All Broadcast articles in 21 October 2005 – Page 2
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Promax shortlist
Promax has announced the nominations for this year's Promax UK Awards. Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has been nominated in five categories, including best launch and best television campaign. BBC Broadcast, Five, ITV and BSkyB are also among the nominations alongside independent design agencies Angelfish, Devilfish and Skin. The ...
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VooDooDog talks popcorn for Sky
Sky Creative Agency and animators VooDooDog have created a series of trailers for the Sky Movies channels, featuring talking popcorn. Viewers were recorded talking about their favourite films and the voices were then edited to three 30-second spots and adapted to the popcorn, which VooDooDog's Charlie Lovett animated on Maya ...
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Technicolor move
Technicolor Creative Services is injecting£500,000 into the expansion of its DVD facility in west London. The facility has opened up 32 new positions within its DVD and UMD compression and authoring arm, boosting the number of staff to more than 70. The expansion includes three Sony UMD authoring stations and ...
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Whitfield St kit sale
Whitfield Street Studios' recording and post-production equipment will go under the hammer in a webcast auction on 15 November, following its closure last month (Broadcast, 26.9.05). Auctioneers firm Edward Symmons is hoping to shift equipment including an SSL 9000J series 72-channel mixing console and a comprehensive range of outboard equipment. ...
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ID sells Nigella
Nigella Lawson's 20-episode ITV daytime talk show has been sold to cable broadcasters RAISat in Italy and XYZ in Australia through ID Distribution. The company has also shifted forthcoming US cable show Nigella Feasts, a co-production between Pacific Productions London and Pabulum.
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Glassworks hire
Glassworks has recruited VTR post-producer Anthea Mousley to join its production department. Mousley, who worked on the latest Rimmel and Dairylea campaigns during her 18 months at VTR, will join producers Tim Phillips, Jonathan Davies and Romilly Endacott. Her addition to the team is part of an expansion at the ...
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Nat Geo prog head
National Geographic Channel UK has poached UKTV scheduler Jamil Ahmed to fill the newly created position of head of programming. Reporting to NGC UK's general manager Simon Bohrsmann, Ahmed, who has already joined, will head NGC's scheduling, presentation, reversioning and UK acquisitions teams. At UKTV Ahmed was launch scheduler for ...
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FX takes on Fuel TV for weekday outing
FX has struck a deal with sister companies Fox Entertainment and Fox Sports in the US to bring the Fuel TV brand to the UK men's channel. Fuel TV is a sports and lifestyle brand that exists as a cable and satellite channel in its own right in the US. ...
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Sunset + Vine kits out fleet of yachts
TV Corp subsidiary Sunset + Vine has fitted an entire fleet of yachts with cameras in order to provide full coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race for ITV. The sports indie will make eight one-hour programmes for ITV1 and 32 weekly half-hour programmes for ITV4 following the race, which starts ...
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Nats grades Five Hannibal job
Nats Post Production has performed the grading for Hannibal of the Alps, a two-hour HD special from Atlantic Productions charting the life of the legendary commander. The programme draws on the latest evidence in archaeology, science and military history to tell his story. Nats colourist Nick Adams graded the documentary ...
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Minotaur pre-sells new Rebus films
Minotaur International has pre-sold two new 90-minute Rebus movies - The Falls and Fleshmarket - to BBC America, TVO in Canada and ABC in Australia. Meanwhile, video and DVD rights for the two shows, made by SMG TV Productions, have been licensed to John Williams in the UK and Acorn ...
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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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September's weighing in down under
September Films has sold its BBC1 fat camp daytime series, Weighing In, to Australian broadcaster Channel Ten. The 10-part series, presented by Richard Bacon, goes behind the scenes at Europe's first weight-loss camp for children, based in Leeds.
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Experts raise doubts over move to tapeless
'Less tape' is more likely than 'tapeless' for programme delivery in the near future was the message that emerged from last Thursday's Broadcast Tapeless Production conference at Carlton Towers Hotel in London, writes Richard Dean.
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It's Me or the Dog format goes French
French network M6 has bought the format to the Ricochet series It's Me or the Dog, which screened on Channel 4 earlier in the year. C4 International has also sold the finished UK series to TV Norge (Norway), YLE (Finland), TV4 (Sweden), TVB (Hong Kong), SBS (the Netherlands) and TV2 ...
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Fremantle signs deal with Goodwin indie
Daisy Goodwin, the format creator behind How Clean Is Your House? and Sex Inspectors, has signed a distribution and production deal with Fremantle.
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Directors Cut posts pop doc
Directors Cut Films has completed the post-production for BBC music entertainment's Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop, a 4 x 60-minute documentary series about British pop music from the 1960s onwards and how it affected attitudes to sex and sexuality. DCF's Andy Willsmore, Guy Crossman and Claire Guillon did ...
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At It cracks US with TLC orders
At IT Productions has secured its first US series commissions with a brace of shows for Discovery-owned cable network TLC.
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Sky Movies contact
Sky Movies has appointed its first ever dedicated member of staff to deal with film production companies to develop and improve relationships with the independent sector. Lucy Criddle, former programme manager for Sky Box Office, has been promoted to the new role of acquisitions manager, pay and pay-per-view, and will ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Richard Melman
Channel director of The History Channel and The Biography Channel is open to ideas that will hold an audience for an hour - even if they are written on the back of a fag packet.