All Broadcast articles in 16 June 2006 – Page 3
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NewsCombat Club to return to Five
Five's Saturday morning kids strand, Shake!,has commissioned a second series of Combat Club, in which six children are trained in 13 different martial arts or combat disciplines. Selected for their sporting ability, the children are taught core combat sport moves ...
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A Productions trails CBBC site
Bristol-based A Productions has just completed CBBC's World Cup website promo. The trailer was turned around in just over a week. It shows a football literally bursting with features from the CBBC website. A Productions' Duncan Fraser and Paul Hill animated using 3DS Max and After Effects for the light ...
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Broadcast Live
IPTV platform GDBTVT will be transmitting live footage over broadband from next week's Broadcast Live show in Earls Court 2 to 76 countries worldwide. A local TV studio will be built within the show, and will be transmitted live with a mixture of interviews and technical demonstrations. The live delivery ...
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Mr Bean comeback
Mr Beanis making a TV comeback ahead of the theatrical release of the new Bean IImovie, expected to be next year. Nickelodeon UK and Paramount Comedy Channel have picked up the rights to air the original ITV Mr Beanepisodes, marking ...
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Rushes scores with BBC titles
Rushes post production has completed the post for the BBC's World Cup title sequence from Red Bee Media. The titles feature football stars including Steven Gerrard being teleported into iconic Berlin locations and showcasing their ball skills. Rushes head colourist Adrian Seery started the full grade of the background plates ...
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BBC series to try out dream jobs
BBC presenter Adrian Chiles is to try his hand at dream jobs for a new daytime series for BBC1, being made by Cardiff-based indie Aspect Television.
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Avid wins contract to kit out BBC Pacific Quay
Avid has clinched a deal with Siemens Business Services worth an estimated£4m to kit out BBC Scotland's forthcoming Pacific Quay headquarters .
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Granada ships Hell's Kitchen to Asia
Granada International (GI) has sold the US version of Hell's Kitchen(pictured) across Asia . The 9 x 60-minute Gordon Ramsay show will be screened by The Asia Food Network, UBC Thailand, Orion Media Korea, Discovery India and Solar in the Philippines . GI has also ...
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Ascent goes to MK
Ascent Media Management Services is spending around£500,000 on a purpose-built facility in Milton Keynes specialising in archive storage for film, tape and file-based formats. Clients will be able to allocate their stored content between Ascent's Drummond Street facility and the Milton Keynes site, while Drummond Street will focus exclusively on ...
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Bravo shows Army Everest bid
Bravo is to help promote the British Army to its viewers through an advertiser-funded series detailing one of the armed forces' toughest training exercises - reaching the summit of Everest.
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Extreme Sports airs virtual World Cup
The Liberty Global-owned Extreme Sports Channel has joined up with Microsoft's Xbox to air coverage of a video gaming -competition described as the World Cup on console.
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Five to air docu-soap about lemur families
Five and Animal Planet UK are following up the hit franchise Meerkat Manorwith a new animal soap opera exploring the lives of lemurs in Madagascar.
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Sky Sports 4 to air
BSkyB is considering the launch of a fifth sports channel, lodging the licence name Sky Sports 4 with Ofcom. The media regulator has awarded the licence for a cable and satellite channel so the offering will not be available on the digital terrestrial platform. Sky currently owns Sky Sports 1, ...
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C4 bids against ITV for The Inventor
ITV is locked in a bidding war with Channel 4 for the rights to hit format The Inventor, created by Dragons' Denjudge Peter Jones.
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Virgin hands Suggs 24-hour party station
Virgin Radio is turning its long-running Friday night show, Suggs' Party Classics, into a standalone station that will belt out retro tunes 24 hours a day.
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Location Guide 2007
The Location Guide, aimed at producers and production companies involved in location and studio shoots, has launched its 2007 edition with several new features. It now includes co-production treaties in all the countries in the manual, information on tax incentives, a global location report on location filming worldwide, climate chart ...
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Gaming group pays£20m for Red Vision
Bafta-winning visual effects outfit Red Vision has been snapped up by Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) for up to£20m.
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RAI 2 renews local CD:UK version
Italian network RAI 2 has renewed its local version of Blaze Television format CD:UK for a further year. CD:Livewill continue to air at 2pm on Saturdays. A Croatian version of CD:UK is also being piloted ...
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Radio 1 rapped
BBC presenters have been warned that they will be disciplined and have their pay docked if they persistently swear on air. The new procedures emerged after broadcasting watchdog Ofcom investigated complaints about BBC Radio 1 breakfast presenter Chris Moyles.Presenters who swear - even by accident - will be disciplined, and ...
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