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Raw TV signs Willis
Raw TV has hired Lucy Willis, Channel 4's acting education commissioning editor, as an executive producer. She will oversee the indie's existing projects for C4 and attempt to generate new commissions. During her time at C4, Willis commissioned programmes including The Young Black Farmers, The Thin Club and 16 for ...
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TWI to bring colour to Queen's birthday party
TWI's next big project in its award-winning In Colour series will be The Queen in Colour, which it hopes to air in April to accompany Elizabeth II's birthday celebrations.
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Celestial bodies star in latest BBC4 theme night
Walking With Dinosaurs executive producer John Lynch is making a pair of programmes about the sun and the moon, as part of a series of themed nights for BBC4.
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Endemol float gets underway
The partial float of Endemol was kick-started by owner Telefónica this week, with the Big Brother producer securing a valuation of Euro1.14bn (£780m).
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Thumbs Up to Read
Thumbs Up Productions has appointed Barry Read to the newly created role of head of production. Read, who was formerly head of production for Optimistic Productions, has already joined the company and is working on new Thumbs Up commission Wright Across America and Living TV series Britain's Next Top Model.
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Big Umbrella moves
Indie Big Umbrella has made two senior appointments, doubling its core team and moving to larger offices in Birmingham. The three-year-old indie, which has offices in London and the Bath area, has hired Claire Campbell as head of development and Sarah Greene as head of production. Both have had around ...
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Ascent reshuffle will simplify ops
Ascent Media is to restructure its facilities and management team in a move which its European managing director, Brenda Smith, said will simplify the company's operations and turn its facility brands into complementary rather than competitive businesses.
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Smoke and Mirrors acquires Red Post
Two of Soho's most prolific visual effects boutiques have now become one with the news that Smoke and Mirrors has acquired Red Post-Production for around£1m.
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Component sells Avid kit to Clear Cut
Post facility Component Ltd has sold the Avid kit belonging to its hire arm Central Rental to Clear Cut Hire for an estimated£300,000.
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HD conference
The BBC and BSkyB are to unveil their high-def strategies at next year's Broadcast HD conference. BSkyB chief executive Richard Freudenstein will give the keynote speech on Sky's HD channel strategy and the production team behind BBC's Planet Earth will provide a case study on HD post-production. The conference will ...
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New editor for TSI
Post-production facility TSI has recruited Fifty Fifty post-production's Abraham Teweldebrhan as a non-linear editor. Teweldebrhan joins its 15-strong editing team after nearly three years at Fifty Fifty, where he worked on projects including Shakedown for MTV and Bullet Boy for Verve Films/BBC.
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SoundStation sold
Broadcast hire outfit Hyperactive has bought audio facility SoundStation for an undisclosed sum. The package included five Protools systems, boosting Hyperactive's non-linear editing products to over 100. Hyperactive's chief executive designate, Lawrie Read, said he hoped the new set-up would appeal to clients wanting just one company from which to ...
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Condor ups staff
Condor Post Production has bolstered its staff with several new recruits. Red Bee's Andrew Mackintosh and Paul Kavanagh have joined the 3D animation and design department as 3D consultant and 3D artist respectively. Lead colourist David Appleby switches from MPC and starts at Condor from 12 December, while Clear's Grant ...
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Battersea relaunch
The Battersea Studios has relaunched this week after a£4m redevelopment programme by its property developer owner Helical Bar. The complex - previously the site of the Middle Eastern Broadcasting Corporations's studio - was sold in July for an estimated£8m.
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The location guide
Thelocationguide.com, the free access website helping international producers choose suitable locations and services for productions, has undergone a facelift. The site now features a Pre-Production Forum (PPF), a discussion forum enabling production professionals to post briefs online and receive immediate answers from their industry colleagues worldwide.
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Big Red Bus is Landmark for BBC
Freelance graphic designer/art director Christine Buttner has designed the title sequence for Big Red Bus, a Landmark Films production for BBC1 documenting what it takes to become a London bus driver. Landmark executive producer Nick O'Dwyer conceived the idea of a naive, childlike visual style. Freelance animator Brian Larkin drew ...
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Keith Robinson titles Sewell job
Animator Keith Robinson and illustrator Paul Jackman of Keith Robinson Design have created the titles and maps for Wag TV's Brian Sewell's Grand Tour. The 10 x 45-minute series follows the art critic as he explores ancient and renaissance Italy. Jackman illustrated Italian landmarks and maps of Italy. Then, animated ...
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Fold7 does OFI Sunday graphics
Fold7 has done full graphics and titles for OFI Sunday, Chris Evans' new weekly show made by his production company, UMTV. The sequence depicts Evans as a 1950s style cartoon character. A Fold7 artist worked on the drawings while Nic Freeman coloured them in Photoshop and designed backgrounds in Illustrator. ...
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ITV's US hunt set to push up prices
ITV's poaching of Five director of acquisitions Jay Kandola could have major implications for the ever-expanding US acquisitions marketplace.
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Format focus: Treasure Hunters
A big budget reality format set to air on NBC in the US next year could soon be making its way here.