All Broadcast articles in 14 July 2006 – Page 2
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NewsHawken joins indie Outline Productions
Helen Hawken, the former Endemol UK senior producer who was instrumental in launching Big Brotheron Channel 4, has joined Outline Productions as an executive producer on the indie's growing batch of new reality commissions.
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Gerrie poaches Initial staff for start-up
Former Initial chief executive Malcolm Gerrie has poached two senior staffers from the Endemol-owned producer to form the senior management team of his start-up indie.
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Format Focus: Inked
This docu-soap format goes behind the scenes at a glamorous tattoo parlour in a Vegas casino.
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RDF to film sumo women
Channel 4 is to follow the journey of a group of larger than life women as they learn the ancient art of sumo wrestling in order to compete at the World Championships in Japan later this year.
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Kershaw takes up Five's factual remit
Five's controller of science, Justine Kershaw, has been promoted to the channel's newly created post of controller of factual. She will take responsibility for all Five's science, history, factual acquisitions, arts and religious programming.
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Prime moves to set up vfx facility
Indian super-facility Prime Focus' restructure of the VTR Group is poised for the next step - merging commercials facility VTR with design arm The Hive and newly acquired graphics outfit Clear into The Hive's 37 Dean Street premises.
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Strawberry hires sales executive
UK-based distributor Strawberry Entertainment - the international sales arm of AIM-listed MEM - has hired Fabrice Gaude to manage sales and commercial development in western Europe, Japan, South Africa and Latin America.
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NewsEvans' struggling indie joins up with Outline
Chris Evans is folding his loss-making indie, UMTV, into another producer after a string of high-profile flops such as The Terry and Gabby Show, Boys and Girlsand OFI Sunday.
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New DVD service
IBF (International Broadcast Facilities) new media division the Garden has launched a new content generation service, Garden Extra. The service aims to provide DVD companies with a cheaper option for generating additional content for their DVD releases by creating and editing content in-house using Final Cut Pro. Garden Extra recently ...
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NewsFremantle Media first to launch download service
Talkback Thames owner Fremantle Media is to become the first producer to enter the burgeoning UK on-demand market, launching a broadband service by the end of the summer that will allow consumers to pay to download its content direct from the internet.
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Lau to Designlab
DVD and post company Designlab has recruited TMR designer Stan Lau. At TMR, Lau had worked on titles including K-Paxand Nanny McPheefor major studios and independent film distributors such as Fremantle Media, Revolver and Artificial Eye.
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RDF Rights secures first-look deal with Spun Gold TV
RDF Rights has tied up a two-year, first-look deal with indie Spun Gold TV, which covers all international TV and consumer product rights to its output.
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NewsCrunch time for kids TV
Is there any sort of future for children's programming on terrestrial television?
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Comment - Continental drift
The trend of outsourcing major TV productions to eastern Europe is unlikely to slow, warns Gub Neal
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US Strictly Come Dancing up for Emmy
Richard Hopkins, the managing director of start-up indie Fever, has been nominated for an Emmy - alongside fellow executive producers Conrad Green and Izzie Pick - for his work on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing, which is produced for Disney-owned network ABC by BBC Worldwide.
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OB co offers post
OB company Fleetwood Mobiles has launched a new post-production facility at its headquarters in Denham. The studio will offer live sound recording, mixing, mastering, sound to picture dubbing and DVD encoding for its music and broadcast customers.The studio is equipped with a 104-channel Euphonix CS3000 console and has 5.1 surround ...
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Clough replaces Matthews as head of Mentorn Oxford
The Former editor of BBC's Rough Justice, Elizabeth Clough, has been made the new head of Mentorn Oxford, the production arm behind Question Time.
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NewsITV moves to cut children's hours
ITV is to start discussions with Ofcom about massively reducing its children's programming on ITV1, with one of the options being to cut kids output from eight hours a week to just two.