All Broadcast articles in 2 September 2011
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NewsGreenlight round-up: Hacking, spies and Ab Fab
The BBC and Sky have commissioned comedy specials that will satirise the hacking scandal and the British crime genre while re-commissioning several successful series
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News4oD iPhone app launches
Channel 4 has launched a 4oD iPhone app that will allow users to catch-up on the broadcaster’s content.
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NewsDawn Porter tries luck with C4
Dawn Porter is to front a new Channel 4 series examining the nature of luck and people’s perception of it.
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NewsITV lines-up Loose Women revamp
Loose Women is to be revamped for its new series in a bid to keep the ITV daytime show fresh.
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NewsITVS picks up drama rejected by BBC
ITV Studios has optioned a Cornish crime drama previously rejected by the BBC.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice returns with best ever launch
THURSDAY: Comedy panel show Celebrity Juice returned to ITV2 with its biggest launch night audience to date.
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NewsChorion IP to be sold
Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Mr Men and The Octonauts are set to be sold to individual bidders, as Chorion’s backers attempt to minimise their losses.
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CommentFraud Squad, ITV1
ITV1’s latest documentary from the makers of Strangeways tackles share selling scams. Here, director Tom Anstiss discusses the challenges of filming a faceless crime.
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CommentMaking an epic: The Story of Film (part 2)
In the second of two blogs, producer John Archer reveals how epic new series The Story of Film got access to film makers and archives.
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NewsC5 to follow funfair workers
Channel 5 has ordered an ob doc series which will meet the often secretive families who run funfairs across the country.
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NewsKelvin Mackenzie unveils new sports channel
Former Live TV boss Kelvin Mackenzie is returning to broadcasting with the launch of an online sports channel on Freeview.
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NewsC4 to revisit Japanese Tsunami
New amateur footage of the Japanese tsunami is to feature in a new documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsCNBC launches connected TV stocks app
Business and financial news broadcaster CNBC has launched an internet connected TV app across a range of platforms including Samsung TVS and Virgin Media’s Tivo.
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NewsE4 launches autumn season
E4 has unveiled a bumper slate of programming for the autumn as the digital channel works to fill the gap left by Friends.
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NewsKermode named Daybreak boss
5 News editor and former BBC Breakfast boss David Kermode has been appointed the new editor of Daybreak.
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NewsProtestors disrupt BBC Proms
Classical music fans tuning into last night’s BBC Proms found themselves listening to a recording instead of the live performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, after protestors disrupted the evening’s event.
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RatingsITV1 remembers 9/11 with 5m
THURSDAY: ITV1’s inside account of the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001 drew more than 5m viewers in primetime.
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RatingsSky 1 strikes back
Sky 1 soldier drama Strike Back fired up an army of followers on its return – exceeding the audience of the first series.
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RatingsGenre Overview
Browse the top ten children’s, factual, drama, entertainment, sport and music programmes from 22-28 August.