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Barry to manage United MTV channels
MTV Networks has promoted Michael Barry to the newly created role of senior vice-president, managing director Music, MTV Networks UK & Ireland in a move that sees all nine VH1 and MTV channels managed together for the first time. Traditionally the three VH1 channels as well as The Music Factory ...
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Paramount buys gruesome clip show
Paramount Comedy has picked up a new clip show dubbed the You've Been Framedfor the Jackass generation. You've Been Maimedis a 20 x 30-minute series from Black Diamond Films - the producer/distributor's first commission - featuring stomach-churning mishaps from around the world. ...
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ITV1 in charity gig coup
ITV1 is to broadcast the Asda Tickled Pink breast cancer awareness event, featuring music acts including Westlife and Sheryl Crow, for its Saturday night schedule.
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Shoebox Zoo to be unleashed once again
BBC kids series Shoebox Zoo has won a second series commission and is being shown on the CBBC Channel before transferring to BBC1. The animation features the voices of Simon Callow, Rik Mayall and Jason Connery and is a co-production between CBBC Scotland, Los Angeles-based producer Blueprint Entertainment and Canadian ...
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Bravo takes Bullrun rally by the horns
Bravo has commissioned Giant Film and TV to produce coverage of this year's Bullrun 2005 race in the US. Dubbed the
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Discovery stocks up for Christmas
Discovery Real Time channel director Paul Welling has greenlit more than 50 hours of programming for the channel's pre-Christmas and early 2006 schedules.
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All Out assault bags six commissions for R4 and 1Xtra
Radio indie All Out Productions has won six commissions for BBC Radio 4 and 1Xtra's autumn line-ups.
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Avid refit lifts Emap post
Emap Performance has upgraded its in-house posting facilities with Avid Adrenalines and an Avid Xpress with Mojo with a view to offering posting services on a commercial basis.
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Strongroom equips for HD video work
Broadcast audio specialist Strongroom has invested£100,000 on an Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD and an Avid Symphony Universal with 1.2 terabytes of storage supplied by reseller Altered Images in a bid to break into HD video.
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Granada trials remote editing
The world of mobile, on-location editing has come a step closer with Granada pioneering an internet-based system to log and perform basic editing on PCs with broadband internet access.
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Rainbow moves offlining to second office
Soho facility Rainbow Post Production has opened a new office in Hammersmith and splashed out£150,000 on four Final Cut Pro editing systems, each backed up with 3.2 terabytes of storage.
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Location trailers for BBC World
BBC World sent a production team to locations as diverse as New York's Times Square, an Indian paddy field and Tiananmen Square in China for its latest series of 60-second channel trailers. Directed by BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudoir, the aim was to emphasise BBC World's on-location news reporting. Shot on ...
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London Post titles Five fantasy
Britain's Sexual Fantasieswere the subject of the latest titles sequence by London Post, for an hour long documentary for Five to air on 5 September. The Tiger Aspect show, based on a survey of 18,000 people, looks at the science of sexual fantasies, through the eyes ...
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New look for Discovery strands
English & Pockett has teamed up with illustrator Sean Sims and The Hive to create fresh channel branding for Discovery Real Time's five weeknight programme strands; Motors, Property, Retreat, Build and Fishing. Directed by English & Pockett creative director Michael Berthon and produced by Lisa Akhurst, animation was done at ...
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Vizrt updates Trio
2D and true 3D broadcast graphics outfit Vizrt will unveil a new version of its VizTrio flagship real-time 3D character generator and the new entry-level VizTrio NV character generator at this year's IBC. The company's software provides caption and graphics generation, Leading broadcasters, such as ITN, BBC Sports, Sky Sports, ...
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DGP diversifies
Digital post house DGP has leased extra office space to make room for DVD post-production kit plus an Autodesk upgrade to accommodate extra graphics work. The facility also offers two Flint visual effects systems, one of which has been upgraded to version 9.5 for faster compositing and advanced graphics.
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Dinosaurs test MPC
MPC has completed 220 visual effects shots totalling 40 minutes of screen time for the BBC's documentary mini-series The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs, a co-production with Discovery and ZDF. The complicated CGI process saw MPC create a new software programme for texturing lifelike feathers for the ...
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Animals animated
Bristol-based graphics house DarkhorseFX has created titles and graphics for Tiger Aspect's HD natural history series Final Chance to Save?Designers Adrian Woodward and Craig Higgins created and animated 2D animals and maps in Photoshop and Avid Illusion. The Farm posted the series which airs on Sky ...
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Cut-price training
Soho Editors Training is offering a series of Skillset-subsidised Final Cut Pro courses throughout September and October. The courses are likely to be in demand following the BBC decision to trial the Apple desktop editing system in its factual and learning department. Soho Editors Training is the first Apple-authorised training ...
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Smith rallies radio for digital deadline
Former culture secretary Chris Smith has urged the UK radio industry to move towards establishing a switch-off date for analogue radio.