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Dinosaurs test MPC
MPC has completed 220 visual effects shots totalling 40 minutes of screen time for the BBC's documentary mini-series The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs, a co-production with Discovery and ZDF. The complicated CGI process saw MPC create a new software programme for texturing lifelike feathers for the ...
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DGP diversifies
Digital post house DGP has leased extra office space to make room for DVD post-production kit plus an Autodesk upgrade to accommodate extra graphics work. The facility also offers two Flint visual effects systems, one of which has been upgraded to version 9.5 for faster compositing and advanced graphics.
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Projector on demo
Digital film mastering specialist FilmLight has installed a JVC DLA-HD2K projector to demonstrate its grading and post-production workflows. A Baselight grading and finishing system supplies the projector with a DVI signal providing real-time operation at resolutions of up to 4k. The system includes FilmLight's TrueLight 3D colour management system, ensuring ...
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Stand-up rights deal
Paramount Comedy has signed an option deal with Universal Pictures UK for rights to showcase its future stand-up comic talent. The agreement for non-terrestrial TV rights to live DVD recordings is part of the channel's decision to broadcast more original content and homegrown talent. The deal was brokered by Paramount's ...
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Smith rallies radio for digital deadline
Former culture secretary Chris Smith has urged the UK radio industry to move towards establishing a switch-off date for analogue radio.
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Cut-price training
Soho Editors Training is offering a series of Skillset-subsidised Final Cut Pro courses throughout September and October. The courses are likely to be in demand following the BBC decision to trial the Apple desktop editing system in its factual and learning department. Soho Editors Training is the first Apple-authorised training ...
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Curtis defends doc
Documentary-maker Adam Curtis has hit back at critics of his series The Power of Nightmaresand said he 'couldn't see the fuss' about Peter Taylor's BBC2 documentary The Real Al-Qaeda. Taylor's programme was billed as a counter-argument to Curtis's authored BBC2 documentary, in ...
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Discovery stocks up for Christmas
Discovery Real Time channel director Paul Welling has greenlit more than 50 hours of programming for the channel's pre-Christmas and early 2006 schedules.
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Keating: extra cash for drama
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has pledged to 'ramp up' investment in UK dramas in a bid to tackle the channel's mid-life crisis.
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Paramount buys gruesome clip show
Paramount Comedy has picked up a new clip show dubbed the You've Been Framedfor the Jackass generation. You've Been Maimedis a 20 x 30-minute series from Black Diamond Films - the producer/distributor's first commission - featuring stomach-churning mishaps from around the world. ...
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Bravo takes Bullrun rally by the horns
Bravo has commissioned Giant Film and TV to produce coverage of this year's Bullrun 2005 race in the US. Dubbed the
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Living branches out
Living TV director Richard Woolfe said the channel was no longer looking to commission shows for its pink and paranormal strands and was on the look out for the 'next big, noisy breakthrough genre'. He said the channel's budget is£20,000 per half hour for daytime and£100,000 plus for primetime.
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Belfast documentary is last in trilogy
Five has commissioned a 40-minute documentary from film-maker Michael Grigsby looking at Belfast as it recovers from its violent past. Rehearsals, shot in high definition, revolves around a group of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes and pubs, set against images of Belfast. It is ...
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BBC hires de Villiers
The BBC has appointed former Disney executive Etienne de Villiers to oversee its commercial dealings.
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Location trailers for BBC World
BBC World sent a production team to locations as diverse as New York's Times Square, an Indian paddy field and Tiananmen Square in China for its latest series of 60-second channel trailers. Directed by BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudoir, the aim was to emphasise BBC World's on-location news reporting. Shot on ...
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Tyler takes top comedy post at BBC Scotland
Alan Tyler, the head of Mentorn Scotland, is to return to BBC comedy.
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Barry to manage United MTV channels
MTV Networks has promoted Michael Barry to the newly created role of senior vice-president, managing director Music, MTV Networks UK & Ireland in a move that sees all nine VH1 and MTV channels managed together for the first time. Traditionally the three VH1 channels as well as The Music Factory ...
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Avid refit lifts Emap post
Emap Performance has upgraded its in-house posting facilities with Avid Adrenalines and an Avid Xpress with Mojo with a view to offering posting services on a commercial basis.
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Howzat for a peaktime audience
Interest in Channel 4's live cricket coverage of The Ashes continued to grow and grow, giving the broadcaster its highest peak audience so far this year.