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NewsBurt poised to follow Allen out at ITV
Replacing Charles Allen could prove to be one of Sir Peter Burt's last jobs as chairman of ITV.
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NewsLeader: A mixed legacy
Charles Allen's tenure at ITV has lead to a fall in audiences, says Broadcast's feature editor Emily Booth
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NewsSizing up Allen's likely successors
Speculation about who will replace Charles Allen has been rife for weeks. Broadcastsizes up the names in the frame.
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NewsOn the box - Tall stories and fishy tales
Alive hooked Camilla Lewis to start with, but lost her with a lack of pace, while the BBC's Trawlermen reeled her in with its superb depiction of seafaring life
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Directors Cut updates to HD
Editing boutique Directors Cut Films is splashing out£500,000 on a dedicated grading suite and upgrading its facilities to HD.
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Rushes soho shorts hails winners
A live-action version of The Simpsons title sequence was one of the winners at this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. Come Home to the Simpsons, directed by Chris Palmer at Gorgeous, clinched the Adobe Title Sequences & Idents Award.
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Promo Shark dates
The second annual Promo Shark Awards, sister event to the Shark Awards Advertising Festival, take place this September in Ireland. The event is part of an annual festival celebrating the best work in TV promos and broadcast advertising from around the world and will this year feature the producer of ...
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Stream Blu-ray kit
Ascent Media DVD outfit Stream has invested in a new Sony Blu-Print authoring system for Blu-ray discs. The software-based authoring platform which supports MPEGE2, VC-1 and AVC advanced video codecs will be used to deliver Blu-ray authoring services and advanced functionality to clients.
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Avid buys Sibelius
Avid Technology has acquired music applications software manufacturers Sibelius for around£12m ($23m) in cash. As a business unit of Avid's audio division Digidesign, Sibelius will continue to develop and market its own line of software. Sibelius' core product line comprises software tools for editing and arranging music notation for creating ...
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Property of Arqiva
Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division has secured a contract to launch the Overseas Property TV channel onto the Sky platform. As part of the five-year contract with MacAnthony Realty International, which owns the channel, Arqiva will provide fibre connectivity between the channel's London studio and Arqiva's site, uplink Overseas Property ...
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Autodesk in update
Autodesk has launched a new version of its 3D modelling, animation and rendering software, Maya 8. The software claims to offer 64-bit support, and is designed to enable artists to load large amounts of data and interact with them more efficiently.
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ArenaP3 posts Pram-Face
ArenaP3 has completed the post on Tiger Aspect's Cutting Edge: Pram-Face. The hour-long documentary, produced by James Cohen, profiles the difficult daily lives of Ala and Abby, two young single mothers living in Exeter. The programme was graded by ArenaP3 colourist Blair Wallace using Pogle ...
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Framestore titles Time Trumpet
Framestore CFC has created the title sequence and digital VFX for BBC entertainment's Time Trumpet. The 6 x 30-minute comedy, set in 2031, takes a look back at aspects of our culture as refracted through TV shows. Framestore's Adam Parry designed the titles on Inferno, ...
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Iso makes stings for E4 Music
ISO has created new idents for relaunched channel, E4 Music. The idents reveal the inner workings of the fictional E4 Music HQ - a computer mainframe staffed by E4 music employees - interspersed with music-induced mayhem. The E4 operators were shot on 16mm film against a green screen, then composited ...
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C4 to air charity catwalk show
Channel 4 and Endemol UK will broadcast the climax of September's London Fashion Week - a charity catwalk show by fashion label Giorgio Armani.
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Return to Tuscany takes primetime slot
BBC2 has commissioned indie Seven Stones Media to make a primetime version of its daytime cookery hit, Return to Tuscany. BBC2 has asked for a 10 x 30-minute version of the show to air in a weekly 7pm slot this autumn. The series follows the ...
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Somethin' Else looks into Sexual Healing
Radio indie Somethin' Else is to produce a one-hour documentary on the story behind Marvin Gaye's hit song Sexual Healingfor BBC Radio 2. The documentary, which has been commissioned by R2 controller Lesley Douglas, will focus on Gaye's rocky relationship with co-writer David Ritz, who ...
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6 Music listeners to present Sunday show
BBC 6 Music is to play host to wannabe DJs by inviting listeners to fill a two-hour slot with their favourite music. Listener's 6 Mixwill go out every Sunday night from 8pm.
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Little Voice writer to pen Afternoon Play
Jim Cartwright, the scriptwriter behind Little Voice, is to pen a drama for BBC Birmingham's Afternoon Playseries. Cartwright is writing and directing Johnny Shakespeare(working title), a modern-day tale about a semi-literate man who begins a ...