All News articles – Page 2603
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NewsBartlett lands Discovery role
ITV Studios’ outgoing managing director Lee Bartlett is to join Discovery as executive vice president, global production management, business and legal affairs.
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NewsLiving imports two Warner Bros dramas
Living TV has acquired Chase and Nikita, two US dramas from Warner Brothers following this year’s LA Screenings.
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NewsWho Wants To Be a Millionaire? gets major reboot
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? is set for a major overhaul next month as ITV strives to keep the long-running gameshow fresh for viewers.
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NewsSherlock recommission is elementary
BBC1 drama Sherlock looks set for a second series after Sunday’s opening episode attracted 7.5m viewers, including BBC HD.
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One in four Australians watch MasterChef final
MasterChef has broken its own ratings record in Australia, with one in four of the population watching the final at its peak.
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NewsMore Dooley docs for BBC3
BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has unveiled a factual heavy autumn season which includes a return for presenter Stacey Dooley’s hard hitting documentaries.
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NewsNickelodeon Land to open in Blackpool
Nickelodeon is opening a Blackpool amusement park featuring characters such as Spongebob Squarepants.
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NewsBubble promotes Walter
Bubble dubbing mixer Adrian Walter has been promoted to the new role of head of audio.
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Clear Cut adds technical ops manager
Manesh Patel has joined Shepherd’s Bush based post house Clear Cut Pictures as its technical operations manager.
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NewsC4 hands Mykura and Jain new roles
Channel 4 is asking Hamish Mykura to focus on docs and preparing to hand Angela Jain a major new role after passing responsibility for More 4 and E4 to new channel managers.
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NewsC4-backed doc gets BitTorrent release
Renegade Pictures’ documentary The Yes Men Fix the World has had an ‘official’ release on peer-to-peer site BitTorrent after the activists featured in the movie became embroiled in a legal spat with the US Chamber of Commerce.
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NewsGrass Valley sold to technology investors
Technicolor is to sell its Grass Valley Broadcast and Professional business to Francisco Partners, a US-based technology investment company.
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NewsTurner returns as Rushes telecine director
Rushes has appointed former Mill and Framestore colourist Matt Turner as its new director of telecine, replacing Adrian Seery who is heading to the US.
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NewsPerform installs new Avid-based broadcast workflow
Perform, the digital media broadcasting company, has bought an end-to-end workflow from Avid that includes its Interplay and iNews technologies.
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NewsSnell opens router manufacturing facility
Snell has opened a new manufacturing facility in Reading dedicated to making its range of broadcast routing switchers.
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NewsIndustry condemns Film Council axe
Trade bodies Directors UK and the Film Distributors’ Association have joined the chorus of criticism for the government’s “catastrophic” decision to axe the Film Council, which appears to have come out of the blue.
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NewsSTV escapes censure over sponsored shows
STV has been exonerated from claims its editorial independence was at risk as a result of its commercial relationship with the Scottish government – but was found guilty of breaching the broadcast code in 18 examples of short-form content.
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NewsFilm Council axed in DCMS cull
The UK Film Council, which has funded broadcaster-backed films as varied as Man on Wire and This is England, has fallen victim to the government’s drive to cut costs and improve transparency.
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NewsBBC orders All Creatures prequel
BBC Scotland has ordered two network dramas, including a prequel to the hit vet series All Creatures Great and Small from Shed Media’s new drama indie.
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NewsRDF's Waybuloo to release album
RDF Media Group’s hit CBeebies show Waybuloo is to get a spin-off single and album.