All Broadcast articles in 07 December 2007 – Page 3
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College killings film for BBC
ORTV has been commissioned by BBC2 to make a 60-minute film to air in April 2008 to mark the one-year anniversary of the shootings this year at Virginia Tech in the US.
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FeaturesEureka! QI
QI creator John Lloyd on the game where points are won for being interesting, not correct.
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NewsBBC hunts new breed of doc makers
BBC New Talent has launched a competition to find three emerging documentary film makers for its BBC3 new talent strand, Fresh.
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NewsDaily Cooks to return for fourth series
ITV has commissioned a fourth series of Daily Cooks fronted by Antony Worrall Thompson to air next spring.
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NewsBBC doc to follow Olympic hopefuls
The BBC will transfer its A Child of Our Time format to a group of young athletes preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, revisiting them in a series of documentaries each year until the games.
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NewsPact elects new council
Twofour chief executive Charles Wace has been elected as council chair at indie trade body Pact.
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CommentHot topic: the crisis in children’s TV
A boy in my second year English class was once belted for ending an essay “and then I woke up” on the basis of lack of originality. Working in children’s television in 2007 has felt like being in the middle of a horrible nightmare.
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CommentWrite-hand turn
After the fuss over my writers’ strike column, even I don’t agree with myself.
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FeaturesThe battleground for BBC1 now its hunt has ended
A week’s a long time in a television career. Last week, this column praised Jay Hunt for an excellent speech outlining her vision for Five, which as I said was surprisingly frank for a controller talking in public. Not frank enough, as it turned out. We should have known better, ...
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NewsRDF wins court battle against Clements
RDF has won its high court battle against Alan Clements to prevent the former employee from joining a rival until December 2008.
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Italian soccer on Babelgum
Babelgum has launched a Serie A Italian Football channel, offering highlights of Italy’s premier division.
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FeaturesDisney to invest in UK production
Disney’s search for European talent has won UK producers new commissions. But, the presence of the US giant is not enough to make up the kids TV shortfall
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Kate Modern airs in-flight
Virgin Atlantic is to show Bebo’s online drama Kate Modern as part of its in-flight entertainment.
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VoD strategist quits C4
Channel 4's chief strategist on the joint video-on-demand service Kangaroo, Rod Henwood, is to leave the broadcaster in April next year to pursue a new digital venture.
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FeaturesContent focus: Star Trek fan site
Virgin 1 is using the obsessive nature of Star Trek fans to build an online community.
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NewsChannel 4 gets Carter
Channel 4 has confirmed that acting viewers’ editor Paula Carter will take on the role full-time.
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NewsEcho Beach shorts signal next phase for itv.com
Itv.com will host a 12-part series of online shorts linked to Kudos’ ITV1 dramas Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper next month as part of plans to establish the site as the home of added value web-only content.
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CommentFTSE rally fails to spark media sector
The FTSE 100 rallied this week, including a 2.7% jump on a single day, the index’s biggest single percentage gain since September.
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Autodesk launches Combustion 2008
Autodesk has launched its Combustion 2008 software, the latest version of its desktop compositing and VFX solution featuring the Colour Warper tool (from the Flame visual effects system) as well as improvements to the schematic view.