Televisual articles from May 2004

Televisual archives from May 2004

Livingstone gives 500m [pounds sterling] boost to capital's creative industries.(Funding)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... London's creative industries are set to receive 500m [pounds sterling]-worth of investment with the launch of Creative London, a 10-year action-plan with the aim of promoting the sector. The money comes after Mayor Ken Livingstone's...

... as new 50m [pounds sterling] film talent strategy is outlined.(Funding)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Skillset and the Film Council have revealed their first year plans for "A Bigger Future, the UK Film Skills Strategy" which aims to spend 50m [pounds sterling] on stabilising the industry "in the face of global competition." Among other...

Show me the money again.(Distribution)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Pact and distributors association the BTDA are to stage another one-day event next month to explain to post-communications act producers about the value of their intellectual property rights. Rather than looking at the world market from a...

Cheerful scout doubles DVD unit.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Cheerful Scout is expanding its DVD department to double capacity following an increase in business. Among recent work is Gillies MacKinnon's Pure, and new work includes authoring and menu-design on The American Film Theatre Collection from...

Lost in space.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Lost in Space has signed Oceanwarmair for representation in the UK, US and Japan. Originating in Hong Kong, the creative team was formed in 2003 and recently graduated from St Martin's College of Art. They have created a number of music videos,...

Fast Track.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Edinburgh Television Festival is looking for entrants for its Fast Track training scheme, running from 25-30 August. Applicants must be aged between 22 and 29 with two to four years' experience in television, 40 successful entrants will...

Celador International.(Les Frogs Ltd)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Celador International has made its first, children's property acquisition: Les Frogs. A five-year partnership deal has been signed with Les Frogs Ltd owner, Lyn Smith. Under the deal, Celador International has the rights to develop a range of...

Cartoon Network Europe.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Cartoon Network Europe has appointed Suzanne Berman as supervising producer in the original animation and acquisition department. Her remit will be to take pitches and develop projects for potential co-productions as well as supervising new...

Tandem teams with Kate Moss and Rankin for Rimmel.(Commercials)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Animation outfit Tandem Films and commercials producer Pagan Productions have teamed up with photographer Rankin to create a new Rimmel spot featuring Kate Moss for JWT. Poster promotes Rimmel's Xtreme Volume Mascara and has live-action of...

Baby Cow and BBC deal Vegas a new sitcom role.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Independent Baby Cow has teamed up with the BBC's new Comedy Unit in Manchester to make I Deal, a Johnny Vegas-fronted sitcom for BBC3. Vegas stars as Moz, a small-time Manchester dope-dealer. The action takes place entirely within the...

Animation house Trunk put together the promo for These are Your Friends, the first single from Adem's first album, commissioned through Vez at Ninjatune.(Promo)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Animation house Trunk put together the promo for These are Your Friends, the first single from Adem's first album, commissioned through Vez at Ninjatune. The video is based on artwork by Lynn Hatzius, who also created the album's CD design....

Flashback makes D-Day doc.(Broadcast)(Flashback Television)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Flashback Television has produced a D-Day documentary for the History Channel. D-Day: the Lost Evidence features veteran interviews, cg animation, re-enactments shot on DV-Cam and Super8, and previously unseen aerial film and photography....

Onward Film Company.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Onward Film Company shows the power of Cussons Original Source shower gel with a new cinema spot ordered by BDH/TBWA. A couple driving through the US mid-west are shocked when a man covered in foam falls from a tornado on to their car. The...

Studio AKA.(Kudos)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Studio AKA's Bafta-winning director Marc Craste has created a 60s retro feel for Lester, a spot for Kudos cereal bars for BBDO New York. The ads, showing a mother and son shopping for the snacks, were animated by Michiel de Kraker and Dave...

Flynn Productions.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Flynn Productions' Urban Strom has directed the promo for Last Thing on My Mind, the collaboration between LeAnn Rimes and Ronan Keating. The promo follows the couple as they duet over the airwaves. It was shot by DoP Jo Eken Torp and graded by...

Iceman cometh for Dangerous.(Broadcast)(Dangerous Films)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Dangerous Films, the production company behind Walking with Cavemen and the BBC1 drama D-Day, is set to start pre-production on a new factual drama, Otzi: the Iceman Murder (WT). Adam Bampfield's screenplay dramatically recreates the death...

BBC Worldwide bitten by Jack Frost toon special.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Snowman producer John Coates is executive producer on a 30-minute animated special The Tale of Jack Frost, ordered by BBC Worldwide to air on CBBC this Christmas. The show is being made by Jack Frost Productions, formed to make the...

ITV has commissioned Mentorn to make a "political idol" show.(The Green Light)(Ludus Entertainment)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Vote for Me tests whether volunteers have what it takes to be an MP: they're judged by a panel before a final 10 are put to a viewers' vote; the winner stands as an independent at the general election. It is fronted by Jonathan Maitland. The...

RDF is making Celebrity Penthouse, a new reality series for Sky1.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The 4x60-minute series pairs celebrities including James Hewitt and Jodie Marsh and Vanessa Feltz and Stan Collymore in a luxury penthouse for 24 hours. It was ordered by Amina Razaq, who is executive producer for Sky; series producer is Dan...

Simon Cowell's indie Simcow.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Simon Cowell's indie Simcow has been commissioned to make a stand-in for Pop Idol, which is being rested this year. ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz ordered The X Factor, a Talkback Thames co-pro, for an autumn Saturday night...

Drama indie Bentley Productions, part of All3Media is to make another 16 two-hours of its Midsomer Murders for ITV (bringing it to series nine) in a deal worth 20m [pounds sterling].(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Drama indie Bentley Productions, part of All3Media, is to make another 16 two-hours of its Midsomer Murders for ITV (bringing it to series nine) in a deal worth 20m [pounds sterling]; it currently sells to 165 countries. Drama controller Nick...

Landmark Films and Lion TV have been commissioned by Five's controller of science Justine Kershaw to make films for a new strand, Extraordinary Illnesses.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Landmark Films and Lion TV have been commissioned by Five's controller of science Justine Kershaw to make films for a new strand, Extraordinary Illnesses. From Landmark come three 60-minute films on sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder,...

Frasier's Kelsey Grammer is to guest-star in a US pilot of Bafta-winning UK comedy format, The Sketch Show.(The Green Light)
May 1, 2004... Frasier's Kelsey Grammer is to guest-star in a US pilot of Bafta-winning UK comedy format, The Sketch Show. Avalon is to make the Fox pilot in London with original cast-member, comedian Lee Mack, alongside four from the US. The director is...

Th1ng.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... "Sharp minds betfair" is the tagline for four new spots by Th1ng for agency Big Al's Creative Emporium. The ads, for the internet betting company Betfair, are visual puzzles that become easier to figure out as the commercial progresses....

Frank Films.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Frank Films director Mike Lipscombe uses a concept loosely based on a visual effect in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry in his promo for the new Gabrielle single Stay the Same. Red created the effects for the video, which places the singer in...

Ark VFX.
May 1, 2004... Ark VFX, the Sheffield-based visual-effects facility, has produced and directed the latest promo for Muse, Sing for Absolution. The video--billed by Ark as a mini sci-fi disaster movie--was made using a combination of live-action footage and...

Regions tightened up.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ofcom has published new definitions of what constitutes "regional" production to stimulate "genuine investment in regional programme-making." From next January, to take advantage of terrestrial broadcaster's regional quotas, companies must...

Turner Laing is Airey's Sky deputy.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Sky's director of film channels and acquisitions, Sophie Turner Laing, has been promoted to the position of deputy to Sky Networks chief, Dawn Airey. Turner Laing will continue with her current role, in which she has brought shows...

Indie for Abbott.(Broadcast)(Tightrope Pictures)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... State of Play writer Paul Abbott has formed his own company, Tightrope Pictures, with Hilary Bevan Jones, who heads State of Play producer Endor. The plan is to keep both companies running, at least in the short term. Tightrope aims to...

ITV1 role for ITV2's Neumann.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... ITV2 programme head Daniela Neumann has a new role commissioning ITV1 factual programmes, alongside factual controller Bridget Boseley, while continuing to look after any commissioning for ITV2. The move comes as ITV alms to ape Channel 4's...

BBC3 drama trawl.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has pledged to base all its future drama production in the regions in a bid to find new voices outside the M25. Major BBC3 dramas so far, including Burn It and Grease Monkeys, have all been set and produced...

Know your way round the archive: Chair of Focal International Jane Mercer says that, though archives may have changed over the years, their importance to the television industry hasn't.(The Business)
May 1, 2004... From the dawning of the film age over a century ago, footage libraries and archives have grown from shelves to vaults and now storehouses of film production materials and finished programmes. Today the sum total of this "inheritance" may well...

UK formats stall in US.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Two major reality formats devised and produced by UK indies for the US Fox channel have hit the buffers early on in their runs. Mentorn's Forever Eden, which evolved from its successful Fox show Paradise Hotel, has been cut from the...

Ancient Egyptians march to Japan.(Broadcast)(Intervision and Mico)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Granada International has sold Wall to Wall's 6m [pounds sterling] epic documentary series Ancient Egyptians to Intervision and Mico, NHK's commercial arm. The 4x60-minute series, which uses cgi and dramatic reconstruction, was co-produced...

Three for Celador.(Formats)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Celador has chalked up format licence sales for three shows. Chain of Thought is signed by Russian producer IMI for NTV. The Brainiest... format sold to Poland's TVN (bringing territory sales to 14). And Talking Telephone Nambers goes to...

Latin sales for 12 Yard.(Formats)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 12 Yard's Without Prejudice format, represented by Screentime in Latin America, is to be produced in Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Peru by RGB Entertainment, Popstars producer in Brazil and Argentina. Teleset will also produce the show in...

Zeal show to OZ.(Broadcast)(Australia)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Zeal's has sold interactive quiz "event" show format It Could be You to Australia's Seven Network as well as NRK in Norway and Mediaset in Italy. Developed by Chatterbox and UK producer Tailormade, it has had a BBC airing as Come and Have...

The appliance of science: Beth Hoppe, director of science programmes at Thirteen WNET New York, explains what she needs from UK producers.(International)(Interview)
May 1, 2004... What UK producers are you working with right now? Carlton, Darlow Smithson and Brook Lapping (the Innovations strand), Pioneer and Windfall (Secrets of the Dead), and Wall to Wall (The Colonial House). So what are you looking for now...

All hail the new chairman.(Broadcast)
May 1, 2004... Michael Grade's triumphant return to the BBC as chairman designate, a position which he takes up later this month, should mark a turning-point in what has been a troubled 2004 for the corporation. His appointment, welcomed both within and...

Full marks to Carol Groves, the clearly very brave ITV night-time controller who ordered Blank Screen from Mentorn.
May 1, 2004... Full marks to Carol Groves, the clearly very brave ITV night-time controller who ordered Blank Screen from Mentorn. Televisual wondered whether the press release had got lost in the ether, arriving a full week after April Fools Day, but...

"Small faces, no chins" was Paul Abbott's description of the BBC board of governors in his swingeing acceptance of the Dennis Potter award for outstanding television at the recent Bafta TV awards.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... "Small faces, no chins" was Paul Abbott's description of the BBC board of governors in his swingeing acceptance of the Dennis Potter award for outstanding television at the recent Bafta TV awards. Using his speech to champion Greg Dyke as the...

While the BBC was hands-down winner at the Baftas (13 out of a possible 22 gongs) the corporation was trounced by ITV at last month's Rose d'Or bash.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... While the BBC was hands-down winner at the Baftas (13 out of a possible 22 gongs) the corporation was trounced by ITV at last month's Rose d'Or bash. The Swiss TV festival demonstrated its ever-firm grip on the pulse of cutting-edge programming...

Storyboard news.
May 1, 2004... Sneak previews all round in this month's Storyboard, with a first look at the global title-sequence for the summer Olympics, created by Sixfootsix and North One Creative for the IOC, plus highlights from the forthcoming onedotzero festival, now...

On the map: the wrong number.(Facilities)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Thank you for the Televisual Village of Soho wall-chart, sent out with the April issue, which I am sure will be of great use. There is just one small problem... our telephone number is incorrect. The number for Boom Post is 020 7478 8600...

On the map: the wrong map.(Facilities)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... It is ironic that your Regional Top 30 facilities survey (Televisual April issue) coincided with your publication of a Soho village map, in which you gave out almost 200 names and contact numbers of facilities companies compared to just 30...

Another new start for British film.(Opinions)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Last year saw a big boost in UK film production according to Film Council statistics. Inward investment rose most, with the value of films attracted here for "reasons of infrastructure" nearly tripling to 729m [pounds sterling]. But this...

Public servant: he's only recently secured a significant boost to the budget of the channel he launched, but with BBC2's Jane Root off to the US, it looks like terrestrial TV could be beckoning Roly Keating.(Interview Roly Keating)
May 1, 2004... It's almost written in stone now. With current BBC2 controller Jane Root finally confirming she's off to the US on a journey of Discovery, all the smart money is on BBC4's controller, Roly Keating, to take over where Root leaves off. Of...

Back to school: the UK's Hat Trick and Canada's Decode are having to learn new tricks fast while making animated comedy Bromwell High, a transatlantic answer to South Park with its roots planted firmly in south London.(In Production)(Cover Story)
May 1, 2004... Showing kids behaving like kids actually behave is still a tough call on TV, particularly when it's being played for laughs. So when writers Richard Osman, Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana brought Hat Trick a sitcom idea about three south...

Psst, wanna buy a film? Spring saw film finance go legit, with the death of dodgy tax schemes and a rebirth for sale-and-leaseback. We ask if film is now a better place for TV-makers to invest any fruits of their new terms of trade.(Film Finance)
May 1, 2004... In February's Black Tuesday, film-makers plunged into deep gloom when the Inland Revenue snapped shut a loophole that had spawned clever tax schemes to entice city cash into films. On budget day, they cheered when the chancellor laid out plans...

Work ethics: as independents emerge from broadcast serfdom with their new terms of trade, Suzel Pitty asks what's in it for their own freelance serfs?(Freelancers)
May 1, 2004... No one says it's all about the money, but there's inconsistent pay, late pay and kept-back pay; lowered pay, even frozen pay and all within inoperable schedules with weekend working days. The "troublemaking" freelance community working in TV...

Suits are history: after resigning over the ITV Digital disaster, ITV's former chief executive resurfaced as a producer at independent Liberty Bell. He talks to James Hamilton about the happiest 18 months of his career.(People)
May 1, 2004... When Stuart Prebble took to the podium at the recent Indie Awards to accept the gong for best contemporary documentary, his acceptance was blunt and to the point: "This," he said, brandishing his award "shows there is life after being an ITV...

Who's playing games? The outside broadcast organised to cover the Olympics is the largest and most sophisticated in the world. Adrian Pennington reports on its transition from SD to HD and tape- to server-based operation.(Olympics)
May 1, 2004... Athletes are not the only people who stay awake at night thinking about the Olympics. The professionals who deliver images from the Games are equally obsessed. The summer and winter Games have emerged as milestone events for TV production...

What's on the road? The Olympics alone would make this a hectic summer of live sport. But there's the Euro2004 football, cricket's ICC Trophy and the Ryder Cup on top of all the regular activity. How will UK OB firms cope?(Summer Calendar)(Illustration)(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... It's a busy summer of live sport, with broadcasters leaping-from June's Euro 2004 Championship in Portugal to the July-into-August broadcast of the Olympics. Alfacam, a lead OB operator for AOB in Athens, has been contracted to supply eight...

Just high spirits: Sky is looking to the UK to fill a Buffy-shaped hole in its schedules: a new six-hour series from the team behind teen-drama As If. But can the UK do US-style high-concept drama, James Hamilton asks.(Hex In Production)
May 1, 2004... Some might think Shine, Sky and Sony are making a rod for their own backs with their new venture: a high-concept three-part drama scheduled to tackle the Buffy audience head on. And calling it Hex? Surely that's just tempting fate to slip a...

Leitch unleashes VelocityHD.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Leitch has displayed an HD-capable version of its Velocity nonlinear editing system. VelocityHD is powered by new Altitude hardware which is claimed to playback two HD video streams, two HD graphics streams, and dual-stream, real-time HD...

Thomson launches Spirit 4k.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Thomson has opened its new Spirit 4K film-scanner to the telecine market with the addition of a new format processor allowing telecine or datacine functionality for video transfers. The Spirit 4K system now provides standard- and...

Peerless Camera.(purchasea workstations from Pixelution)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Peerless Camera has purchased 27 high-end workstations from Pixelution to complete post-production on Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm. The units include a number of 64-bit Opteron workstations with up to 8 GB Ram and Nvidia Quadro FX...

Cintel debuts low-cost scanner.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Cintel has developed a new scanning device for digital intermediate work which it says enables easy, high quality, economically viable film scanning. Datamill doesn't include telecine functions, so that lowers the price on this 2K/4K...

UK Post trade body begins to take shape.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The structure of the new post-production trade body is taking shape with an announcement of chief executive expected shortly. UK Post is being set up as a limited company with shares in the company held, as trustees, by two members of an...

Virtra builds 360[degrees] HD camera.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... US virtual reality systems developer Virtra has built what it claims to be the world's first HD 360-degree multi-camera system. The system, which is used in anti-terrorism simulations, captures more than 21 times the resolution of a...

TMR brings colour to World Cup.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Machine Room has treated, restored and colourised rare footage of the first World Cup final between Uruguay and Argentina in 1930. The 15-minute project, produced by Guy Oliver for Fifa, will be shown shown on a Teletron screen before...

Cut & Run.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Editor Tim Fulford has joined Cut & Run from Red Square Editing. His recent work includes a BBC location production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn Of The Screw plus commercials for Vodaphone for JWT and Ribena for Grey Advertising. ...

Bill Cullen.(Frontline TV; new md of Frontline TV)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... M2 Television founder I Bill Cullen is the new md of Frontline TV. FTV founder Tim Mein, who has been the caretaker md since the departure of Charlie Sayle last year, believes that Cullen's "knowledge of the TV post industry and the people...

Sony.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Sony has unveiled a prototype HDV 1080I camcorder. HDV, developed by JVC, is expected to be adopted as the new standard for DV acquisition. It uses Mpeg2 compression to record and playback at a higher picture quality than DV on a DV cassette,...

Apple targets post.(Technology; Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Apple has launched two new products which aggressively target Adobe and Avid. Motion marks Apple's first move into the graphics and animation market, taking on market-leading application After Effects. The software features pop up tool...

BBC opens Gate.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Plans emerged at NAB which, if implemented, would require all BBC suppliers to deliver content over a digital network direct to the broadcaster. The web-based Gateway, part of a BBC plan to remove tape from the production chain, is under...

SGI sells Alias.(Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Alias has sold by SGI to US investment group Accel-KKR for 32m [pounds sterling] in a deal which will see no job losses at the software developer. Alias also announced the next version of its Maya 3D software. Maya 6 features motion...

Quantel has released next generation software for its two-year-old Q range of compositing and editing solutions.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Quantel has released next generation software for its two-year-old Q range of compositing and editing solutions. The software's interface is the same for all products, from the entry level QEdit Pro to the flagship iQ. Key features include a...

Leitch has bought US vendor Videotek for 10m [pounds sterling] in a cash deal.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Leitch has bought US vendor Videotek for 10m [pounds sterling] in a cash deal. Videotek manufactures test and measurement equipment, routing switchers video demodulators, colour-correctors and processors. Leitch also used NAB to showcase its...

5D Cyborg may make a comeback after the demise of the UK visual effects compositor in October 2002.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... 5D Cyborg may make a comeback after the demise of the UK visual effects compositor in October 2002. A new prototype product, thought to be Cyborg v3, has been demonstrated in private at NAB. Former 5D US sales chief Nacho Mazzini is among the...

The Foundry is promoting OpenFX (OFX), a collaborative effort by visual effects developers to devise an open plug-in solution for leading software applications.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Foundry is promoting OpenFX (OFX), a collaborative effort by visual effects developers to devise an open plug-in solution for leading software applications. Open FX is a software layer that allows plug-ins such as wire-removal tools or...

Red Giant Software has announced Magic Bullet for Editors, a Final Cut Pro plug-in enabling users to add film treatments from the timeline.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Red Giant Software has announced Magic Bullet for Editors, a Final Cut Pro plug-in enabling users to add film treatments from the timeline. The software delivers 50 custom-designed looks to mimic film, including film stock emulation and...

Cinesite hitchhikes fx.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Cinesite Europe will produce 300 digital effects shots for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a Hammer and Tongs production for Walt Disney), which began shooting at Elstree last month. Cinesite will also provide on-set vfx supervision,...

Locomotion adds new suites.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Locomotion has opened a set of suites in Soho Square in response to client needs, says the firm's Andrew Newman. "We need to offer clients more than just a five-hour session in a compositing suite. We can add value by increasing our...

Clear divides its business.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Clear has created two divisions dealing separately with fill and commercials projects. The restructure is intended to accommodate a steady upturn in business. Simon Gosling joins from MPC to head the short-form/ commercials division; he...

Xstoner for max.(Technology)(licencing agreement between Maximum Throughput and Light)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Maximum Throughput, which developed networked storage solution Sledgehammer, has acquired Xstoner technology from US firm Light. Xstoner is a client-server software that provides a browser to view and manage partitions, libraries, and the...

Time to reinvent the wheel: talent and creative risk-taking are the keys to success, argues Pixel Farm md Richard Spohrer.(Business)
May 1, 2004... Sometimes we look back at the past through rose-tinted glasses. When we do, we believe that kids respected their teachers, the pop charts were better and post-producers made money. Unfortunately, like many "truths," this one is flawed. In...

Snakes alive: MPC and Cinesite were tasked with bringing to life talking books and snakes when they took on the fx for the forthcoming feature version of a popular children's book.(Ella Enchanted)
May 1, 2004... While Gall Carson Levine's award winning book Ella Enchanted is relatively unknown this side of the Atlantic, its feature film release has seen a flurry of activity on the various message boards devoted to what are clearly much loved...

Listings for the production community.(The Index)(Directory)
May 1, 2004... THE KIT COMPUTER GRAPHICS SERVICES AND SYSTEMS NORTH * MGB FACILITIES LTD SGI based Softimage Extreme 3D Graphics, High Resolution Matador and Paintbox Express. Quantel Editbox--Non Linear On-Line Editing, Digital Betacam &...

24-hour television.(In My View)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 1, 2004... How much TV do you watch? Only three or four hours a week now. My entire job used to be watching pilots for the next big thing. Now I'm guided by critics like everyone else. What do you watch? I'm a huge Sopranos fan and enjoy...

BBC makes a pig of Easter ratings while C4 shines.(Winners And Losers)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Shine found an elusive ratings hit this Easter with The Truth about Take That pulling in 2.1 m viewers on Channel 4 on Easter Sunday, 11% of the 10pm audience. As if this wasn't enough, Elisabeth Murdoch's production company repeated the...

10 Years Younger from Wednesday 28 April, 20.30:C4.(May TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Presenter and stylist Nicky Hambleton Jones and a team of experis including hairdresser Nicky Clarke and cosmetic doctor Patrick Bowler make people look dramatically younger in 10 days. The eight-patter is produced and directed by David Smith...

The Lenny Henry Show from Friday 30 April 2004, 21.00: BBC1.(May TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Lenny Henry returns to his stand-up roots in his first topical series since Saturday Live, and this time he's joined each week by Ninia Benjamin, Tameka Empson and Jocelyn Esien from Three Non-Blondes.

Make it Big, from Sunday 2 May, 22.30: Five.(May TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Produced by Sixthshake,Sense for Five's weekend children's strand Shake, the 14x30 minute series invites a dozen 11-14-year-olds to give up their summer holidays and see what it's like to work for a living. Produced and directed by Sally Ann...