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Mainframe titles BBC sitcom
Mainframe has designed the titles for comedy According to Bex. The BBC comedy department-produced sitcom stars Jessica Stevenson ( Spaced, Sean of the Dead) as a secretary in a world of near misses. Lead designer Mike Alderson created the titles in After Effects ...
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ArenaP3 hails the Messiah
ArenaP3 has completed post-production on Objective Productions' Derren Brown: Messiah, a 60-minute special for Channel 4, in which Brown is filmed tricking Americans. Director Tim Knight and producer Debbie Young shot on Super 8 and Digibeta. Editing was by offline editors Guy Savin and Tristram Giff ...
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Pepper pot comedy for Baby Cow
Pepper has graded new Johnny Vegas comedy series I Dealfor Baby Cow Productions. Vegas plays a small-time dope dealer in Manchester who lives and works from his bedsit, and who sees himself as providing a service to the community. Colourist Jet Omoshebi worked with director of ...
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Digital triumphs in Xmas ratings
The terrestrial broadcasters suffered their lowest combined Christmas audience share ever as multichannel broadcasters continued to gain ground.
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Wife Swap producer sues Fox for $18m
RDF Media could set a legal precedent for reality producers in the US after it filed an $18m (£9.5m) case against US network Fox for allegedly ripping off its flagship Wife Swapformat.
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Brook Lapping duo given CBEs
Husband and wife documentary team Anne and Brian Lapping were among the broadcasting figures recognised in the new year honours list.
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Russia buys The Bill
Russian terrestrial broadcaster Center TV has licensed 140 episodes of ITV's The Bill. The channel, which has already aired 50 instalments of the Thames-produced series, will screen the new episodes early this year. Meanwhile, Estonian free-to-air channel TV3 has picked up 130 episodes of Australian soap ...
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Benny Hill in the US
BBC America is building on the recent popularity of The Benny Hill Showby acquiring another string of episodes. After debuting the show in October last year, the BBC's US service has signed up for a further 85 episodes of the Thames Television show.
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Sky goes early with Five news
Five brought forward the handover of its news operation from ITN to Sky News by two days following the Asian tsunami disaster. Instead of launching on Monday (3 January), Sky News produced two short updates on the disaster that were broadcast on Five at 9pm on Saturday and Sunday (1 ...
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Sit-up to launch two movie channels
TV shopping broadcaster Sit-up is to expand by launching two movie channels in the spring. Real-movies.tv will feature TV and cinematic releases based on real-life events, and Movies on 333 will consist of westerns and showcase the best student films. Sit-up is currently sourcing material and is set to do ...
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Ofcom urges digital radio expansion
Ofcom has proposed a radical expansion of the radio industry, including the launch of at least 100 local digital stations. In the first of a two-stage industry review, a block of local licences is proposed to plug gaps in the UK's digital radio map. On medium wave, 10 new analogue ...
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Fuller's 19 sees profits go up by 6%
19 Entertainment, the company that co-produces hit format Pop Idol with Thames, has reported a 6% rise in annual profits. The company, run by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, made pre-tax profits of£10.1m in the year to 30 June, up from£9.6m the year before. American Idol, the US version ...
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Red button raises£800,000 for appeal
The Community Channel's red-button interactive donations service has raised more than£800,000 for the Asian tsunami appeal in seven days. The service, launched on 29 December by The Community Channel, is expected to reach the£1m mark soon.
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Hot seats 2005
The leaders of the UK's major television broadcasters are all facing tough tests in 2005
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NewsReporting the disaster
Broadcasters, like the rest of the world, were caught on the hop when the massive tsunami slammed against the coastlines of a dozen south-east Asian countries early on Boxing Day morning.
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NewsTop ITV Sport job goes to Sharman
Former Sky Networks deputy managing director Mark Sharman is set to be named as ITV's new controller of sport, following Brian Barwick's departure to take over at the Football Association.
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NewsBrook to float Nation 217 on stock market
The Optimistic Network, the interactive business set up by former Channel 4 director of strategy David Brook, is set to float on the Stock Exchange later this month at a value of£27m.
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NewsSky premieres new series of 24 on Freeview
Sky is to show the first episode of the new series of 24on its free-to-air channel Sky Travel as well as Sky One in a bid to lure Freeview viewers who get hooked on the cult series to upgrade to pay-TV.
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First-hand account: Tsunami
Matthew Chance is a London-based CNN correspondent and a member of the international network's team reporting the aftermath of the Asian tsunami.
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Discovery offers Younge US role
BBC Sport head of programmes and planning Pat Younge is set to follow his former BBC colleague Jane Root across the Atlantic after being approached by Discovery Communications to run its Travel Channel.