose Change following a high-profile feature article on the programme in Vanity Fair. The 90-minute documentary, which is being sold by UK distributor Mercury Media, ...
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Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire
More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...
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NewsWhat's a VoD show worth?
How much will a downloaded episode of Green Wingor The F Wordbe worth to consumers? Less than the cost of a music video on iTunes, according to Channel 4.
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NewsMurphy: RDF too political for me
Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is to spearhead a drive into comedy and drama for Twofour when he joins as creative director on 21 August.
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NewsLiving TV picks up US reality shows
Living TV has acquired the exclusive UK rights to new US reality series The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agencyand Daisy Does America from Fremantle Media Enterprises.
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NewsITV Productions staff want sell-off
Leading figures within ITV Productions are pushing for the sale of ITV's in-house production arm, in a bid to turn the company into a super-indie.
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Pitt makes move into indie sector
Former BBC creative director Ruth Pitt is to join indie Century Films as an executive producer.
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NewsLeader: Selling off the family silver won't help ITV
Broadcast editor Conor Dignam asks if selling ITV's production arm is a good thing
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NewsIzzard stars in Five kitchen drama
Five will bring comedian Eddie Izzard's serious side to the fore in an edgy new drama inspired by Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential.