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Elon Musk abandons $44 billion Twitter bid
Elon Musk is abandoning his $44 billion bid for Twitter, alleging that the social media company had failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service.
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RTS Awards: Entries open for craft talent in TV and broadcasting
Entries are now open for broadcasters and individual crafts people across all competitive categories for the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards 2022.
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The metaverse: More of a social revolution than a technical one?
Research by Improbable suggests that, while interest in the metaverse is growing, the real conversations are centred around Web3 technologies such as NFT and crypto.
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London’s 3 Mills Studios embarks on £6 million upgrade
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has begun a £6 million renovation and modernisation project to upgrade several of the buildings at its 3 Mills Studios in east London.
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NFTS and University of West of England dominate RTS Student Television Awards
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has crowned the winners for the national RTS Student Television Awards 2022, sponsored by Kinetic Content.
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Urgently needed: 21,000 more UK film and high-end TV crew (by 2025)
Film and high-end television production in the UK could be worth £7.66 billion by 2025 and requires nearly 21,000 more crew, according to research commissioned by ScreenSkills.
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Paramount+ to order 150 international originals by 2025
Streamer Paramount+ has announced plans to commission 150 international originals by 2025.
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Albert launches ‘climate storytelling’ tool for programme makers
BAFTA-owned UK film and television sustainability organisation Albert has unveiled a new tool to help those working in editorial in TV and film to bring climate storytelling into their programmes.
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Texas set for $267m virtual production, TV and film studios
Hill Country Group has announced plans to build Hill Country Studios, a virtual production, television and film studio in San Marcos, Texas.
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Squid Game 2: Netflix confirms second season of global hit
Netflix has officially greenlit a second season of its breakout success Korean drama Squid Game.
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ITV acquires Plimsoll Productions
ITV has agreed to acquire a majority interest of 79.5% in Plimsoll Productions, the world’s largest independent producer of natural history programmes.
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Film and TV Charity incentivises industry to overcome ‘survey fatigue’
The Film and TV Charity has urged the industry to participate in its 2022 Looking Glass mental health survey.
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Stranger Things and Obi-Wan Kenobi smash streamer records
Netflix and Disney+ both claim to have broken their own streaming records for new releases with the respective launches of season 4 of Stranger Things and Star Wars spin-off Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Obituary: Michael Cox (1932–2022)
One of the great joys of IBC and the industry it represents is the wonderful characters that have inhabited it. Mike Cox, who died on 1 April, was most definitely one of those characters.
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BBC to broadcast Glastonbury in UHD
The BBC is to broadcast in Ultra High Definition (UHD) from the Glastonbury Festival this summer, marking the first time it has broadcast any music event in UHD.
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Top Gun: Maverick release buoys cinemas
Top Gun: Maverick has enjoyed strong box office takings in its opening weekend, sparking film industry hopes that the sequel will help revive cinemagoing following the pandemic.
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Denmark hits streamers with production levy
Denmark has become the latest European country to rule that global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney must pay a levy to support local production.
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Amazon Prime Video reveals £1bn UK spend
Amazon Prime Video has revealed that it has invested more than £1 billion in the UK on TV, movies and live sport since 2018.
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Noel Tovey named MD of Sky Studios Elstree
Sky has appointed Noel Tovey as managing director at Sky Studios Elstree, its soon to launch film and TV studio.
