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july
Four FourDocs on 4 
Four of the most popular FourDocs from last year will be shown on Channel 4 next week as the 3 minute wonders
This plays out at 7:55pm Mon - Thurs, on Channel 4.
In case you miss them, you can watch them on our site
1. Prod - A quintessentially English village produce Show. Taste the cakes and size up the vegetables to decide who walks off with the big prizes in Dorset
2. Flora and Thieves - The story of an armed robbery, a flower arrangement and the filmmaker's Grandma.
3. Kebab - The Journey of a Doner Kebab from sheep in field to polystyrene box
4. Country Commute - An uplifting documentary of a cyclist's commute from Truro to Falmouth in Cornwall
july
Guardian picks magic lantern for video project
Magic Lantern Productions will work with Guardian Unlimited, one of the world’s leading online newspapers, to help develop its online video content.
Read full press release
april
BAFTA Win For Magic Lantern
FourDocs, continues to be recognised by the broadcast industry winning a prestigious BAFTA last night. The BAFTA Television Craft 2007 award for Interactive Innovation recognises Magic Lantern's outstanding creativity in the new media and new broadcasting space Double dose of magic for four docs
april
MIP Super Panellist
Anthony Lilley takes the stage at to join the panel discussion; ‘TV 2.0 Meets Web 2.0’ Joined by fellow industry heavyweights from across the globe this promises to be an engaging and eye opening discussion. Not to be missed.
link to miptv site
april
FourDocs Wins A Prestigious Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals. This year 30 have been awarded out of the 1000 plus entrants. It is a great privilege to be recognized by Peabody. For a full list of winners and more information about the Peabody Awards go to: http://www.peabody.uga.edu/about/
april
FourDocs Received BAFTA Nomination
Fourdocs has been nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award for Interactive Innovation. Our Fourdocs team and associates at Channel Four will be attending the ceremony on 22nd April. Watch this space... For more information on the BAFTA Craft Awards go to: http://www.bafta.org/site/page21.html
march
Changing Media Summit
Anthony will speak at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit this year, on 22nd March. Addressing the question ‘Will IPTV Change TV Forever?’ this discussions will examine issues such as how consumer choice drives viewing, the commercial opportunities in the converged home and the impact of live, on-demand TV over broadband.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/
january
Smooth Operator
Magic Lantern has enlisted the skills of operational expert Matt Atwood, the newly appointed Head of Operations. Matt has an impressive project management background in theatre, his most recent post was with the Barbican Theatre. An engineer by trade and an extremely nice bloke, Matt is the ‘get stuff done’ guru and we are thrilled that he has joined the team.
january
Party Animals Online
Magic lantern extends the world of the BBC’s new political satire Party Animals online with a site centred around the forum ‘Village Vermin’. The site is featured in the TV show and is part political blog, part popbitch for the Westminster Village. Characters featured in the show deepen and develop scandal and rumours on the site which also features exclusive footage and photos.
january
Anthony Lilley talks about PSP
Magic Lantern CEO, Anthony Lilley spoke to a packed house this evening at the Royal Television Society's dinner. Following on from today's launch of Ofcom's Open Media Network (OMNi) discussion site, Anthony shared his thoughts on the future of public service media and the role that a public service publisher such as OMNi may play in the changing media landscape.
Text copy of Speech (pdf)
Video of Speech
Link to OMNi discussion site
january
Richard Ayers Joins Magic Lantern
Magic Lantern is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Ayers to the newly created role of Editorial Development Director. Richard will be responsible for overseeing all Magic Lantern projects from an editorial and business perspective. He will maintain the digital creativity and innovation that Magic Lantern is known for, and enable clients and partners to realise the commercial opportunities through different platforms. Richard comes to Magic Lantern from commercial online business Tiscali where he held the position of Portal Director and was responsible for the editorial direction, business development, design and technical operations.
september 2007
The me in media
Participation, interactivity and the rise of the people formerly known as the audience.
View the RTS Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture given by Anthony Lilley, broadcast on BBC 2 on 5th November.
View the transcript.
november 2007
Anthony Lilley appointed Visiting Broadcast Media Professor - delivers first ever user-generated lecture.
Professor Lilleys lectures series will be entitled Twenty questions for the future of media and will look forward to the year 2020 and consider the challenges facing the traditional media as digital networks overturn the status quo.
Click here to see the full release
january 2008
Who Controls the Stories?
Anthony Lilley delivers the first in a series of lectures as News International Visiting Professor for Broadcast. To comment on the issues raised check the '2020 Twenty' lecture blog.
View the transcript.
June 2008
Honoured to be Honoured
We're delighted to announce that our CEO, Anthony, has been awarded an OBE for services to the media and creative industries in the Queen's 2008 Birthday Honours List. Anthony wants to thank everyone he works with for putting up with his enthusiasms over the years. Various people have suggested that he has to be serious now, but so far this advice seems to be going unregarded.