All Broadcast articles in 19 June 2015
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Ratings
Top 100 network programmes: 8 - 14 June 2015
One-off anniversary special of Chris Evans’ ’90s show takes 3.4 million viewers down memory lane
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News
BBC Trust: strong case for scrapping in-house quotas
The BBC Trust has argued that there is a “strong case” for reducing or scrapping the in-house guarantee in a report that could pave the way for the launch of BBC Studios.
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News
Daisy Goodwin establishes indie as Silver River closes
Former Silver River boss Daisy Goodwin has set up a new production company six months after leaving her Sony-owned indie.
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News
David Upshal departs Lion TV
Lion TV executive producer David Upshal is leaving the All3Media-owned indie after 13 years.
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News
Scientology doc to get release despite legal pressure
Companies involved in the UK theatrical release of Alex Gibney’s controversial Scientology documentary Going Clear have come under pressure from the Church of Scientology not to release the film.
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News
Comedy Central boss Offman to oversee MTV UK
Comedy Central UK boss Jill Offman is to take control of Viacom sister channel MTV UK.
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Ratings
Hoff The Record fails to top 200k
THURSDAY: Hoff The Record was unable to muster more than 200,000 viewers for Dave despite a weighty marketing campaign which included changing the channel’s name for the day.
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Video
VIDEO: Black Work, ITV
View the trailer for the Mammoth Screen produced drama, starring Sheridan Smith
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News
Clarkson snubs Top Gear comeback offer
Jeremy Clarkson has claimed he turned down an offer to return to his old job on Top Gear last week, days before Chris Evans was appointed to the role.
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News
Blakeway and ITV News pick up One World Media gongs
Blakeway Productions was recognised for its coverage of the ebola crisis at the 2015 One World Media Awards, as ITV scooped the News Award.
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News
James May returns with live car show
James May has landed his first BBC commission following the ‘fracas’ scandal which engulfed Top Gear.
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Critics
TV Critics: Hoff the Record; Dogs: Their Secret Lives; Catching History's Criminals; Celebrity MasterChef
“It was painfully raw at times, broken up with flashes of black humour, surreal wit and gratuitous bum gags.”
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News
Welsh indies demand S4C safeguards
Welsh indie trade body TAC has called for a series of funding measures to safeguard the future of S4C.
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Behind The Scenes
Humans, Channel 4
Getting the look and movement right for our ‘synths’ was no small task, says producer Chris Fry
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News
ITV pilots fixed-rig daytime format
Educating… indie Twofour is primed to take the fixed-rig format into daytime after piloting a cookery show for ITV.
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News
Angela Jain: ITV2 benefits from BBC3 move
BBC3’s proposed move online has driven on and off- screen talent “to the door” of ITV2 according to its commissioner Angela Jain.