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MD post for Graves
General manager Rupert Graves has been promoted to managing director of TSI TX. The position has been created for Graves and will see his responsibilities expand as he takes a seat on the TSI TX board of directors, a place that he deserves, according to TSI managing director Simon Peach, ...
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Rushes hires Aubry
Post production house Rushes has signed up French Flame and Inferno artist Philippe Aubry. Aubry most recently worked at Cinesite, where he was responsible for the Inferno shots on the feature films King Arthur and Harry Potter and the Prisoner ...
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Investment plans
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought high-definition equipment to satisfy an upsurge in demand for the format. The recent purchase of four Sony HDC-950C2 high-def cameras and two HDCam recorders brings Presteigne's HD investment to more than£2.2m this year. One of the HD cameras was dry hired by the BBC for ...
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Filmlight kit sale
Soho post-production facilities Molinare and Framestore CFC have both bought Filmlight's new Baselight 8 grading system. The kit, which costs from Eu130,000 (£88,568), has been designed to be used as a 'hero suite' for high-end film grading.
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VMI purchase
Soho-based VMI has bought a high-definition DLA-HD2K projector from JVC. The addition of the projector will provide a state-of-the-art HD cinema for clients to view rushes and HD final edits. The HD-2K projector has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with a total of 6.3 million pixels, and a contrast ...
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Farm Group goes to the farm
The Farm Group is providing the on-location editing facilities for Five's new factual series The Farm , and has graded all its on-air promotional material. The Endemol reality show drags celebrities from their urban lives to work on a farm. Eighteen editors will work round ...
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BBC team visit the Shoebox Zoo
BBC Post Production's 3D animation and digital team has designed CGI-animated characters for new CBBC series Shoebox Zoo. The show sees teenager Marnie discover ancient Celtic woodcarvings in an old shoebox. The creatures spring to life to enlist Marnie's help in finding a magical ...
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422 makes Sky's Sci-fi Moments
422 Manchester has produced the opening titles for Sky One's Ultimate Sci-fi Top 10 Moments. Three programmes explore the greatest moments of science fiction in popular culture. Designer Gareth Price designed and produced the sequence, in which a camera flies through a futuristic database ...
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Stars win Shine a clutch of orders
Shine has secured a raft of entertainment commissions, including a show for Five examining how ugly celebrities manage to pull beautiful people.
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RDF series looks at historical crimes
RDF Media is developing a drama series about real-life murders from Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of country house whodunnit Gosford Park.
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C4 devotes season to Robbie Williams
Channel 4 has lined up a Robbie Williams season featuring an original documentary and a studio interview with the pop star. C4's editor for youth strand T4 and music, Neil McCallum, has commissioned an hour-long documentary entitled Robbie Williams: The Show Off Must Go On for primetime transmission in October. ...
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BBC1 orders second New Tricks series
Indie Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a second series of BBC1 crime drama New Tricks. The new run has been extended to 8 x 60-minute episodes following the success of the original 6 x 60-minutes series, which pulled in about 8 ...
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Sky Puts the reality slot on Limos
Sky One has commissioned a reality series following the lives of limousine drivers in the UK. Made by Landmark Films, the 6 x 6-minute Limo Fever will spotlight the owners of limousine companies and their clients. Series produced by Rod Parker and directed by Jon ...
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Shed sets up kids and factual arms
Footballers' Wives ' producer Shed Productions has set up a kids division after securing a commission for a seven-part thriller for CiTV.
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C4 extends celebrity Big Brother show
Celebrity Big Brother will be returning to Channel 4 for a third series early next year. After the success of Big Brother 5 this summer, its celebrity spin-off has been stretched from 10 days to two weeks and will feature eight celebrity housemates instead of ...
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Bravo ties up with Men's Health for series
Bravo has teamed up with magazine publisher Rodale to air a masthead series based on fitness title Men's Health.
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Dalziel and Pascoe Gets another run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a further run of long-running detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. The series, which will air as four batches of 2 x 60-minute episodes from February, will again star Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the two detectives. It ...
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S4C Takes a second trip up the Aisle
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned a second run of wedding-themed format Y Briodas Fawr. It will again see six Welsh celebrities organise a real wedding and pitch in by baking the cake, taking the photos and playing the organ during the service. S4C commissioning ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Kim Peat
Five controller of daytime, arts and religion thinks Spitalfields in London is a great example of religion and art crossing over and has an idea in development that will help to make drawing sexy
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Green Inc nets RTE contract
Comedian Patrick Kielty's Belfast-based indie Green Inc has secured an order for 150 hours of programming from Irish state broadcaster RTE.