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Lean times for kids TV
If junk food advertising on children's TV is banned it won't just be the kids who get thinner - cash-starved channels will slash originality and stuff schedules with repeats and cheap programming
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Trouble has inked a deal with Decode Entertainment to screen MTV Animation series Undergrads
Trouble has inked a deal with Decode Entertainment to screen MTV Animation series Undergrads. The 13 x 30-minute series follows the misadventures of a group of friends in their first year at college. It will begin its run on Trouble next month.
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Fund for animation
Producers' alliance Pact is calling on the government to set up an indie animation fund to help support the UK's struggling industry. Supported by broadcasters including ITV, Pact is looking for investment of around£50m over a number of years for the fund, which it said could eventually be self-sustaining. The ...
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Fox to launch Fuel
Fox International Channels is launching another of its US channels in the UK. Targeting 13 to 24 year-olds, Fuel will launch in the fourth quarter of this year and show music, entertainment and extreme sports such as skateboarding, surfing and BMX. Fox, which launched FX on Sky in January, is ...
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BBC strike threat
Staff at BBC Worldwide are on the verge of strike action following a disagreement over its latest pay offer. BBC Worldwide has offered to pay an inflation-inked 2.6% increase but has turned down union demands for a 5% rise. In response, the National Union of Journalists and broadcast union Bectu ...
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Radio 1 rejigs shows
Dave Pearce has been dropped from his 18.00 drivetime dance show on BBC Radio 1, but will continue to present a Sunday evening show. Meanwhile, DJ Zane Lowe will get a regular early evening slot to showcase new music. Veteran DJ John Peel retains his three weeknight slots but is ...
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Suggs on Virgin
Virgin Radio is giving Madness frontman Suggs his own evening show but has dropped specialist DJ Captain America. Suggs will host a three-hour show, Virgin Party Classics, from 19.00 every Friday. The show will play tracks from the likes of Robbie Williams, the Beatles and Soft Cell. Nick Stewart, who ...
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Skillset training for first jobbers
Skillset is piloting a£250,000 scheme to help train first jobbers working in post-production.
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MTV wins Leicester Square studio appeal
MTV is back on course to open its£1m-plus studio in Leicester Square after assuring Westminster City Council that the pull
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Symphony kit at Sanctuary
Sanctuary Post has bought an Avid Symphony online edit system in response to client demand, shortly after buying two Nitris DS HD systems earlier in the year.
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CTVC lands D-Day Despatches
CTVC has finished post-production on Optomen's D-Day Despatches. The show has been produced as a news programme, covering the landings which took place 60 years ago. The 5 x 15-minute series is in a modern format, using all the associated contemporary technology. Post was completed at the Bushy-based CTVC and ...
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St Anne's acts on Omagh drama
St Anne's Post has recently completed the post on Tiger Aspect/ Hell's Kitchen International's Omagh. The drama is based on the infamous 1998 bombing, the search for the perpetrators and the unmet need for a thorough examination. St Anne's Jamie Shemeld did the online work, while Kevin Brazier and ...
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BBC triumphs on RTS sports day
The BBC dominated this year's Royal Television Society Sports Awards, picking up eight awards with ITV and Channel 4 each picking up three.
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Jump tackles war film titles
Jump has produced opening titles and programme graphics for BBC documentary One Day at War. The titles introduce 16 people who were filmed for a day on 22 March 2004. The trait they had in common was that they live in places affected by conflict. Keith Livingstone designed and composited ...
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Yentob to paint a picture of Britain
Alan Yentob, the BBC's director of drama, entertainment and children's, is set to present another series for the corporation. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has asked Yentob - who fronts the Imagine arts strand - to host the forthcoming 6 x 60-minute A Picture of Britain ...
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Granada promotion
Granada development producer Clare Thompson has been appointed head of development for the company's entertainment division. Thompson, who devised Granada show American Princess for NBC, will now oversee the merger of Carlton and Granada's development teams. She replaces Siobhan Greene who has left to join Simon Cowell's new production company.
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Discreet acquisition
Discreet has bought Unreal Pictures, developer of the award-winning character animation tool Character Studio. The move brings Character Studio in-house after nearly four years of collaboration, tying it permanently to Discreet's 3ds Max. Discreet now has full intellectual property and patent ownership to Unreal software and, importantly, retains the services ...
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Waller joins red
Colourist Tim Waller has joined Red. Waller, who started at SVC grading classic promos such as Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love before moving to MPC, has joined from his post as head of telecine at Dublin's Windmill Lane Pictures. His work included commercials for Guinness, Vodafone and Carlsberg. Red managing ...
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Second EQ at AHC
AHC Post has installed a second Quantel EQ, less than a year after buying its first, to cope with a demand for HD work. It has also bought a Quantel QEdit Pro editing system, which will be networked with the two eQs to handle preparation and SD-only work. 'It's been ...
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Jelly TV buys smoke
Bristol-based Jelly TV has bought the UK's first Smoke on Linux system for£50,000. The graphics and animation specialist decided to buy it on the back of recent successful projects for the BBC: Curriculum Bites for BBC Education and Time Machine for the Natural History Unit. Jelly delivered over 300 SFX ...