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DNE unveils new playout centre
Discovery Networks Europe unveiled its new playout centre in Chiswick this week, touted as one of the biggest in Europe.
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Red Bee to buy subtitling company for£3.2m
Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast) is set to acquire subtitling outfit Australian Caption Centre (ACC) for£3.2m.
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Crow TV to merge sites
Post-production house Crow TV is to close down its Chiswick site and merge its suites into its Shepherd's Bush facility in January.
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Facilities survey
Broadcast is asking facilities to take part in its 2006 post-production survey, highlighting the changing face of the industry, the most successful companies within it and what concerns the sector has. The results will be published in a pullout section in January 2006. The questionnaire can be downloaded from www.broadcastnow.co.uk ...
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IBF hires Townsend
International Broadcast Facilities has recruited Andy Townsend as sales and marketing consultant. Townsend was head of DVD at the Metropolis Group for two years before becoming creative digital consultant to the Cultural Industries Development Agency for a year. He will be developing business opportunities across all divisions at IBF, whose ...
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Godden moves on
Silverglade Post Production has clinched DigiReels' Peter Godden as its facilities manager. Godden had worked at Metro Broadcast for eight years and BBC Post Production Resources before founding DigiReels, where he spent seven years as director. Godden will take charge of developing client relations.
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Foundation first
The Foundation has finished filming its children's programme Finders Keepers at the Maidstone Studios. The show, presented by Jeff Brazier, was the first to be shot in Maidstone's new 12,000ft studio, which was completed in October. The programme, for ITV1, first aired in the early 1990s, when it was originally ...
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Mobitv recruits
MobiTV, the mobile TV and radio service provider whose UK clients include Endemol and Sky, has appointed Peter Mercier in a new role as director of business development for Europe. Mercier's previous roles include acting as a consultant for ITV Digital and director of content at T-Mobile. He will oversee ...
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Red Bee campaign
Little Britain is invading the airwaves on Thursday (17 November) when the show's narrator, Tom Baker, will be BBC1 guest continuity announcer. Red Bee Media created the campaign to promote the channel's Thursday night line-up, as well as the continuity announcements and 16 teasers for Little Britain, which will run ...
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Jump goes movie mad for ITV1
Jump has designed and produced the titles and programme graphics for Movie Music Mania from ITV Productions for ITV1, which features popular performers singing songs from hit films. Ordered by ITV's Lee Connolly, the titles show film strips containing images from various films, intertwining with models of the films' logos. ...
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Queen's Sister job is Farmed out
The Farm Group has completed the post on Touchpaper Productions' drama The Queen's Sister for Channel 4. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones and produced by Kath Mattock, the two-hour drama explores the late Princess Margaret's tempestuous relationships with the men in her life. The Farm's graphic designer Barney Jordan composited ...
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BDH titles history series for C4
Rob Hifle of BDH has designed and directed the title sequence for Wall to Wall Television's new series, Not Forgotten. Ian Hislop presents the 4 x 60-minute series for Channel 4 uncovering the stories behind Britain's war memorials. The title sequence, shot on DigiBeta, centres on a single statue in ...
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GI rejig follows Torrance's exit
A shake-up at Granada International (GI) following last week's poaching of Caroline Torrance by Endemol will see Tim Mutimer promoted to the newly created role of director of sales.
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Oryx takes Guinness World Recordsto Middle East
The Arab world's unlikely fascination with that most British of institutions, Guinness World Records, is set to continue in a deal in which Oryx Production and Distribution will repackage Ultimate Guinness World Records for 18 Arabic-speaking countries, including Iraq and Syria.
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Format focus: So Sudoku
ITV Production has released details of its long-awaited sudoku gameshow format.
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FID takes Yuschenko doc to the US
Talkback Thames documentary Poisoned, which originally screened on Sky One in April, has been sold by Fremantle International Distribution (FID) to the History Channel to air in the US on the foreign-focused History International. Sparked by the poisoning of Ukrainian president Victor Yuschenko last year, it examines the occurrences of ...
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Leopard USA to make second Cash in Attic
US channel Home and Garden TV (HGTV) has commissioned Leopard Films USA to make a second 26 x 30-minute series of Cash in the Attic. The cable channel has also commissioned new property format Hidden Potential from Leopard Films USA. The programme uses graphics and CGI to show buyers how ...
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RDFR secures first look at October
October Films has become the latest production company to sign a first look deal with RDF Rights as the super-indie continues to add to its international distribution portfolio. RDF Rights will now collaborate with October on ideas from initial concept through to final sales. Last week RDF inked a similar ...
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NBDTV wins global rights to Quo doc
Specialist music and factual distributor NBDTV will handle international rights for the 55-minute Little Green Men documentary The Party Ain't Over Yet - 40 Years of Status Quo. The special, made to mark the band's upcoming anniversary, will provide unique access to the band in the studio, on tour and ...
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BBC2 lines up political thriller
Prime Suspect writer Peter Berry has penned a political thriller for BBC2, to be made by indie Box TV.