Features – Page 278
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FeaturesPanasonic AG-AF100
A professional ‘Micro Four Thirds’ video camcorder, optimised for high-definition video recording.
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FeaturesReservoir Hill
At last week’s Digital Emmys in Cannes, websites for Primeval and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution were joined onthe podium by Reservoir Hill, New Zealand’s first broadcaster-funded online-only drama series.
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FeaturesHome cooks see off chefs
Channel 4 is enjoying success with one newer chef as well as a more familiar one, but it’s the stubborn refusal of ordinary people cooking for points in their own kitchen that continues to provide C4 with the most consistent and hardy ratings
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FeaturesThe power of digital TV
This week, BBC3 and ITV2 delivered the four tenants of digital TV viewing: catch up, repeat of a classic, the discovery of a new thing and brand extension (the fifth, er, of the four is sport). BBC3 had the first three, ITV2 the fourth. Between them, they delivered five of ...
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FeaturesMedia and the Tories: Friends of TV or enemies at the gate?
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt speaks to Dan Sabbagh about what a Tory election victory would mean for the UK broadcasting industry.
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FeaturesNew era in political coverage
Social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter will play a key role for all broadcasters in the coming general election. Alex Farber reports on how they plan to use the technology.
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FeaturesLandscape Man
Full post-production on horticulturalist Matthew Wilson’s garden design series
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FeaturesBritain's Got Talent
Post-production on the fourth series of the hugely popular talent-search reality show.
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FeaturesEnsemble Designs Brighteye 72
A converter, launched at NAB this week, that allows broadcasters and facilities to use off-the-shelf monitors for high-end applications.
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FeaturesTreme, HBO
Broadcast takes a look at the new drama from David Simon, co-creator of The Wire.
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FeaturesJamie Does...
Design and produce titles and content graphics for Jamie Oliver’s new cookery and travel series.
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FeaturesMipTV 2010: Kids hot picks
Even during a downturn, the range of projects coming through in the kids market is vast.
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FeaturesMipTV 2010: Drama/comedy hot picks
In today’s competitive market, dramas need to be standout events with promotional hooks - or the kind of long-running repeatable franchises that US studios deliver year after year (House, CSI, 24, Grey’s Anatomy).
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FeaturesMipTV 2010: Entertainment hot picks
With brands such as Idol, Got Talent and The X Factor drawing huge ratings on free-to-air channels, the entertainment sector has done a lot to convince market analysts that digital media does not mean the death of traditional television.
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FeaturesMipTV 2010: Factual hot picks
Factual programming is the workhorse of free-to-air broadcasters and pay-TV platforms. While a handful of international producers such as Discovery, National Geographic, NHK and the BBC are in the factual-event business, most buyers and sellers are focused on schedule stalwarts that can support drama and entertainment.Over the past year, Beyond ...
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FeaturesMipTV 2010: Factual buyers
As they prepare for MipTV, six buyers reveal their latest acquisitions, how they view the UK factual market, and what formats they’re hoping to find at the show.
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FeaturesKatie clobbers Lindsay next
Lindsay Lohan, Katie P, a man, his canoe and Courtney Cox: sounds like the cast of some earnest avant garde theatre workshop production or other entitled ‘Mortality’. But actually, it’s a week in digital telly.
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FeaturesBlood, births and budgets
This week saw a new two-part drama, the launch of a chat show and three grey blokes banging on about how much more tax we are all going to have to pay between now and forever. Thanks, chaps.
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FeaturesThe Beeb shows ITV the door
New gameshow and Ant & Dec fall flat as Ashes To Ashes and Over The Rainbow win their slots.