Ben Miller hosts We Love Sitcom, a panel show looking at some of the most popular sitcoms of the last 60 years, and featuring a host of familar faces from the world of comedy.
Part of the BBC Landmark Sitcom series coming in Autumn 2016.
Debatable is a new daytime panel show for BBC One hosted by Patrick Kielty. Contestants have to answer a series of increasingly tricky questions to win cash prizes. They have help from celebrity panel who will debate between them what they think is the correct answer, but does their advice help or hinder the contestant’s chances?
BBC Four’s Hive Minds, hosted by Fiona Bruce, is back later in 2016 for a second series. The show combines general knowledge with mental agility, requiring the contestants to find the answers hidden in the hive against the clock. The second series required improvements and advances in the technical delivery and the visuals of the show, and for these reasons the producers turned to Kinetic Pixel.
Kinetic Pixel’s team members have been involved with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in various roles since the format became a world-wide hit for Celador International at the turn of the century. In recent years we’ve been a part of the on-going evolution of the format in the UK, USA and France.
Sue Perkins presents Insert Name Here, a new panel show for BBC Two featuring Josh Widdicombe and Richard Osman as team captains. The teams battle it out answering questions about famous people past and present, all of whom share the same first name.
Huw Stephens hosts this fast-paced Welsh language quiz as he leads three teams through a series of multiple-choice games giving them the chance to go home with a £1000 prize. The teams have to not only be sure about the right answer, they’ve also got to be the fastest to lock in on their touchscreens.
Rick Edwards hosts this brand new outrageously competitive panel show that pushes celebrities to their limits. The only thing that can save them is to use their Safeword to make it all stop. The celebrities’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts are all fair game, and our custom designed systems ‘hacked’ into their accounts to post messages and pictures live during the show.
BBC1’s popular quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. Contestants must plumb the depths of their general knowledge to find the most obscure answer they can think of, which gets dramatically revealed on the iconic “Pointless” column.
Only Connect, presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, is one of the smartest quizzes on TV. Two teams fight it out in a series of three rounds of challenging questions where they need to find the connecting link between the clues, followed by a tense final head to head round on the buzzer.
Channel 4’s classic quiz Fifteen To One was relaunched in 2014 with Sandy Toksvig hosting. One of the toughest quizzes on TV, Kinetic Pixel’s systems manage the questions, game play and sophisticated lighting sequences that show the state of the game.
A League Of Their Own is Sky One’s long-running comedy sports-based panel show hosted by James Corden and featuring Freddie Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and Jack Whitehall. Kinetic Pixel’s software provides scoring, buzzers and powers the interactive touchscreens used the panellists to play many of the games.
Welcome to Kinetic Pixel – Creators of game show systems, studio automation, interaction and real time graphics systems for the broadcast, live event and entertainment industries.
Building on over 20 years of experience designing and delivering systems for some of the biggest entertainment formats both in the UK and Overseas, Kinetic Pixel enables format producers to use technology to deliver and enhance their productions to make them stand apart, by providing the highest production values and most innovative technical solutions in the business.
Since our formation in November 2013, we’ve built the technology powering some of the UK’s biggest light entertainment formats for all the major UK networks including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky.
We are also the only broadcast technology supplier in the UK who can supply, integrate and automate Microsoft’s new Skype TX platform, enabling broadcasters and production companies to bring video calling into the production workflow with the same high standards as any other video or audio source.
Building on our experience with Skype TX, we’ve come up with something that will enable broadcasters to easily simulate a Skype Group Video Call (GVC) using multiple channels of Skype TX. Integrating Skype TX with our real-time graphics systems and experience with live automation and control means that a single operator can easily manage multiple calls, animating on cue and resolving to additional graphics as required.
Kinetic Pixel’s 2015 showreel demonstrates the wide range of graphics and technology solutions we provide for Light Entertainment, Quizzes and Events.
For the 2015 Virgin Disruptors Conference Kinetic Pixel supplied and managed multiple channels of Skype TX and delivered our Group Video Call graphics system to bring remote contributors from education providers Teach For All and The Khan Academy into a lively debate entitled ‘Is Education Keeping Up With The 21st Century?’
Kinetic Pixel are experts with Skype TX. We can integrate it into your technical workflow and get the highest quality content from contributors on any platform, be it mobile, PC, tablets or smart TVs.
According the The Huffington Post, Skype TX is driving production demands for higher standards of streaming video solutions. Kinetic Pixel are experts at designing and integrating Skype TX solutions, from complex group video calls with automated audio and video routing to more traditional point-to-point video calls, we can supply, install and support Skype TX to fit exactly with your production requirements.
Kinetic Pixel are pleased to announce the launch of International Production Solutions, a collective of broadcast professionals offering a one-stop shop for services from format creation and production design to music creation, lighting design and computer systems.
Against competition from “Die Deutschen Meister” and “The Common Demoninator”, Pointless has taken the award for Best Game Show at the 53rd Rose d’Or ceremony in Berlin.
Congratulations to the entire Remarkable Television team at Endemol, it’s a well deserved win. Maybe we’re a bit biased, but we think it’s arguably one of the smartest and most entertaining quiz shows currently on air in the UK.
Skype have today announced the OEM hardware partners they’ll be working with to deliver the Skype TX technology. This is fantastic news for broadcasters – and we’re sure we’ll start seeing the units in galleries across the world. Kinetic Pixel can help you maximise the investment in Skype TX, being a select partner on the TAP early adopters programme has given us experience of rolling out the system on several productions in the UK.
People are always looking for new ways to interact with computers, and one thing we get asked for time and time again is…. “Can we make a screen that looks like Minority Report?” The answer of course is “Yes, but…”. The condition being that in the movie, everything you see was created in post-production, so it’s easier to make something that’s seamless and responsive when the CGI team can already see what actions the user is performing. What they are […]
Starting on the 12th April, ITV1 brings us a battle between the generations – Amazing Greys. Hosted by Angela Rippon and Paddy McGuinness, this new family show brings elderly competitors who were, or still are, at the top of their competitive game or world-class experts in their field, and pits them against a team of cocky youngsters. The challenges range from powerlifting, music quizzes, geography, cycling, bowls, strength competitions to valuing antiques! There are in excess of 20 games throughout […]
After 11 years off our screens, Fifteen To One is back on Channel 4, driven by Kinetic Pixel’s gameplay and lighting control systems. KPX designed the software that runs the gameplay, lighting states, sound effects, buzzers, production statistics and questions and other information fed to Sandi’s iPad. KPX also provided the equipment and automation hardware, and a staff of two for the run of 20 daytime shows and 4 celebrity specials, hosted by comedian Adam Hills. We’re looking forward to […]
Business support organisation Business In Focus have worked closely with us since our inception. We’re featured in their supplement in today’s Western Mail and Echo where we talk about the business and our growth plans.
Prominent Broadcast business blog TBI has broken the news of KPX’s foundations, in the context of a major business deal between Microsoft and the company some of director’s worked for previously.
An outlook on broadcast technology trends in the coming year. The fourth item down basically describes the services KPX provide – so TV Producers – you know who to call! “Technologies Collaborate – Complex Staging in Reality TV Shows like Idol and The Voice, as well as game shows like Who wants to be a Millionaire?, have become popular all over the world. Their successors continue to gain popularity especially in Europe and Asia. These shows feature complex stages with […]
We’re just about to record show 1 of the revamped 15 to 1. Wish us luck!
We’ve moved in to the new unit with enough room to build and test our show systems. It’s nice to have a bit of space – for now!