NEWS ARCHIVE

PHIL SPENCER SECRET AGENT
After years of property boom, the housing market across the country has been stagnant. With deposit requirements up and mortgage approvals low, it's harder than ever to sell a house. Enter Phil Spencer, who will take on the role of secret agent and work with sellers and buyers to help get the market moving again. In each episode of Phil Spencer: Secret Agent he’ll target one particularly hard-to-shift home. Armed with all the information he needs to make a realistic judgment on why the house isn't selling, he'll surprise the owners as their secret agent and outline his opinions - all the good and the bad - before recommending what needs to be done to get their home sold.

Airing on Channel 4 from 10th October.

SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE BUSY
Since Diane Jardine joined the company recently as dubbing mixer, she has been avoiding getting her photo taken for our website - too busy she said!

20 x 45mins "Phil Spencer : Secret Agent" for Raise The Roof Productions / 5 x 30 "Trawler Girls" and 1 x 60 "The Woman Who Ate A Cow" for Caledonia TV, plus other little bits and bobs of V/O and fixes - that's just since September so she does have a point. However, during a lunchtime paparazzi raid on the sound dept she has now been captured on film!

OFFAL COOK!
"The Woman Who Ate A Cow” features Islay born artist and cook, Heather Dewar, as she reveals how previous generations ate animals from head to tail, never wasting a scrap of meat. Today, only half the meat from a carcass ends up on the supermarket counter. The programme follows Heather as she selects and buys a Highland bull, sees it slaughtered and butchered, and cooks all the parts that modern diners turn up their nose at.

NEW SPEEDY LIFT
Apologies to any client disturbed by the occasional burst of hammering and drilling over the last few weeks – a new lift is being installed, hopefully without Voice Recognition Technology! We’ll see how many people revert back to using the lifts after their recent enforced fit and healthy stairs option!

TACKLING PIRACY
Editor Eric Smith has just put the finishing touches to a 40min Callisto Productions documentary for the Maritime Industry which tackles the serious situation of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. In what is a modern day tale of kidnap and blackmail on the high seas, ships and hundreds of seafarers are being held hostage off the coast of Somalia in very difficult conditions.

NEW INDIE VISITS EDIT 123
Staff editor Gregor Mackay is currently working on a new project for Friel Kean Films, producers of the highly acclaimed series "The Scheme". While Julian Kean was out on a shoot the other day, he left his 10 month old Cocker Spaniel "Indie" in Gregor's care. Not used to clients barking at him, Gregor soon warmed to his new pal however and they are now the best of chums. He's since added "dog minding" to his already impressive CV!

BLUE HEAVEN
We have also just completed editing and sound post on “Blue Heaven” for Peter
Barber-Fleming. The programme takes a look 10 years on at how aspiring young footballers going through the Rangers Youth Scheme achieved their dreams, or not. This was the very first dub for our new sound suite.

HELICOPTER SUNDAY
Staff cameraman Ivan Coyle was onboard for Helicopter Sunday as the cup made it’s way to Kilmarnock. He was seen to be less excited about the trip after coming back to report that the weather had closed in over Fenwick Moor and “I could have reached down and grabbed some lamb for my dinner, we were so low”! Next year he plans to be on leave for the last day of the season, just in case.

BILL GETS ON HIS BIKE
Bill Fairweather joined the company on March 1st in a sales and marketing role. Bill was previously with 422.tv, Arc and Picardy. "Edit 123 is a great facility in a superb city centre location. The combination of sociable clients and staff and lots of bars and restaurants close by, means I've had to buy a bike to stay in trim!"