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Penguin Television to shut after one year
Penguin Television, the TV production division of the Pearson-owned publishing group, is set to close after only a year in business. The venture will wind down operations by the end of the year and its founder, John Holler, and his 14-strong team will be made redundant. Founded for an initial ...
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Format Focus: Taking Care of Business
It seems likely this US format, in which experts turn around failing businesses, will come to UK screens.
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CTVC to desert Hillside Studios
Indie CTVC is abandoning its Hillside Studios facility in Hertfordshire and moving its offices to central London.
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Pannaman snaps up JCA Facilities
Nick Pannaman, the founder of post-production group TVP, has made a surprise comeback with the purchase of broadcast services company JCA TV Facilities.
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MPC sale goes through at last for£53m
ITV has at last sold its visual effects facility the Moving Picture Company (MPC) to Thomson for£52.7m.
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Teachers' TV playout
Teachers' TV has awarded three-year contracts to Ascent Media Network (AMNSE) Services Europe and NTL Broadcast to supply playout, transmission and satellite delivery for the channel. Programmes will be played out from the Central Playout Facility in Stephen Street, connected by fibre to a teleport in Winchester, uplinked and ...
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Lola buys Flame
Visual effects facility Lola has bought another Flame and an HDCam tape deck. The compositing and finishing tool was purchased for use on the BBC's docu-drama Supervolcano and has also been used on the latest Maroon 5 video. Reseller XTFX completed the deal. Lola is run by Oscar-winning compositor Rob ...
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BBC2 Finds Santa
The Image Foundry and Manchester University have completed a reconstruction of what Santa Claus really looked liked. The Real Face of Santa , produced by Atlantic Product-ions, pieces together a 3D image of Saint Nicholas that owes more to his fourth-century Turkish roots and bruiser ...
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Craft workshops
Next year's Broadcast Production Show will feature two new elements. Acknowledging the rise in interactive and branded TV the 2005 show will host a workshop called The Channel Centre. There is also a new feature for cameramen, DoPs, lighting directors and videographers called the Camera Skills & Craft Work-shops which ...
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ITN/Fox footage deal
ITN and Fox News have come to an agreement that will create the biggest news stock footage service in the US market and make historical Fox News footage available worldwide for the first time. ITN Archive will take over the commercial management of the Fox News video library and the ...
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Skaramoosh posts Burrell doc
Skaramoosh has completed editing, animation and finishing on an October Films documentary about butler Paul Burrell's experiences working for the royal family. Skaramoosh used previously unseen stills placed in 3D environments to recreate scenes and key events. The art direction and animation was done by Piers Helm, the online and ...
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St Anne's Sherlock Holmes case
St Anne's Post has completed the grade, dubbing mix and online on Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking. The Tiger Aspect production required extra atmosphere and sense of period from the grade so senior colourist Vince Narduzzo added smoke effects to ...
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BBC1 turns to 2AM for Christmas
2AM Films has produced Christmas idents for BBC1. The interstitials are built around an idea submitted by a 10 year-old Blue Peter viewer as part of competition to design an ident. It features more than 30 kids and is called Bouncy Puddings. Andy Margetson was ...
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BBC docs exec to boost Bristol
Producers in Bristol have welcomed the BBC's decision to move a key factual commissioner to the city, saying it will boost both in-house and indie production.
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Viewers to decide civil disputes in live BBC1 special
BBC1 has commissioned a major live interactive special from Test the Nation producer Talent Television that will allow viewers to decide the outcome of civil disputes.
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BBC: wait until March for job cut details
Unions have been told by the BBC that they must wait until March for exact details on plans to slash jobs and programme budgets.
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C4 to follow urban musical
Channel 4 is giving new talent the chance to develop an urban musical as part of a creative partnership with Theatre Royal Stratford East.
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ITV sheds a further 80 jobs in regional cutbacks
ITV is to wipe a further 80 jobs off its regional head count with cuts in the north, Anglia and ITV Wales.
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Ofcom gets Freeview box figures wrong
Ofcom has admitted that it overestimated the number of Freeview households in the UK by more than 400,000.
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BBC3 showcases docs in winter line-up
BBC3 has put documentaries centre stage in its winter season.