All Broadcast articles in 22 April 2011
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RatingsPaul O'Grady returns to prime time with 3.9m
FRIDAY: Paul O’Grady returned to ITV1 with an audience of 3.9m viewers (17.25%) tuning in across the 9pm hour.
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RatingsBritain’s Got Talent returns with 9.9m
SATURDAY: Britain’s Got Talent returned with its third biggest launch audience to date.
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RatingsMore Talent brings less viewers to ITV2
SATURDAY: ITV2 spin-off Britain’s Got More Talent was the channel’s best performing show of the day but was down over 554,000 viewers on last year’s debut.
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RatingsLondon Marathon peaks with 3.3m
SUNDAY: The BBC’s coverage of the London Marathon peaked with more than 3.3m viewers.
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RatingsSpitfire Women commands 230,000
SUNDAY: BBC4’s Spitfire Women, which told the story of the trailblazing female pilots of the Air Transport Auxillary, drew an audience of 227,800 (1.5%) from 10.20pm.
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NewsDon’t Tell The Bride goes live for royal wedding
BBC3 has ordered a live version of Renegade Pictures’ Don’t Tell The Bride, for the night of the Royal Wedding.
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NewsCowell bows out as weekly X Factor judge
ITV has confirmed that Simon Cowell will not be a main judge on the next series of The X Factor.
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NewsSky to air Kylie tour in 3D
The London finale of Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite - Les Folies tour is to be aired in 3D on Sky as the broadcaster continues to add to its portfolio of live music content captured in the format.
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NewsSky hands Cassy director of 3D role
Sky has appointed John Cassy to the newly-created position of director of Sky 3D and promoted James Hunt, currently head of programming at Sky Arts, to director of the channel.
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Comment18 April '11
“The whole thing ended with the kind of comic serendipity that is hard to fake.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsBurns departs NGC
National Geographic Channel (NGC) executive vice president of global content Steve Burns is leaving the business within the next few weeks.
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NewsSugar to save English football in new documentary
Entrepreneur and former Tottenham Hotspur chairman Lord Sugar will unveil a business blueprint to save English football in a new BBC2 documentary.
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NewsESPN to air ad-free FA Cup final
ESPN is to broadcast the FA Cup Final without advert breaks as part of 12 hours of coverage dedicated to the match.
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Comment19 April '11
“Behind the brainy plot, however, is a creditable concern with how real people might behave in an unreal situation.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsIannucci's US satire picked up by HBO
HBO has ordered a US “cousin” of The Thick of It that is written, directed and executive produced by Armando Iannucci.
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NewsThe Killing, Essex up for Bafta Audience Award
BBC4’s Danish crime drama The Killing has been nominated alongside ITV2’s constructed reality show The Only Way Is Essex for this year’s YouTube Audience Award, which will be announced at the Bafta Awards on 22 May.
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CommentBreaking the Silence
Carla McCabe, production manager at Tern Television and associate producer of Breaking the Silence, talks about the importance of listening and gaining the trust of contributors when dealing with taboo subjects.Breaking the Silence – our documentary on suicide that last month won the ‘Nations and Regions Programme’ category at the ...
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NewsAuthors complain over "sneering" BBC
Iain M Banks, Michael Moorcok and Adam Roberts are among some 85 authors to have written to the BBC complaining about its “sneering derogatory tone” towards genre fiction.
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RatingsMeet the Middletons draws 1.98m
MONDAY: A documentary charting the family history of future Queen Kate Middleton failed to put in a regal performance for Channel 4.
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RatingsGame of Thrones nets 742,500 for Sky Atlantic
MONDAY: Sky Atlantic’s new HBO drama Game of Thrones kicked off with an audience of 742,500 viewers (3.16% share) across the first episode – attracting the biggest live audience for the channel since it launched on 1 February.