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Clear gets Moore
Derek Moore has joined Soho effects house Clear as senior Inferno artist. Moore replaces Jonny Hicks, who is leaving Clear to join LA-based Digital Domain. Moore, previously of Rushes, has been brought in to work across all genres having worked on projects spanning commercials, promos and films. Ad campaigns include ...
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class films spotlights tour de france
Indie Class Films is to make a series of short films for Channel 4 about the famous French cycle race, the Tour de France. The five-minute documentaries will air directly after Channel 4 News in late July, and will be timed to coincide with the climax of this year's Tour ...
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Ofcom censures Fox News piece
Controversial US channel Fox News, which was criticised for its pro-American reporting during the Iraq war, has been reprimanded by Ofcom for attacking the BBC.
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Hobbs to Celador
Celador Productions has appointed Alexandra Hobbs to the position of director of business and legal affairs and Heather Hampson to the role of head of production. Hobbs will be responsible for all Celador Productions' negotiations with broadcasters and talent.
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CBBC recommissions little red tractor
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has ordered a third series of pre-school animation Little Red Tractor. The 26 x 10-minute run, a co-production between Entertainment Rights and The Little Entertainment Company, follows the adventures of a tractor and its owner, Stan. It is due to air on CBeebies and BBC2 at ...
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Popworld carved up
Channel 4 and UBC Media are poised to each take a 25% stake in Simon Fuller's Popworld company, as a prelude to launching Popworld-branded products, including a radio station, by the end of the year. C4 already owns 7% of the company, which owns both the Popworld brand and the ...
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Paramount buys Charlie Sheen comedy
Paramount Comedy has signed its first deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution, picking up hit show Two and a Half Men. Paramount Comedy, owned by Viacom, has acquired the exclusive UK cable and satellite rights to the 23 x 30-minute first series of the show, which is currently showing ...
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Broadcasters given warning over repeats
terrestrial broadcasters have been warned that if they use too many repeats of UK-produced programmes they may not be able to include them in their quotas in future.
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Suite beams
Beam.tv is launching a service, called Beamsuite, that it said will facilitate global advertising campaigns by speeding up the production of international versions for local broadcast market, including different formats, such as PAL, NTSC, HDTV, or languages. Generic masters and broadcast elements, including overlength shots, audio tracks, graphics, fonts and ...
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Everett and Fry to play Holmes for BBC and ITV
The BBC is to slug it out with ITV in a battle of the deerstalkers after revealing that it too has commissioned a Sherlock Holmes drama.
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BBC unveils new newsroom
This is the first view of what the BBC's new state-of-the-art digital newsroom will look like at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC's huge newsgathering operation, which is the largest in the world, is set to move from its current base at Television Centre in west London to Broadcasting House ...
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BBC signs deal to show prime in italy
BBC Worldwide has completed a deal to broadcast its international entertainment channel BBC Prime on Italy's Sky Italia platform for the first time. The deal, which takes effect from 1 August, will allow an extra 2.6 million households access to the channel, which airs BBC programming across Europe, the Middle ...
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NUJ calls for more resources for BBC
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for more resources to be pumped into BBC news. The demand came as the union presented the findings of its own review into the BBC's editorial guidelines to BBC director of news Richard Sambrook, which highlighted issues in staff training, the use ...
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Bailey and Gardam complete Charter panel
Sly Bailey, the high-profile chief executive of the Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror, is to sit on a government-sponsored panel looking into BBC Charter renewal.
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British tv triumphs at rockie Awards
British programme-makers dominated the Rockie Awards at the Banff Television Festival in Canada, winning nine out of a possible 20 awards. Winners included Tiger Aspect's Catherine Tate Show; Lion TV's The True Face of War; the BBC's This Little Life; BBC and Endor Productions' State of Play; BBC and Ziji ...
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My hero back in autumn for fifth run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a fifth series of comedy My Hero from indie Big Bear Films. Production on the 10 x 30-minute run, which will again star Ardal O'Hanlon as a secret superhero, has just begun, with broadcast due in the autumn. It is directed by John Stroud, ...
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BBC ends exclusive Audley Harrison deal
The BBC has ended its exclusive£1m UK TV and radio rights deal with boxer Audley Harrison, saying it wants to focus more on emerging talent. Harrison's last fight for the BBC - his 17th bout for the corporation - will be this Saturday (19 June) against a Polish fighter, Tomasz ...
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Discovery opts for Ascent's playout facility
Discovery Communications, owner of the Discovery Channel, has chosen Ascent Media Group as its global technology and playout partner.
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Kanjee appointed as Evolutions md
Simon Kanjee has ended 18 months of speculation by joining independent post house Evolutions as managing director.
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Bectu warns against weakening PSB
Broadcasting union Bectu has warned MPs that setting up an Arts Council of the Air to redistribute licence fee money to commercial broadcasters would weaken PSB. In evidence to the media select committee on BBC's Charter renewal, Bectu said the proposal 'would have the effect of seriously weakening a viable ...