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HD Net become AXS
DNet, AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media, and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) have announced a joint venture that will rebrand HDNet/HDNet Canada to launch AXS TV (pronounced: access). Scheduled to debut summer 2012, AXS TV will leverage the global reach and portfolio of content opportunities of its partners to create live entertainment and lifestyle programming. Capitalizing on [...]
Out: Current TV UK
Current UK has announced today that BSkyB has withdrawn support for the channel and it is likely to stop broadcasting by mid March 2012. In a statement they said: “Obviously the entire team at Current is devastated by this news. However, we’d like to thank you for your support and belief in independent television. We [...]
Is this the hottest funeral director in the world?
RJ Williams is a funeral director and skate dude. And possibly the hottest funeral director in the world. Watch the video:
Historical Facebook
Ever wonder what the world would have been like if Facebook had been around hundreds of years ago? Me neither. But someone obviously has. Check out updates from God, Abraham Lincoln and the Titanic here.
BBC College of Production: How to Get an Idea Commissioned
The BBC College of Production provides a (growing) range of resources to help anyone interested in making TV and radio programmes. Their website includes articles, videos and podcasts. This one is about how to get an idea commissioned and includes contributions from Camilla Lewis, managing director at Cineflix UK, head of factual at Silver River [...]
Peek Behind the Scenes of Channel 4′s Alpha Fund
Channel 4′s Alpha Fund was set up in January 2011 set up to encourage the development of TV ideas from new and emerging independent production companies in the UK. The fund’s managers are tasked with being closer to grassroots creative communities, often in advance of commissioning editors, to talent spot, to shape smart ideas and [...]
What the UK TV Controllers Want – MGEITF Review by Paul D.
If you couldn’t make it to the Media Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival this year (or time spent in The George impinged on your session going), you can catch up with what all the commissioners and controllers are looking for with this very comprehensive review – including video clips – from Paul D. (follow him [...]
I Know What Drugs You Did Last Night: Ketamine Kid
Three Billion dug up this video of a guy at a party and suggest it could be the best anti-drugs video ever. Decide for yourself:
Hot Chocolate for Bedouins
Filmmaker Sebastian Lindstrom aims to raise awareness about issues around the world using documentary, but appears to do so with a rare wit and sense of the absurd. His documentary Hot Chocolate for Bedouins promotes camel milk as a healthy alternative to cow’s milk. The documentary is part of his work his nonprofit foundation What [...]
India Outsources Call Centres to the USA
The Washington Post reports that rising wages in India have led Indian outsourcing companies to staff their call centres with workers in America. The workers, largely uneducated African Americans earn around $12-14 an hour plus bonuses, which is four times the wage for a similar worker in India. They get dress-down privileges and free lunch [...]
