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NewsBBCW reveals 3D dino epic
BBC Worldwide has joined forces with US producer Evergreen Films to create a 3D dinosaur spectacular.
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NewsBBC kicks off TV Writer's Festival
The BBC’s inaugural TV Writer’s Festival takes place today and tomorrow in Leeds featuring a line-up that includes writers Peter Bowker, Kay Mellor, Peter Flannery and Jed Mercurio alongside commissioners and producers such as the BBC’s Ben Stephenson and John Yorke and Red’s Nicola Shindler.
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NewsMotive TV report profit drop
Motive Television today announced its preliminary results for 2009, showing a fall in gross profit by 34%
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NewsFlagship news programmes 'fighting back'
Sliding audience figures for flagship news programmes are being reversed, despite greater viewer choice on TV and online, research from the broadcasting watchdog indicated today.
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NewsBBC2 plans movie weekend to mark BBC Films tie-up
A weekend of British movies is being lined up to mark the launch of BBC2 as the new home for BBC Films.
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NewsKip Meek named South West Screen chair
Former Ofcom executive Kip Meek has been appointed chairman of South West Screen ahead of a £3m investement into new projects in the region.
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NewsBBC Trust: reveal star salaries
BBC chairman Michael Lyons has outlined a raft of tough new proposals for the BBC, asking for the executive to publish talent pay levels; release the names of stars receiving the biggest salaries; publish all senior managers’ pay without exception and to open up its books to an efficiency review ...
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Barb tests ‘meter’ to measure online viewing
Barb is kicking off a trial of measuring viewing of TV content on PCs and laptops.
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NewsFive web revamp to boost VoD
Five is to overhaul its video-on demand service Demand Five and integrate it more closely with its main Five.tv website.
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NewsIMG Media sets up 24/7 Premier League studio
IMG Sports Media is building a £5m studio to produce and distribute 24-hours-a-day Premier League football content for international broadcasters.
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Prime Focus upgrades 43 Media Composers
Prime Focus is upgrading all 43 of its Media Composer editing systems to the latest software version, a move designed in part to capitalise on Avid’s stereoscopic 3D workflow capabilities.
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NewsCTMS picks up Barcud's Arc assets
Creative and Technical Media Services (CTMS), the owner of Manchester post house 422, has snapped up the assets of Barcud Derwen’s Arc Facilities in Scotland, potentially saving a host of jobs in the process
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RatingsForecast, like team, is rubbish
Ridiculous ratings predictions added to the surrealism, but BBC1 at least ended on a high.
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RatingsCompeting for attention
As the World Cup parps on in South Africa, BBC2 and Channel 4 can defend and define themselves with their own events: Wimbledon and Big Brother. BBC2 even had the additional bonus of a new series of Top Gear.
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RatingsCup runneth over to HD
Share to all the satellite channels during major events on terrestrial TV usually declines, reversing the perpetual upward trend.
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NewsFilm writer pens Hackney drama for C4
The indie behind Poppy Shakespeare and Ronan Bennett, who wrote Johnny Depp movie Public Enemies, are working together on a Channel 4 drama set among the gangs of a Hackney estate.
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RatingsPSB news on the up with big rise after 2006 low
PSB’s flagship news bulletins reversed a downward trend in viewing last year to command an average of 100,000 more viewers than in 2006, according to Ofcom research.
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NewsComplaints and cuts crippling BBC current affairs, says boss
Dealing with complaints and coping with budget cuts are hampering the BBC’s efforts to produce hard-nosed investigative journalism, according to the broadcaster’s head of current affairs.
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NewsPortal pools London 2012 content for BBC
The BBC will fire the starting pistol on its London 2012 Olympic content on 27 July with the launch of a dedicated web portal featuring original content and services.
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NewsBBC and C4 challenged over doc-buying policies
The BBC and Channel 4 are “short-changing” viewers by not airing enough acquired documentaries, according to newly formed pressure group the Documentary Distributors’ Association.