All Broadcast articles in 15 July 2005 – Page 2
-
News
Triffic job for Catherine Tate
Triffic has produced the titles for a new 6 x 30-minute series of The Catherine Tate Showfor Tiger Aspect. Triffic animation director Tim Searle designed and directed the sequence. The camera introduces Tate's main comedy creations by zooming into and out of her eye. Ben Joiner ...
-
News
Bradby takes ITV political editor role
ITV News has promoted UK editor Tom Bradby as its new political editor. He replaces Nick Robinson, who quit ITV News to replace Andrew Marr as the BBC's political editor. Bradby is a former political correspondent and royal correspondent for ITV News. In addition, the BBC's Daisy Sampson has joined ...
-
News
Zig Zag boosts output with US commissions
Zig Zag Productions has increased its US output with£2m worth of commissions from Discovery and TLC.
-
News
BBC Worldwide cuts it in Finland
BBC Worldwide has sold all four series of hairdressing drama Cutting Itto MTV3, Finland's main commercial broadcaster. The deal is believed to be the first time BBC Worldwide has sold multiple series of a single programme at the same time.
-
News
BBC in Nat Geo deal
BBC Broadcast has been signed up by the National Geographic Channel to provide it with access services for the next five years. The contract will cover National Geographic's subtitling and audio description com-mitments as set down by Ofcom last summer. BBC Broadcast will provide the services that cater for the ...
-
News
Boorman back on road for Sky One
Sky One has secured exclusive rights to broadcast a follow-up to road trip series Long Way Round, which saw Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman go on a 20,000-mile motorcycle journey around the world. For the follow-up, Boorman has teamed up with BMW rider Simon ...
-
News
Inmedia Communications sells to Arqiva
Arqiva, the company formerly known as NTL Broadcast, has bought Inmedia Communications from the Carlyle Group for£68.5m.
-
News
DCMS select committee announced
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled the line-up of its new select committee. Nine newcomers will join the House of Commons committee that monitors the department's work. They include former Conservative culture spokesman John Whittingdale, who is set to be chairman. Labour MPs Rosemary McKenna and Alan ...
-
News
RDF calms angry drivers with road rage school
RDF has devised a new format for BBC1 which will attempt to re-educate drivers afflicted by road rage.
-
News
BBC to screen Al-Qaeda series earlier
The BBC has brought forward a series on Al-Qaeda in the wake of the terrorist attacks on London. The first episode of three-parter The New Al-Qaedawill now be shown on BBC2 on 25 July, a week before its original broadcast date. The series, fronted by veteran ...
-
News
The Hits idents come alive
Emap Performance Design has redesigned its channel identity package for music channel The Hits. The brand wanted to be big, friendly and fresh in expressing its essence, 'Such a good feeling!', to its 16- to 34- year-old market. The idents aim to express how The Hits can fill the world ...
-
News
TWI to advise IOC on London Olympics
Indie TWI has been appointed as a consultant by the International Olympic Committee to research distribution rights for coverage of the London 2012 games.
-
News
Loud Five ads rapped
Five has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for playing its adverts too loudly. The ASA said that during a broadcast of the Bill Murray comedy film Groundhog Dayon 3 March 2005, Five breached the TV Advertising Standards Code governing sound levels in advertisements. ...
-
News
Five adds dinosaur show to Milkshake
Five has bought Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaursfrom Canada's CCI Entertainment for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. The 26 x 5-minute series, based on the books by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds, was produced in association with Collingwood O'Hare and Silver ...
-
News
Aardman's new kit
Bristol-based Aardman Animation, famous for the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Runand many other hit films, has bought a Pyramix system from Merging Technologies' UK distributor Total Audio Solutions. The system will be used for track laying for broadcast productions and will ...
-
News
Aardman makes first ever acquisition
Aardman has acquired the English-speaking rights to Belgian 3D model animation Panique au Village. It is the first time the 30-year-old UK company has acquired a programme and it hopes to make further acquisitions in the future. The rights to the 20 x 5-minute series, created ...
-
News
More than 60% of homes have digital TV
More than 60% of UK houses now receive digital TV, with more houses having broadband internet connections than dial-up accounts for the first time, according to The Ofcom Communications Marketreport. It added that more than 250,000 houses each month are switching onto digital or adding another ...
-
News
BBC4 series looks at post-war Britain
BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow has commissioned a season of programmes looking at the post-war decade in the UK.
-
News
C4 orders three minute wonder shows
Channel 4 has commissioned Endemol UK to make three short programmes for its Three Minute Wonderslot. Endemol will be making 3 x 3-minute shows about articulacy featuring vocal coach Bruce Wooding and his attempts to help a group of young people learn to communicate. The programmes ...
-
News
C4 and Pepsi team up for pop show
Channel 4 is giving viewers the chance to stage a gig with their favourite pop act with a series wholly funded by soft drinks giant Pepsi.