All Broadcast articles in 11 August 2006
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NewsOpinion - Comment - Paulette, where are you?
After losing touch with a bright student after her work experienceled nowhere, Lis Howell hits out at broadcasting companies which cynicallyexploit youngsters looking for work experience.
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Controller Reports - Who's top of the multichannel class?
In our second set of report cards, Broadcast delivers its verdict onthe multichannel controllers. For these younge...
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Facilities - Who fits the bill at The Mill?
The spotlight has again fallen on those brave enough to invest in theturbulent post-production sector following Th...
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Charles Allen Resignation - Where did it go wrong for the politicalanimal?
Knocking back the Greg Dyke-fronted private equity bid in Marchheralded the endgame for ITV chief executive Charle...
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NewsOfficial investigation launched into BB voting scandal
Premium rate services watchdog ICSTIS has begun a formal investigation into the Big Brothervoting scandal, which saw four previously evicted contestants re-enter the house.
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NewsDigital channels to the rescue
Reports of the death of the terrestrial channels may have been greatly exaggerated, with new figures showing that the success of their digital spin-offs is offsetting their decline.
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News3.4m remember to watch How to Improve Your Memory
BBC1's one-off science show How to Improve Your Memoryfailed to dazzle last night with a modest audience of 3.4 million (17%) at 8pm.
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Return to Tuscany takes primetime slot
BBC2 has commissioned indie Seven Stones Media to make a primetime version of its daytime cookery hit, Return to Tuscany. BBC2 has asked for a 10 x 30-minute version of the show to air in a weekly 7pm slot this autumn. The series follows the ...
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O'Connell struggles
Sky One is struggling to turn Virgin Radio breakfast show host Christian O'Connell into a TV star, with his new Sunday night show averaging just 75,000 (0.54%). The show is well below the channel's slot average this year of 264,000 (1.7%). Its first episode on 16 July brought in an ...
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Movie Rush on TV
Film4 has made a programme previously only available online into its first regular series. Film review show Movie Rushis made by multiplatform producer Zone and has previously been exclusively offered through Channel 4's website. From this month it will also air on Film4 and is ...
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ITV plots more Rio wind-ups
ITV is in discussions with England footballer Rio Ferdinand about fronting four more TV wind-up shows.
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Rushes soho shorts hails winners
A live-action version of The Simpsons title sequence was one of the winners at this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. Come Home to the Simpsons, directed by Chris Palmer at Gorgeous, clinched the Adobe Title Sequences & Idents Award.
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Framestore titles Time Trumpet
Framestore CFC has created the title sequence and digital VFX for BBC entertainment's Time Trumpet. The 6 x 30-minute comedy, set in 2031, takes a look back at aspects of our culture as refracted through TV shows. Framestore's Adam Parry designed the titles on Inferno, ...
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Somethin' Else looks into Sexual Healing
Radio indie Somethin' Else is to produce a one-hour documentary on the story behind Marvin Gaye's hit song Sexual Healingfor BBC Radio 2. The documentary, which has been commissioned by R2 controller Lesley Douglas, will focus on Gaye's rocky relationship with co-writer David Ritz, who ...
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Promo Shark dates
The second annual Promo Shark Awards, sister event to the Shark Awards Advertising Festival, take place this September in Ireland. The event is part of an annual festival celebrating the best work in TV promos and broadcast advertising from around the world and will this year feature the producer of ...
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Directors Cut updates to HD
Editing boutique Directors Cut Films is splashing out£500,000 on a dedicated grading suite and upgrading its facilities to HD.
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RDF buys kids indie
RDF Media Group acquired Kent-based children's producer The Foundation TV Productions for£4m on Thursday (3 August). It paid£3m in cash for the maker of The Basil Brush Showand Eureka TV, with the other£1m made up of RDF shares. The payment ...
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On the box - Tall stories and fishy tales
Alive hooked Camilla Lewis to start with, but lost her with a lack of pace, while the BBC's Trawlermen reeled her in with its superb depiction of seafaring life
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Stream Blu-ray kit
Ascent Media DVD outfit Stream has invested in a new Sony Blu-Print authoring system for Blu-ray discs. The software-based authoring platform which supports MPEGE2, VC-1 and AVC advanced video codecs will be used to deliver Blu-ray authoring services and advanced functionality to clients.
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Cuts at BBC News
BBC News is to lose 100 staff over the next year as part of director general Mark Thompson's three-year programme of cutbacks, according to the NUJ. Staff in the department were warned by Thompson last March that he wanted to axe 420 posts by March 2008. News staff are now ...