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Two appointments
Editor Tim Fulford has joined Soho offline facility Cut & Run from Red Square Editing. His recent work includes a BBC production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw plus ads for Vodafone for JWT and Ribena for Grey Advertis-ing. Meanwhile, Ascent Media-owned One ...
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UK Post elections
Momentum continues to build behind the new post-production trade body, UK Post, as the submission deadline for board nominations passed last Wednesday, 31 March. More than 30 individuals have been nominated for the seven elected seats that will make up the board under chairman Mike Luckwell. A further two to ...
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Japanese show set
Equipment supplier Mitcorp is building a Japanese kitchen-style set for this year's Broadcast Production Show to help demonstrate the capabilities of a range of new Sony and Pana-sonic cameras. A sushi chef will work on site while being recorded by cameras covering DV through to HD, including the new disk-based ...
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NAB debut for JVC kit
JVC is to introduce a portable HD player/recorder at NAB to accompany its hand-held JY-HD10 HD camcorder. The CU-VH1EX will record 720p/30 and will output 1080i/60. It will allow video producers to spool HD content from their tape to any non-linear editing (NLE) system without tying up the camcorder. Once ...
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Component's boy band designs
Component Graphics has completed design on a 60-minute one-off special, Battle of the Boy Bands , created and produced by Shine Entertainment for Channel 4. CG elements were composited with footage and key words to create posters, billboards and newspaper headlines, which chart the ups ...
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P3 spices up The Sex.com story
P3 has done effects, online and grading work on The Sex.com Story , a 60-minute documentary for Five made by Making Time. The show charts the extraordinary theft of the most valuable domain name in the world, sex.com. Online and grade was completed by Michael ...
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Rushes graphics for Aids show
Rushes Post Production has completed graphics work on a 2 x 60-minute BBC specialist factual documentary about Aids. Being Positive , directed and produced by Andy Robbins, looks at the social history of the HIV and Aids epidemic. Modern graffiti-style graphic design and animation have ...
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Indies chalk up daytime orders
Two indies have secured footholds in ITV1 and BBC1's daytime schedules.
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UKTV Food puts Wozza special on menu
Anthony Worrall Thompson, host of BBC2 cooking strand Saturday Kitchen , is to be the subject of a UKTV Food documentary series.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Hilary Bell
The Channel 4 commissioning editor - documentaries is looking for ratings winners for the primetime 21.00 slot, possibly along the lines of the programme she is most proud of during her tenure at the channel: Faking It
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William and Mary return for third time
ITV1 has commissioned a third series of hit romantic drama William and Mary , starring Martin Clunes and Julie Graham, from Granada London. The new six-part order comes after the second series, which finishes on 11 April, continued the ratings success of its first outing, ...
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CNN presents recalls Warsaw uprising
CNN International has lined up 60-minute documentary Warsaw Rising: the Forgotten Soldiers of World War II. The film, which tells the story of the 63-day Warsaw uprising during the city's occupation by the Nazis, is being made by the channel's CNN Presents team, with ...
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ITV2 lines up Bad Girls special
ITV2 has commissioned a 60-minute Bad Girls spin-off from Shed Productions to air this autumn. The behind-the-scenes special has been commissioned by Daniela Neumann and will be produced by Jodie Reynolds with Brian Park as executive producer. The order follows a ...
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Neumann takes new role at ITV1
ITV has beefed up its factual programming department by giving ITV2 head of programming Daniela Neumann a new role as factual editor.
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Five marketing director quits to head FHM brand
David Pullan, the Five executive who oversaw a multi-million pound rebrand of the broadcaster, has quit the channel.
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Interactive quiz fails to engage
BBC1's new Saturday evening interactive quiz show got off to a shaky start this weekend..
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RDF in LA wins Spike TV order
RDF Media's Los Angeles office has scored a commission for US men's cable network Spike TV.
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BBC2 wins Peabody
Giselle Portenier and Olenka Frenkiel have won a prestigious Peabody Award for their BBC2 Correspondent programme, Israel's Secret Weapon , which told the story of Mordechai Vanunu who was jailed after revealing Israel's nuclear weapons programme. UK documentary-maker Mischa Scorer ...
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Strong sales for QVC
Shopping channel QVC has reported a 14.2% boost in sales from£197.6m in 2002 to£225.7m in 2003. During the Christmas selling period - from 3 November to 21 December - the channel averaged more than£1m of orders each day. It also handled 12.4 million calls during 2003, shipping over 9 million ...
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Grade: DG, Charter and board top his agenda
Michael Grade made a confident and relaxed start to his new role as BBC chairman, strolling in to spontaneous applause from gathered staff at his first press conference on Friday (2 April).