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NewsCinelab London recruits Harlow as sales director
Cinelab London has appointed industry veteran Roger Harlow to the post of sales director.
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NewsPost firm VTR North sold in pre-pack administration deal
Administrators have sold the Leeds-based post house VTR North and its assets to CNBB Ltd, a new company set-up by four of its directors.
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NewsITN Productions adds CardAgent to workflow
ITN Productions’ post department has added Root6 Technology’s CardAgent application to its ContentAgent workflow system so that it can automate the processes it goes through when ingesting footage from camcorder memory cards.
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NewsStandalone drama stories in demand
Drama executives from ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have issued a call for contemporary stories, as well as episodic, ‘story-ofthe- week’ series.
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NewsComedy commissioners draw up their wishlists
Six of the UK’s top comedy commissioners set out their stalls at the Broadcast Commissioning Forum, opening up about their priority slots, tone and talent.
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NewsPolly Hill: celebrate British drama
Polly Hill has suggested that the UK is “too British” about celebrating drama success stories, as she hailed the genre’s role in making the case for the BBC’s future.
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NewsMark Billingham lands second BBC1 adaptation
Mark Billingham’s crime novel In The Dark is to be adapted into a four-part “darkly funny” drama for BBC1.
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NewsCuration central to BBC Store
The BBC is to tap into its heritage of curating television to help set apart its download-to-own service from rivals.
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NewsMark Linsey comes out fighting
BBC acting director of television Mark Linsey has launched a fullscale defence of the distinctiveness of the corporation’s content after ITV’s criticism last week.
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NewsVidispine adds key new features to VSA platform
Vidispine has added a number of new transcoding features, better support for Amazon S3 and a new Server Agent application in version 4.4 of its content management platform.
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NewsFlying Colour Company installs Mellanox system
VFX firm The Flying Colour Company has installed a 40/56 Gigabit Ethernet/Infiniband switch system from Mellanox, which it will use to network all of the workstations in its Carnaby Street facility.
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NewsFramestore sets up 360TB Elements One server
London-based Framestore has installed a 360TB Elements One SAN/NAS server and shared storage system for use across its post-production and VFX workflows.
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Reuters-TIMA opens hire facilities in Moscow and Rio
Reuters-TIMA is making live and ENG facilities available for hire in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro.
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RatingsDominic Sandbrook entertains 800k
WEDNESDAY: Dominic Sandbrook entertained a slightly larger audience than watched his previous BBC2 film, as the Mobo Awards’ crowd halved on ITV2.
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NewsPanorama trials digital-only documentary
Panorama is to tell the story of the closure of Redcar’s steelworks via a 50-day digital experiment across Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
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NewsJobs at risk as NBCU merges international channels operations
NBC Universal International Networks is merging its UK and emerging markets businesses, meaning a number of jobs in the regions will come under threat.
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NewsPAC hearing: the key moments
Seven of the BBC’s most senior past and present executives were hauled before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday to explain huge payoffs to senior managers.
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NewsNetflix strikes first pay-TV deal with Virgin
Virgin Media’s TiVo subscribers will be able to access shows including Breaking Bad and House of Cards after the pay-TV platform struck a deal with Netflix.
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NewsITV gears up for Tour De France until 2019
ITV has renewed its agreement with the Tour De France to continue showing the cycling race until 2019.