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Dunkirk (BBC2) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Apart from being informative and inspiring, Dunkirk was also very impressive in technical terms.'...
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Dunkirk (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Dunkirk describes itself as 'a dramatised documentary' - a phrase that can signify almost anything. Either way, it...
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Dunkirk (BBC2) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'Like Operation Dynamo itself, Dunkirk is a chaotic affair, improvised and cobbled together from desperately limite...
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Dunkirk (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'An excellent opening installment of the BBC's three-part docu-dram.'...
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S&V wins ocean race
Indie Sunset & Vine has won the contract to produce and distribute the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race. The Television Corporation subsidiary, which also produces cricket for Channel 4 and other sports coverage broadcast around the world, will be the race's global television production partner, producing several hundred hours of programming. ...
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This Morning shift
Granada has promoted Simon Greenwood to the role of senior specials producer on ITV1 daytime show This Morning. He will now head the specials team with a specific brief to generate more human interest stories. He takes over from Vickie Stokes who is now ...
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Turner and Nickelodeon make raft of promotions
Kids networks Turner Entertainment and Nickelodeon UK have both restructured their management line-ups.
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Minicams launched
Prime Television has launched two minicams, which are the result of three years of development. They are a compact three-chip, pan and tilt camera and the Matchstick Minicam. The pan and tilt camera avoids the need for ARC (aspect ratio conversion) before widescreen broadcast. The minicam provides true 16:9 widescreen ...
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Teletext TV launch
Teletext is launching its first digital television channel. Teletext Holidays TV will begin broadcasting on Sky on 23 February backed by a£4m launch budget. The 24-hour station will be produced by indie New Era Television, and will feature destination guides, holiday news, weather reports and viewer competitions. If the channel ...
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Sale for Sony kit
Surrey-based broadcast services company Presteigne Broadcast Hire is the first customer to buy Sony's new wireless camera systems. Presteigne took delivery of the WLL-RX55 wireless camera receiver and CA55 wireless camera transmitter from Sony last week. Presteigne already has a number of wireless camera systems from other manufacturers such as ...
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NewsKerrang! tests in Manchester
Emap is to test Kerrang! Radio in Manchester on a restricted service licence (RSL) in preparation for the next swathe of FM licence bids.
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Foundry invents open VFX program
London-based company The Foundry has blown the visual effects market wide open with the development of a software program that will allow editors and compositors to use 'plug-in' visual effects from any company on any finishing system, writes Farah Jifri.
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Midsomer goes to Germany for first time
All3Media International has made its first sale of ITV crime series Midsomer Murders to Germany. The first two series of the murder mystery series, made by All3Media offshoot Bentley Productions, will be screened on public broadcaster ZDF. An eighth season of the programme, starring John ...
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Two firms finish Sky's Miriam
London Post and The TV Set have post-produced There's Something About Miriam a 6 x 60-minute series for Sky One. The series was onlined and graded using Symphony with Sapphire FX by Blue Turtle's Graham Carr at London Post with series director Dominic Bowls. Carr ...
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Lip Sync posts great escapes
Lip Sync Post has completed the animated titles for 7 x 30-minute series Escape From? for Five. Produced by 3BM the series is part of a larger 14-programme commission, the other seven being Missions, a series on great missions in the 21st century. ...
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Endemol UK promotes paradise man
Endemol UK has promoted David Flynn to deputy head of its creative unit. Flynn, who joined Endemol in 1999, has spent the past two years as a development producer working on formats such as the forthcoming ITV reality series Trouble in Paradise. He will report to creative unit head Richard ...
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Maidstone indie wins commissions
Maidstone-based indie Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a 6 x 30-minute regional series on crime during the second world war for Meridian. Underworld at War, dubbed the 'factual Foyle's War', was commissioned by Meridian controller of regional programming Mark Southgate. It will be produced and directed by ...
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Five commissions more 'swap' shows
Five has created its own 'swap' strand, following the success of RDF's Wife Swap and Boss Swap on Channel 4. Controller of special events and pop features Sham Sandhu has commissioned indie Flame TV to produce three 60-minute instalments: ...
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Wark Clements in SPL co-pro with Setanta
Scottish indie Wark Clements will co-produce 38 Scottish Premier League matches each year for the next four years if its production partner Setanta Sports succeeds in securing exclusive rights to the games next week.
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Top trumps inspires Challenge TV show
Challenge TV has ordered 20 x 30-minute episodes of a comedy panel show from Princess Productions, based on the classic card game Top Trumps. Totally Top Trumps was commissioned by Challenge channel controller Jonathon Webb and will air in April. Sebastian Scott will executive produce ...