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NewsGrierson to honour John Pilger
John Pilger will be awarded the Honda Grierson Trustees’ Award on 1 November in recognition of his work as a leading documentary producer.
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NewsCurrent TV orders films from Salford youth
Four local youth groups in Salford have been selected to make eight films to be shown on Current TV as part of a new apprenticeship scheme.
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NewsBusinesses get set for connected TV
Connected TV strategies are being developed by almost two-thirds of brands, ad agencies and media owners, according to a survey conducted by The Internet Advertising Bureaux.
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NewsCrowd-sourced Raptured ready for launch
A crowd-sourced web-only series that reimagines Judgement Day will launch on 21 October, just weeks after the project was started.
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NewsITVS hires BBC drama exec
ITV Studios has poached the BBC executive behind The Curse of Steptoe and a Monkey Kingdom producer to join its new drama unit.
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NewsBaby Jake grows for Darrall Macqueen
Kids indie Darrall Macqueen is to produce a second series of Baby Jake for CBeebies.
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NewsGossip Girl's Schwartz planning Misfits US
Clerkenwell Films has struck a deal with Josh Schwartz, the creative force behind The OC, Gossip Girl and Chuck, to remake teen superhero drama Misfits for US audiences.
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NewsDQF axe falls on BBC comms team
The BBC has informed 16 members of its communications team that they are to be made redundant - one of the first waves of compulsory cuts as part of Delivering Quality First.
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NewsC4 drops Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer’s holiday show Vacation, Vacation, Vacation, will not be returning to Channel 4 for another series.
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NewsBBC's Ariel to go online only
The BBC’s in house newspaper is to fold after 75 years and has gone online only as part of the corporation’s Delivering Quality First cuts.
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NewsAMWA draws up delivery spec
A common specification for the delivery of programmes to multiple devices will be released by the Advanced Media Workfl ow Association (AMWA) next month.
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NewsClear Cut builds for drama drive
Clear Cut Pictures is building a 5.1 audio theatre as part of its drive to take a greater slice of the drama audio post market.
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NewsCox joins Procam team
Twofour Broadcast camera facilities manager Simon Cox (pictured) will join hire company Procam as camera facilities manager at the end of this month.
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NewsRapid expands online and grading capacity
Rapid Pictures is adding a fourth floor to its West London base, with the additional online and grading suites due to open early next year.
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NewsFrame rates on SMPTE's LA agenda
Faster frame rates will be high on the agenda at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) annual conference next week in LA.
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NewsAmis boosts HD offering
Amis Productions is claiming to be one of the biggest providers of HD stabilised camera systems in the world following its Azule Finance-backed £635,000 investment in two Flir cameras and three Cineflex V14 HD cameras.
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NewsGrass Valley plans UK PubliTronic expansion
Grass Valley will seek to build on PubliTronic’s UK install base following its acquisition of the Netherlands-based company.
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NewsHarmonic in BBC Olympic win
BBC Sport will use Harmonic’s Omneon MediaGrid active storage system as part of its file-based workfl ow at the 2012 Olympics. Installed in the International Broadcast Centre in Stratford as part of a production system incorporating EVS servers, it will provide 3,500 hours of work-in-progress storage.
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Encompass inks ScheduAll deal
Playout provider Encompass Digital Media has signed a deal with ScheduAll to manage its distribution services.