Small MPU – Page 524
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Passage of rights
The needs of broadcasters and producers need to be balanced when it comes to new media rights, says Lorraine Heggessey.
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Leader - BBC3 needs a Big Brother
Industry plaudits are not enough - BBC3 needs to find a programming event unique to the channel, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Cadle Hunts Soho for Envy talent
Former Blue managing director, Dave Cadle is poaching 45 staff from around six Soho facilities for his new£5.6m post-production facility Envy which opens in the middle of February.
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Industry plays down threat of in-house editing
Broadcasters, facilities and key independents thrashed out the issues of desktop editing and in-house production at Broadcast's first post-production forum last week, held at London's Vinopolis.
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First Post to expand north
Skillset, the training body for the TV and film industry, is expanding its new entrants training scheme, First Post, to Manchester in the new year.
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Blue makes Shameless promo
Blue has completed the post-production for the promo of the new series of Company Pictures' Shameless for Channel 4. The promo, directed by C4's Phil Lind and produced by Peter Maynard, has main character Frank remove the '4' logo and text displayed on screen. Blue's head of visual effects, Chris ...
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Molinare posts Earth Shocks
Molinare has finished the post on Mentorn's Earth Shocks, a co-pro with CBC, Nat Geo and WGBH about earth-changing events in the prehistoric era. The facility's CGI arm, Darkside, created the 3D effects on Lightwave, Vue Infinite and Digital Fusion. Senior dubbing mixers George Foulgham and Billy Mahoney mixed the ...
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Skaramoosh does baby fx
Skaramoosh has designed the special effects for the promo of a Film Australia/National Geographic co-pro, Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?, a documentary about a couple's use of embryo screening technology to save their son's life. Skaramoosh's head of design, Piers Helm, created reflections in a window and cars whizzing past ...
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Hive hires Bradley
VTR-owned animation outfit The Hive has appointed sister company TMR Digital's business development director, Tony Bradley, in the same role. Bradley ran TMR's DVD division for three years. TMR has also invested£500,000 in expanding its telecine department, replacing its Thomson Shadow telecine with a Thomson Spirit Datacine.
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DGP boosts design
DVD post-production facility DGP has recruited Stream Digital Media senior designer Ben Rasmussen to beef up its design department. Rasmussen specialised in 3D and graphics at Stream and will work as senior designer alongside three other designers and compositors, currently on the UMD release of He-Man and the Masters of ...
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ITFC deal with Five
Subtitling specialist ITFC has signed a seven-year deal with Five to provide the channel's VT, materials management and compliance services. The renewed contract, for an undisclosed sum, will see Five moving towards digital storage, editing and distribution, in addition to a full range of post-production services.
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Farm creates space
The Farm has managed all the post-production for Endemol's Space Cadets, in which contestants are duped into believing they are being blasted out to space. All the logging and 24-hour online editing was accomplished on location, using eight Symphonies and around 30 editors. The project was overseen by The Farm's ...
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Thomson invests
Thomson, the service provider and parent company of Technicolor, has acquired a 33.3% stake in HD video editing company Canopus and plans to launch a public tender offer in a deal worth around£61.8m. The deal comes as part of Thomson's two-year plan to broaden its media and entertainment client base ...
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Evolutions hirings
Post house Evolutions has hired a clutch of recruits, including The Farm Group's Andy Wood as editor; and Avid and linear editor David Moyes of BBC Resources to work on edit and graphics.
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C4 orders second Sugar Rush series
Channel 4 has recommissioned Shine drama Sugar Rush after it became a surprise summer ratings hit.
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Sky One marks CIA 60th birthday with exposé
Maverick presenter Danny Wallace is to host a one-off special for Sky One marking 60 years of the CIA and exploring its various scandals.
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MacIntyre tests his survival skills inThe Edge of Existence
Donal MacIntyre's next TV series for Five will see him attempt to survive in some of the most inhospitable places on earth.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Liza Marshall
Channel 4's commissioning editor, drama has up to£900,000 an hour to spend on an authored single film with a contemporary theme and has recently commissioned one about British soldiers in Iraq.
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C4 goes back for more rock school
RDF Media reality series Rock School, the Channel 4 show in which ex-rocker Gene Simmons attempts to turn a group of school students into a band, has been recommissioned. The show will be reformatted into 4 x 60-minute episodes rather than the 7 x 30 minutes originally commissioned. The show ...
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O'Leary signs up for C4 morning show
Channel 4 has lined up Dermot O'Leary to host a new live breakfast series early next year called Morning Glory. The show, commissioned from Endemol subsidiary Brighter Pictures, features showbiz news and celebrity guests and will initially run for two to three weeks during Celebrity Big Brother. It will air ...