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Edifis for Clear Cut
Post-production house Clear Cut Pictures has splashed out£200,000 on an Edifis f/stop grading and colouring system as part of its drive into feature film post. It will be installed in January and used for colour correction, to create 2k, HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables, grade across Final Cut Pro material ...
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BDA rebrands ESPN
Design company BDA has rebranded the ESPN Classic sports channel, with new idents and on-air elements. Senior designer Andrew Olley created the new look, using Clarity Pixel Promo. The new on-air design airs early next year.
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Thomson IPTV move
Media giant Thomson has acquired French IPTV platform provider Thales Broadcast & Multimedia for around£87.7m. The deal will give the Thomson group end-to-end products and services in the IPTV, mobile TV and digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) markets. It is the second acquisition made by Thomson this month, after it bought ...
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BBC HD doc finished
BBC Resources has secured the editing and grading work on the three-part HD documentary Galapagos for BBC Natural History and the National Geographic Channel. BBC Post Production Bristol is providing the HD tapeless post-production solution to support the series, which explores the history, landscape and wildlife of the islands, and ...
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Studio AKA does Nick Jr idents
Studio AKA has created the channel idents for Nickelodeon UK's Nick Jr channel. The idents, directed by AKA's Mic Graves, depict a pop-up world featuring cut-out animals in festive mode. Ben Boquelet, Emilie Boyard, Boris Kossmehl, Rob Latimer and Fabienne Rivory animated in 3D using Softimage XSI. James Gaillard rendered ...
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Evolutions grades Snow Queen
Evolutions has completed the mastering and grading of Intro's first film venture, The Snow Queen, a 56-minute film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fantasy story combining music by composer Peter K Joyce and poetry. Evolutions senior editors Nick King and Owen Tyler conducted the mastering using a digital tape ...
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Pepper finishes Life on Mars
Pepper has completed the post-production on BBC Production's Life on Mars, a 6 x 60-minute drama series about a detective who wakes from an accident to find himself living in 1973. Shot on super 16mm Kodak stock, the grade was designed to give a 1970s film effect. Senior colourist Jet ...
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BBC Scotland lures C4 comedy talent
BBC Scotland has recruited a string of Channel 4 comedy talent for its latest sitcom, in the hope of securing its reputation as a centre for comedy.
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Tompkinson makes directorial debut forBBC daytime
Stephen Tompkinson, star of Ballykissangel and Drop the Dead Donkey, is to make his directorial debut for BBC1's daytime schedule.
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Tern wins first cartoon commissions
Scottish indie Tern TV has secured its first animation commissions, with a series for Channel 4 Education and a pilot for BBC Scotland.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Tim Stott
The director of programmes for the cinema channel Inside Movies (working title), which is launching on Sky Digital this February, is on the lookout for film-focused formats to inspire cinema attendance.
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Done and Dusted spotlights new bands
Music producer Done and Dusted is to profile the year's most successful new bands for a Channel 4 miniseries. The indie has been commissioned to make Carling's New Kings - a 3 x 30-minute series co-funded by beer maker Carling through its marketing company, Cake. The episodes will follow Hard-Fi, ...
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Digital Classics in market for another indie
Digital Classics is lining up another major acquisition in the wake of its purchase of Box TV.
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BBC1 to offer 'brain workout'
BBC1 is following up Test the Nation with a Saturday night 'brain workout' show from Northern Irish indie Wild Rover Productions.
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Initial makes drama in Northern Ireland
Endemol-owned producer Initial has been commissioned by CITV to make a children's drama series co-funded by the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC). Bel's Boys follows the life of a nine-year-old pop music fanatic, who manages a boy band. The show will be produced over six months in the ...
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ITV profiles Cosgrove Hall founders
Cosgrove Hall founders Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall are to be profiled in an ITV1 documentary. Made in Manchester Productions, the company formed by swimming champion James Hickman, is making Cartoon Kings to mark the animation company's 30th anniversary in the spring. The show will be narrated by David Jason ...
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Splash in Five deal
Splash Media, the indie set up by former BBC entertainment commissioners Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis, has landed its first development deal. The indie ' set up with the backing of The Television Corporation when the pair left the BBC in September ' is developing an entertainment format for Five ...
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Bids for NE licence
Ofcom has received 13 applications for the north-east FM commercial radio licence, including three bids from foreign companies. US firm Emmis International, Canadian company CanWest, which recently won the Solent licence, and Australian investment bank Macquarie have entered bids for the licence, which will reach a potential 2 million listeners. ...
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Virgin satellites
Virgin Radio has been granted two more satellite licences from regulator Ofcom. The two further licences are for female-skewed stations, one a ballad-based station targeting 40-plus females, and the second a pop/dance offering aimed at 15 to 29-year-olds. They come on top of two other satellite licences held by the ...
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Ofcom drops review
Ofcom has scrapped its review of the TV advertising market, including the controversial ITV contract rights renewal (CRR) mechanism, after conceding there was nothing wrong with it. The regulator had pencilled in a review of the market earlier this year but today admitted 'the case supporting the need for a ...