All Broadcast articles in 09 December 2005 – Page 3
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Cadle Hunts Soho for Envy talent
Former Blue managing director, Dave Cadle is poaching 45 staff from around six Soho facilities for his new£5.6m post-production facility Envy which opens in the middle of February.
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BT extends TV trial
BT has extended the trial of its live TV and radio mobile phone service, BT Livetime, for a further two weeks and is replacing its current TV channels with Channel 4, ITV2 and Cartoon Network. The trial, which has been running since July with 1,000 users within the M25, has ...
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BT gathers up content for TV service
BT has signed the first on-demand content deals for its soon to launch TV over broadband service.
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Bravo buys the third Ultimate Fighter series
Flextech men's channel Bravo has bought the third series of reality show The Ultimate Fighter and convinced rights holder UFC to feature two British contestants.
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Hive hires Bradley
VTR-owned animation outfit The Hive has appointed sister company TMR Digital's business development director, Tony Bradley, in the same role. Bradley ran TMR's DVD division for three years. TMR has also invested£500,000 in expanding its telecine department, replacing its Thomson Shadow telecine with a Thomson Spirit Datacine.
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Five boss joins ETV
Enteraction TV (ETV) has poached Five interactive business controller Damon Letzer to take the newly created role of sales director. Letzer, who has been at Five for almost six years, will start in January, reporting to ETV's business development director, James Penfold. He will be responsible for sponsorship and brand ...
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DGP boosts design
DVD post-production facility DGP has recruited Stream Digital Media senior designer Ben Rasmussen to beef up its design department. Rasmussen specialised in 3D and graphics at Stream and will work as senior designer alongside three other designers and compositors, currently on the UMD release of He-Man and the Masters of ...
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Blue makes Shameless promo
Blue has completed the post-production for the promo of the new series of Company Pictures' Shameless for Channel 4. The promo, directed by C4's Phil Lind and produced by Peter Maynard, has main character Frank remove the '4' logo and text displayed on screen. Blue's head of visual effects, Chris ...
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Ex-ITN boss in bid to launch The Queer Channel
Former ITN creative director Colin Fallesen is looking to launch a gay entertainment channel.
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BBC looks for US home for Dr Who
The BBC has yet to sell Doctor Who to a US broadcaster despite its cable channel BBC America wanting to buy the show.
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Skaramoosh does baby fx
Skaramoosh has designed the special effects for the promo of a Film Australia/National Geographic co-pro, Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?, a documentary about a couple's use of embryo screening technology to save their son's life. Skaramoosh's head of design, Piers Helm, created reflections in a window and cars whizzing past ...
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Apprentice hit generates spin-offs
The BBC is ramping up its coverage of the new series of hit show The Apprentice by commissioning a spin-off show for BBC3.
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FilmFour set to go free to air
Channel 4 is planning to turn its subscription movie channel FilmFour into a free-to-air service across all platforms including Freeview.
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Homechoice adds Asian TV and music package
Video-on-demand service Homechoice is launching an Asian entertainment package which it hopes will help drive subscriptions when it rolls out in the north of England.
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C4 orders second Sugar Rush series
Channel 4 has recommissioned Shine drama Sugar Rush after it became a surprise summer ratings hit.
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C4 goes back for more rock school
RDF Media reality series Rock School, the Channel 4 show in which ex-rocker Gene Simmons attempts to turn a group of school students into a band, has been recommissioned. The show will be reformatted into 4 x 60-minute episodes rather than the 7 x 30 minutes originally commissioned. The show ...
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O'Leary signs up for C4 morning show
Channel 4 has lined up Dermot O'Leary to host a new live breakfast series early next year called Morning Glory. The show, commissioned from Endemol subsidiary Brighter Pictures, features showbiz news and celebrity guests and will initially run for two to three weeks during Celebrity Big Brother. It will air ...
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E4 to air Beauty and the Geek
Beauty and the Geek, the US reality format from Punk'd creator Ashton Kutcher, is coming to the UK with September Films producing a local version for E4.
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Kalel wins BBC3 pitch competition
Indie Kalel Productions has won a pilot commission after topping a BBC3 pitch idol competition. The channel held a briefing day in October for indies under one year old. They were then given two weeks to come up with a pitch. Kalel - headed by Nick Parnes and Hannah Cantor ...
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Sky One marks CIA 60th birthday with exposé
Maverick presenter Danny Wallace is to host a one-off special for Sky One marking 60 years of the CIA and exploring its various scandals.