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Evolutions hirings
Post house Evolutions has hired a clutch of recruits, including The Farm Group's Andy Wood as editor; and Avid and linear editor David Moyes of BBC Resources to work on edit and graphics.
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Five's New Killer Instinct ends in US
Five's new US acquisition Killer Instinct has been axed in the week it will make its UK premiere. The Regency Television detective series which airs on the Fox Network in America has been scheduled for a 16-week run on Five in the plum Thursday 10pm slot - previously home to ...
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MacIntyre tests his survival skills inThe Edge of Existence
Donal MacIntyre's next TV series for Five will see him attempt to survive in some of the most inhospitable places on earth.
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Molinare posts Earth Shocks
Molinare has finished the post on Mentorn's Earth Shocks, a co-pro with CBC, Nat Geo and WGBH about earth-changing events in the prehistoric era. The facility's CGI arm, Darkside, created the 3D effects on Lightwave, Vue Infinite and Digital Fusion. Senior dubbing mixers George Foulgham and Billy Mahoney mixed the ...
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Industry plays down threat of in-house editing
Broadcasters, facilities and key independents thrashed out the issues of desktop editing and in-house production at Broadcast's first post-production forum last week, held at London's Vinopolis.
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TWI to distribute tsunami docs
TWI has secured the rights to distribute Orphans, Childless and Predators, a Channel NewsAsia documentary narrated by Oscar winner Susan Sarandon that tells the story of efforts to rescue orphans from the Asian tsunami crisis. The deal will also see TWIdistribute another Channel NewsAsia tsunami documentary called Island of a ...
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ITFC deal with Five
Subtitling specialist ITFC has signed a seven-year deal with Five to provide the channel's VT, materials management and compliance services. The renewed contract, for an undisclosed sum, will see Five moving towards digital storage, editing and distribution, in addition to a full range of post-production services.
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Farm creates space
The Farm has managed all the post-production for Endemol's Space Cadets, in which contestants are duped into believing they are being blasted out to space. All the logging and 24-hour online editing was accomplished on location, using eight Symphonies and around 30 editors. The project was overseen by The Farm's ...
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Cowell signs Syco deal with Fox
The X Factor creator Simon Cowell has extended his two-year first-look deal with Fox for a further five years. The US broadcaster will now have the first pick of shows from Cowell's indie Syco until 2010. He has also signed a five-year deal with Sony BMG that will give the ...
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Tinopolis makes an offer for TV Corp
Tinopolis is sending out a formal offer to TV Corp shareholders on Thursday (8 December), outlining its£36.4m hostile bid for the indie. The deadline for Welsh indie Tinopolis to post its offer to shareholders expired on Thursday, 28 days after its announcement of intention to bid. Another mystery bidder has ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Liza Marshall
Channel 4's commissioning editor, drama has up to£900,000 an hour to spend on an authored single film with a contemporary theme and has recently commissioned one about British soldiers in Iraq.
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Ofcom clears Living
Ofcom has cleared Living TV over complaints that Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live had contrived paranormal events on the show. The regulator confirmed that 11 viewers complained about the programme with concerns that it was deceiving people into thinking events were real. Complainants suggested the programme, in which psychic ...
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I'm a Celebrity ends on high note
The finale of ITV1's ratings juggernaut I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! ended on a predictable high as Carol Thatcher was crowned queen of the jungle.
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Cadle Hunts Soho for Envy talent
Former Blue managing director, Dave Cadle is poaching 45 staff from around six Soho facilities for his new£5.6m post-production facility Envy which opens in the middle of February.
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BT extends TV trial
BT has extended the trial of its live TV and radio mobile phone service, BT Livetime, for a further two weeks and is replacing its current TV channels with Channel 4, ITV2 and Cartoon Network. The trial, which has been running since July with 1,000 users within the M25, has ...
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BT gathers up content for TV service
BT has signed the first on-demand content deals for its soon to launch TV over broadband service.
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Bravo buys the third Ultimate Fighter series
Flextech men's channel Bravo has bought the third series of reality show The Ultimate Fighter and convinced rights holder UFC to feature two British contestants.
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Hive hires Bradley
VTR-owned animation outfit The Hive has appointed sister company TMR Digital's business development director, Tony Bradley, in the same role. Bradley ran TMR's DVD division for three years. TMR has also invested£500,000 in expanding its telecine department, replacing its Thomson Shadow telecine with a Thomson Spirit Datacine.
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Five boss joins ETV
Enteraction TV (ETV) has poached Five interactive business controller Damon Letzer to take the newly created role of sales director. Letzer, who has been at Five for almost six years, will start in January, reporting to ETV's business development director, James Penfold. He will be responsible for sponsorship and brand ...
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DGP boosts design
DVD post-production facility DGP has recruited Stream Digital Media senior designer Ben Rasmussen to beef up its design department. Rasmussen specialised in 3D and graphics at Stream and will work as senior designer alongside three other designers and compositors, currently on the UMD release of He-Man and the Masters of ...