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Canning Factory to make cartoon for Five kids slot
Animation specialist The Canning Factory has been given the greenlight to start production on a£1m pre-school cartoon for Five, writes Michael Rosser.
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Jump brands UK's Eurovision
Jump has done the branding for Eurovision Making Your Mind Up! the live television competition to find the UK's Eurovision entry for 2004. Jump's Stephen Smith designed the programme logo while senior designer Keith Livingstone created the opening titles using specially shot footage which was ...
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Somethin' else looks at branding sport
Indie Somethin' Else is to chart the history of the brand within the world of sport for BBC Radio 5 Live. The 4 x 30-minute series, Brand It Like Beckham , will run from Monday to Thursday at the end of May. Presented by journalist ...
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Celador scores more brainiest success
Celador International has won further international success for its Brainiest? quiz show with a new format sale in Greece. Fremantle Media's Greek subsidiary has landed the commission to produce a 70 x 45-minute series plus a 90-minute final, which will be stripped through weekdays on ...
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Luckwell given trade body role
Mike Luckwell has been appointed chairman of a new post-production industry association being set up by the UK Film Council. The as-yet-unnamed body will represent and promote the UK post-production industry at home and abroad.
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Flaxton joins hd bill
Director and DoP Terry Flaxton has been added to the bill for next week's Harnessing High Definition conference. The multi-award-winning film-maker, one of the first people in the world to shoot a feature film on videotape, has been involved in a number of HD projects including Past Present Future Imperfect ...
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Disney rejects hostile bid by Comcast
Walt Disney this week rejected a hostile $66bn (£37bn) takeover bid from US cable giant Comcast and bolstered its portfolio of characters by buying The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company for an undisclosed sum. The deal with Henson, which also includes characters from Bear ...
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BBC set to fund two ITV dramas
BBC Worldwide is funding and distributing two Red Production dramas for ITV1 - the first time the corporation has helped pay for a show on its commercial rival.
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Tories not to be on panel to find BBC chair
The Tory party has said it will not sit on the scrutiny panel to oversee the selection process for the new BBC chairman. Former Conservative Home Secretary Lord Baker turned down a request from the Commissioner for Public Appointments, Dame Rennie Fritchie, who will chair the panel, after expressing concern ...
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Green Bay scheme
Cardiff-based indie Green Bay Media is to join other Welsh production companies to launch a drama development fund, which will create a slate of film scripts for broadcasters, film financiers, distributors and investors. Wales' biggest production facilities group, Barcud Derwen, will co-finance the fund's start-up phase with Sgrin, the media ...
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ITV continues restructure of key areas
ITV has appointed a commercial director for the network and an operations head for its news group.
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MBO interest in alias
Computer hardware manufacturer SGI is in negotiations to sell its 3D division, Alias, to an MBO team. The deal, which will be done with backing from a private equity investment firm, will see the existing management team and organisation structure remain as it is under new ownership. Alias did not ...
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CBM four aim to launch Freesport
Four members of CBM Media - the company that made an aborted attempt to launch a free-to-air sports channel on Freeview - are forming a new enterprise to further develop the idea. The group, comprising Simon Bazalgette, David Bellin, Peter Knowles and Rod Connors, are aiming to launch Freesport, a ...
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Great Britons format sold to South Africa
South African broadcaster SABC has bought the rights to BBC format Great Britons and plans to use the show as part of its coverage of the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid.
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Italian channel to adopt Kumars format
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is to make a local version of comedy chat show The Kumars at No. 42 for Canale 5 following a deal with indie Hat Trick International. The deal is accompanied by a second series commission of the format from Dutch public broadcaster ...
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BBC script error hinders ABC deal
Plans to adapt BBC crime series Murder in Mind for the US could be scuppered after the corporation forgot to gain permission from the original scriptwriter.
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Millar puts£4m into Whitfield St Studios
Robin Millar, the new owner of London facility the Whitfield Street Studios (see Broadcast, 13.2.04), is investing around£4m to get the facility up and running, writesFarah Jifri.
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RDF poaches C4 pair for consumer rights arm
RDF Media is looking to snatch more business from rivals BBC Worldwide and 4 Rights with the launch of a consumer division.
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C4I secures deals with french channels
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales in France, including the acclaimed arts reality show Operatunity. The Diverse Productions series has been picked up by Arte. In addition, French entertainment channel M6 has bought ITN Factual's two-part documentary Di's Guys and France ...