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NewsBBC loses second current affairs exec
The BBC has lost its second current affairs executive in two weeks to the independent sector, as Farah Durrani announced she was leaving the corporation.
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NewsUnit Post staffs up
Fledgling dry hire facility Unit Post has made two new appointments. Bookings manager Rhiannon Price joins Unit from Soho Images while former Frontier Post Avid technician Imran Ramzan joined as technical manager. The facility, which launched two months ago, is currently working on three pop promos, two commercials, a feature ...
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Tributes pour in for TV pair killed in Iraq
Tributes have been paid to former ITN cameraman Paul Douglas and his British colleague James Brolan, whose deaths take the total number of media workers killed in Iraq to an estimated 117 since 2003.
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Granada upgrades
Granada Bristol has upgraded a further online area to run Silicon Color's Final Touch colour grading system. The facility now operates five standard and high-definition online areas, two of which run Final Touch for high-end SD and HD finishing work. It has also undergone a major refit of its main ...
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Scarlet TV to investigate forensic science
Scarlet Television is making a 6 x 60-minute series on the development of criminal forensic science for the Australian Crime & Investigation Network. To Catch a Thiefis executive produced by Scarlet managing director Paula Trafford and was commissioned for broadcast next year by Rod Caird, ...
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The Farm ties up Sven spoof
The Farm created the title sequence and did promo and post work on Mentorn Production's spoof documentary Sven - The Coach, the Cash and His Lovers.
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Tools for Eyeframe
Eyeframe, the DVD sister company of Dubbs, has acquired authoring and encoding tools which can handle both competing high definition DVD formats, HDDVD and Blu-ray. Now installed in Eyeframe's Poland Street facility, the Scenarist 4 and CineVision from Sonic Solutions are to be used on distributor Optimum Releasing's first batch ...
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Factual series to examine impact of the Reformation
IWC Media has teamed up with Toronto-based factual indie Cream Productions to co-produce a series on the 16th century Reformation and the way it shaped the modern world.
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Envy turns on IPTV
Business IPTV specialist Netvue has installed its IPTV system for Envy, the new HD broadcast post-production facility based in Noho. The Envy system uses Exterity equipment to provide Freeview and satellite channels and DVD, as well as a feed from its video matrix, all distributed over internet protocol on the ...
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Duncan joins VTR
VTR has drafted in former Smoke and Mirrors producer Amanda Duncan to join its eight-strong team. Duncan's previous clients include Channel 4 and ad agencies DDB and Mac7 TV. Duncan, who also spent five years working in set design, will manage projects for VTR's clients across commercials, music and film.
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Devilfish wraps up Nat Geo ident
Devilfish has completed the channel graphics package for National Geographic Channel HD. The brief was to convey the new channel as 'redefining the real world' while preserving its core brand identity.
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Minotaur strikes Rebus movie deal
Flextech-owned distributor Minotaur has licensed all six Rebusmovies to the BBC's international entertainment channel, BBC Prime.
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Sunset + Vine signs DVD deal for cricket
Sunset + Vine Productions has signed a one-year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board and DD Home Entertainment to produce DVDs around this summer's international cricket season.
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Commissioner's Q & A - Janey Walker
Channel 4's head of education and managing editor wants to hear from indies which know how to reach teenagers who wouldn't usually tune into educational programming.
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Comment - Why DTT is dumb digital
Dawn Airey applauds the BBC for realising HD is the future, but not for pressing on with DTT rollout
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UK and Ireland to receive crime channel
A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB have confirmed they are to launch Crime & Investigation Network in the UK and Ireland, as first revealed by Broadcast(11.03.05).
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Living looks at why celebrities split up
Living TV has commissioned three hour-long documentaries off the back of its Extreme: Celebritiesspecial.
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Relaunched CD:UK ditches old presenters
Five has axed CD:UKpresenters Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne and Johnny Pitts from its new-look version of the former ITV1 chart show.
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Irish broadcaster buys quiz show format
Talent TV has sold the format for Test the Nation to Irish broad-caster RTE.
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Broadcast Live in tapeless first
Broadcast Live will be the first exhibition to display a truly tapeless workflow, walking delegates through the creation, management and delivery of content.