All Broadcast articles in 1 July 2011
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RatingsMurray victory thrashes competition
FRIDAY: Andy Murray’s third round victory at Wimbledon served up a high of nearly 9m viewers on BBC1 - as U2’s headlining set at Glastonbury drew a peak of more than 1.6m to BBC2.
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NewsEndemol chief executive Ynon Kreiz quits
Endemol Group chief executive and chairman Ynon Kreiz has stepped down ahead of expected financial restucturing and an interim management team including Charles Allen has been put in place.
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RatingsLee Mack’s All Star Cast loses nearly 1m
SATURDAY: Lee Mack’s All Star Cast lost nearly a million viewers for BBC1 – as The Marriage Ref built its audience marginally.
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NewsTrue Stories picks up nuclear testing doc
The story of Kazakhstanis being used as guinea pigs to test nuclear weapons has been picked up by More4 for documentary strand True Stories.
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Comment27 June '11
“It looks more like a museum exhibit than a drama.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsMildred Pierce makes solid start for Sky
SATURDAY: Mildred Pierce, Sky Atlantic’s drama starring Kate Winslet as a struggling mother coping with the Great Depression, beat its slot average with an audience of 205,000 (0.96%).
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RatingsTop Gear returns with 5.13m
SUNDAY: Top Gear returned at 8pm with a slot winning performance - but was one of the show’s lowest rating debuts in five years.
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RatingsU2 watched by 1m on BBC4
U2’s performance on BBC4 saw the BBC’s multichannel coverage of Glastonbury peak early on Friday with 1m viewers.
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NewsChinese & Argentinian parties to attend kids conference
Delegatiosn from China and Argentina will attend next week’s Children’s Media Conference for the first time, along with headline speakers Lord Puttnam and OgilvyOne’s Rory Sutherland.
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NewsThe Lingo Show crosses to TV
CBeebies’ online language game, The Lingo Show, is being made into a TV series.
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NewsShake up at Kudos as Crawford Collins exits
Kudos Film and Television has embarked on a senior management restructure following joint managing director Simon Crawford Collins’ departure after 10 years to establish his own indie.
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NewsBBC to hand back Panorama RTS award
The BBC is to return the Royal Televsion Society award it won for Panorama’s Primark - On the Rack, which the BBC Trust ruled contained footage that was probably not genuine.
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Comment28 June '11
“Stuart was a know-it-all but his lines were subtly humorous and poignant.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsSwain confirmed as BBC Knowledge controller
Emma Swain has been confirmed as George Entwistle’s sucessor as controller of BBC Knowledge commissioning and the corporation will close her previous role.
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NewsTV writers festival returns for second year
Writers Paula Milne and Jimmy McGovern are among the leading names appearing at the BBC writersroom festival which takes place in Leeds next week.
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NewsGMG Radio launches on We7
GMG Radio has agreed a distribution deal with We7 to rollout Real, Rock and Smooth via the streaming music service.
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RatingsSirens debuts with 1.6m
MONDAY: Sirens, Channel 4’s new comedy drama about a team of paramedics, made a strong start in the 10pm slot.
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NewsNew Tricks stars slam 'censorship'
The stars of BBC police drama New Tricks have criticised television “censorship” - saying that the broadcaster is “terrified” of causing offence.
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NewsTimelords to battle for TVChoice award
Two timelords go head to head against each other for the Best Actor gong in this year’s TVChoice Awards.
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RatingsChelsea finale fails to shine
MONDAY: E4’s constructed reality series Made In Chelsea finished its eight-week run with one of the lowest audiences of the series.