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Ladbroke wins raft of BBC radio orders
Ladbroke Productions has won a dozen commissions for BBC Radio.
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Big Red Bus is Landmark for BBC
Freelance graphic designer/art director Christine Buttner has designed the title sequence for Big Red Bus, a Landmark Films production for BBC1 documenting what it takes to become a London bus driver. Landmark executive producer Nick O'Dwyer conceived the idea of a naive, childlike visual style. Freelance animator Brian Larkin drew ...
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Kudos works up fraud romance for BBC
Kudos is developing a drama for BBC1 based around one of the world's fastest growing frauds. Skimming (working title) is a romantic tale about a man stealing money from the company he works for and the woman who is brought in to investigate. Nick Fisher is writing the six-part series, ...
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Battersea relaunch
The Battersea Studios has relaunched this week after a£4m redevelopment programme by its property developer owner Helical Bar. The complex - previously the site of the Middle Eastern Broadcasting Corporations's studio - was sold in July for an estimated£8m.
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Leading role for Baby Cow talent head
Baby Cow Productions has promoted Lindsay Hughes to head its Manchester office alongside executive producer Heather Coogan and head of development Ric Michael. Hughes is currently head of talent and has been with the company since it was set up in 1999. Baby Cow, which makes Nighty Night and Johnny ...
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Component sells Avid kit to Clear Cut
Post facility Component Ltd has sold the Avid kit belonging to its hire arm Central Rental to Clear Cut Hire for an estimated£300,000.
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Ascent reshuffle will simplify ops
Ascent Media is to restructure its facilities and management team in a move which its European managing director, Brenda Smith, said will simplify the company's operations and turn its facility brands into complementary rather than competitive businesses.
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UKTV probes embarrassing ailments
UKTV head of commissioning Jo Clinton-Davis has announced three shows for UKTV Style's early 2006 schedule, including a£500,000 reality series following Britons afflicted with embarrassing illnesses.
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Smoke and Mirrors acquires Red Post
Two of Soho's most prolific visual effects boutiques have now become one with the news that Smoke and Mirrors has acquired Red Post-Production for around£1m.
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Living TV show sends Acorah on live ghost hunt
Living TV has commissioned a live spin-off of its Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns series as part of the channel's strategy to increase its live content.
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Fold7 does OFI Sunday graphics
Fold7 has done full graphics and titles for OFI Sunday, Chris Evans' new weekly show made by his production company, UMTV. The sequence depicts Evans as a 1950s style cartoon character. A Fold7 artist worked on the drawings while Nic Freeman coloured them in Photoshop and designed backgrounds in Illustrator. ...
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Celestial bodies star in latest BBC4 theme night
Walking With Dinosaurs executive producer John Lynch is making a pair of programmes about the sun and the moon, as part of a series of themed nights for BBC4.
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C4 brings back Bring Back strand
Channel 4 has ordered four more editions of Zeal Television's format Bring Back..., following the success of the one-off special Bring Back Grange Hill.
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All3media takes on Hartog for formats
All3Media International has made its first formats appointment since incorporating format sales and development into its UK head office earlier in the year. Stephanie Hartog, previously Fremantle Media's controller of entertainment acquisitions and resources, will join as senior vice-president of international formats, reporting to managing director Louise Pedersen.
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'3' buys hit ITV content for its phones
ITV has signed a deal with 3G mobile phone operator 3 to offer content from shows such as I'm a Celebrity'. The one-year deal will also give 3's 3.2 million customers access to live footage from Emmerdale, Coronation Street and other high-profile shows. Highlights and other specially produced clips will ...
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Bravo to witness 24-hour drinking
Bravo has commissioned an hour-long special spin-off of its Booze Britain series to be filmed on the night Britain's licensing laws change to allow 24-hour pub opening. Made by Granada Media Bristol, footage for 24 Hour Booze Britain: Boozageddon will be shot on 24 November and air on Sunday 27 ...
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C4 pays£12m for coveted Freeview slot
Channel 4 is due to announce it has won the latest Freeview slot after Five withdrew its bid following its new investment in Top Up TV. C4, which had put in an initial bid higher than Five, will pay a reported£12m for the coveted slot. Initially, it is expected to ...
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Playout players plan next push
The playout and transmission market is on the brink of massive change, so how are providers and broadcasters geared up for a future of content-to-mobile and HDTV? A Broadcast survey took their pulse. By Chris Forrester.
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A social minefield
A socially anxious Steven D Wright ponders the etiquette of the TV dinner party circuit.
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Return of the heroes
A rush to remake classic adventure series such as Doctor Who, Robin Hood and The Prisoner suggests we've had enough of anti-heroes and ambiguity and that old-school heroes are back in fashion, says David Wood.