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Lola up for Emmy
Special effects facility Lola is up for an Emmy award for outstanding special visual effects for a miniseries, movie or a special for its work on the HD BBC/Discovery co-production Supervolcano. MPC is also up for an Emmy for outstanding individual achievement for its work on ...
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BBC goes on demand
BBC Broadcast has signed a three-year deal with Telewest Broadband to provide encoding and navigational services for its new TV-on-demand service, Teleport. BBC Broadcast will encode programmes, making them ready for broadcast on the digital platform and provide information which allows digital viewers to search for programmes which interest them. ...
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Zone/Two Way deal
Interactive TV specialist Two Way TV has signed up with broadcaster and channel distributor Zone Vision Networks to provide software which could boost mobile revenues for MTV and Discovery across Europe. Zone Vision last week signed a deal to become Two Way TV's agent for its Simcast technology across the ...
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Blue completes Naked Us work
Blue has completed post-production on the BBC's three-part series Naked Us. The show follows a number of couples as they not only strip themselves bare physically, but also of everything they own to pursue their dreams, such as one pair who head off to Spain to ...
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Golden Square finishes Sky job
Soho post-production house Golden Square has just completed work on the first two instalments of the new campaign for Sky. The spots focus on a dog that is confused by the services offered by Sky. His housemate, a duck, explains what is available. Split-screen composites and 3D CGI photo-realistic body ...
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Shooting in HD: it's all in the detail
High definition is at last becoming a reality as the number of shows being shot on the format continues to rise. Bu...
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NewsDCMS clears BBC Broadcast sale
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has rubberstamped the£166m sale of BBC Broadcast to Australian consortium Creative Broadcast Services.
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NewsBBC launches EPG design competition
The BBC is to let computer developers and designers re-build its TV schedules, in a competition to create their own customised electronic programme guides.
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NewsCNN unveils broadband service
CNN has unveiled further details of its on demand broadband video service.
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Darlow Smithson adds FCP suites
Independent production company Darlow Smithson has boosted its post-production capability with£175,000 worth of Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) high-definition suites as it takes more work in-house.
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Playboy goes multi-platform
Playboy TV has launched a multimedia package offering adult content to its subscribers across all platforms for a monthly£30 payment, writesRick Dacey.
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BBC may export iMP
The BBC is considering launching a commercial version of its planned Interactive Media Player (iMP) to sell programmes to overseas viewers. The iMP, which the BBC is trialling as a free proposition in the UK later this year, will allow UK licence fee payers to download BBC TV and radio ...
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Sharp launches dual view TV set
Sharp is releasing a two-way television that could stop family arguments over the remote but may cause headaches for ratings agency Barb.
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VTR admits to trading loss
VTR plc last week admitted that market conditions would mean the facilities group turning a loss in its August full-year figures.
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Brits up for Emmys
Framestore CFC and VooDooDog are among the British companies competing at this year's Emmy awards. Framestore is looking to follow up on its 2003 success when it won the outstanding animated programme for a Walking with Dinosaursspecial. Framestore's CGI contribution on The ...
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Mobile talent
Online talent agency Soho Artistes has launched a mobile service allowing producers and casting directors to access their online database with mobile phones and receive images direct to their handsets. Soho Artistes has around 1,000 actors and extras on its books, which are drawn from parent company 2 Cast 4.
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Help for charity
The Cartoon Network has spent£30,000 installing animation equipment at the educational facility YCTV to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The charity, which helps 11 to 20-year-olds, targets socially excluded teenagers to build both self-confidence and animation skills. Around 2,000 young people have gone through its doors over the past 10 years ...
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Evolutions hire
Bryony Evans has joined Evolutions as design producer, heading the graphic design team. She comes to Evolutions after five years at M2, where she had worked as a graphics producer on broadcast projects for Discovery and BBC dramas, such as Waking the Deadand ...
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Internet first for Farm Group
The Farm Group has completed the second series of The Mighty Booshfor Baby Cow Productions and BBC3. The programme will be the first time the BBC premieres a series over the internet. The comedy is based on two keepers at a strange intergalactic zoo and features ...
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Devilfish breaks news for CNN
Broadcast agency Devilfish has just completed a promotional film for CNN mobile service CNN Mobile. The 30-second spot was created using a new technique that treats still photographs as a 3D space. It depicts a series of locations, including a golf course, where mobile phone users could watch breaking news ...