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Promax gets Doctor Who preview
Doctor Who visual effects supremos at Mill TV are set to give delegates at Friday's Promax conference the lowdown on work carried out on the first series of the award-winning drama, as well as outlining prospective plans for the new 13-part series. Mill TV producer Will Cohen will be on ...
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Avid unveils latest
Avid has unveiled its next-generation shared-storage solution, the Avid Unity ISIS. It claims to provide a real-time shared workflow to deliver increased storage of up to 64 terabytes, and client connectivity. It is designed to support digital media production environments including broadcast news and network production operations, and reality television. ...
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Nat Geo subtitling
National Geographic has chosen Broadcast Text International to provide its subtitling services and signed a 'multi-year' agreement for the Scandinavian feed. The deal will enable National Geographic to access all the aggregated language knowledge within the Broadcast Text Group, including research databases and translation memories.
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Hive hires animator
The Hive has recruited Condor's senior 3D artist Bryan Servante. Servante, who had previously worked at Banbury-based AudioMotion, was lead animator on BBC1/Box TV's The Legend of the Tamworth Two, animated for Discovery and the Disney Channel, and idents for BBC History. He joins The Hive as senior animator.
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Spooks goes mobile
BBC spy series Spooks has been launched as a Java-based mobile phone game. MS4:Mobile Spooks was developed by interactive media company Magic Lantern and telecoms specialist YDreams Entertainment in conjunction with production company Kudos Film and Television, and contains both stand-alone games to download and a series of mobile Missions ...
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Astbury in move
Ascent Media's Soho Images is losing colourist Simon Astbury to Clear Cut Pictures, where he is to work in a dedicated grading environment. Astbury spent four years at Todd-AO before moving to Soho Images where he operated Pogle Platinum and Symphony. His credits include the grading on dramas BBC/A&E's The ...
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Disney apes Virgin
Disney has hopped on the mobile bandwagon with a plan to launch Disney Mobile, a 'virtual' operator similar to Virgin Mobile. The company announced its plans in the US in partnership with network operator Sprint. Disney expects its family-friendly content will attract customers in the competitive US market, but would ...
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Big Squid gives rocket boost
Big Squid has produced the special effects sequences and titles for children's comedy drama Patrick's Planet. The 13-part, 30-minute series by Tiger Lily Films tells the story of a boy whose life changes when he builds a rocket for a school competition. 3D animator Chris Hawkes used 3D Studio Max ...
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Dark Horse makes Mischief
Dark Horse FX has created the titles and branding for Mischief, a new documentary series by BBC documentaries and contemporary factual. It will deal with serious subjects, from binge-drinking to MRSA, in a subversive way. Jean Cramond accomplished the graphic design with Adrian Woodward doing the animation and compositing using ...
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Skaramoosh titles thriller
Skaramoosh has completed the titles for The Best Man, a two-part thriller from Touchpaper Productions about two best friends who share a dark secret. Skaramoosh senior designer Bob Hough conceived the sequence along with producer Hugh Warren. Warren was looking for a simple, clean, uncluttered look, and Hough wanted the ...
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Who will be the winners in 2012?
One of the themes at this year's Promax is future-proofing for 2012. So what will the media landscape look like then? Broadcast asks five industry figures to predict the trends and technologies that will affect TV's marketers and creative directors and the new skills and knowledge that will be needed ...
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NewsChannel 4 launches mobile channel
Channel 4 will this week become the first terrestrial broadcaster to launch a branded mobile TV channel, screening popular shows such as Supernanny and Brat Camp in full.
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NewsBBC plans interactive online drama
The BBC is set to launch its first interactive drama, which will be offered exclusively to broadband users online.
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NewsITV plans 'imminent' acquisitions
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said today he was close to making a series of acquisitions.
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NewsSex Traffic up for five craft awards
Eight members of the production team that worked on the Granada-produced docu-drama Sex Traffic are up for gongs at this month's RTS Craft and Design Awards
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NewsAardman secures raft of mobile deals
Aardman Animations has signed a series of global deals to sell its library of cartoon content for viewing on mobile phones.
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NewsSky to launch mobile service
9am: BSkyB and mobile phone operator Vodafone have joined forces to launch a mobile television service for the UK.
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BBC Broadcast unveils rebrand
After months of brainstorming BBC Broadcast has finally come up with a new name and corporate identity: Red Bee Media.
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UK firm develops artificial presenter
Advanced media development company Televirtual has claimed it has built TV's first synthetic broadcaster, METman, an authentically voiced artificial speech engine.
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C4 showcases winning short films online
The Channel 4 Ideas Factory film and video initiative New Shoots is to showcase its winners' work online on 1 November.