Features – Page 365
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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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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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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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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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The Broadcast InterviewOona King, Channel 4
Channel 4’s Oona King tells Lisa Campbell why broadcasting must be opened up to people of different backgrounds, and how the CDN is proposing to change the industry’s mindset.
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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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FeaturesTreme, HBO
Broadcast takes a look at the new drama from David Simon, co-creator of The Wire.
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Behind The ScenesIron Chef UK, Channel 4
Take a cult show, rework it into a primetime daily, add a healthy dose of humour, and serve to the British public. Not so easy, says Adam MacDonald.
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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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FeaturesFujinon 3D synchronous control system
A new development from Fujinon that, along with six new 3D lenses, provides accurate lens matching for stereoscopic 3D film and television production.
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FeaturesMarco's Kitchen Burnout promo
Post-production work on a promo for the celebrity chef’s new show.
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FeaturesRadio 1 promo
A 30-second promo for Radio1’s chart show, featuring a typographical treatment of different bands
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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.
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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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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.