More News – Page 3151
-
NewsHD Smoke for Jelly
Bristol-based post facility Jelly Television has invested in a Smoke HD editing and finishing system running on Linux, in addition to upgrading its existing Smoke system to version 7. The newly installed system will be used to create the graphics for the second series of BBC's ...
-
News
A Productions trails CBBC site
Bristol-based A Productions has just completed CBBC's World Cup website promo. The trailer was turned around in just over a week. It shows a football literally bursting with features from the CBBC website. A Productions' Duncan Fraser and Paul Hill animated using 3DS Max and After Effects for the light ...
-
News
The Convent completed by Envy
Envy has completed the post for Tiger Aspect's The Convent. Produced and directed by Sandi Scott and Rebecca Ciallella, the 4 x 60-minute series follows four women who leave everything behind to live for 40 days with a community of nuns at Arundel in Sussex ...
-
News
Rushes scores with BBC titles
Rushes post production has completed the post for the BBC's World Cup title sequence from Red Bee Media. The titles feature football stars including Steven Gerrard being teleported into iconic Berlin locations and showcasing their ball skills. Rushes head colourist Adrian Seery started the full grade of the background plates ...
-
News
Gaming group pays£20m for Red Vision
Bafta-winning visual effects outfit Red Vision has been snapped up by Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) for up to£20m.
-
News
Avid wins contract to kit out BBC Pacific Quay
Avid has clinched a deal with Siemens Business Services worth an estimated£4m to kit out BBC Scotland's forthcoming Pacific Quay headquarters .
-
News
VTR Group moves to dismantle TMR
The VTR Group is dismantling its loss-making archive and restoration subsidiary TMR, which includes closing its two Soho offices and making redundancies.
-
News
MTV reorders September lookalike show
September Films has been commissioned to make a second series of its fantasy dating format My Ownfor MTV in the US . The 20 x 30-minute series, to air later this year, will be executive produced by David Green. In the show music fans get ...
-
News
RAI 2 renews local CD:UK version
Italian network RAI 2 has renewed its local version of Blaze Television format CD:UK for a further year. CD:Livewill continue to air at 2pm on Saturdays. A Croatian version of CD:UK is also being piloted ...
-
News
Granada ships Hell's Kitchen to Asia
Granada International (GI) has sold the US version of Hell's Kitchen(pictured) across Asia . The 9 x 60-minute Gordon Ramsay show will be screened by The Asia Food Network, UBC Thailand, Orion Media Korea, Discovery India and Solar in the Philippines . GI has also ...
-
News
UKTV Food tours Scotland's cuisine
UKTV Food has bought The Woman Who Ate Scotland, one of two series picked up by acquisitions executive Katie Keenan to air this year. Made by Tern Television, the 8 x 30-minute STV series follows food writer Nell Nelson as she explores her native Scotland ...
-
News
Extreme Sports airs virtual World Cup
The Liberty Global-owned Extreme Sports Channel has joined up with Microsoft's Xbox to air coverage of a video gaming -competition described as the World Cup on console.
-
News
Format Focus: How to get the guy
The producers of Queer Eye for the Straight Guyreturn with a new romantic reality series
-
News
Endemol sells Spoons to Germany
Channel 4 sketch show Spoons has become the latest Endemol UK format to sell around the world.
-
News
Quickfire wins Timewatch tsunami order
Bristol-based Quickfire Media has been commissioned to make a 60-minute film about the devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami which hit Crete in 1600BC for Timewatchon BBC2. The programme will look at new evidence about the scale of the eruption and 120-foot waves it produced. The ...
-
News
UKTV history looks at wartime love lives
UKTV History has commissioned a series exploring the British pursuit of sex and love during the Second World War. Sex, Love and Warlooks at people who pushed aside convention and broke many of the taboos that existed in Britain in the 1940s. Made by Bristol-based ...
-
News
Combat Club to return to Five
Five's Saturday morning kids strand, Shake!,has commissioned a second series of Combat Club, in which six children are trained in 13 different martial arts or combat disciplines. Selected for their sporting ability, the children are taught core combat sport moves ...
-
News
Commissioner's Q & A
The UKTV commissioning executive (entertainment) has an eye for talent and wants shows that take its core UKTV Gold concept forward while for UKTV G2's younger audience, it's edgy comedy that appeals
-
News
Five to air docu-soap about lemur families
Five and Animal Planet UK are following up the hit franchise Meerkat Manorwith a new animal soap opera exploring the lives of lemurs in Madagascar.
-
News
BBC series to try out dream jobs
BBC presenter Adrian Chiles is to try his hand at dream jobs for a new daytime series for BBC1, being made by Cardiff-based indie Aspect Television.