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Moving Picture bids
WPP, Kodak, Thomson Multimedia's Technicolour and former Carlton chairman Michael Green are being touted as likely bidders for The Moving Picture Company. ITV declared that it wanted to sell its non-core assets earlier this year ( Broadcast , 28.6.04). WPP already owns post-production companies such ...
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Support for Apple
Former NMR managing director Harry Grinling is opening a London office for his Apple training, technical support and integration services business, Support Partners. The Greek Street office in Soho will provide remote, on-site and telephone 'breakdown recovery' services to producers, broadcasters and facilities using Apple software including Final Cut Pro. ...
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Charter's new man
Chris Davies has joined broadcast rental company Charter as a senior engineer. Davies has worked with digital flyaway systems on Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup finals. He previously worked for Star TV, at the time when it became one of the first stations to integrate digital programming.
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Parkinson given 3sixty vision
3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...
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Bollywood role for St Anne's
St Anne's and Sumners have finished post-production work on Feelgood Fiction's My Life as a Popat. The kids' comedy drama is about a 12-year-old who escapes into Bollywood dream worlds. St Anne's editors Rob Cooper and John Ellis onlined and colourist Kevin Horsewood graded. ...
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Jump has the X Factor
Jump has created titles for pop contest The X Factor , for Simon Cowell's indie Syco. Cowell and two other judges will pick a winner from their category, then champion that contestant to win overall. The titles, devised and directed by senior Jump designer Russell ...
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NewsWPP and Green in running for MPC
Martin Sorrell's WPP firm and former Carlton chairman Michael Green have emerged as likely bidders for the post-production group The Moving Picture Company (MPC), which ITV plc are trying to sell.
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NewsProfits at Pinewood studios double
Pinewood Shepperton film and television studios has seen its profits double in the first half of the year helped by movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the fourth instalment of Harry Potter.
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BBC Post move in final stages
BBC Post Production's long-awaited move from Pebble Mill to Birmingham's The Mailbox is due to be completed within a fortnight and plans to expand into the new BBC drama production village site are being discussed.
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Digital Heaven ditches Avid for Final Cut Pro
West London post house Digital Heaven has ditched its Avid machines and become a dedicated Final Cut Pro facility.
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Felt Music launches Soho facility
The music composers that worked on the BBC's animated series Hamilton Mattress have opened a composition company in Soho called Felt Music.
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Ames to frontline
Gavin Ames has joined Frontline Television as a senior editor. He leaves London Post after three and a half years at the TV Set Group company. Ames has worked on promos for the BBC, Channel 4 - including new drama NY-LON - and the MTV ...
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Cole joins Angelfish
Angelfish, the broadcast promotions agency launched earlier this year, has appointed Matt Cole as creative director. Cole was most recently a freelance promotions director working with BBC, ITV, Sky and Nickelodeon. He was previously creative manager at Turner Classic Movies and a senior producer at Paramount Comedy and is a ...
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CNBC Live In Europe
Pan-European finance and business news channel CNBC is launching a live video streaming service to mobile handsets in 17 European countries. Subscribers will be able to view the channel continuously on mobiles throughout Europe. The service will be provided by Newmediacom, part of the Phones International Group. Users can register ...
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Clear promotion
Clear's Peter Bach has been promoted from executive producer, film to the head of the film department, replacing Steve Garrad who has moved to film specialist Double Negative. In addition senior producer Pierre Fletcher has joined Clear from Smoke & Mirrors. Before becoming a post producer Fletcher worked as an ...
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Globecast goes HD
Satellite service provider GlobeCast is planning to kit out all its satellite newsgathering trucks for high-definition broadcasting. GlobeCast has one of the largest fleets in Europe, with more than 40 newsgathering vehicles, and the largest fleet in France. GlobeCast is a subsidiary of France Telecom.
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An Oasis for BBC1's Fat Nation
OASIS TELEVISION has finished post-production on trails for the BBC's Fat Nation - The Big Challenge. The series focuses on one street in Birmingham and the attempts by its many residents to turn their lifestyles around over eight weeks. The challenge is to reduce ...
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Ready Steady Cook Jumps up
JUMP has designed and produced the opening titles for the latest series of the long-running cookery game show Ready Steady Cook. The titles pit a red pepper against a green tomato as they race against the clock around a kitchen. Senior designer Russell Hilliard ...
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Ricky's Animal instinct at Suite
CHARLOTTE STREET editing house Suite has cut Animals , the Ricky Gervais-led stand-up tour. The feature-length show follows the Golden Globe-winner's preparations and frustrations in the lead-up to the sell-out West End run of Animals , as well as showing ...