All Broadcast articles in 09 December 2005 – Page 2
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Izzard in US pilot
Comedian Eddie Izzard is to play a dad in a new US pilot for Fox cable network FX. The drama, called Low Life and made by Madonna's company, Maverick TV, will see Izzard play a conman facing a spiritual crisis who decides to settle down with his wife and children ...
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Thomson invests
Thomson, the service provider and parent company of Technicolor, has acquired a 33.3% stake in HD video editing company Canopus and plans to launch a public tender offer in a deal worth around£61.8m. The deal comes as part of Thomson's two-year plan to broaden its media and entertainment client base ...
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Screentime launches Nothing to Hide...
Screentime Partners has successfully launched the Lion dating format Nothing to Hide in Greece. The 12-episode series, which debuted last month, has been performing above the Antenna TV Saturday night average share, attracting around 20%. Other deals Screentime has secured for the All3Media-owned producer include a series of taxi-based quiz ...
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Format Focus: Three Wishes
A major new unscripted US format might prove to be just a little bit too nice.
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FM licences move
Ofcom has released a timetable for licensing some of the last remaining FM radio licences, including a further licence covering Manchester. Of the larger licences, Ofcom advertised the new Hull licence on Wednesday (7 December), and will advertise Bristol in March, Liverpool in April, and Manchester in July. The last ...
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Five joins in parenting fad
Five is to explore 'extreme parenting' in a two-part series from indie Monkey.
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First Post to expand north
Skillset, the training body for the TV and film industry, is expanding its new entrants training scheme, First Post, to Manchester in the new year.
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Evolutions hirings
Post house Evolutions has hired a clutch of recruits, including The Farm Group's Andy Wood as editor; and Avid and linear editor David Moyes of BBC Resources to work on edit and graphics.
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Five's New Killer Instinct ends in US
Five's new US acquisition Killer Instinct has been axed in the week it will make its UK premiere. The Regency Television detective series which airs on the Fox Network in America has been scheduled for a 16-week run on Five in the plum Thursday 10pm slot - previously home to ...
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MacIntyre tests his survival skills inThe Edge of Existence
Donal MacIntyre's next TV series for Five will see him attempt to survive in some of the most inhospitable places on earth.
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Molinare posts Earth Shocks
Molinare has finished the post on Mentorn's Earth Shocks, a co-pro with CBC, Nat Geo and WGBH about earth-changing events in the prehistoric era. The facility's CGI arm, Darkside, created the 3D effects on Lightwave, Vue Infinite and Digital Fusion. Senior dubbing mixers George Foulgham and Billy Mahoney mixed the ...
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Industry plays down threat of in-house editing
Broadcasters, facilities and key independents thrashed out the issues of desktop editing and in-house production at Broadcast's first post-production forum last week, held at London's Vinopolis.
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TWI to distribute tsunami docs
TWI has secured the rights to distribute Orphans, Childless and Predators, a Channel NewsAsia documentary narrated by Oscar winner Susan Sarandon that tells the story of efforts to rescue orphans from the Asian tsunami crisis. The deal will also see TWIdistribute another Channel NewsAsia tsunami documentary called Island of a ...
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ITFC deal with Five
Subtitling specialist ITFC has signed a seven-year deal with Five to provide the channel's VT, materials management and compliance services. The renewed contract, for an undisclosed sum, will see Five moving towards digital storage, editing and distribution, in addition to a full range of post-production services.
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Farm creates space
The Farm has managed all the post-production for Endemol's Space Cadets, in which contestants are duped into believing they are being blasted out to space. All the logging and 24-hour online editing was accomplished on location, using eight Symphonies and around 30 editors. The project was overseen by The Farm's ...
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Cowell signs Syco deal with Fox
The X Factor creator Simon Cowell has extended his two-year first-look deal with Fox for a further five years. The US broadcaster will now have the first pick of shows from Cowell's indie Syco until 2010. He has also signed a five-year deal with Sony BMG that will give the ...
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Tinopolis makes an offer for TV Corp
Tinopolis is sending out a formal offer to TV Corp shareholders on Thursday (8 December), outlining its£36.4m hostile bid for the indie. The deadline for Welsh indie Tinopolis to post its offer to shareholders expired on Thursday, 28 days after its announcement of intention to bid. Another mystery bidder has ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Liza Marshall
Channel 4's commissioning editor, drama has up to£900,000 an hour to spend on an authored single film with a contemporary theme and has recently commissioned one about British soldiers in Iraq.
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Ofcom clears Living
Ofcom has cleared Living TV over complaints that Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live had contrived paranormal events on the show. The regulator confirmed that 11 viewers complained about the programme with concerns that it was deceiving people into thinking events were real. Complainants suggested the programme, in which psychic ...
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I'm a Celebrity ends on high note
The finale of ITV1's ratings juggernaut I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! ended on a predictable high as Carol Thatcher was crowned queen of the jungle.