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Waller joins red
Colourist Tim Waller has joined Red. Waller, who started at SVC grading classic promos such as Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love before moving to MPC, has joined from his post as head of telecine at Dublin's Windmill Lane Pictures. His work included commercials for Guinness, Vodafone and Carlsberg. Red managing ...
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Granada promotion
Granada development producer Clare Thompson has been appointed head of development for the company's entertainment division. Thompson, who devised Granada show American Princess for NBC, will now oversee the merger of Carlton and Granada's development teams. She replaces Siobhan Greene who has left to join Simon Cowell's new production company.
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Fox to launch Fuel
Fox International Channels is launching another of its US channels in the UK. Targeting 13 to 24 year-olds, Fuel will launch in the fourth quarter of this year and show music, entertainment and extreme sports such as skateboarding, surfing and BMX. Fox, which launched FX on Sky in January, is ...
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Skillset training for first jobbers
Skillset is piloting a£250,000 scheme to help train first jobbers working in post-production.
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Jump tackles war film titles
Jump has produced opening titles and programme graphics for BBC documentary One Day at War. The titles introduce 16 people who were filmed for a day on 22 March 2004. The trait they had in common was that they live in places affected by conflict. Keith Livingstone designed and composited ...
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Man enough for the job
Less mean than Birt, less impulsive than Dyke, we can expect the new DG to captain a sensible ship
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Eight takers for monster garage
Granada International has clinched several deals for mechanical makeover series Monster Garage and spin-off Monster House. The first series of Monster Garage, which has already aired on Channel 4, has been picked up by a further eight broadcasters including AB Sat in France, Ananey in Israel and Discovery International. In ...
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Sewell to front rolls-royce doc for five
Art critic Brian Sewell is to present another show for Five - fronting a history of Rolls-Royce. The two-parter, which will air later this summer, is timed to coincide with the luxury car manufacturer's centenary year. The series, produced by Wag TV, was ordered by Five controller of daytime, arts ...
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Monkey to produce spielberg doc
Monkey Kingdom is to produce a documentary on movie director Stephen Spielberg for Five, featuring exclusive interviews with the director. Five controller of music and youth Sham Sandhu has commissioned the 60-minute programme, Hollywood Heroes: Spielberg, to air in September to tie in with the UK release of Spielberg's new ...
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US makeover for Judge John Deed
BBC Worldwide and US production outfit Reveille are to rework BBC1 crime drama Judge John Deed for a US audience. Colin Jarvis, director of programming and operations at BBC Worldwide, is working with Ben Silverman, who heads the Universal-owned Reveille, to find writers to adapt the original scripts for the ...
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CTVC lands D-Day Despatches
CTVC has finished post-production on Optomen's D-Day Despatches. The show has been produced as a news programme, covering the landings which took place 60 years ago. The 5 x 15-minute series is in a modern format, using all the associated contemporary technology. Post was completed at the Bushy-based CTVC and ...
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Jason comedy drama returns to ITV
ITV has commissioned a third and final outing of the David Jason-directed comedy drama The Quest. The Quest III - Gold Diggers of 1961 will be filmed in London and Leeds between June and July. The executive producers are Steve Christian and David Reynolds, who also produces. Douglas Livingstone has ...
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Challenge gambles on Poker series
Challenge, the Flextech-owned games entertainment channel, has acquired exclusive TV rights to the Pacific Poker UK Open. The 22 x 120-minute series will feature 108 players competing for£630,000. Produced by indie Matchroom, the series will air throughout September.
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Jelly TV buys smoke
Bristol-based Jelly TV has bought the UK's first Smoke on Linux system for£50,000. The graphics and animation specialist decided to buy it on the back of recent successful projects for the BBC: Curriculum Bites for BBC Education and Time Machine for the Natural History Unit. Jelly delivered over 300 SFX ...
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Yentob to paint a picture of Britain
Alan Yentob, the BBC's director of drama, entertainment and children's, is set to present another series for the corporation. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has asked Yentob - who fronts the Imagine arts strand - to host the forthcoming 6 x 60-minute A Picture of Britain ...
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BBC's wide eye travels to middle east
Pre-school BBC co-production Wide Eye is to be shown throughout the Middle East following a deal between rights owner Abbey Home Media and TV1 International. The 26 x 10-minute series, made by King Rollo Films, could be screened in up to 16 countries throughout the region including Egypt, Saudi Arabia ...
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BBC strike threat
Staff at BBC Worldwide are on the verge of strike action following a disagreement over its latest pay offer. BBC Worldwide has offered to pay an inflation-inked 2.6% increase but has turned down union demands for a 5% rise. In response, the National Union of Journalists and broadcast union Bectu ...
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BBC triumphs on RTS sports day
The BBC dominated this year's Royal Television Society Sports Awards, picking up eight awards with ITV and Channel 4 each picking up three.
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Disney to launch Freeview channel in autumn
Disney has announced an autumn launch for its long-delayed Freeview entertainment channel, which it plans to call ABC1 after its US network ABC, write Naomi Rovnick and Michael Rosser.