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NewsAngelfish goes into Overdrive
Angelfish has created a series of promos for MTV's 2007 line-up and for its new broadband channel MTV Overdrive.
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Sherbet titles teen series
Animation studio Sherbet has completed the title sequence for Love Productions' new BBC3 series, The Baby Borrowers.
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More work for Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors has post-produced a new set of idents for More 4. The idents rework the existing graphics with greater depth and movement to take the channel's identity 'to the next level' for 2007.
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BT shifts shape
A BT-led European consortium has delivered the first programme in the ShapeShifted interactive TV project. Comedy Accidental Lovers aired on Finnish National Television on 27 December, with viewers influencing the unfolding drama by text message.
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Roo in Pioneer deal
Internet broadcast specialist Roo has teamed up with web TV company Pioneer Online to launch downloads site FirstScience.tv. Pioneer Online, which launched sister site FirstScience.com in 2000, will charge users to download full-screen documentaries at prices from $1.99 (£1.02). Roo recently launched the FT's Daily View online programme and runs ...
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Strategy hirings
Interactive TV playout specialist Strategy and Technology (S&T) has made two major appointments as part of its ongoing expansion.
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HD good for profits
The rapid take-up of HD facilities has boosted profits among UK and European broadcast technology suppliers, according to market analysts IABM.
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ITN installs Viz
ITN has continued its desktop roll-out by installing Vizrt's Viz Content Pilot software in its Channel 4 and More 4 newsrooms.
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021's£4m OB truck to film Dancing on Ice
Outside broadcast specialist O21 Television has unveiled a£4m HD OB truck - and its first production will be ITV1's hit show Dancing on Ice, which returns on 20 January.
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ITV moves 120 to new TNS facility
ITV is moving 120 operations staff to a multimillion-pound transmission facility in Chiswick, under a new 10-year deal with technology giant Thomson.
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Comment - Wiping the slate clean
Steven D Wright resolves to purge himself of all television-related cynicism and bile
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Broadcast Letters - Issue: 5 January 2007
The letters that featured in the 5 January 2007 issue of Broadcast.
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On the box - Walks on the wild side
Nick Curwin was impressed by the good intentions of the youngsters going on Mission Africabut found Ray Mears' Wild Foodrather harder to swallow.
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NewsProfile - Elisabeth's time to Shine: Elisabeth Murdoch
Profile of Shine chief executive Elisabeth Murdoch
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Commissioner's Q&A: Barbara Gibbon
The head of Sky Travel mostly gets pitched travelogue ideas - even though the channel doesn't run travelogues. What she does want is observational docs to match the success of the Airline brand.
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BBC1 daytime orders Leopard drama
Indie Leopard Drama is to make a one-off, 45-minute drama based on a novella by ex-SAS author Andy McNab for BBC1. The Grey Man, a light-hearted story about a man who is inspired by heist films to rob the bank where he works, will air ...
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Green Bay to make kids films for BBC1
BBC1 has commissioned Cardiff indie Green Bay Media to make a 4 x 30-minute series called Through Children's Eyes, which is based on a one-off show it made for the BBC in 2006.
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Radio 1 orders two doc/debate hybrids
All Out Productions has secured two commissions from Radio 1 that combine short documentaries with a live debate. Fighting the Power, about the influence of hip-hop legends Public Enemy, and Universally Educated, about the increasing number of students attending university, are 20-minute documentaries that have ...
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Stein to present Daphne Du Maurier doc
Indie Denham Productions is making a 60-minute film for BBC2 focusing on writer Daphne du Maurier's relationship with Cornwall.
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Crime and Investigation Network recounts West victim story
Manchester-based indie Multi Media Arts has won a commission from the Crime and Investigation Network to make a documentary on a woman who survived a sexual assault by serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.