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Big Red Bus is Landmark for BBC
Freelance graphic designer/art director Christine Buttner has designed the title sequence for Big Red Bus, a Landmark Films production for BBC1 documenting what it takes to become a London bus driver. Landmark executive producer Nick O'Dwyer conceived the idea of a naive, childlike visual style. Freelance animator Brian Larkin drew ...
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Keith Robinson titles Sewell job
Animator Keith Robinson and illustrator Paul Jackman of Keith Robinson Design have created the titles and maps for Wag TV's Brian Sewell's Grand Tour. The 10 x 45-minute series follows the art critic as he explores ancient and renaissance Italy. Jackman illustrated Italian landmarks and maps of Italy. Then, animated ...
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Fold7 does OFI Sunday graphics
Fold7 has done full graphics and titles for OFI Sunday, Chris Evans' new weekly show made by his production company, UMTV. The sequence depicts Evans as a 1950s style cartoon character. A Fold7 artist worked on the drawings while Nic Freeman coloured them in Photoshop and designed backgrounds in Illustrator. ...
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'3' buys hit ITV content for its phones
ITV has signed a deal with 3G mobile phone operator 3 to offer content from shows such as I'm a Celebrity'. The one-year deal will also give 3's 3.2 million customers access to live footage from Emmerdale, Coronation Street and other high-profile shows. Highlights and other specially produced clips will ...
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Playout players plan next push
The playout and transmission market is on the brink of massive change, so how are providers and broadcasters geared up for a future of content-to-mobile and HDTV? A Broadcast survey took their pulse. By Chris Forrester.
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NewsRoobarb & Custard go mobile
Roobarb & Custard, the 1970s children's cartoon series recently relaunched on Five's Milkshake strand, is set to leap into the world of new media with its own mobile phone content deal.
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NewsBBC2 via broadband on the cards
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has unveiled plans to launch a broadband version of the channel, which would make it the first terrestrial channel to do so.
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NewsITV and 3 hook up for mobile deal
ITV and mobile operator 3 have signed a one year content partnership agreement covering shows including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
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NewsEndemol exec calls for advertson TV over mobile
Endemol UK's director of digital media Peter Cowley has called for the introduction of an advertising model for TV over mobile.
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NewsLittle Britain duo completes hat-trick of craft wins
Costume designer Annie Hardinge and make-up artist Lisa Cavalli-Green won their third consecutive RTS Craft and Design Awards last night.
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NewsSaddam Hussein trial available on TV over broadband
Court TV Extra, the US online subscription service that streams live TV over broadband from courtrooms, is to air the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Baghdad.
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NewsEarly adopters uninspired by mobile TV
8am: There is dampened enthusiasm for mobile TV in the UK, suggesting even technology savvy consumers have little interest in watching live content on their phones, according to new research.
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NewsBT poaches C4I sales chief
10.45am: BT has poached C4 International's sales manager, Alison Sainsbury-Stack, as head of programme acquisitions of its Television Services business.
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NewsPVR owners watch ads, says US research
8am: Fears that Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) will have a fatal effect on the advertising market may prove ungrounded, according to new research from the US.
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NewsLittle Britain goes mobile
Little Britain is going mobile with full-length episodes of the hit BBC comedy being made available on phones.
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DNE unveils new playout centre
Discovery Networks Europe unveiled its new playout centre in Chiswick this week, touted as one of the biggest in Europe.
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Red Bee to buy subtitling company for£3.2m
Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast) is set to acquire subtitling outfit Australian Caption Centre (ACC) for£3.2m.
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Crow TV to merge sites
Post-production house Crow TV is to close down its Chiswick site and merge its suites into its Shepherd's Bush facility in January.
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Facilities survey
Broadcast is asking facilities to take part in its 2006 post-production survey, highlighting the changing face of the industry, the most successful companies within it and what concerns the sector has. The results will be published in a pullout section in January 2006. The questionnaire can be downloaded from www.broadcastnow.co.uk ...
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IBF hires Townsend
International Broadcast Facilities has recruited Andy Townsend as sales and marketing consultant. Townsend was head of DVD at the Metropolis Group for two years before becoming creative digital consultant to the Cultural Industries Development Agency for a year. He will be developing business opportunities across all divisions at IBF, whose ...