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NewsArnesen signs with Hasbro
MIPTV: Finn Arnesen, the Turner Broadcasting exec who left the kids broadcaster last year, has resurfaced at Hasbro Studios.
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NewsBectu protests Casualty job cuts
Broadcasting union Bectu met with BBC executives last night over what it brands “unacceptable and immoral” plans to dismiss seven Casualty staff days before production begins on the next series.
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NewsPenk upheld for suicide jokes
Ofcom has rapped breakfast show DJ Steve Penk for joking on-air about a potential suicide victim, but has cleared Radio 5 Live’s broadcast of swearing from the rock group Rage Against the Machine.
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NewsQuantel debuts EVS Gateway
Alongside major new developments for stereoscopic 3D, Quantel is showing a new workflow product for television production using EVS servers.
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S3D brings stereo 3D options to NAB
S3D Technologies is showing a number of stereoscopic 3D innovations at NAB including a Beam Splitter Rig and a stereoscopic parameters calculator.
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NewsRidley Scott on Pompeii mini-series
Sony Pictures Television and Scott Free Television are developing a four-hour mini-series based on Robert Harris’ bestselling novel, Pompeii.
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NewsLightworks to become open-source editor
EditShare has unveiled plans to turn its newly acquired Lightworks non-linear editor into an open-source development initiative.
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NewsAardman reducing reliance on TV
MIPTV: Aardman Animations is to evolve its business model so it becomes closer to a character company like Chorion than a traditional producer.
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NewsOff the Fence to co-produce Wildest Africa
MIPTV: Off the Fence Productions is to co-produce HD series Wildest Africa, a sweeping look at the continent’s diverse ecology partly commissioned by UKTV-owned channel Eden.
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NewsTurner to open Middle East unit with Twofour54
Turner Broadcasting is to launch a Middle Eastern animation school and studio in partnership with Abu Dhabi-based producer Twofour54.
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NewsAMA to provide ProRes support for Media Composer
Avid is opening up its editing systems so that they can work natively with Apple ProRes codecs and files created by Canon DSLR and Red cameras.
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NewsJVC adds studio and ENG hybrid camcorder
JVC is introducing a new flagship product within its ProHD camcorder line at NAB in Las Vegas that is capable of being either a field-based shooter of part of a multi-camera set-up.
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NewsUS comedy La La Land coming to BBC3
BBC3 has bought La La Land, the debut US series from British comedian Marc Wootton.
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NewsAvid to buy Euphonix
Euphonix, the manufacturer of large-format digital audio consoles, media controllers and peripherals, is to be sold to Avid for an undisclosed fee.
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NewsBBC1 Daytime order to resolve tourists’ holiday hiccups
British tourists will aim to overcome their holiday nightmares in a new reality show for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsRed adds H.264 encoding module
Red Digital Cinema is increasing the workflow options for its new Epic and Scarlet digital film cameras by introducing proxy modules, including one for encoding H.264.
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NewsCheaper Baselight unveiled at NAB
FilmLight has added a sub-£65k version of Baselight to its range of non-linear colour grading systems.
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NewsCanon reveals XF camcorders
Canon has unveiled the first two camcorders to use Canon XF, its newly developed MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec.
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NewsTF1 picks up ITV Studios’ TV movies
MIPTV: French broadcaster TF1 has agreed to an ongoing television movie output deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
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NewsFremantle widens format net
MIPTV: Broadcasters are securing more hits from emerging territories as prejudice about where shows come from “melts away”, FremantleMedia chief executive Tony Cohen has claimed.