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RealscreenCinemaTyson Media launches pet-focused YouTube channel Vancouver-based prodco Tyson Media has launched a pet-centred YouTube channel called The Pet Network with an independently produced pet-themed game show.

11.05

RealscreenCinemaCBC launches cross-platform “Money” programming initiative Canadian pubcaster the CBC is launching an editorial initiative that will see development and commissioning of a slate of cross-platform programming geared towards personal finance and money matters.

11.05

RealscreenCinemaChannel 4 to end “Married at First Sight UK” following review, budget will go to new programming Channel 4 is sharing a summary of the findings of an external review of participant welfare on Married at First Sight UK (MAFS UK), and CEO Priya Dogra says the ...

11.05

RealscreenCinemaOff the Fence boards Hearst’s “Wrecks and Riches” as coproducer World Storytelling Media Group-owned distributor Off the Fence has agreed to pre-buy and coproduce the 10 x 60-minute immersive factual series Wrecks and Riches with Hearst.

11.05

RealscreenCinemaRealscreen Awards Insights: crafting new approaches to Competition Lifestyle: Familiar flavors and new ideas The lifestyle nominees in the Competition category hail mostly from established franchises, including the Canadian version of The Great British Bake Off.

11.05

RealscreenCinemaS4C opens calls for digital commissions, factual YouTube docs Welsh pubcaster S4C has unveiled new opportunities for digital commissions at its annual conference. The plans were revealed by digital content commissioner Guto Rhun (pictured) during the S4C…

11.05

RealscreenCinemaTinopolis partners with vet surgeon Scott Miller to grow YouTube channel Tinopolis has partnered with veterinary surgeon and presenter Scott Miller to grow his Rescue Vet YouTube channel, develop new programming and expand the reach of his content across platforms…

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RealscreenCinemaFormer NBCU, BBC Studios exec Jenny Groom appointed as MGM Alternative head Jenny Groom will join Amazon MGM Studios as head of MGM Alternative, effective November 30. The hire was revealed in an internal note to staff from head of non-fiction Jenn Levy, ...

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RealscreenCinemaUK gov’t issues Public Interest Intervention Notice on Sky-ITV merger deal UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has given the go-ahead for a public interest intervention regarding the planned acquisition of ITV’s media and entertainment holdings by Comcast-owned Sky.

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RealscreenCinemaBossaNova teams with Energy UK for short-form episodes London-based BossaNova Media has unveiled a pilot digital partnership with the UK energy industry trade association Energy UK.

11.04

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo