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NewsBSkyB: no plans to follow NTL into mobiles
BSkyB is not planning to offer mobile phones as part of its package anytime in the near future, Jeremy Darroch, chief financial officer has said.
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NewsFive to profile 45-stone woman
8am: A 45-stone woman who risked death to lose two-thirds of her body weight is the subject of a forthcoming Extraordinary People documentary on Five.
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NewsTWI wins African Cup commission
8am: TWI has bagged a£1m contract with the BBC to produce coverage of next year's African Nations Cup.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC3
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Will the appointment of Julian Bellamy be beneficial to BBC3?
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NewsC4's Space Cadets lifts off with 2.6m
Channel 4's Space Cadets experienced some signs of turbulence on its maiden voyage with an average of 2.6 million (11%).
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NewsSky One in output deal with Hallmark
Sky One has signed a two-year output deal with Hallmark Entertainment for rights to 15 mini-series including Human Trafficking, The Poseidon Adventure, Category 7: The End of the World and 10.5: Apocalypse.
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NewsVirgin Mobile rejects NTL bid
NTL's£817m takeover bid for Virgin Mobile has been 'unanimously rejected' by the mobile phone operator.
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Cadle Hunts Soho for Envy talent
Former Blue managing director, Dave Cadle is poaching 45 staff from around six Soho facilities for his new£5.6m post-production facility Envy which opens in the middle of February.
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Industry plays down threat of in-house editing
Broadcasters, facilities and key independents thrashed out the issues of desktop editing and in-house production at Broadcast's first post-production forum last week, held at London's Vinopolis.
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First Post to expand north
Skillset, the training body for the TV and film industry, is expanding its new entrants training scheme, First Post, to Manchester in the new year.
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Blue makes Shameless promo
Blue has completed the post-production for the promo of the new series of Company Pictures' Shameless for Channel 4. The promo, directed by C4's Phil Lind and produced by Peter Maynard, has main character Frank remove the '4' logo and text displayed on screen. Blue's head of visual effects, Chris ...
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Molinare posts Earth Shocks
Molinare has finished the post on Mentorn's Earth Shocks, a co-pro with CBC, Nat Geo and WGBH about earth-changing events in the prehistoric era. The facility's CGI arm, Darkside, created the 3D effects on Lightwave, Vue Infinite and Digital Fusion. Senior dubbing mixers George Foulgham and Billy Mahoney mixed the ...
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Skaramoosh does baby fx
Skaramoosh has designed the special effects for the promo of a Film Australia/National Geographic co-pro, Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?, a documentary about a couple's use of embryo screening technology to save their son's life. Skaramoosh's head of design, Piers Helm, created reflections in a window and cars whizzing past ...
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Hive hires Bradley
VTR-owned animation outfit The Hive has appointed sister company TMR Digital's business development director, Tony Bradley, in the same role. Bradley ran TMR's DVD division for three years. TMR has also invested£500,000 in expanding its telecine department, replacing its Thomson Shadow telecine with a Thomson Spirit Datacine.
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DGP boosts design
DVD post-production facility DGP has recruited Stream Digital Media senior designer Ben Rasmussen to beef up its design department. Rasmussen specialised in 3D and graphics at Stream and will work as senior designer alongside three other designers and compositors, currently on the UMD release of He-Man and the Masters of ...
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ITFC deal with Five
Subtitling specialist ITFC has signed a seven-year deal with Five to provide the channel's VT, materials management and compliance services. The renewed contract, for an undisclosed sum, will see Five moving towards digital storage, editing and distribution, in addition to a full range of post-production services.
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Farm creates space
The Farm has managed all the post-production for Endemol's Space Cadets, in which contestants are duped into believing they are being blasted out to space. All the logging and 24-hour online editing was accomplished on location, using eight Symphonies and around 30 editors. The project was overseen by The Farm's ...
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Thomson invests
Thomson, the service provider and parent company of Technicolor, has acquired a 33.3% stake in HD video editing company Canopus and plans to launch a public tender offer in a deal worth around£61.8m. The deal comes as part of Thomson's two-year plan to broaden its media and entertainment client base ...
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Evolutions hirings
Post house Evolutions has hired a clutch of recruits, including The Farm Group's Andy Wood as editor; and Avid and linear editor David Moyes of BBC Resources to work on edit and graphics.
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C4 orders second Sugar Rush series
Channel 4 has recommissioned Shine drama Sugar Rush after it became a surprise summer ratings hit.