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Support behind Spy TV
Kit hire facility Shooting Partners has supplied full on-set technical support on Ian Wright's new show for Endemol, Spy TV, including providing and 'hiding'; all cameras and microphones. The programme features unsuspecting people being set up by friends in different scenarios, like helping the police trap a diamond smuggler. Each ...
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Nucoda tool for spring
Media company Nucoda has announced that its first PC-based full-resolution tool for film will be on sale in the UK from March. Data Conform (DC) is heralded as a time and money-saving device because it allows users to conform from an EDL (edit decision list) over a network and immediately ...
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New job for bray at DGP
Rowan Bray has left her role as facilities manager at Arena Digital after 11 years to join DGP as general manager. Bray will oversee all staffing issues, training requirements and the running of the post and new media areas of the company. The role did not exist at DGP before ...
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Henson buys system
Jim Henson's Creature Shop has become the first European company to buy the $110,000 (£68,459) network storage system Sledgehammer. The system allows the UK animation company to store all its data for film, commercial and broadcast work in the same place. Creature Shop technical manager Aurelio Campa said that the ...
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Clear miracles for the second coming
Post facility Clear has completed visual effects work on Red Productions' forthcoming drama The Second Coming. Nearly 60 shots were worked on by post-producer Stephen Garrad and his team, including several
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MPC backs digital film lab with£1m
Carlton-owned facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is investing£1m in a digital film lab, writes Sam Espensen.
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Hive to be set alight by Flame
2D/3D animation outfit The Hive has bought a Discreet Flame effects system to replace its Cyborg compositor which the company can no longer use since the collapse of its manufacturer, 5D.
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Pye to spearhead Bermuda's push into CGI
Trevor Murphy, the managing director and owner of animation production company Bermuda Shorts, is to step down as head of the company in order to allow fresh blood with expertise in CGI to push the company forward, writes Sam Espensen.
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NewsMen admit BBC bomb plot
Two men pleaded guilty this afternoon to being involved in a car-bomb explosion which left part of BBC Television Centre in tatters two years ago, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsDiscovery wins access to BBC stock footage
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Discovery Channel owner Discovery Communications (DCI) to provide full access for the company's network of channels to the BBC's moving image stock, writes Luke Satchell
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£20m Jane's shock as Frasier is axed
Jane Leeves, Britain's best-paid actress, is facing an uncertain future after it was announced last night that the ...
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Farewell to TV's Frasier
Frasier, the American TV comedy that made a star of Tv actress Jane Leeves, is to be axed. ...
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No rise in RI:SE viewing figures
Revamped Chennel 4 breakfast show RI:SE attracted 200,000 viewers when it returned to TV screens on Monday - only h...
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Digital boosted by Freeview sales
Freeview, the digital television service run by tthe BBC, BSkyB and others, said yesterday it had sold more than 30...
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BBC finds that life in The Office really does imitate art
The BBC has decided to distil some of its own office wisdom by drawing up a statement of values ...
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A 'light touch' bark from a communications watchdog looking to industry for expertise
New Ofcom chief Stephen Carter on the direction will take when the regulator starts to operate ...
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Sea of suds from out silliest soap
A spot of teatime postmodernism with the so-bad-it's-awful re-re-invented Crossroads ...