All Broadcast articles in 19 November 2004 – Page 2

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    Five finishes dentist doc's titles

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Five Creative Services has made the titles for upcoming documentary series Can You Trust Your Dentist? The titles evoke the nightmarish experience of being at the mercy of shady dental practitioners. Senior designers Timothy Evans and Barney Steel completed compositing and created the 3D waiting ...

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    Cornwall indie to explore Eden project

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Denham Productions is to make a brace of programmes about the Eden Project in Cornwall for BBC2, the first commissions to come out of the indie's new Cornwall office. Gardening at Eden will follow Eden's 60-strong team of gardeners, while ...

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    Soundbites from Nations and Regions Conference

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    No cash in, honest

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    Commissioner's Q&A: Paul Crompton

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Sky One's commissioning editor, factual entertainment, Paul Crompton, expresses his life-long passion for darts and an enthusiasm for South Park, Ramsay's Kitchen and the 1970s Office

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    Strictly Come Dancing to be remade for Russian TV

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's hit entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing is to be made for Russian audiences as part of a series of deals in the country.

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    A tale of two cities

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Sending the BBC's children's operation to Manchester is not enough, and BBC3 should be in the mix.

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    Mersey launches community digital channel

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Mersey Television is launching a grassroots digital public service channel to create a 'stronger voice' for local community issues such as health and education and campaigns such as Fathers for Justice.

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    Hewlett chairs fest

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Former Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett is taking over from Fulcrum Television's Christopher Hird as chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Hewlett, a non-executive director at indie Tiger Aspect, is already one of the festival's patrons. The festival will go on tour in February, kicking off with a ...

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    Challenge signs first CGTV show

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Challenge is making its first foray into factual entertainment as part of its multimillion-pound co-production deal with recently launched US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).

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    Century opens Leeds office for drama push

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Century Films, the producer of Channel 4's Pornography - The Musicaland Robbie Williams documentary Nobody Someday, is opening a regional office in Leeds to spearhead a push into drama.

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    Liquid's Celeb work completed

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...

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    Carter hired by Fremantle

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Gary carter, the former Endemol executive behind the international roll-out of Big Brother , is to be given in a full-time senior role at Fremantle Media, writes As senior executive vice-president of worldwide entertainment, he will oversee the development of new shows and format ...

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    Classic Brit films sold to Italian outfit

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has sold a 30-strong package of classic British movies to new Italian satellite channel Sky Cine Classics. The films include several from the Korda, Rank and ITC collections, which were inherited by Granada when it merged with Carlton International. These include The Four ...

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    RDF grabs rights to strongest boy doc

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    RDF Rights has picked up rights to the documentary World's Strongest Boy , which was produced by indie Firecracker Films. The hour-long programme, which secured an 11.9% share for Five in September, follows an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who can already lift three times his own ...

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    Tapeless BBC will save cash on transfers

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    The BBC spends£8.5m a year transferring footage to and from tape.

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    BBC post moves

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    BBC Post Production has granted greater autonomy to its Bristol and Birmingham sites with the appointment of facilities managers at the two operations. Stephen Reilly will join staff at the Mailbox in Birmingham, having performed a similar role at a large post house in New Zealand for the past five ...

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    Saint's BBC job

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Newly formed agency Saint has produced promos for BBC Broadcast, designing a package for BBC series Hard Spell. They were designed and art directed by Nicky Thompson from Saint and the 3D and compositing was done at The Hive. The promo's director was BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudior and the producer ...

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    Celador scores two BBC series

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Celador Productions, the indie behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, has scored its first commissions for BBC2 and 3.

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    Hindi commentary for BBC Bhopal doc

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    The BBC is to provide an alternative commentary in Hindi to its landmark docu-drama on the Bhopal disaster, which viewers will be able to access by pressing the red button. Made by the in-house current affairs department, the 60-minute piece will air in a 9pm slot on BBC1 on

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    Big Bang begins

    2004-11-18T08:30:00Z

    Big Bang Post Production has been opened in Bristol by Mastertracks owner Neil Hipkiss and online editor Tim Bolt. Dubbing mixer Hipkiss and Bolt have based the new company in the same building as Mastertracks. Bolt, who left Pinkhouse Post in July, will offer an online post-production capability with a ...