Small MPU – Page 565
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NewsTV chiefs reveal 360-degree commissioning headaches
A growing demand for long-form content, pressure from advertisers and commissioners' inexperience are proving to be the biggest challenges for broadcasters' 360-degree commissioning strategies.
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NewsITV: John Kaye Cooper, controller of entertainment
Friday nights on ITV1 are set for a shake-up under Peter Fincham, with 9pm earmarked for fact ent and reality shows and 10pm set to be the home of new comedy and entertainment formats.
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NewsConcrete and The Facility to join forces
Concrete has merged with long-form broadcast and corporate post house The Facility in a deal that will see The Facility directors Alex Goodes, Jason Kosbab and John Howard join the Concrete board.
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NewsKeating: TV needs to take publishing role
Roly Keating, soon to be the BBC's first director of archive content, has described the area he is moving into as a “long-standing obsession” and believes the industry should adopt more of a publishing model in the future.
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NewsITV1 pilots Fix It-style show from Gallowgate
ITV is to turn Amanda Holden into a modern-day Jimmy Savile with a fix it-style format from Ant and Dec's indie Gallowgate Productions.
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Loft London makes the move into HD
Duplication facility Loft London has spent£400,000 opening a second arm called The Clinic that will move it into HD.
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NewsMagic takes London radio crown
Rajar: Magic's 105.4 DJ Neil Fox has overtaken Heart's Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott as the number one commercial breakfast show in the capital.
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Bafta-winner Garfield to star in Red Ridings
Boy A star Andrew Garfield is to follow his Bafta-winning performance with the lead role in a series of dramas for Channel 4 based on David Peace's Red Ridings novels.
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Red Vision goes overseas with Headcases
Red Vision VFX, the Manchester-based producer and visual effects house, is looking to expand overseas on the back of international sales for Headcases, the ITV show for which it created the computer graphics.
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NewsRamsay and Optomen set up indie
Gordon Ramsay is to launch an indie in conjunction with regular production partner Optomen that will produce all his new global TV output for at least the next seven years.
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Shine and New Regency form film JV
Super-indie Shine Group and US producer New Regency have formed an internationally focused joint-venture company that will produce cinema films.
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NewsHow Roly pulled in the crowds for BBC2
Outgoing BBC2 controller Roly Keating managed to pull off the difficult balancing act between maintaining the channel's public service credentials while also building up sizeable audiences during his four years in charge.
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NewsITV to remake dark drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Mammoth Screen is developing another adaptation of the controversial novel Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
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NewsAxis plans to open digital workflow lab
Pinewood-based facilities company Axis plans to set up a digital lab that will store media and create a reusable digital workflow for clients.
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England face Germany again for ITV4 Legends
ITV4 will screen the rematch of old rivals England v Germany as part of its Football Legends strand.
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NewsITV: Alison Sharman, director of factual and daytime
Sharman has identified authored journeys as a major opportunity for ITV1 and, having dipped her toe in the water with Robbie Coltrane: B-Road Britain, the director of factual has already ordered Martin Clunes: A Man and his Dogs and the Griff Rhys Jones-fronted World's Greatest Cities.
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Senior editor to Evolutions
Evolutions has appointed senior editor and DS artist Nick Cliff to its creative team.