France - The Zero 88 Orb Lighting console from Cooper Controls was chosen by lighting designer Chris Withers for the Warner Brothers hospitality events at MIPCOM 2010.

Held every October at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes and its surrounding areas, MIPCOM is the world event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. It provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

Warner Brothers International Television hired the private beach belonging to the Hotel Majestic Barriere for the duration of the show, creating an exclusive venue that consisted of the hotel beac

UK - Mongrels is a British puppet-based sit com series first broadcast for BBC Three. It has recently been commissioned for a second series.

Richard Martin Lighting (RML) embraced the opportunity to be involved in something fresh, exciting and 'different from the norm', by supporting lighting designer Jamie Cairney who chose VL3000 Spots for the show.

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USA / UK - London-based motion graphics studio The Darkroom, joined forces with global advertising agency BBDO to promote HBO's new TV series, Game of Thrones.

The Darkroom has created a world-first projection (watch it here), which was shown on an 80ft billboard from April 8 - 17 in the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles, for the US promotion of the show.

The projection was designed and produced by The Darkroom's creative director Bruce Ferguson, who designed the projection to be exclusive, while st

UK - Entec Sound & Light was approached by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) to supply a lighting design and equipment for a very special one-off collection of royal wedding dresses dating back to 1816, including that of Queen Victoria, Princess Margaret and Princess Charlotte, which was put on display in the drawing rooms of the late Princess Margaret's apartments in Kensington Palace.

Too fragile for public exhibition, the display of dresses was open to the world's leading media in order to allow a wider audience to experience them. Ahead of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and K

France - Since APG first announced their Uniline Solution concept at the JTSE in Paris in November last year, the company reports that the network has gone from strength to strength with new members coming aboard all the time.

The most recent affiliates are up-and-coming Dijon-based rental company Scene et Son who specialise in corporate events, and Able who are headquartered in Lyon. Both companies have invested in a Uniline system, opting for a total of 14 x UL210 and 10 x UL115B. A conscious choice was made on behalf of each company to invest in the same system configuration for ma

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