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NewsPrime targets Clear for takeover
Indian media giant Prime Focus has hit the acquisition trail again buying commercials and graphic design house Clear Post Production through its newly acquired subsidiary VTR plc.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Chiara Cipriani
The director of television at The Poker Channel does a lot with very little and is looking for indies that can think commercially as well as creatively and drive more mainstream awareness
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CBS chief to keynote at RTS conference
Les Moonves, CBS's president and chief executive, is to give the keynote speech at this year's RTS London conference. Moonves has spearheaded a revival in CBS's fortunes with shows such as Survivor, Cold Case and the CSIbrand and will give ...
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Turner buys Canadian toon Storm Hawks
Turner Broadcasting has acquired new comedy action-adventure series Storm Hawksfrom Canadian animation house Nerd Corp Entertainment. The 52 x 30-minute series is due to air next year on Cartoon Network in the UK, France and the US.
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Broadband TV for Cartoon Network
Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network is gearing up for the launch of a broadband TV service called SuperCartoonNetwork.co.uk.
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Bravo buys Blade spin-off series from Warner Bros
Bravo has acquired Blade: The Series, a scripted drama based on the hit movie trilogy about a warrior fighting his way through a shadowy underworld of vampires.
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Red Bee playout win
Red Bee Media has won the contract to play out Five's new digital channels, Five Life and Five US. The new channels, launching across all digital platforms in the autumn, will be played out from Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. Red Bee already supplies disaster recovery, signing ...
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Eastern Europe snaps up BBC dramas
BBC Worldwide has licensed over 500 hours of programming to the major broadcasters in eastern Europe, following Discop, the area's largest market for content buyers.
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BBC shows for Folio
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been re-commissioned to make new series for peaktime BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in over 5 million viewers, has ...
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BBC Worldwide builds on LA success
BBC Worldwide is to capitalise on the success of its Los Angeles production arm by opening more overseas production offices - with an announcement on locations expected within a month. The corporation's LA office makes Dancing with the Starsfor ABC, the international format of ...
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Production base for Turner in UK
Turner Broadcasting is to set up a London-based development unit to develop original animated comedy outside the US for the Cartoon Network.
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Southern Star bags rights to Little Devil
Australian company Southern Star International has taken the worldwide rights to new ITV comedy/drama Little Devil, as it looks to build a distribution relationship with the show's producer, Talkback Thames.
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Back to Futurama
Cult animated comedy Futuramais to be brought back three years after being axed for poor ratings. US cable network Comedy Central is to revive the Matt Groening show, which follows a pizza delivery boy who wakes up to discover he is living in the year ...
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Autodesk launch
Autodesk has launched a digital colour grading system designed for working on HD television commercials and programming, as well as HDTV film projects. The Lustre HD is aimed to offer real-time primary and secondary colour correction and real-time formatting of video deliverables using advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) technology - ...
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Arqiva uplinks
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract with interactive TV specialist Cellcast to provide the uplinking facilities for interactive channel Majestic TV. Arqiva also uplinks four other channels managed by Cellcast via the Eurobird satellite onto the BSkyB platform, including Get Lucky TV, You TV, You TV3, and Game Network.
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Waddell Media looks at angry sports stars
Northern Ireland indie Waddell Media is making a two-hour special, when Sports Stars See Red, looking at 'red card moments' when sports stars have snapped with rage.
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America gets Piers
America's Got Talent, the new talent show on which former Mirroreditor Piers Morgan is appearing as a judge, debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC last week. Made by Simon Cowell's indie, Syco, and Fremantle Media, it was the most watched ...
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All digital Slingshot opens doors in Ealing
Slingshot, a new all-digital independent film production and distribution company based at Ealing Studios, has launched. The company will finance, produce, distribute and market a slate of 10 low-budget feature films over the next three years, exploiting digital technology.
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On the box: Coogan scores again
Five years ago a new Steve Coogan character-based comedy would have been given the usual overhyped trumpet blast that always backfires. Having handed the baton of 'comedy media darling' to Ricky Gervais and Little Britain, Saxondaleslipped out with little ...
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Addiction titles Transmission
Addiction has created the title sequence and graphics for At It Productions' Transmission with T-Mobile. The 12 x 60-minute music show, presented by Steve Jones and Lauren Laverne, features live performances from music artists in a different UK venue each week. Addiction designer Paul Clements ...