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Turner picks TCM VP
Turner Entertainment has promoted its group account director for the company's ad sales team, Alan Musa, to the role of vice-president, channel manager for movie offering TCM (Turner Classic Movies). Musa will be responsible for the channel in the UK, Scandinavia, central eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He ...
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Sky ratings panel
BSkyB is setting up a research panel that will measure the viewing habits of digital satellite households across the UK. The panel will be four times the size of that used by the official television ratings body Barb, taking in 20,000 homes. However, unlike Barb, it will record viewing in ...
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Irish comics set for BBC2
The co-writer of Channel 4 hit comedy Father Ted , Arthur Matthews, is working on an all-Irish comedy sketch show for BBC2, writes Paul Revoir.
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Terrorist attack on financial systems at heart of new show
The critically acclaimed 'doomsday drama' The Day Britain Stopped is set for a return to BBC2 after the channel's controller, Jane Root, commissioned a follow-up from Wall to Wall, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC1 series to look at greats of UK design
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has green lit two major arts series looking at key British designers and how different areas of the country have influenced artists, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C4 goes backstage with motorhead
Ideal World is to chart the exploits of 1980s rock band Motorhead in a 50-minute documentary for Channel 4. Motorhead: Live Fast Die Old follows the behind-the-scenes action on the band's latest UK tour and chronicles the adventures of frontman Lemmy who, at 57, is ...
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Central to air house-building challenge
ITV1 Central has ordered a new series from Carlton and indie Newman Productions, which follows a race to build two brand new houses from scratch. The 7 x 30-minute series, which is also being made into a longer 10 x 30-minute series for Discovery Home and Leisure, is called ...
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Celebrities to be made to learn Welsh
Janet Street-Porter and former Hi De Hi star Ruth Madoc are two of the stars set to take part in a Welsh language Big Brother-style show commissioned by S4C. Cariad@iaith , produced by Cardiff-based indie Fflic, will follow a selection of celebrities as they study ...
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Pozzitive wins returns for R4 comedies
Pozzitive Productions has won a raft of comedy recommissions from BBC Radio 4 for later this year. A third series of scripted comedy Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off will feature six further outings for Marcus Brigstocke's intrepid but idiotic middle-class traveller. Pozzitive will also produce ...
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Avid buys German software outfit
Editing and graphics equipment manufacturer Avid Technology has bought the German company NXN Software in a cash transaction worth around£24m, writes Farah Jifri.
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Apple-based facility opens in London
Exactly 20 years after the first Apple Macintosh computer was sold as a consumer product, a post-production facility has been set up in London based purely on Apple G5s, writes John Oates.
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BBC Broadcast ups capability
BBC Broadcast is to tighten up the playout operations at its Broadcast Centre facility in preparation for the launch of services from the site in April.
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MPC finishes Hustle promos
MPC has completed effects work on a series of promos for a BBC1 drama about confidence tricksters called Hustle.
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Station ties the knot with RDF
The Station has put together the titles for RDF's Wedding Day. The 5 x 30-minute ITV1 series follows a happy couple on their big day.
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422 South takes Crisis control
422 South has produced visual effects, computer animations, maps and diagrams as well as on-screen graphics for BBC2's Crisis Command.
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Ascent fills gaps
Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace its departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two managing directors. Terry Downing will be the new chief financial officer - he was previously finance director at AOL UK. David Barrett becomes managing ...
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Soho Editors to Eire
London post-production talent company Soho Editors is to open a division in Dublin. The company will be run by managing director Therese Caldwell, previously of The Farm Digital Post Production. Soho Editors Ireland will represent Irish editors, compositors and sound engineers as well as all other post-production disciplines to the ...
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Leitch hires CEO
Leitch Technology Corporation has appointed Tim Thorsteinson as president and chief executive. Thorsteinson joins Leitch after leaving his position at Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions where he was responsible for the broadcast product line. Formerly the president of the video and networking division of Tektronix, Thorsteinson also ran ...
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MPC buys licences
The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has picked up another batch of plug-in licences from visual effects sparks developer The Foundry. The company has purchased 22 remote-processing licences and four full licences of Furnace for their Shake systems. Paddy Eason, visual effects supervisor at The Moving Picture Company, said that the ...
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NewsFremantle picks Mentorn founder
Tom Gutteridge, the founder of indie Mentorn, has been appointed chief executive of Fremantle Media's North American production operation, which makes the US' number-one show American Idol.