All Broadcast articles in 20 November 2009 – Page 5
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Yesterday starts 1940 season with two docs
Yesterday has ordered two shows for 2010 to spearhead year-long programming event The Spirit of 1940, marking a pivotal year in British history.
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NewsKidsCo picks up DangerMouse in FME detail
KidsCo is to air DangerMouse, Count Duckula and other children’s classics after striking a deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).
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NewsBBC creates fund for northern indies
BBC Children’s has ring-fenced £500,000 of its multiplatform budget exclusively for northern indies.
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NewsBBC axes Silver Street
The BBC is to axe Asian Network soap Silver Street after five years on air – a move heavily criticised by the Writer’s Guild
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NewsFree TV Ashes criticised by cricket board
The recommendation to reserve the Ashes for free-to-air television has been criticised by England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke, who questioned whether the BBC would choose to show the event.
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RatingsI'm a Celeb dips to 8.5m
I’m a Celebrity… lost nearly a million viewers last night, but the ITV1’s reality show still managed to attract more than twice the crowd that watched the finale of BBC1’s Around the World in 80 Days.
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NewsTen Alps to lobby for NI news pilot
Ten Alps is lobbying Northern Ireland MPs to pressure the Government to fund a low-cost online news pilot after the nation was frozen out of plans to support regional news for the ITV network.
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NewsBBC's Comedy College wins first commission
The BBC’s Comedy College has won its first commission – a sitcom pilot by John Warburton for BBC3.
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NewsBBC: No plans to reveal all senior salaries
The BBC will not publish the salary and expenses details of all its senior managers despite protestations that nearly 300 senior figures earning more than £100k were kept out of last Thursday’s disclosures.
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NewsReaction: ITV chairman appointment
Leading figures from the broadcast industry share their thoughts on the appointment of Archie Norman as the new chairman of ITV.
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NewsCall for realistic hospital shows
TV hospital dramas are filled with poor conduct from staff and breaches of patient confidentiality, it has been claimed.
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NewsDisability champions celebrated in new awards scheme
CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell, war correspondent Frank Gardner and Channel 4 commissioner Alison Walsh received awards in an inaugural scheme to celebrate success in the on-screen depiction of disabilities.
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NewsArgosy gets Belden cables
UK-based distributor Argosy will now be supplying a range of cables, connectors and other transmission devices from Belden.
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NewsStudy predicts the future media trends
Video visors and contact lenses will enhance everyday life into a three dimensional wrap-around experience, predict Oracle and The Future Laboratory.
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NewsPixar vote Digital Vision
Digital Vision’s colour grading Film Master system has been given a major vote of confidence by Up producer Pixar Animation which has bought two units for installation at its Californian HQ. The systems were chosen to support the studio’s plans to build a non-linear workflow.
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NewsDarwin sails with Avid
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO is retracing Charles Darwin’s voyage on the HMS Beagle for a 35-part documentary.
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NewsMuppits comes to town
Collaborative production project MUPPITS, which aims to enable facilities to buy and sell resources, is gearing up for its first public demonstration.
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NewsNEP Visions fly Fox to Bagram
NEP Visions have completed a run of flypack operations which culminated in a visit to Bagram Airforce base in Afghanistan.
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NewsCast offs goes Red
There’s a widespread perception that any savings made by hiring a Red camera can be negated by complications in post. Not if you do your homework, says Eleven Film producer Joel Wilson.