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NewsLiving orders Liz Hurley doc
Sky Living has ordered a 60-minute documentary about Elizabeth Hurley’s glamorous life in the spotlight and less glamorous life on a farm.
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NewsC5 pays off £1m Shine debt
Channel 5 has paid Shine Group the £1m it owed the super-indie for entertainment show Don’t Stop Believing.
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NewsBrooke to rejoin Channel 4
Dan Brooke, previously managing director of Discovery UK and indie Rare Day, is to become Channel 4’s first director of marketing, communications and corporate relations.
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NewsVirgin adds 100,000 Sky content subscribers
Virgin Media’s revenues have grown to £978m in the three months to the end of September, boosted by the addition of 52,000 Sky Sports or Movies subscribers since August.
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NewsBBC orders online spin off of Being Human
The BBC’s Drama Multiplatform division has commissioned an online spin off of the BBC3 drama Being Human.
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NewsTSL and Mediasmiths lined up for Salford Uni contracts
Overbury is expected to award systems integration contracts to TSL and Mediasmiths after securing an £18m deal to fit out Salford University’s new MediaCityUK building.
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NewsMolinare embarks on first 3D jobs
Molinare has completed post-production on live action 3D feature Mortician 3D and is about to start work on editing the live action sequences for a stereo animated short called The Flying Machine.
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NewsJacobs joins Air as head of post
Former The Mews facility manager Frankie Jacobs has joined Shoreditch-based Air Post Production as its new head of post-production.
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NewsQuantel Pablo receives 3D award
Quantel has been awarded the International 3D Society’s 3D Technology Lumiere Award for its Pablo 3D colour correction and finishing system.
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NewsFM&T trainee placements up for grabs
BBC Future Media & Technology (FM&T) and Vision and Media are to provide paid trainee placements in software engineering and user experience from next year.
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NewsSony staff join CVP
Two former senior members of Sony UK’s technical team have joined broadcast equipment supplier CVP.
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NewsBehind the scenes at Calrec
Yorkshire based manufacturer Calrec has revealed exactly how it builds its audio consoles in a special behind-the-scenes promotional video.
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NewsViewers urged to boycott licence fee over S4C
The Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg) is urging viewers to boycott the licence fee in response to the government’s decision to bring national broadcaster S4C under the BBC’s remit.
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NewsIndies generate record Mipcom revenue
UK indies pulled in record revenues of more than £18m at this month’s Mipcom market, according to figures from Pact.
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NewsShine cooks up Masterchef app
Shine Vu has launched its first iPhone app as it kicks off a digital push around cooking show Masterchef.
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NewsITV to air Take That documentary
ITV has secured the exclusive international rights to premiere a documentary on pop group Take That.
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NewsHunt accused over 'dodgy BBC deal'
The new shadow culture secretary has accused Jeremy Hunt of of putting his political ambitions ahead of the BBC’s future, and branded the new licence fee settlement a “dodgy deal”.
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NewsBBC cuts will hit output, warns Damazer
Former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer has warned that the impending cuts at the BBC are likely to affect the quality of its output, claiming it is “going to be harder” than previous cutbacks.
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NewsVirgin signs NBC for on-demand deal
Virgin Media has sealed an on-demand deal with NBC Universal to offer the entire back catalogue of shows including 30 Rock, House, Heroes and the US version of The Office.
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NewsControversial Islam doc cleared by Ofcom
Channel 4’s Britain’s Islamic Republic, which attrated more than 1,000 complaints and was branded a “dirty little programme” by former MP George Galloway, has been cleared by Ofcom.