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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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Why Rome wasn't built in a day
The BBC and HBO's attempt to create a lavish costume drama with Rome nearly came to grief as production was halted after three episodes had been shot - so began an epic campaign to save it. Andy Stout reports.
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NewsC4 launch 'living war memorial' online
3.30pm: Channel 4 has partnered with the Imperial War Museum to launch online, Lost Generation, a 21st Century war memorial.
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NewsEndemol launches mobile TV channels
Endemol is to make further inroads into the mobile market, launching two new channels and a separate UK division to oversee the burgeoning area.
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NewsJamie's School Dinners grabs five Promax nominations
Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has clinched five nominations for the Promax UK Awards to be held on 5 November, including Best Launch and Best Television Campaign.
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NewsFirst Big Brother birth live
4pm: The first Big Brother birth in the world took place in Holland at 11.16am this morning, streamed live on the internet.
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NewsTV Corp's Hawk-Eye gets official approval
3.45pm: Indie TV Corp's ball-tracking system Hawk-Eye has been cleared by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for use as an official umpiring aid.
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NewsProducers slam BBC's desktop editing drive
The BBC's drive to bring in desktop editing for its factual department came under fresh criticism today, as producers slammed it as an unwise way to shrink production budgets.
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NewsSky plots move into broadband
11.45am: BSkyB is said to be planning a£1bn move into the broadband telephony market with one of its possible acquisition targets being IPTV service Homechoice.
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Roll To Record goes up for sale
Reality TV specialist Roll To Record has become the latest OB outfit to put itself on the market with its management team citing personal reasons rather than financial difficulties as reasons for selling up.
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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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Two Way in Flextech deal
Two Way TV has signed a deal with Flextech Television to provide interactive red button services for Challenge TV and Bravo.
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Rendermedia engineers jet
Rendermedia, the 3D animation studio, has completed its animation of the Whittle jet engine prototype for Quanta Films' Whittle - The Jet Pioneer, a documentary about the development of the jet engine in the 1930s. Rendermedia's animator Mark Miles and creative director Steve Green created the model, particle and air-flow ...
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Blue completes Biggest Loser
Blue has completed the online editing, grading and audio work on the promos for Flextech's The Biggest Loser UK, a reality show in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. Blue's Andy Sawyer, Davide Pascolo and Steve Miller used Combustion to matt footage of the contestants floating in water. Blue's ...
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Diverse buys Edifis
Factual indie Diverse's in-house facility has purchased an Edifis Finaliser which will be used to colour correct and create HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables from a single HD or SD edit master. The£150,000 purchase was prompted by the decision to establish a dedicated grading facility at the indie. Diverse will ...
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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Turquoise hiring
Branding and marketing consultancy Turquoise has recruited Conran Design Group's Nick Coomber as its senior production designer to spearhead its corporate identity production department. The newly created position sees Coomber work alongside Turquoise's creative directors Gareth Mapp and Scott Manning. Recent Turquoise branding campaigns have included work for NTL, BBC ...
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Crown rebranded
Crown Castle UK, the main provider for broadcast transmission infrastructure, has been rebranded as National Grid Wireless, after its merger with National Grid-owned Gridcom earlier this year. It delivers the BBC signal, providing analogue transmission across the UK.
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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...