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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...
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Sky airs Star Wars
BSkyB has signed a major content agreement to show the entire Star Wars saga in 2006. Sky has bought exclusive UK TV rights from Lucas Films and Twentieth Century Fox for the films and will air them from August 2006 to coincide with the start of the pay-TV window for ...
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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C4 orders new Bodyshock docs
Some of the world's rarest diseases and conditions are explored in a trio of documentaries from indie Redback for Channel 4.
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C4I to distribute Find Me a Family
Channel 4 International has acquired the global distribution rights to Find Me a Family, a new formatted documentary series from Zig Zag Productions that will air on C4 next year. The show will unite a senior citizen with a family in need of old-fashioned advice and help from the aged. ...
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C4 opens door for young film-makers
The future stars of British documentary-making will have the opportunity to produce original programmes through a new Channel 4 strand.
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NewsMore4's adult entertainment has a seductive first night
More4's high-profile drama A Very Social Secretary managed to seduce viewers, helping the channel to a successful launch night.
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BBC3 to look at darts legends
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is continuing a push into the factual genre, commissioning a pair of authored documentaries and looking for more programmes to make up a strand.
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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BBC3 orders Little Britain studio show
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to star in a Trisha-style chat show in which they will be quizzed on aspects of the show by a studio audience.
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Ladette to Lady in return to ITV1
ITV1 reality show Ladette to Lady has been recommissioned by controller of factual Bridget Boseley for another 5 x 60-minute series.
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Footie high of 57.1%
England's 1-0 victory against Austria which put them through to the World Cup gave BBC1 a peak audience of 10.3 million (57.1%) at 5.30pm on Saturday (8 October). The entire coverage of the game drew 7.5 million viewers.
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Right on target
With Alison Rayson at its helm, distributor Target has expanded into production and after doing Peter and Jordan's wedding for ITV2, the aim is a primetime terrestrial commission.
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Making your market
The scramble to find next season's potential hit TV show is underway once again this month at Mipcom. Jane Marlow looks at the ingredients for a successful sale and tracks the global route to market of three top shows.
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Can he make stuff happen?
After restructuring his department, the BBC's new head of comedy, Jon Plowman, is taking on one of the most difficult slots in TV: a new peaktime BBC1 comedy.
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So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless.
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NewsIt's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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What producers can't do
If I'm such a great producer, how come I can't manage my own life, wonders Steven D Wright.
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It's not a dirty business
Amid suggestions that BBC shows are being sinisterly penetrated by product placement, Steve Read claims that paid placements are an honourable business - and good for TV.