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NewsLiving looks at why celebrities split up
Living TV has commissioned three hour-long documentaries off the back of its Extreme: Celebritiesspecial.
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Scarlet TV to investigate forensic science
Scarlet Television is making a 6 x 60-minute series on the development of criminal forensic science for the Australian Crime & Investigation Network. To Catch a Thiefis executive produced by Scarlet managing director Paula Trafford and was commissioned for broadcast next year by Rod Caird, ...
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V Good wins Five order about firefighters
V Good Films has won its first commission from Five, with a series following fire officers in the Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service. In Inferno: 999, firefighters will wear body-mounted cameras to record their working lives, from roadside rescues to burning buildings. Currently in ...
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Available Light to make Sex Wars for ITV
Bristol-based indie Available Light has hired Phillipa Forrester to front a 6 x 30-minute series for ITV on how men and women tackle different tasks. Forrester, who presented Robot Warsfor BBC2, will host Sex Wars, to be screened on ITV ...
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Matthews floats Big Fish for BBC2
Morgan Matthews, the Bafta-nominated director of Taxidermy: Stuff the World, has won a four-hour series commission from BBC2. Matthews is to direct Big Fish(working title), a series on weird and wonderful competitions. Commissioned by Richard Klein, the series is being ...
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Minotaur strikes Rebus movie deal
Flextech-owned distributor Minotaur has licensed all six Rebusmovies to the BBC's international entertainment channel, BBC Prime.
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Factual series to examine impact of the Reformation
IWC Media has teamed up with Toronto-based factual indie Cream Productions to co-produce a series on the 16th century Reformation and the way it shaped the modern world.
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Commissioner's Q & A - Janey Walker
Channel 4's head of education and managing editor wants to hear from indies which know how to reach teenagers who wouldn't usually tune into educational programming.
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Granada sells Ant and Dec royal interview
Granada International has sold The Three Princes: 30 Years of the Prince's Trust- the Ant and Dec interview with Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry - to 10 international broadcasters.
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Union warns BBC of backlash over rates
Broadcasting union Bectu is advising its members to adhere to their current rates in a bid to pressure BBC factual and learning to review proposals to standardise pay for freelance crew.
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Sunset + Vine signs DVD deal for cricket
Sunset + Vine Productions has signed a one-year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board and DD Home Entertainment to produce DVDs around this summer's international cricket season.
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Barcud pumps£3m into HD OB
Welsh facility Barcud Derwen is investing£3m in a high-definition outside broadcast truck in a bid to win new BBC Wales contracts.
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Broadcast Live in tapeless first
Broadcast Live will be the first exhibition to display a truly tapeless workflow, walking delegates through the creation, management and delivery of content.
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Unit Post staffs up
Fledgling dry hire facility Unit Post has made two new appointments. Bookings manager Rhiannon Price joins Unit from Soho Images while former Frontier Post Avid technician Imran Ramzan joined as technical manager. The facility, which launched two months ago, is currently working on three pop promos, two commercials, a feature ...
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Duncan joins VTR
VTR has drafted in former Smoke and Mirrors producer Amanda Duncan to join its eight-strong team. Duncan's previous clients include Channel 4 and ad agencies DDB and Mac7 TV. Duncan, who also spent five years working in set design, will manage projects for VTR's clients across commercials, music and film.
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Irish broadcaster buys quiz show format
Talent TV has sold the format for Test the Nation to Irish broad-caster RTE.
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Granada upgrades
Granada Bristol has upgraded a further online area to run Silicon Color's Final Touch colour grading system. The facility now operates five standard and high-definition online areas, two of which run Final Touch for high-end SD and HD finishing work. It has also undergone a major refit of its main ...
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UK and Ireland to receive crime channel
A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB have confirmed they are to launch Crime & Investigation Network in the UK and Ireland, as first revealed by Broadcast(11.03.05).
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Tools for Eyeframe
Eyeframe, the DVD sister company of Dubbs, has acquired authoring and encoding tools which can handle both competing high definition DVD formats, HDDVD and Blu-ray. Now installed in Eyeframe's Poland Street facility, the Scenarist 4 and CineVision from Sonic Solutions are to be used on distributor Optimum Releasing's first batch ...
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Envy turns on IPTV
Business IPTV specialist Netvue has installed its IPTV system for Envy, the new HD broadcast post-production facility based in Noho. The Envy system uses Exterity equipment to provide Freeview and satellite channels and DVD, as well as a feed from its video matrix, all distributed over internet protocol on the ...