All Broadcast articles in 19 December 2003 – Page 3
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Scandinavia and Malaysia snap up Mr Bean
Fremantle International Distribution has scored new sales of the animated adventures of comic creation Mr Bean. Produced by UK indie Tiger Aspect with Richard Purdum Productions and Varga Holdings, the 26 x 30-minute cartoon series has been taken by Danmarks Radio in Denmark, IBC in ...
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Diverse extends Britain BC with spin-off
Diverse is to make a spin-off of its formatted Channel 4 history series Britain BC, which featured sheep-farming archaeologist Francis Pryor, writes Glen Mutel.
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BBC puts Charter debate onto TV
The BBC is developing a series of programmes to allow viewers to take part in the government's public consultation on the future of the corporation.
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BBC returns to NHS
The BBC is to revisit the subject of its first current affairs day - the National Health Service - for a special next year. Programmes on BBC1 and across the BBC's radio and television network will look at the changes that have occurred two years on from ...
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Clear Cut explanation of Big Bang
Project Poltergeist is a Horizon episode from documentary outfit Dox about neutrinos - sub-atomic particles which are emitted from the sun and may explain the origins of the universe. Clear Cut Pictures has created graphic content and producer David Sington explained: 'We had to find a way to visualise the ...
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Somethin' Else scoops Brit Awards radio deal
the brit Awards will be heard across the commercial radio landscape for the first time next year and indie Somethin' Else has been commissioned to provide the content.
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Ian Wright travel show sells to Asia
Pilot Productions has closed a clutch of deals for its travel comedy series Ian Wright Live. The 13 x 30-minute co-production between Canadian network CTV and Thomas Howe Associates has been taken by Discovery Asia, Voyage in France, Asia TV in Hong Kong and Arts ...
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Pepper finishes Outback art doc
Pepper has completed the picture post on a documentary for Five about the sculptor Antony Gormley. Inside Australia was shot near the tiny outback town of Menzies on the huge Lake Ballard in Western Australia. The area has become home to Gormley's most ambitious work to date, an installation of ...
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HD 'around corner'
Carlton International's controller of operations and engineering, Simon Fell, said HD is just around the corner for UK consumers. At a conference in London last week, Fell predicted that 33 million homes will have HD in the US by 2008, and that the UK will be close behind. He added ...
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Chrysalis to press ahead with Telford sale
Chrysalis Radio has vowed to retable the sale of its 28% stake in Telford FM to the Midland News Association after the outgoing Radio Authority blocked the deal.
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Scottish six not on the BBC's agenda
The BBC has again ruled out a Scottish Six O'Clock Newsfollowing a six-month review of news and current affairs output north of the border. The review, which included a series of public meetings and a survey of more than 1,000 people, found that 45% of ...
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844/X price slash
Media 100 has announced a significant price drop in its 844/X editing system. It is also thought the price cut will anticipate and drive a large software expansion in the company, due for January. The price for the 844/Xi was£16,495 and is now£7,095; the 844/Xe was£29,595 and is now£14,195; and ...
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C4 follows Iraqi Muslim festival
Channel 4 is to put coverage of an Iraqi Muslim festival - banned by Saddam Hussein for 30 years - at the heart of its religious output for 2004, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4 buys Family format from BVI
DISNEY distribution arm Buena Vista International (BVI) has sold its US reality format The Familyto Channel 4, writes Paul Revoir.
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C4's minority list
Channel 4 is launching a directory containing the details of groups, individuals and organisations relevant to ethnic minority issues that can be contacted as possible contributors to television programmes. The directory, which will be sent to independent production companies, is the brainchild of C4 editorial manager, cultural diversity Mary Fitzpatrick. ...
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BBC4 news revamp
BBC4 News is to be relaunched at the beginning of January with a new name, new set and an increase in in-depth international reporting. The World, which will continue to be fronted by Kirsty Lang, will now include extra features on global news issues and ...
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Lee moves from C4 to world of wonder
World of Wonder has appointed Channel 4 arts editor Janet Lee as its first head of arts. Lee will be replaced at C4 by editor, music and performance Jan Younghusband, who is promoted to the newly created role of editor, arts and performance.
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Discovery commissions five original pilots for 2004
DISCOVERY Channel UK director Katy Thorogood has commissioned five broadcast pilots for the first quarter of next year, including a genealogy investigation and a programme which looks at the world's luckiest people, writes Paul Revoir.
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BBC2 to make three-part diet junkies
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a third instalment of its ?Junkiesstrand with a look at dieting. The 3 x 60-minute in-house Diet Junkies, which was co-commissioned by head of current affairs Peter Horrocks, will look at the history of ...
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Rushes makes 1960s come alive
The second series of the Bafta-nominated comedy 15 Storeys High starts on BBC3 early next year. Rushes Post Production's 3D department has been commissioned to do the titles, and director Mark Nunnely requested a sequence which would recreate the style of 1960s architectural drawings. So 3D artist Hayden Jones designed ...