Riedel Communications has announced that broadcast production services company NVP has chosen Riedel’s Simplylive Production Suite to support remote production for Serie B football matches in Italy. Rather than sending OB trucks and full crews to every stadium for every match, NVP has begun deploying the live multi-camera production platform for selected matches in its […]
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has called its first strike in 15 years after failing to reach an agreement on higher pay from broadcasters and studios. A WGA statement said: “The companies’ behaviour has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to […]
Gail Austin has joined Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as senior producer on the HMPG weekly show Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien. She reports to Rita Aleman, the show’s executive producer. Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien is America’s #1 nationally syndicated public affairs news magazine, averaging more than 1.1 million weekly viewers season-to-date […]
S4C, the public broadcaster and the only Welsh language television channel, has green-lit Y ‘Sgubor Flodau (The Flower Barn) and recommissioned (Cymry ar Gynfas) Welsh on Canvas from award-winning Cardiff based independent production company, Wildflame Productions. Y ‘Sgubor Flodau (The Flower Barn), a 6 x 60 series, is a brand new original factual entertainment format. Each week in this warm and moving series […]
Trick Candle Productions, an international production company specializing in independent feature films, has acquired the rights to the film “Scatman,” the life story of musician/singer John Larkin, “Scatman John.” The movie, chronicling the wild life and positive influence of “Scatman John,” is written by Stephen Basilone and Annie Mebane, (The Goldberg’s, Shrinking). Tom Malloy (“Lansky,” […]
Disney+ has unveiled the star-studded cast of its original series “Kaiser Karl,” which chronicles the rise of Karl Lagerfeld through the world of 1970s Parisian high fashion. In 1972, a 38-year-old Karl Lagerfeld aspired to become the most famous French fashion designer, at a time when Yves Saint Laurent reigned supreme. After meeting and falling […]
Great Point Media, the London-based media group that has invested more than £500 million into the creative industries worldwide, is collaborating with Fields Park, US-based Volume Global and Media Cymru, a consortium of creative and educational institutions in South Wales, to build a virtual production hub at Great Point Seren Studios in Cardiff. In addition […]
London based 1080 Media TV has been selected as the production partner for Table Tennis England (TTE), in a 3-year agreement as part of their new initiative with their online video and streaming platform TTE.TV The agreement is part of a new impetus for the sport in England, which has set out new goals and […]
Sony has joined forces with Plateau Virtuel (virtual production studio, subsidiary of the Novelty-Magnum-Dushow Group) and Studios de France (a set provider for broadcasting in France) to create the first virtual studio with a 90m² Sony Crystal LED B-series screen (18m wide x 5m high) in Seine Saint Denis, north of Paris, France. This unique […]
Virtual production (VP) in the film and TV industries continues gaining traction, with a Altman Solon report showing that the industry experts surveyed are using VP on 40 per cent of their current projects. Despite the buzz over VP, which employs new innovations to reduce production costs and timelines, the report identifies challenges to its […]