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Jump renews hit show credits
Jump Design has put together new opening titles for the latest series of I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here!. Once again the LWT-produced ITV series takes 10 celebrity contestants and puts them to the test in the Australian jungle. The opening titles ...
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Target wins Sky distribution deal
Sky has handed responsibility for its entire international programming distribution to Target Entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.
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Emap renames show
Emap Media has unveiled a name change for The Production Show and details of Broadcast Week. The 2004 event will be called The Broadcast Production Show and will take place from 18 to 20 May at the National Hall, Olympia. It will form an important ...
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NewsPost-production 2004
On March 5th 2004, Broadcast will publish the results of a major piece of research into the broadcast post-production sector in the UK.
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Pepper adds spice to Clark diary
Pepper has completed the grade on BBC4 adaptation The Alan Clark Diaries. Clark, hailed as a modern-day Samuel Pepys, wormed his way into the public's affection through his diaries and their withering observations of political backbiting and cabinet inertia. The six-part series was shot on Digibeta and graded by Pepper ...
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Six battle for top post gong
Six London-based broadcast facilities will battle it out for the prestigious best post-production house gong at this year's Broadcast Awards. The Farm, Molinare, Editworks, Evolutions Television, Resolution and St Anne's Post are all shortlisted. The award recognises the company that has provided not only outstanding service but also shown the ...
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Red and BBC team up for promo
Red Post Production and BBC Broadcast have collaborated on a 40-second promo for UK History that highlights a new series of programmes covering the major events that formed modern Britain. Called A 1,000 Years of History, the promo features series presenter Michael Wood guiding viewers through a photo-real
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BBC Bristol sends spies into wild
A new BBC Bristol series, presented by Steve Leonard, makes use of the latest in spy technology to find out more about wild animals. The six-part series - Animal Camera - features satellite telemetry, low light cameras and acoustic imagers which hear sounds inaudible to humans. Camera technology includes thermal ...
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Discovery renews LPC contract
Discovery Networks Europe has given itself breathing space in the continuing saga over who should transmit its 27 channels by extending its current playout contract with London Playout Centre (LPC) by 12 months.
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Start-up fills gap left by McMillan
Former McMillan sales and marketing director Gary Langlands has set up a broadcast equipment supplier business in his native Scotland, writes Will Strauss.
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Pinewood TV head
Pinewood Shepperton Group has appointed Rachel Joseph as its director of television. Joseph joins from 3sixtymedia where she spent three and a half years. She will be responsible for the continued investment and growth in TV for the Pinewood Shepperton Group and oversee the existing studio resources, operational logistics and ...
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Kingston wins out
Kingston Inmedia has won the contract to provide playout and satellite uplink for the Horror Channel.
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Mansfield to Oasis
Editbox editor Jim Mansfield has joined Oasis Television from Molinare. Mansfield worked at the Fouberts Place facility for five years and his credits include T4 Pop Beach, on which he completed the titles, and Wish You Were Here? on which he did both titles and stings. Other credits include Doubletake ...
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Maidstone puts£2m into studio
The maidstone Studios is to invest£2.3m in a brand new 12,000 sq ft studio. Chairman Rowland Kinch said Maidstone can afford the new studio partly because it secured a year's contract for SMTV's replacement, Ministry of Mayhem (MOM), produced by Fountain TV and airing from ...
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Image Makers Digital invests heavily in Avid
Image makers Digital is planning to spend more than£300,000 on Avid kit.
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Mainframe brands sitcom battle
The 12-week battle to decide on Britain's Best Sitcom begins this weekend and, to help the nation choose, Mainframe has produced the branding package for the series.
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BBC hires Stewart
BBC Broadcast has hired Stephen Stewart from the London Playout Centre (LPC) to manage channels in the new Broadcast centre. He previously managed the Five account at LPC and before that he looked after the Flextech channels - including five satellite channels, a live studio and 13 post suites.
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Oasis gives Feather Boy wings
Feather Boy is a new kids series from Childsplay TV, which is expected to air on BBC1 this month. Based on the acclaimed novel by Nicky Singer, it explores problems experienced by young people. Oasis TV has done all the fx and titling work ...
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Clear cut designer
Clear Cut Pictures has hired a graphics designer from Sky. Pryce Duncalf came second in the new designers award 2002 and was responsible for the recent rebranding of The Biography Channel. It is hoped that Duncalf will allow Clear Cut to take on larger 3D reconstruction series.
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MPC conjures up surreality TV
Inseparable Bonds is the latest short film from Lars Magnus Holmgren, who won a Turner nomination for his work with artist Liam Gillick, AnLee You Propose.