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C4 to air more tales from river cottage
Channel 4 commissioning editor, features Emma Westcott has commissioned a follow-up to River Cottage for the autumn schedule. Beyond River Cottage follows another year in the life of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he attempts to convert a series of ramshackle barns ...
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Frost to do occasional interview series
The BBC has commissioned an occasional interview series featuring Sir David Frost after confirming his long-running Sunday morning show Breakfast with Frost is to end. The Frost Interview - part of a new three-year deal signed by Frost with the ...
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BBC1 brings the Rotters' club to life
The creators of Auf Weidersehen, Pet , Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, have been commissioned to adapt best-selling novel The Rotters' Club for BBC1. The book, by Jonathan Coe, tells the story of a group of Birmingham teenagers in ...
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VTR restructure pushes out Cadle
The VTR Group is undergoing a major restructure in which Dave Cadle has been replaced as Blue's managing director by Danny Whybrow, former managing director of The Machine Room.
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Outpost Digital opens HD site in move to Noho
US Facility house Outpost Digital is opening a purpose-built HD facility in Gresse Street, north of Oxford Street in London, so it can compete in both short-form and long-form markets.
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Saunders joins Evolutions
Evolutions Television has taken on Saunders and Gordon founder Robin Saunders as dubbing mixer to staff its new audio suite as it pursues short-form business.
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Wright picks Skin
Max Wright has turned down the role of creative manager at Discovery Networks to join design agency Skin as copywriter/director. Wright joins from Bruce Dunlop Associates where he was a creative manager for the Hallmark Channel's promo output. He also worked across projects for Simple, Ford and Land Rover. Wright ...
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Molinare hiring
Compositor Stuart Highsted has joined Molinare from M2. Highsted, who has previously worked on rebranding for MTV and Discovery, joins the Fouberts Place facility to drive its new HD Nitris. Managing director Mark Foligno said: 'Stuart's been brought in to bolster our high-end visual effects and CGI team as we ...
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The Mill upgrades
Visual effects company The Mill is centralising its workflow by upgrading its 26 Flame, Smoke, Inferno and Backdraft systems and is purchasing a new Smoke. The new versions give the systems multi-resolution capabilities, which make it easier to deal with projects that have been shot across a range of formats. ...
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IBC award to Turner
International media mogul Ted Turner has been awarded the IBC International Honour for Excellence award in recognition of his skill in exploiting the potential of media technology advancements within broadcast delivery. Turner's CNN was the first news channel to become a 24-hour service and was a pioneer of the video-on-demand ...
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Two Way names CTO
Two Way TV has appointed Simon Teppet as its new chief technology officer. Teppet leaves his position of vice president of technology, interactive services division at Chello Broadband. He was previously head of new media technology at Sky. Two Way TV's previous CTO, Richard Kydd, left to join NTL as ...
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Blue finishes Blakeway's Diana
Blue has finished work on Diana for Blakeway Productions. The 90-minute documentary, a follow-up of Blakeway's The Queen's Story of 2002, examines the impact on the royal family of the princess's death and the constant posthumous revelations. Online editor Clive Mattock completed the online, colourist ...
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NewsNAB Show Focus: Tapeless HD cameras
Slightly further down the camera food chain from the Red One and the D-20, camera operators and facilities may well be discussing the merits of tapeless high definition cameras from Panasonic, Ikegami and Sony.
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Farm Group posts Love for Ealin
The Farm Group has completed post on The Great Love Swindle for Ealing Studios. In the six-part series four self-proclaimed expert daters compete to get a woman to say 'I love you'; However, the women are actresses briefed to make their lives hell. The titles ...
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E4 tunes up new idents in-house
E4 Creative Services has created a set of 10 continuity idents for the channel. The idents feature a group of five lounge-lizard musicians clad in E4-purple-coloured retro velvet suits playing muzak in a variety of different locations, including an aircraft hangar and the balcony of a council flat. The original ...
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BBC1 to restage Trafalgar battle
One of history's most decisive sea confrontations, the battle of Trafalgar, is to be dramatised as part of a raft of major BBC1 factual commissions.
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Kerrang!'s launch leader steps down
The managing director of West Midlands rock station Kerrang! 105.2, Lynne Wood, has quit with no job to go to.
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NewsAirey questions C4/Five tie-up
Former Five chief executive Dawn Airey has spoken out against a possible merger of her former employer with Channel 4, suggesting the deal does not make sense.
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Lawrence joins Sky One as exec producer
Former World of Wonder head of development Jacquie Lawrence has joined Sky One as an executive producer on a three-month contract.
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Carr pilot for C4
Channel 4 head of entertainment Andrew Newman is piloting a topical panel show, which will be hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr. The show, entitled 8 out of 10 Cats , is a non-broadcast pilot, which will be produced by indie Endemol.