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NewsNew staff for Beam
Digital asset management company Beam.tv has taken on Condor Post Production's managing director, Tom Horton, as its business development director. Horton spent two years heading Condor and will promote Beam.tv as a solution that digitally enables the versioning and distribution of TV ad campaigns. Kate Georgiou also joins as new ...
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Vizrt acquires
Broadcast graphics company Vizrt is set to acquire asset management software developer Ardendo for almost£13m. The deal is expected to boost Vizrt's graphic-based service to provide the world's first multi-platform production system. Vizrt's clients include ITN, BBC Sports and Sky News.
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Virtual museum for BBC daytime
The BBC is to create a 'virtual museum' of famous artefacts, as part of a series of commissions from BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt.
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Pepper posts HD Hotel Babylon
Pepper has finished the HD post-production for Carnival Films' Hotel Babylon, an 8 x 60-minute drama about the indulgent activities in a five-star hotel. Pepper supplied the Adrenalines for offline editing done on location and senior editor Shane Warden oversaw the online, conform and VFX, ...
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Momoco titles Eleventh Hour
Momoco, through production company Maguffin, has designed and animated the title sequence for Eleventh Hour, a 4 x 60-minute thriller from Granada TV starring Patrick Stewart as a professor who tackles disasters caused by modern science. Designers Nic Benns and Miki Kato created a series ...
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Spun Gold profiles Britain's rudest comic
Spun Gold, the indie set up by former Carlton factual entertainment controller Nick Bullen, has been commissioned to make an access documentary about blue comic Roy Chubby Brown for Channel 4. The documentary, called Roy Chubby Brown: Britain's Rudest Comedian, will look at the performer's ...
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Mobile TV figures add up, trial finds
Mobile phone users are prepared to spend over 20 minutes a day watching TV on their phones, according to the first set of results from the Oxford mobile TV trial.
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Twofour backs Hideous indie
Twofour Productions has backed a new start-up indie called Hideous Productions.
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Ten Alps pays£1m for indie
Ten Alps, the indie backed by Sir Bob Geldof, this week paid around£1m for indie Hart Ryan Productions in a move to further expand its factual output.
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Visual Voodoo triple
ITN-owned indie Visual Voodoo has made three senior appointments, including poaching indie Making Time's founder and creative director, Ben Devlin. Devlin, a former producer of So Graham Norton, will become deputy head of programmes at Visual Voodoo, whose credits include ...
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LBC offers podcasts
Chrysalis-owned speech station LBC 97.3 has launched a paid-for podcasting service offering full-length versions of its flagship shows, including Nick Ferrari and Iain Lee. For£2.50 for one month, rising to£10 for six months, listeners will be able to download shows and access content including vintage and behind-the-scenes material.
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Hughes takes role at C4 entertainment
Freelance producer Nana Hughes has joined Channel 4 as a deputy commissioning editor for entertainment. Hughes, who started this week, reporting to head of entertainment Andrew Newman, has worked on C4 shows 8 out Of 10 Catsand V Graham Norton ...
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Sky One secures award-winning Weeds
Sky One has secured the rights to a second season of Weeds, the dark comedy based around a suburban mum who resorts to selling weed to support her family. The news comes after Mary-Louise Parker picked up a Golden Globe in the best comedy actress ...
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Profile: Liam Keelan - ITV's new daytime signing
ITV's new head of daytime, Liam Keelan, faces the task of finding fresh talent for the lunch and teatime slots and filling the hole where O'Grady used to be.
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Tantrums and tiaras
Following Paul O'Grady's shock defection from ITV to Channel 4 last week, Paul Revoir offers a list of top 10 tips for keeping your star talent content with their lot and not in any hurry to jump ship to a rival.
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NewsSalmon quits after Tinopolis takeover
TV Corporation chief executive Peter Salmon has decided to quit following the takeover of the company by Welsh indie Tinopolis.
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NewsJackson to target stars
Paul Jackson, ITV's new director of comedy and entertainment, is to launch a comedy talent offensive when he joins the network next month - with major BBC stars such as Jonathan Ross said to be on the hit list.
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Sky could offer broadband PPV
BSkyB is considering offering its content to non-subscribers through pay-per-view platforms such as the soon-to-launch Google Video Store.
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NewsHoliday Showdown returns with just 2.8m
The return of Holiday Showdownlast night brought little cheer to ITV1 with the first outing drawing only 2.8 million (12.2%) at 9pm, fewer than Channel 4 or BBC1.
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NewsITV eyes up CanWest's stake in TV3
ITV is being tipped to buy CanWest's 45% stake in Irish broadcaster TV3, which the Canadian company is hoping to offload for around£68.5m.