All Broadcast articles in 22 July 2016
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Ratings
Top 15 consolidated shows: 4 - 10 July 2016
Forces Of Nature With Brian Cox launched on Monday 4 July and achieved 3.9 million/15% after more than 620,000 recorded and watched
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Ratings
Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 11 - 17 July 2016
Sky 1’s table topper, Ross Kemp: The Fight Against Isis, tripled its slot average with 555,000/3%
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Ratings
Top 30 multichannel programmes: 11 - 17 July 2016
On Monday, ITV2’s final Love Island achieved 1.3 million/7% at 9pm for 90 minutes, its highest live rating of the series
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 11 - 17 July 2016
On Monday, BBC2’s University Challenge returned at 8pm with 2.4 million/12%, followed at 8.30pm by Only Connect (1.9 million/9%)
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Ratings
Top 100 network programmes: 11 - 17 July 2016
BBC1’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent launched below slot average
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Comment
Piecing together the media technology puzzle
European broadcast innovation is more than holding its own, writes Oliver Botti.
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News
Rebrand for NEP Visions and Roll to Record
The NEP Group has rebranded NEP Visions and Roll to Record under the collective title of NEP UK.
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News
ITV dances off with Talpa format
ITV is continuing to plunder Talpa Media’s formats catalogue after commissioning a third major entertainment format from the Dutch production business.
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News
C5 to launch on-demand style linear channel
Channel 5 is to launch a free-air-channel inspired by its on-demand catch up service My5.
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News
Damian Collins eyes select committee chair role
Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe Damian Collins has thrown his hat into the ring to be the next chair of the chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
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Ratings
Viewers say 'I do' to Sky 1's Don't Tell The Bride
THURSDAY: The pay-tv launch of Don’t Tell the Bride doubled Sky1’s slot average while Syco and Shiver’s Jinx-style co-production The Investigator held on to much of its audience.
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News
ITV and BBC partner on disability drive
ITV is to search for more disabled actors for Emmerdale and Coronation Street, while the BBC is to ring fence 10% of apprentice opportunities for people with disabilities as part of a dual diversity drive.
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Critics
TV Critics: Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; Fleabag; Full Steam Ahead
“This moving documentary has given human faces to a camp we usually only see from the air.”
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News
Mercury Prize eyes social to win back viewers
Somethin’ Else is to produce social media content for the Mercury Prize as the annual album awards look to widen its appeal.
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Behind The Scenes
Robot Wars, BBC2
As Sir Killalot, Matilda and the rest of the Robot Wars gang prepare for their TV comeback, Olly Grant visits the giant set where the souped-up veterans will take on the next generation
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News
BBC1 orders Les Mis adaptation
BBC1 has commissioned a six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 19th century classic Les Misérables from the team behind War & Peace.
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Features
Robot Wars
Create a logo, title resolve and programme graphics for the new six-part incarnation of Robot Wars.
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Features
Sky Cinema Idents
Complete sound design on a series of idents promoting Cinema, the replacement for Sky Movies.
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News
Netflix heads to the White House with DRG deal
Netflix has acquired the UK rights to political documentary series Race for the White House after striking a deal with distributor DRG.