All Broadcast articles in 2 June 2011
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NewsProducer criticises TOWIE snobs
The Only Way Is Essex’s ex-story producer has criticised the “snobbery” surrounding the show’s Bafta win.
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NewsBBC has Great Expectations for Christmas schedule
Ray Winstone is to star in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
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NewsPace appoints Leighton as chairman
Set-top box maker Pace has turned to former Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton to help turn around its ailing fortunes.
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NewsDCD opens current affairs unit
DCD Factual is launching a topical programming and current affairs unit and has hired former Mentorn producer Marc Sigsworth to run it.
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NewsMipTV 2012 to open early
MipTV, the international television market held every spring in Cannes, is to launch a day early in 2012 – rather than two days as first announced.
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RatingsScott & Bailey debuts with 7.9m
SUNDAY: New female crime fighting duo Scott & Bailey helped ITV to its biggest drama launch audience in years.
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RatingsBarcelona victory scores 11m
SATURDAY: Barcelona’s Champions League triumph over Manchester United netted a peak audience of more than 11m viewers for ITV.
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Comment31 May '11
“The Da Vinci Code style hyperbole was matched only by the inanity of the presentation style.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsMerton takes 1.8m to Hollywood
FRIDAY: Paul Merton’s new series looking at the history of Hollywood debuted with a strong audience for BBC2.
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CommentView from the North
A growing creative economy in the North East has been overlooked by a new Government fund and unless the focus is shifted it could spell catastrophe for the region as a whole, writes Tom Harvey.
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RatingsSimon Cowell boosts BGT ratings
BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY: Simon Cowell’s return to Britain’s Got Talent helped pull more than a million extra viewers to the ITV show.
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NewsC5 magic show disappears from schedule
Channel 5 has pulled magic-based gameshow Impossible? after just two episodes but will give it a second shot when it revives Big Brother later this year.
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NewsTesco prepares AFP with Channel 5 and UKTV
Tesco is close to agreeing an ad-funded TV show with Channel 5 and UKTV cookery channel Good Food.
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NewsCNBC to profile Richard Desmond
Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond is to be interviewed on profile show CNBC Meets… next month.
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NewsSherlock wins five at Welsh Baftas
BBC1 drama Sherlock won five awards at the Bafta Cymru awards on Sunday night.
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NewsRadioplayer tunes in 5.7m
Radioplayer, the online radio venture backed by the BBC and commercial stations, has recorded 5.7 million listeners in its first four weeks of operation.
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NewsVegas tunes into radio comedy
Comic Johnny Vegas is to head the cast of a new Radio 4 comedy series - about the joys of living in a shed.
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NewsUN first to see "shocking" Sri Lanka doc
A forthcoming Channel 4 documentary detailing “harrowing” events from the Sri Lankan civial war will receive its first screening before the UN Human Rights Council.
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NewsSomethin' Else to produce Kermode and Mayo film show
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s movie review show on BBC Radio 5 Live is to be produced by indie Somethin’ Else for the first time..
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RatingsGeordie Shore grows audience
TUESDAY: MTV reality series Geordie Shore managed to boost its audience for its second outing as word of the show spreads.