All Broadcast articles in 16 December 2005 – Page 2
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NewsComedy Awards amuse 5.4m
ITV1's coverage of The British Comedy Awards only gave the viewers some mild amusement as the first 90-minute slot drew 5.4 million (25.1%) at 9pm.
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NewsTV Corp's mystery buyer withdraws interest
Television Corporation's discussions with an unnamed interested party have ended, leaving Tinopolis the only suitor in the running.
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NewsLangham in The Thick of It at Comedy Awards
Chris Langham, the man who was axed from Not the Nine O'Clock News 25 years ago to make way for Griff Rhys-Jones, was one of the surprise winners at the British Comedy Awards.
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Virgin satellites
Virgin Radio has been granted two more satellite licences from regulator Ofcom. The two further licences are for female-skewed stations, one a ballad-based station targeting 40-plus females, and the second a pop/dance offering aimed at 15 to 29-year-olds. They come on top of two other satellite licences held by the ...
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Thomson IPTV move
Media giant Thomson has acquired French IPTV platform provider Thales Broadcast & Multimedia for around£87.7m. The deal will give the Thomson group end-to-end products and services in the IPTV, mobile TV and digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) markets. It is the second acquisition made by Thomson this month, after it bought ...
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George to oversee GCap's UK revenue
Radio giant GCap Media has appointed Duncan George as commercial director, overseeing the group's national and London revenue streams. Previously managing director of national sales, George had been acting commercial director since Linda Smith stood down in September. He will focus on developing non-traditional revenue streams such as podcasting, and ...
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Fuji row settled
Fujifilm and media supplier First4media have settled their dispute which erupted earlier this year (Broadcast, 16.6.05). The fallout saw Fuji's broadcast divisional manager, Eric Mould, and the directors of stock supplier Transco Group plc - which trades as First4media - taken to court by Fuji over alleged trading irregularities. The ...
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Pepper finishes Life on Mars
Pepper has completed the post-production on BBC Production's Life on Mars, a 6 x 60-minute drama series about a detective who wakes from an accident to find himself living in 1973. Shot on super 16mm Kodak stock, the grade was designed to give a 1970s film effect. Senior colourist Jet ...
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Feeney to Golden Sq
Golden Square has taken on freelancer Sean Feeney as senior producer. Feeney worked at MPC for seven years, working his way up to senior VFX producer. He then moved to Jim Henson's Creature Shop to become head of animation and post-production. At Golden Square, he will be helping to build ...
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Kodak hit by Hemel oil explosion
Kodak Film Supplies' headquarters has been badly damaged by the oil explosion and consequent raging fires at Hemel Hempstead.
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Evolutions grades Snow Queen
Evolutions has completed the mastering and grading of Intro's first film venture, The Snow Queen, a 56-minute film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fantasy story combining music by composer Peter K Joyce and poetry. Evolutions senior editors Nick King and Owen Tyler conducted the mastering using a digital tape ...
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Somethin' Else to open in Manchester
Indie Somethin' Else is to open a Manchester office in the new year. Somethin' Else North will be based at All Out Productions, the Manchester factual indie in which Somethin' Else bought a majority stake in May. The company, which produces the Hit40UK TV and radio shows, will appoint a ...
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Soho Editors expands worldwide
Post-production talent agency Soho Editors is to plough around£4m into expanding its business worldwide, to cover the Middle East, West Coast USA, South Africa and Ireland.
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Ofcom drops review
Ofcom has scrapped its review of the TV advertising market, including the controversial ITV contract rights renewal (CRR) mechanism, after conceding there was nothing wrong with it. The regulator had pencilled in a review of the market earlier this year but today admitted 'the case supporting the need for a ...
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Initial makes drama in Northern Ireland
Endemol-owned producer Initial has been commissioned by CITV to make a children's drama series co-funded by the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC). Bel's Boys follows the life of a nine-year-old pop music fanatic, who manages a boy band. The show will be produced over six months in the ...
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Splash in Five deal
Splash Media, the indie set up by former BBC entertainment commissioners Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis, has landed its first development deal. The indie ' set up with the backing of The Television Corporation when the pair left the BBC in September ' is developing an entertainment format for Five ...
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Tompkinson makes directorial debut forBBC daytime
Stephen Tompkinson, star of Ballykissangel and Drop the Dead Donkey, is to make his directorial debut for BBC1's daytime schedule.
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ITV profiles Cosgrove Hall founders
Cosgrove Hall founders Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall are to be profiled in an ITV1 documentary. Made in Manchester Productions, the company formed by swimming champion James Hickman, is making Cartoon Kings to mark the animation company's 30th anniversary in the spring. The show will be narrated by David Jason ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Tim Stott
The director of programmes for the cinema channel Inside Movies (working title), which is launching on Sky Digital this February, is on the lookout for film-focused formats to inspire cinema attendance.
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Edifis for Clear Cut
Post-production house Clear Cut Pictures has splashed out£200,000 on an Edifis f/stop grading and colouring system as part of its drive into feature film post. It will be installed in January and used for colour correction, to create 2k, HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables, grade across Final Cut Pro material ...