All Broadcast articles in 11 November 2005 – Page 3
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Guinness TV sells clip show to Czechs
Guinness World Records TV has sold the Ultimate Guinness World Records clip show to Czech Republic public service broadcaster Ceska Televize. The channel had previously acquired Guinness World Records: Primetime.
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Goldcrest buys kit
Soho facility Goldcrest has installed Xytech's Express Asset Management software to manage its audio mixing, dry-hire and production office facilities. Goldcrest bought Xytech's Workflow Core and Scheduling Modules at this year's IBC, and the Express software will be the reference and information source for 19 of the facility's 23 staff.
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Spain buys sitcoms
BBC Worldwide has sold a number of full series of classic comedies to a Spanish TV channel. TV Valencia has bought a 'Britcom package' from Worldwide, which gives it the right to the whole series of Blackadder, Bottom, Allo Allo and Yes Minister. The open-licence deal adds up to 45 ...
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Broadcast Live to launch in June
Broadcast Live - a new event which focuses on all stages of content creation, management and delivery - will launch in the summer, replacing the Broadcast Production Show.
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Frontier brings cheer to Slough
Frontier Post has completed the post on Optomen Television's Making Slough Happy for BBC2. The 4 x 58-minute series follows six specialists as they try and improve the contentment of Slough residents. Niels Bellinger and Francis Buchanan did the offline on Avid with John-Paul Davidson doing the online and grading ...
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Dudley goes to Blue
Editworks has lost its general manager, Rachael Dudley, to Blue Post Production, where she has been appointed head of business development. Dudley spent 18 months at Editworks, working with clients at production companies such as Celador and Avalon. She had previously worked at Alliance Atlantis and Granada International. Dudley will ...
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World Cup spearheads BBC's HD push
The World Cup and high-end documentaries such as Planet Earth are set to lead the BBC's charge into high definition when it trials the technology next year. The corporation announced this week that it would broadcast peaktime HD programmes on BBC1 on cable and satellite from mid-2006. It has started ...
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Portillo fronts doc for BBC/Discovery
Michael Portillo is to confront bears, lynxes and killer whales as he retraces his family roots to Spain for a BBC1 documentary.
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Bay radio and TLRC celebrate FM wins
Ofcom made two FM licence awards this week, handing the 300,000-strong Swansea licence to local consortium Swansea Bay Radio, while the The Local Radio Company (TLRC) clinched its 30th FM radio licence with the 30,000-strong Northallerton franchise in North Yorkshire.
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News looks bad for Sky relaunch
You could say it has been a bad couple of weeks for the commercial news channels in the UK.
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Evolutions sets up design and branding arm
Post-production house Evolutions is unveiling its new dedicated design and branding arm which will focus on titles, motion graphics and idents.
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Celador radio arm secures BBC orders
Celador Productions' radio arm has won five new commissions from the BBC, for Radio 2 and Radio 4, including the first radio play from Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
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Pioneer order celebrates Americanlove affair with cars
London-based science indie Pioneer Productions has secured a commission from the US Travel Channel to make a series celebrating America's love of cars, trucks and bikes.
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C4I picks up Sky One animation special
Channel 4 International has picked up the international distribution rights to Sky One animated special Pumpkin Moon. The Two Sides TV programme, adapted from a book by Simon Bartram, tells the tale of a black cat who gets caught up in a battle with an army of good pumpkins and ...
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Radio 4 and OU in natural history co-pro
The Open University is working with BBC Radio 4 on an 8 x 30-minute co-production on animal behaviour. The Rules of Life will see Professor Aubrey Manning travel across Europe, the US and Africa with the BBC's Natural History Unit, examining animals' drive for natural selection. The series, which airs ...
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Century films makes More4 prison film
More 4 has ordered a 3 x 60-minute series from Feltham Sings indie Century Films, which will once again explore the British criminal justice system. Prison Monologues (working title) will see actors recreate the experiences of people involved - from victims and criminals to the police and barristers. The series, ...
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C4 ditches Princess
Channel 4 has pulled the plug on a Liverpool Street Productions documentary following Princess Michael of Kent as she tries to sell her 17th-century home, Nether Lypiatt Manor. The broadcaster had concerns that the princess had negotiated with the production company to have full editorial control over the final product, ...
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C4 to air madge doc
Channel 4 and E4 have acquired exclusive UK broadcast rights to the new Madonna documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret. The Lucky Lou Production - created and executive produced by Madonna - chronicles the recent Re-Invention tour. It will premiere on C4 on Thursday 1 December at 9pm ...
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Boosh duo to pen sketch show for BBC3
BBC3 has followed up the success of hit comedy The Mighty Boosh with a sketch show penned by Boosh actors Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher.
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Kavanagh stands in as BBC3 controller
BBC3 scheduler Damian Kavanagh is to take over as temporary controller of the channel while a replacement for outgoing controller Stuart Murphy is sought. Murphy will leave on Friday, 25 November, to join Wife Swap producer RDF Media as creative director. Kavanagh, head of planning and scheduling for the channel, ...