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Arenap3 finishes Martha & Me
ArenaP3 has just completed work on Martha & Me for BBC2. The 50-minute documentary follows filmmaker Jamie Campbell as he rents a caravan in the trailer park opposite disgraced domestic goddess Martha Stewart's prison and follows her home-making ideals in an attempt to understand her rise and fall. ArenaP3 editor, ...
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AHC completes football idents
AHC post has finished the high-definition post-production on idents for the Confederations Cup. The Confederations Cup, which pits continental football champions against each other, kicks off on 15 June with coverage on Five. Senior editor Victor Riva offlined the project on a Quantel editbox, using down conversions of the rushes ...
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Music vision award
Rushes' VFX team has picked up the best special effects prize at the CADS Music Vision awards for its work on Dizzee Rascal's Dream, beating off competition from U2's Vertigo and UNKLE's Reign. Vfx artists Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin and Dave Bannister claimed the award.
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Willey joins Pepper
Post-production facility Pepper has appointed Paul Willey as a new business executive across broadcast and film projects at its Covent Garden headquarters. Willey comes direct from broadcast facility VTR Media Services company Blue. He had previously worked at fellow VMS company The Machine Room.
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Show visitors rise
Last week's Broadcast Production Show recorded a 19% increase in visitors year-on-year to over 9,400 and has laid out plans for expansion in 2006. Arqiva - formerly NTL Broadcast - has already signed up to create a new Content and Delivery Zone at next year's show. Keynote sessions will be ...
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New location guide
The 2005 edition of The Location Guide, which is about to launch its seventh edition with over 100 countries covered as filming destinations, has been expanded to include locations such as Uganda and Macedonia. The book, which acts as a guide to production service companies and ...
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Abery steps down
Crown Castle chief executive Peter Abery is to step down by the end of the year to make way for chief operating officer Steven Marshall. Abery will remain heavily involved in the broadcast side of operations in the role of deputy chairman at the company. He will ...
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HQ for assimilate
Digital Intermediary developer Assimilate last week opened its European headquarters in central London. European sales manager Marie Buckley, who has previously held sales management positions for 5D and SpeedSix, will head up Assimilate's new office. Film post-production facility Cinesite recently bought four Assimilate Scratch DI systems.
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BBC Sport records HD tennis first
BBC Sport is to produce its first high-definition recording for broadcast at The Hastings Direct International Championship next week.
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UK Post looks to fill board places
The Farm Group managing director Nicky Sargent and Framestore-CFC managing director William Sargent have stepped down from the board of UK Post ahead of its elections.
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NewsBBC2's Secretary takes 3.5m
BBC2 had a strong performance throughout peaktime last night with its most popular programme The Secretary Who Stole£4 Millionattracting a peak audience of 3.5 million (17%) at the end.
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Springer success
The UK version of Jerry Springer's controversial talkshow launched on ITV1 to popular success with an audience of 1.1 million (28.3%) at 9.25am - winning its slot. The 65-minute The Springer Showalso found a sizeable audience of the available 16 to 34-year-old viewers with a share ...
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RDF Rights takes on Shingleton
RDF Rights has hired former Fremantle executive Barnaby Shingleton as an acquisitions executive. Shingleton joins RDF this month and will handle sales across all genres, with a particular focus on light and formatted entertainment. He has previously worked at ECM (now Screentime Partners), FremantleMedia Worldwide Productions and advertising agency Bartle ...
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Replacing O'Grady
ITV has is tendering for a new live daytime show to fill the slot vacated by The Paul O'Grady Show over the summer. ITV1 is currently assessing non-broadcast pilots produced by Granada, Princess and So Television for the daily 5pm slot. The shows are all said to be live and ...
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Sopel to replace Marr in Politics Show
BBC News 24 reporter Jon Sopel is to take over from Andrew Marr as the host of BBC1's The Politics Show. He will take on the role in September and will also remain with News 24 for four days a week. Marr, the BBC's outgoing political editor, is trying to ...
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No magic for White
Trevor White, the programme director for London station Magic 105.4, has quit to join digital rock station Planet Rock. He joins in July in the new role of executive producer, charged with overseeing all programming at the GCap Media-owned station and increasing listeners in its target audience of 35 to ...
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London to showcase north west talent
The Northwest Regional Development Agency and North West Vision are holding an event in London to showcase the region's film and TV talent, production facilities and locations. Hosted by Newsnight's Gavin Essler, the event will be attended by head of BBC drama Jane Tranter, writer Frank Cottrell Boyce and Steve ...
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Viacom interest
US giant Viacom, owner of MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Comedy, is reported to have approached Telewest about buying Flextech and its 50% share in UKTV for as much as£800m. The interest, said to be preliminary at present, comes after Telewest appointed Deutsche Bank to examine the possibility of selling Flextech ...
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Rosemary and Thyme head to Italy
Granada International has sold crime series, Rosemary and Thymeand Murder in Suburbiainto Italy. RAI Italy's state broadcaster has picked up series one and two of both ITV1 dramas. The deal follows RAI's earlier purchase of Miss Marple. The ...
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Goodwood speeds into sunset
Sunset + Vine has been commissioned to produce coverage from this year's Goodwood Festival of Speedmotoring event for ITV. Goodwood, which features drivers and cars from all eras, from 19th-century steam carriages to Formula 1 cars, takes place this year between 24 and 26 June. Sunset ...