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RDF's Millichip quits for new zealand job
RDF director of acquisitions and development Jane Millichip has quit to head All3Media's New Zealand production company South Pacific Pictures. Millichip leaves RDF Rights at the end of August after just over a year in the job. She will take up the role of managing director at South Pacific in ...
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Axe hangs over Creature Shop
A final decision has yet to be made about the closure of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and the fate of its 23 full-time employees.
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Peter Gabriel buys a 50% stake in Solid State Logic
Audio console manufacturer Solid State Logic (SSL) has been bought by musician Peter Gabriel and American businessman David Engelke for an undisclosed sum.
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Two Way TV adds mobile phone service
Post and transmission house TSI is doing a deal with interactive tv provider Two Way TV to provide mobile phone services to broadcasters using its playout centre.
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Wright to Metro
Former MTV Studios general manager Peter Wright has replaced Nicholas Taylor as chief executive of media technology group Metro Broadcast. Wright was previously responsible for heading MTV's broadcast facilities division, which served more than 30 MTV channels. It also worked with external clients including Nickelodeon, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five. ...
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West dig gets kit
West Digital has completed its£200,000 relaunch after buying the Real Editing Company from Independent Post last year. Joint managing director Darren Cock ordered three Avid Adrenalines - one HD - from reseller Altered Images. The refurbishment, including digital cabling infrastructure, was completed last month. West Digital is currently editing ...
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Childline Support
Chromakey specialist Reflecmedia has supplied its Chromatte to the producers of a music video promoting the new Childline anti-bullying single, Stand Tall, sung by Just3. Reflecmedia lent producer Colin McKeown and director Samantha Janus a
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Bib wins BBC order
Bib Buoy TV has won the BBC contract to post-produce visual effects shots on The Virgin Queen. The job, around 20 shots, has been estimated at about 90 hours in a Flame suite and five days' shoot attendance. The shots range from crowd duplication of armies ...
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Pepper prepares Girl in Caf
Pepper Post Production has completed post-production, including visual effects and title sequences, for Richard Curtis' Girl in the Café. The drama focuses on a politician (Bill Nighy) who embarks on a relationship with a girl that he meets in a café (Kelly MacDonald) around the G8 ...
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Glastonbury goes green on BBC
422 Manchester has produced graphics for this year's BBC coverage of the Glastonbury Festival. 422 graphic designer Gareth Price created the multilayered sequences entirely within After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop. The strong use of green - using digital stills - was used to create a distinctive theme for this year's ...
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Directors follow the Romans
Directors Cut has completed post-production on Life and Death in Romefor production company Shine. The 6 x 60-minute documentary series goes back 2,000 years to look at how the Romans lived, loved and partied. Online editor Andrew Elliott used digital film effects and lighting effects on ...
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Sperber to leave CBBC drama in July
CBBC's head of drama has announced she is to quit the corporation for a move to the independent sector, but has no new job lined up. Elaine Sperber - who commissioned award-winning series such as Fungus the Bogeymanand Microsoap- will leave her ...
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Sky TV Package remix pushes up prices
Sky is bumping up the prices of all its packages to coincide with the creation of its new genre-based mixes of basic channels. From 1 September, the cheapest point of entry - to be known as the 2 Mix pack - will rise to£15 from£13.50 per month, while the Six ...
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BT poaches two from Sky and Freeview
BT has poached BSkyB's head of pay-per-view, Karen Saunders, and Freeview general manager Lib Charlesworth to join its television arm. Saunders is to become head of programming and acquisitions for BT's Television Services division. During seven years at Sky she was responsible for the content acquisition, programming and marketing of ...
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Bland blasts BBC Green Paper ideas
Former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland has criticised the government's plans to shake up the way the corporation is governed. Bland, now chairman of BT, said replacing the present BBC board of governors with a BBC Trust to regulate it and ensure it delivers its Charter requirements looked unworkable. 'It ...
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NewsYou Are What You Eat special piles on 4.6m
A special edition of Channel 4's You Are What You Eatbrought a peak audience of 4.6 million (23%) at 8.50pm as the broadcaster's successful peaktime line-up gave it a share of 15.5%.
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NewsLynam to reveal 'real age' on BBC1
Des Lynam is to reveal his 'real age' as part of a live, interactive health programme for BBC1's Saturday night schedule.
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NewsGambino joins MTV
BBC controller of business development and emerging platforms Angel Gambino is leaving the corporation to join MTV Networks UK.
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NewsBig Brother to gain three new housemates
Channel 4 is extending its coverage of Big Brothertonight as three new contestants are introduced to the reality show.
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NewsNBC to search for celebrity pop star wannabes
Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in their Eyesstyle show for US network NBC, called I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.