All Broadcast articles in 12 November 2004 – Page 6
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Commissioner's Q&A: Jay Hunt
The BBC's senior commissioning executive, daytime wants ideas for returnable factual strands for mornings on BBC1 and wants pitches for any genre to fill the 6pm to 7pm slot on BBC2
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Creature Comforts heads to Japan
Granada International has sold Aardman Animations' award-winning animated series Creature Comforts to Japanese distributor Gaga Communications. The company has acquired all 26 x 10-minute episodes, plus a five-minute special and a 30-minute documentary, Creating Creature Comforts.
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Peck honours cameraman
The British TV cameraman killed in the Gaza Strip while making a documentary for HBO was this week honoured posthumously with a Rory Peck award.
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Thomson buys in to Corinthian TV
Thomson has bought a majority stake of playout specialist Corinthian Television Facilities for an undisclosed figure.
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Video buys tapeless
Video Europe has bought£500,000 of high-definition and tapeless broadcast equipment because of increasing demand for the new formats. Managing director Steve Green said: 'We held off until we thought that the demand was strong enough. We think that this equipment will cover the demand for now.' Video Europe's haul includes ...
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Black diamond deals in poker tournament
Indie Black Diamond Films is making The European Nations Poker Challenge for Sky Sports. The 4 x 120-minute series follows the poker event held in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia last month. Black Diamond holds all worldwide distribution rights to the event, which ...
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Big Buoy does Blackpool
Big Buoy has produced visual effects for the BBC musical drama Blackpool. The 6 x 60-minute series follows Ripley Holden's (David Morissey) attempts to open an amusement arcade in the seaside town following the discovery of a dead body on the premises. The story is punctuated with fruit machine visuals ...
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BDA wins gold at Promax for Donkey promo
Donkey by Bruce Dunlop Associates and Like Family for the Disney Channel scooped two golds each at the Promax UK awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane on Saturday (6 November).
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BDA posts Promax winner
BDA has completed the Promax-winning Think Again campaign for the National Geographic Channels. In Donkey, which won a Promax gold for best corporate promotion, a donkey kills an old woman by accidentally disturbing a cart and sending watermelons crashing down on her. The promo finishes with the line: 'Every year, ...
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BBC cash for indies
Plymouth-based Twofour Productions, Pier Productions in Brighton and Manchester's Multi Media Arts have been named as the first beneficiaries of the BBC's£100,000 regional entertainment development fund. The companies will be given grants from the You Don't Need To Live In London fund, launched by BBC controller of entertainment commissioning Jane ...
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BBC tops RTS Names
The BBC has scooped the lion's share of nominations for this year's RTS Craft and Design Awards, taking 40 of the 72 nominations. Channel 4 took all the nominations in the picture enhancement category with Aidan Farrell, head of telecine at The Farm Group, looking likely to pick up the ...
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Thompson dismisses BBC job cut claims
BBC director general Mark Thompson has dismissed as 'preposterous' claims that up to half the corporation's 28,000 staff could be axed as part of the on-going reviews. Thompson, reacting to a newspaper report that up to 14,000 jobs could go, said in an email to staff: 'Inevitably, staff numbers are ...
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Virgin mobile backs Superbike series
Virgin Mobile is backing a new advertiser-funded programme on Five about a group of aspiring Superbike racers vying to win the Virgin Mobile Samsung Yamaha British Superbike Team next season. Natural Born Racers , produced by Bullseye Television, will start at the end of November ...
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Meridian backs producers
Meridian is backing a new regional producers group in the south-east that aims to lobby against cuts in ITV's regional non-news output and provide support for those made redundant.
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Leopard films starts up drama arm
Indie Leopard Films is setting up a drama division, Leopardrama, to focus on developing new returning series and serials. The indie, which makes series such as Cash in the Attic and Car Booty for BBC1, has lined up a number ...
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Emap to appoint Kiss and Magic MDs
Emap Performance is hunting for two managing directors for its Kiss and Magic networks in a bid to establish them as national brands. The move follows the decision by Emap managing director of radio programming Mark Story to relinquish his combined role as managing director of Kiss and Magic in ...
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Baker at St Anne's
Colourist Ross Baker has joined the St Anne's Post telecine department to work with colourist Vince Narduzzo. Baker leaves Pepper Post where he was telecine assistant and trained under Narduzzo before the colourist left in 2002. Baker has worked on projects such as Hell in ...
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Animals to have winter games
Polar bears will compete with penguins in a bobsleigh competition in a winter follow-up to this summer's BBC1 CGI-show Animal Games.
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Sky One to seek out Britain's Angriest
Sky One has commissioned indie Landmark Films to find the nation's most enraged residents. Angry Britain has been ordered by Sky One commissioning editor Paul Crompton and will follow some of the nation's most short-tempered people as they seek anger management. The 2 x ...
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US ahead in digital TV
The US is expected to reach full digital television penetration a year before the UK, in 2014, a report has said. The Global Digital TV Forecasts from the Informa Media Group, which looked at 43 countries, predicted the US will reach 100% digital penetration by 2014 along with Canada, Finland, ...