All Broadcast articles in 17 June 2016
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News
BBC hires drama commissioner for Scotland
Gaynor Holmes has been hired as the BBC’s first drama commissioning editor for Scotland with a remit to invigorate the nation’s scripted output.
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Ratings
Top 100 network programmes: 6 - 12 June 2016
ITV scores a Euro winner with England game and lively EU debate
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Ratings
Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 6 - 12 June 2016
C4’s Cutting Edge: Rich Brother, Poor Brother, helped by +1, defeated C5’s Big Brother with 1.3 million/6%
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 6 - 12 June 2016
The best of Love Island was Wednesday’s 1 million/6% at 9pm, the best so far for ITV2’s two series
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Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 6 - 12 June 2016
Dave’s Alan Davies As Yet Untitled achieved 321,000/2% at 10pm on Sunday
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Top 15 consolidated shows: 30 May - 6 Jun 2016
The second episode of BBC2’s new-fangled Top Gear consolidated to 4.1 million/19% on 5 June at 8pm after 1.2 million recorded and watched
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News
UKTV strikes ‘landmark’ Virgin VoD deal
UKTV has reached a “landmark” deal to make more than 10,000 hours of entertainment programming available on Virgin Media.
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BBC2 commissions canine competition format
Wall to Wall is to produce an ambitious canine competition format inspired by Canicross – a man and dog cross country sport - for BBC2 after being brought an idea by Hastings-based indie Ten66.
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Comment
Why Let It Shine fails to light my fire
Broadcast news editor Jake Kanter turns the spotlight on BBC1’s search for the stars of a Take That stage musical.
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News
Octonauts producer wins Netflix order
Netflix has ordered a children’s animation series from Silvergate Media, the creators of CBeebies’ Octonauts.
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ITN Prods hires first sports chief
ITN Productions has appointed former IMG executive vice president Alastair Waddington as its first director of sport.
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Podcast
Talking TV: ITV factual & Call The Mediator
The latest edition of Talking TV analyses the headlines from Sheffield Doc/Fest and hears from the producer of BBC2’s first fixed-rig show.
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News
Euro 2016 helps BBC Sport to record high
More than 2m fans watched England’s Euro 2016 clash with Wales via the BBC Sport website yesterday, smashing the site’s previous record.
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Comment
Escape To The Chateau: filming a French fairytale
Ahead of its final episode on Sunday, director Paul Crompton blogs on the experience of creating and making Channel 4 series Escape To The Chateau.
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News
In brief: CBeebies; Comedy Central; Objective; Pick
CBeebies has ordered a 44-part series from FremantleMedia Kids and Comedy Central has picked up a social media-themed pilot from Avalon.
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Trust calls for greater coverage of women’s matches at Wimbledon
The Trust has urged the BBC to give women’s tennis greater emphasis after it discovered as much as 90% of Wimbledon coverage was dedicated to the men’s game.
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Critics
TV Critics: Marx: Genius of the Modern World; This World: The New Gypsy Kings
“This film was stymied by too restrictive a focus on giving a blow-by-blow account of a life, rather than on the intellectual achievement for which it is celebrated.”
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News
Liliane Landor exits World Service
Liliane Landor, BBC World Service head of languages and one of the corporation’s strongest diversity advocates, is leaving the organisation after 26 years.
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Ratings
England win grabs 75% share
THURSDAY: Nearly three-quarters of all TV viewers watched England’s last-gasp Euro 2016 win over Wales, while over 5m tuned in to BBC news bulletins for coverage of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.