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New pepper kit
Pepper has installed Finaliser, the Edifis colour processor and finishing system, to replace the Ursa Diamond that it sold to TK One in May. Finaliser provides extensive creative capabilities in disk-based and tape-to-tape colour correction, in HD as well as standard definition. Managing director Patrick Holzen said: 'We were looking ...
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ITN to vote on rights for news staff
ITN will this Friday vote on new terms for staff hoping to move to BSkyB when it takes over the Five News contract at the end of the year and could strike if they are rejected. The NUJ and Bectu have been locked in talks with ITN and Five since ...
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Ofcom imposes subtitle rules
Minority channels including Sky One and E4 are to be forced to provide subtitling and audio description for the first time.
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Glassworks flames
Glassworks has bought four HD-compatible Flames to cater for an increase in HD work. Managing director Hector MacLeod said: 'The new Discreet suites can work at HD but when they work at standard definition the difference will really be noticed.' Glassworks is due to work on the new Robbie Williams ...
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HD first for UK TV
Metro Broadcast, BowTie TV and ntl last week aired the UK's first commercial 4:2:2, MPeg-encoded, high definition transmission in Dolby 5.1 surround. NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, chose Metro to project manage the first European transmission of Nodojiman , the long-running Japanese karaoke entertainment show. It ...
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Living TV orders more Queer Eye
Living TV has commissioned a second series of the British version of hit US gay makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - and has also succeeded in selling the show back to America.
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Two more leave TSI for Evolutions
Evolutions Television has poached two more senior staff from rival TSI, bringing the number of ex-TSI staff at the Berners Street facility to four.
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Five Saturday slot for duel masters
Five has acquired the latest animé series from the maker of Pokémon after signing a deal with distributor Entertainment Rights. Duel Masters will air in Five's Saturday morning action slot, targeting boys aged seven to 11, from the autumn. The 26 x 30-minute series, spawned by a Japanese comic and ...
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Oasis posts Olympic Dream
Oasis has completed My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream , a Bite Yer Legs production for BBC3. The documentary followed Radio 1's part-Greek DJ Nemone for 12 months, as she chased her dream of competing at the Olympics, trying to prove that she ...
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Web premiere for new WB drama series
The WB, Warner Bros' youth channel in the US, is to become the first network to premiere a new drama series online. The first episode of Jack and Bobby will be available to AOL's 3.5 million broadband subscribers for a week later in the summer. ...
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India's star TV in gameshow format deal
Distraction Formats has sold the rights of gameshow Dirty Rotten Cheater to Star TV in India. The format, in which contestants must guess who has been given all the answers, will go into production this autumn. An Italian version, produced by Magnolia, recently premiered on ...
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Fifty Fifty sci fi deal
Fifty Fifty Post Production has signed a two-year deal to set up and manage in-house audio services for the Sci Fi channel. The Sci Fi channel will pay a monthly management fee to the Soho company, which will supply two in-house audio engineers to operate and service the HD Pro ...
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Zig Zag hires crick
Zig Zag has hired its first head of development, poaching Ed Crick from the BBC's factual entertainment department. Crick, whose credits include My Family and Autism , joins immediately reporting to Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton. His arrival coincides with the 70-strong indie's move ...
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The digital clock ticks on
Despite the government's move to a more realistic digital switchover date, unanswered questions remain.
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Tara P-T to chart posh rockers
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is to front a new BBC Radio 1 documentary examining the power of the class system in the music business.
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NBC takes chance on double or nothing
US network NBC has begun pre-production on a reality special, based on a Sky One show, in which a man bets everything he owns on one spin of the roulette wheel. Double or Nothing , made by Target Entertainment in the UK, will follow one ...
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Televideo to film celebrity poker match
Outside broadcast specialist Televideo has been commissioned by Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programmes Gary Shoefield to cover the first ever Celebrity Poker UK Challenge. The event, held at Brighton's Rendezvous Casino at the end of August, features celebrities playing alongside members of the public for a prize fund of£120,000. ...
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TV Set duo set up TK business
Alf Penn and Dave Yeo, sales managers at the TV Set, have quit the post house group to set up telecine company TK One.
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Kilgarriff brief is extended
The head of Turner Broadcasting's kids channels, Richard Kilgarriff, has been given responsibility for all the company's UK entertainment channels.