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Sky gives last-minute boost to ITV3
ITV3 launched this week to a strong start, attracting a 3.46% share of multichannel homes, making it more popular than all other non-terrestrial channels except Living.
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Five signs deal for live NBA basketball
Five has struck a deal with the NBA to show live coverage of American basketball. The two-year deal, which kicked off this week with the Sacramento Kings against the Dallas Mavericks, will see Five screen 25 games at 1.05am on Tuesdays. The channel will also air the high-profile Play Offs ...
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Pioneer to produce two HD shows for US
Pioneer Productions is making two shows in high definition for US broadcasters. The History Channel has ordered Amazon Adventures , a 120-minute feature shot in the Brazilian rainforest. It will recount the stories of adventurers who have sought to explore the forest over the ...
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Cartoon Network grabs Garden Gnome
New BBC pre-school series Gordon the Garden Gnome has been picked up by the Cartoon Network for launch next spring. The 52 x 11-minute series, made by indie Collingwood O'Hare, features the voice of gardening expert and Ground Force presenter ...
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MTV and CNN join forces for aids special
MTV International and news network CNN International are to embark on their first ever co-production, a special on Aids. The pair, owned by Viacom and Time Warner respectively, have joined forces to produce a 30-minute news report on HIV and Aids. Staying Alive: An MTV ...
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Format Focus: Alpine Ranch
Similar in style to surprise hit The Farm , this celebrity-based reality show could help to keep the format fresh
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UK Post looks beyond London
Post-production trade body UK Post has so far failed to 'fulfil its brief', according to its own chairman.
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TSI spends£500,000 to boost audio facilities
TSI Post Production is spending£500,000 on audio facilities following a huge increase in audio bookings over the past year.
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Phillips to TSL as CEO
Former Thomson UK managing director David Phillips has joined broadcast integrator and manufacturer TSL as its chief executive officer. Phillips will report to managing director and founder David MacGregor and will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the company. Phillips said of his newly created position: 'I'm bringing a ...
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Pepper hires TK man
Pepper Post has appointed Aubrey Wooliwiss as assistant colourist. He joins from Framestore CFC. Wooliwiss will work with senior colourists Chris Beeton and Jet Omeshebi and colourist Dan Coles. Managing director Patrick Holzen said Wooliwiss' appointment had increased overall staffing at the department and that the newcomer had great potential.
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Martinez to Liquid
Freelance designer Victor Martinez is set to join design agency Liquid TV in January. Martinez will report directly to managing director Azra Alikhan as a senior designer. He won a Sportel award for ITV's The Premiership 2002/2003 idents and has been nominated for both Bafta ...
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Blue adds to HD
Blue has expanded its HD facilities with an Avid DS Nitris because of increased demand for high-definition editing, such as work on Fat Fiancés , a 50-minute documentary for Cicada Films. Fat Fiancés will air on the Discovery Channel in ...
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Devilfish gives new look to Five
Devilfish has redesigned Five's on-screen ident package. The package places the Five logo within the branding, appearing on pregnancy scans and being borne by leaf-carrying ants. Devilfish's Sean de Sparengo directed the sequences. The idents were post-produced at VTR and worked on by colourist Tareq Kubaisi, Flame
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Pepper grades Lawless for ITV1
Pepper has completed grading and special effects on Newcastle-based police drama Lawless. The two-part ITV1 series produced by Company Pictures focuses on corruption within the police force and stars Trevor Eve. Pepper's effects team, Scott Hinchcliffe and Simon Giblin, created special effects including a ...
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The Station titles Berlin journey
The Station has produced the title sequence for ITN Factual series The Road to Berlin. The series follows pub comedian Al Murray as he follows in the footsteps of the Allied forces from Normandy across Europe to Berlin in the final months of the ...
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Little Britain again
BBC3 comedy sketch show Little Britain , the digital channel's biggest hit, is set to return for a third series. BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy and head of comedy entertainment Jon Plowman have ordered a 6 x 30-minute series, which is due to air first on ...
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US comedy venture
Tom Gutteridge, the former group creative director of UK indie Mentorn, has set up a comedy production unit at Fremantle Media North America. The Instant Comedy Project aims to bring half-hour sitcom ideas to the screen in one week rather than the usual nine-month cycle from script to pilot. Gutteridge, ...
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RTS issues shortlist
The Royal Television Society has released the nominations for its London awards with
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Sharp Capital return
Former Heart DJ Pat Sharp is to rejoin the Capital Radio Group hosting a new evening show on the Century network. Sharp, who left London station Heart 106.2 in August, will broadcast a new evening show across three Century stations covering the north-east, north-west and the East Midlands from January.
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Humphrys about
John Humphrys, the presenter of Radio 4's Today programme and scourge of Big Brother , has been lined up as the star turn at the Media Society's Great Reality TV Debate next week. Humphrys will join fellow reality television baiter, ...