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NewsFormer ITV man to run BBC commercial arm
The BBC has appointed former Disney executive Etienne de Villiers to oversee its commercial dealings.
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NewsFive orders 'thirtysomething' drama.
Five has made a rare two-hour drama, Perfect Day, for its autumn schedule.
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NewsBBC dramatises Paddington rail crash
BBC1 is to air a docu-drama based on the Paddington rail disaster in which 31 people died.
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NewsBBC reporter 'greys up' for sting show
BBC1 undercover expos programme Rogue Tradershas used an Oscar-nominated make-up artist to turn its presenter into a pensioner to catch out shifty tradesmen.
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NewsPEER POLL: digital switchover
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Are you in the dark over the government's digital switchover plans?
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NewsSupernanny instructs 4.9m
Channel 4's Supernannywent from strength to strength last night with the show at 9pm averaging 4.9 million (21.8%), a rise of 500,000 from last week.
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BBC pioneers HD with Timewatch
Hot on the heels of the BBC's factual and learning department's decision to adopt low-cost editing system Final Cut Pro, the department is on the verge of notching up another technological first - the first BBC flagship strand to go HD.
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Parthenon spends£250,000 on HD upgrade
Natural history and factual specialist Parthenon Entertainment has spent£250,000 on upgrading its in-house high-definition facilities, with the addition of two new suites based on Sony's XPRI HD finishing system and an Avid Xpress Studio HD suite.
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Molinare scores£1m football deal
Molinare has netted more than£1m of business from producer North One, including a two-year deal to produce Football Italiafrom its 1,500 sq ft central London studio.
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TMR moves into mobile content
VTR-owned restoration and telecine specialist TMR has branched out into mobile content with its first commission for 3G platforms.
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Japan plans VR cup
Japan's communications ministry plans to embark on a£5m scheme to develop 3D virtual reality TV in time for the 2018 World Cup. By teaming up with Japanese academics and technology companies, the aim is to turn the tournament into a 3D virtual reality projection in viewers' living rooms.
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Pinnacle head quits
Pinnacle Systems managing director of Europe, Africa and Middle East Richard Scott is to leave the company following its£259m takeover by Avid this month. Avid has not decided whether he will be directly replaced but Avid UK general manager Peter Ramsay takes responsibility for Pinnacle in the interim.
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Barker quits IWC Media
IWC Media director of contemporary factual Adam Barker has left the company for personal reasons.
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St Anne's posts war
St Anne's Post has completed the grading on ITV1's latest series of detective drama Foyle's War. Colourist Samantha Hollingdale graded the 2 x 120-minute films on its C-Reality with wet-gate system. The two shows were directed by Jeremy Silberston and Gavin Millar, with Peter Middleton as ...
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Dolby wins Emmy
Dolby Laboratories is to receive an Emmy award for engineering development next month for its Dolby E audio technology, which is credited with bringing 5.1-channel surround sound to DTV and HDTV viewers. More than 325 facilities worldwide now use the Dolby E format, and more than 30 companies make products ...
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Two Way games deal
Two Way TV has licensed its text-to-TV games platform Simcast to Endemol UK along with a clutch of its popular interactive gaming formats. The games will be broadcast on Brainteaser TV, an extended version of Five's quiz show BrainTeaseron Sky. Other broadcasters ...
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Root6 updates tool
Root6's technology division is to unveil the latest version of its ContentAgent workflow tool, which encodes and distributes compressed digital files, at next month's IBC. It offers improved flexibility in handling SD, HD and 2K DPX film projects.
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Teletubbies export
Teletubbiesis to make an appearance on Polish public television following a deal signed between BBC Worldwide broadcaster TVP. The corporation's commercial arm has sold 156 episodes of the children's series - produced by Ragdoll - for broadcast over the next three years. BBC Worldwide has also secured deals to sell ...
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Cellcast to list
Mobile content and interactive TV specialist Cellcast is planning a launch on AIM next month to raise£4.5m for expansion. The company already broadcasts gameshows on Sky's Get Lucky TV and on a series of Middle East channels, and raises revenues through telcos with its gaming, betting, dating and chat formats.
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Crow posts Trafalgar drama doc
CrowTV has completed the post on Channel 4's Trafalgar Battle Surgeon, a 50-minute drama documentary on the 1805 naval encounter through the eyes of The Victory's surgeon, William Beatty. Directed by Justin Hardy on Digibeta, visual effects and the title sequence were created by Crow head ...