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    New Red colourist

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Meanwhile, Red Post Production has picked up colourist George Mellors. Formerly at SVC and One Post, Mellors has previously graded on projects including idents for MTV, Sky Sports bumpers and trailers for the forthcoming series of Top Gear.

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    Clear creatives take over in MBO

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Visual effects house Clear is being bought out by senior creatives a week after managing director Greg Caplan said that the company was going through a 'blip'.

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    Celador exclusive

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Celador Productions has gained access to a US child talent contest for a Channel 4 documentary about young British hopefuls and their pushy parents. Give My Kid a Contractwill follow the UK competitors at the week long Actors, Models and Talent Convention in Florida from 26 ...

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    Todd-AO buys eQ

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Todd-AO has bought a£100,000 Quantel eQ editing system. The eQ provides editing, grading and versioning that can work at both standard and high-definition, a key reason for the purchase. Managing director Sam Webb said: 'We know the HD market is set for huge growth and while that growth is happening, ...

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    Tinopolis buying

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Welsh indie Tinopolis has revealed it is looking to buy new media content creators. The producer began shopping for indies earlier this year after floating on AIM in February and is believed to have approached several London companies. But it has now broadened its search to the new media field. ...

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    Five to show its bottle for kids

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson has commissioned Bottle Top Bill, an animated kids series for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. Produced by Southern Star, the 26 x 11-minute series follows Bottle Top Bill and his horse, Corky. The pair use ...

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    Maidstone booking

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Maidstone Studios has picked up its first booking for its new 12,000sq ft studio for the second series of Geronimo TV/Scottish Media Group (SMG) production Prove It!for ITV. The 13 x 20-minute series is in the studio from 31 October to 11 November.

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    Red move to Blue

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast post facility Blue has grabbed account manager Kabir Malik from Red Post Production. Malik has worked at Ascent Media Group, M2 and Oasis Television during the past six years, with clients including MTV, BBC Broadcast and Fox Kids Europe. Malik follows former Red colleague Chris Mortimer who joined Blue ...

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    New BBC Post role

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC Post Production London has promoted post-producer Richie Cohen to fill a dedicated indies post-producer role, which starts this month. Cohen recently project managed BBC Broadcast's move from Television Centre to the hi-tech Broadcast Centre. BBC Post Production is part of BBC Resources, one of the remaining commercial arms of ...

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    Radio indies win better BBC deal

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Independent radio producers are to get a better deal from the BBC after trade body the Radio Independents Group (RIG) and the BBC agreed new terms of trade.

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    Davina joins BBC

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Big Brother presenter Davina McCall is to make her first programme for BBC1 - a parenting show called He's Having a Baby. The primetime Saturday show follows the experiences of eight new fathers as they cope with the arrival of their babies. The Hat Trick-produced series ...

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    BBC under pressure to open books

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC chiefs are facing a renewed bid to force them to open all their books to the National Audit Office (NAO) to prove they provide value for money to licence fee payers. Auditor general Sir John Bourne told a cross-party group of peers this week that the BBC should fall ...

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    Banned pope cartoon gets DVD release

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Popetown, the controversial cartoon series which was dropped by the BBC before it even aired, is to finally be released to viewers in the UK as a DVD. Revolver Entertainment has announced that it will be releasing a DVD of the£2.5m series, which the BBC pulled amid complaints from the ...

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    Discovery to air businesswoman show

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Home & Health vice-president and channel controller Clare Laycock has commissioned Tern Television to make an observational documentary looking at women entrepreneurs as they prepare to launch their businesses. Ladies That Launchis 15 x 30-minute series set to air later this year. The executive producers ...

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    Robbie tops glittering pile at Live 8

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's coverage of the historic Live 8 concert was inevitably a smash hit.

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    TSI bears in on C4 comedy

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    TSI has completed the post-production for A Bear's Tail, a Channel 4 spin-off from comedy series Bo' Selecta!. A key challenge in the post-production process involved shots of comedian Leigh Francis - who dressed up as a bear for the series - ...

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    C4 signs up ABC's What About Brian

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has bought another high-profile US sitcom, taking exclusive UK rights to ABC's What About Brian.

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    BBC3 offers The Mighty Boosh first on broadband

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is to become the first UK channel to premiere a programme over its broadband website service.

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    Jim Henson confirms 23 job cuts from Camden site

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    The axe hanging over the London base of Jim Henson's Creature Shop has fallen, cutting 23 full-time jobs.

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    Sky secures bones for 2006 broadcast

    2005-07-07T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has secured all the rights to Twentieth Century Fox's drama Bonesstarring David Boreanaz ( Buffy the Vampire Slayerand Angel). The series follows an anthropologist who assists in murder investigations. Bonesis