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NewsSheen to Frontline
Frontline Television has nabbed Arena P3's general manager of six years, Sue Sheen, who joins the company as senior producer. Sheen oversaw the facility management at Arena P3. In her new role she will project manage Frontline's broadcast and corporate clients.
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UKTV automates
UKTV is set to be the first UK broadcaster to use a software system across its 10 channels specifically for broadcast management. Sintec Media's OnAir is designed to manage UKTV's network scheduling more quickly. The database will be used by around 240 UKTV staff including channel managers, editors and schedulers ...
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UK strong at Promax
UK companies performed well at this year's European Promax & BDA awards, picking up 20 of the 45 gold awards. Red Bee Media was the big winner with seven Promax awards, including a gold for best themed campaign for BBC Pedigree Comedy and a BDA gold award for the best ...
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Interfield maps out BBC's Coup
Interfield Design has created the titles for BBC Productions' Coup, a 90-minute, one-off drama about Mark Thatcher's failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. The sequence, designed by Interfield's Peter Anderson and animated by Lewis White, has the camera panning over a map of the world, interspersed ...
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NewsFive News names Kaplinsky cover
Five News presenters Matt Barbet and Isla Traquair are to replace Natasha Kaplinsky when she goes on maternity leave later this year.
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Urban Chef titled by Vitamin
Vitamin has created the titles for Seven Stones' The Urban Chef, a 10 x 30-minute factual series which follows chef Ollie Rowe opening a new restaurant using food sourced entirely from within the London tube network. The titles, directed and designed by Vitamin creative director ...
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Fremantle signs for first look at Ten Alps
Fremantle International Distribution has signed a two-year deal with Ten Alps' drama division, giving the distributor a first look over the indie's projects in return for a six-figure investment. Ten Alps inherited a slate of drama projects with the February acquisition of Jo Willett's production outfit, Cottage Industry Productions. Its ...
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Landmark scores international sales
RDF Rights has secured a raft of international sales for indie Landmark Films. Channel 4 special Strangest Village in Britain, about Botton Village, which provides a refuge for people with autism, Down's Syndrome, mental illness and other conditions, has been picked up by broadcasters in ...
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RDF USA recruits Yates in senior role
RDF continues to add staff to its growing American operation, hiring one of the executive producers of the US Supernanny as chief operations officer. Tony Yates, who has also worked on The Bachelor and Beauty ...
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Zig Zag heads for Klingon summer camp
Zig Zag Productions is making a two-part factual series for Discovery Travel Channel in the US about people who attend weird summer camps.
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Gravedigger commission for Bristol indie
Bristol-based indie Available Light has won its biggest commission from the BBC to date, a 10 x 30-minute BBC2 series on a West Country gravedigger. Johnny's Kingdom - A Year on Exmoor, looks at the National Park through the eyes of gravedigger turned film-maker Kingdom. ...
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Time Team to excavate royal gardens
Channel 4 has commissioned indies Wildfire Television and Videotext to produce a Time Teamspecial to mark the Queen's 80th birthday in August. Producers of Time Team: Big Royal Dighave secured unprecedented access to excavate gardens at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle ...
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Sixties shown through eyes of Beatles
UKTV History is to explore British society in the sixties through the music and lives of the Beatles. Each episode of the 5 x 60-minute documentary series called The Beatles Decade, will take a particular era in the band's history, looking at the various themes ...
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NewsWho is the most creative of all?
Broadcastunveils its creative report identifying the most acclaimed programmes, channels and production companies
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NewsPEER POLL: Creativity
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is BBC1 Britain's most creative channel?
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NewsTop Gear speeds off with 6.1m
BBC2's popular motoring show Top Gear was back in the fast lane last night as 6.1m (23.3%) tuned in at 8pm for the new series, more than the start of the previous run.
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NewsDamazer rejects C4 criticism
BBC4 Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer has rejected Channel 4's claim that the station is too focussed on older, middle class listeners and has accused C4 of exploiting the “myth” for commercial purposes.
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NewsBBC presents radical plan to share resources
The BBC has made an unprecedented offer to share some of its resources with its commercial rivals in its submission to Ofcom for the regulator's report into the future of PSB in the UK.
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NewsOfcom: EastEnders gave kids sleepless nights
Ofcom has slammed the BBC for giving children sleepless nights following the Easter weekend episodes of EastEnders that featured character Max Branning being buried alive.