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Angry Kid travels to Europe
Cult cartoon Angry Kid will cross the channel after Aardman Animation secured deals with TV Catalunya in Spain and Canal+ in France this week.
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Zeal wins rights to Sky's football icon
Zeal Television has secured the international format and programme series rights to Sky One's Football Icon. The 8 x 60-minute North One reality series, which will begin screening later this month, is a search for the best unsigned 17-year-old soccer player in the country, who will receive a contract with ...
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Malaysian soccer star to join Fulham
Fulham Football Club has signed up to be involved in the Malaysian version of the Screentime Partners-distributed series Soccer Stars. The London club will provide a 12-month academy placement for the winner of the show, which has also been produced in Portugal and the Middle East. The 13-episode Malaysian series ...
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C4I to distribute Find Me a Family
Channel 4 International has acquired the global distribution rights to Find Me a Family, a new formatted documentary series from Zig Zag Productions that will air on C4 next year. The show will unite a senior citizen with a family in need of old-fashioned advice and help from the aged. ...
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QuizNation set for Scandinavian launch
Optimistic Entertainment is to launch its QuizNation participation channel on the Viasat DTH platform throughout Scandinavia. Viewers in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway will see content from the UK channel but will be able to participate in the live quizzes and games using local telephone numbers. The presenter-led entertainment channel ...
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New execs for Fremantle international
Fremantle International Distribution has appointed two new executives to its sales team. Jamie Lynn joins Fremantle's London office as sales director for Middle East, Africa, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He was previously sales manager at TV-Loonland. Veronika Gracher, who will be Berlin-based, joins as vice-president sales for German-speaking Europe and ...
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Format focus: Ballroom Bootcamp
This new reality/entertainment hybrid focuses on uplifting personal stories rather than routine humiliation.
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Roll To Record goes up for sale
Reality TV specialist Roll To Record has become the latest OB outfit to put itself on the market with its management team citing personal reasons rather than financial difficulties as reasons for selling up.
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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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Two Way in Flextech deal
Two Way TV has signed a deal with Flextech Television to provide interactive red button services for Challenge TV and Bravo.
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Rendermedia engineers jet
Rendermedia, the 3D animation studio, has completed its animation of the Whittle jet engine prototype for Quanta Films' Whittle - The Jet Pioneer, a documentary about the development of the jet engine in the 1930s. Rendermedia's animator Mark Miles and creative director Steve Green created the model, particle and air-flow ...
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Blue completes Biggest Loser
Blue has completed the online editing, grading and audio work on the promos for Flextech's The Biggest Loser UK, a reality show in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. Blue's Andy Sawyer, Davide Pascolo and Steve Miller used Combustion to matt footage of the contestants floating in water. Blue's ...
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Diverse buys Edifis
Factual indie Diverse's in-house facility has purchased an Edifis Finaliser which will be used to colour correct and create HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables from a single HD or SD edit master. The£150,000 purchase was prompted by the decision to establish a dedicated grading facility at the indie. Diverse will ...
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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Turquoise hiring
Branding and marketing consultancy Turquoise has recruited Conran Design Group's Nick Coomber as its senior production designer to spearhead its corporate identity production department. The newly created position sees Coomber work alongside Turquoise's creative directors Gareth Mapp and Scott Manning. Recent Turquoise branding campaigns have included work for NTL, BBC ...
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Crown rebranded
Crown Castle UK, the main provider for broadcast transmission infrastructure, has been rebranded as National Grid Wireless, after its merger with National Grid-owned Gridcom earlier this year. It delivers the BBC signal, providing analogue transmission across the UK.
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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...
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C4 opens door for young film-makers
The future stars of British documentary-making will have the opportunity to produce original programmes through a new Channel 4 strand.
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Trouble targets older kids with Later strand
Flextech youth channel Trouble is launching a new identity and late night programming strand in a bid to attract older viewers.