All Features articles – Page 328
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FeaturesFormat Focus: Smartest Guy in Town
Contestants can stay in their home town to compete in a new gameshow from the US.
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FeaturesCreative Review - Hairspray: the School Musical
Titles, designed by Beautiful TV, reflecting the show's influences: Hairspray, High School Musical and the West End.
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FeaturesCreative Review - Films for handover ceremonies
A film for the Olympics and Para Olympics depicting Britain as multicultural, urban, humorous and “punching above its weight”.
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FeaturesCreative Review - BBC News graphics
Titles and content graphics for the BBC News Channel's daily entertainment show.
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FeaturesEntertainment can tick the public service box
So Peter Fincham isn't a big fan of Ofcom. In his keynote address at the Edinburgh Television Festival, ITV's director of television launched an attack that wasn't so much thinly veiled as completely unveiled and gloves off on Ofcom's Public Service Broadcasting Report.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: Films, X Factor and football
One of the eternal debates we have in the TV industry is whether viewers watch channels or programmes.
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FeaturesProduction: VFX: Impossible Pictures
Factual documentaries are increasingly using sophisticated visual effects to reveal the workings of the heart or other impossible images. But these techniques come at a price, Michael Burns reports.
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FeaturesFormat Focus: Reality Bites Back
Comedians get the chance to send up reality shows in this US format.
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FeaturesInterview: Neil Fox
Magic's clean sweep in last month's Rajar results fulfilled the goal set by the station with Neil Fox when he joined. But Fox's work is only just beginning, he tells Rob Shepherd.
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FeaturesBehind the business: William Van Rest
A revived ITV Play is attempting to shake off the PRTS scandal to boost traffic on itv.com.
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FeaturesThe rise of thrift programming
The gloomy economic climate is creating growing demand for programmes that recognise viewers have less cash to spare.
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FeaturesFincham's finest hour: The verdict
In his rousing MacTaggart address, ITV director of television Peter Fincham pilloried Ofcom for imagining TV as a form of social engineering. Here top industry figures give their take on his speech.
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FeaturesEureka!: Mutual Friends (Hat Trick for BBC1)
Co-creator Anil Gupta on the task of depicting the seldom-seen world of male friendships.
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FeaturesHow to be first with the news
As technology continues to revolutionise newsgathering, Adrian Pennington asks leading journalists what benefits technical developments are bringing to their work.
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FeaturesCreative Review - 4Music launch campaign
Graphics spots, teasers, clip-based trails and talent launch promos for Channel 4's new music channel 4Music, posted by Envy.
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FeaturesRohit Kachroo, 26, reporter
The thing that sets Birmingham-based reporter Kachroo apart, according to deputy editor of ITV News Jonathan Munro, is dedication.
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FeaturesGraham Black, 28, reporter/producer
“Cometh the crunch, cometh the man. Graham has brought the real credit crunch stories from voices that are often hard to find,” says ITV news consumer editor Chris Choi.
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FeaturesBenjamin McGrath, 28, development assistant/script editor
“Ben's passion for and knowledge of all forms of drama combined with his ability to recognise standout writing and his instincts for popular drama make him a deserving and exciting contender,” says ITV's director of drama Laura Mackie.
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FeaturesJude Liknaitzky, 29, producer
Fearsome attention to detail and a cool head have helped Liknaitzky advance at Kudos, where she is currently co-producing Moving Wallpaper for ITV.
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FeaturesJohn Jelley, 26, producer
“John is the epitome of a contemporary multi-platform journalist,” says Sky News editorial development manager Rob Kirk.