All Broadcast articles in 23 January 2014
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Features
Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics
Picture and audio post for a documentary about the Winter Olympic Games
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Features
An Island Parish
Picture and audio post-production on series eight of the show about life on the island of Sark
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Ratings
BBC has its time in the Sun
When I was a humble ratings estimator, an agitated sales exec asked why I’d rated so highly a drama that had yet to air. “Because it’s on in January and it’s got the word ‘summer’ in the title,” I blurted. To my relief, it was believed.
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Ratings
C4 reaps the Benefits
The year is now well under way and the schedules are beginning to take shape. Returning code-crackers got off to a decent start for ITV, while a British children’s classic has been given a youthful American rubdown for E4.
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Ratings
Tidy result for Dave
Amid mobs and all the excesses that Babylon has come to represent, only outdone by modern day football, the appeal of two young lovers from Essex and South Wales continues unabated, with a whole series splurged out at once for avid fans.
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Ratings
Geeks help out E4 cops
E4’s geeky boffins have competition from a cop whose new boss wants less fun and more criminal capturing. Meanwhile, over on BBC4, Britain’s oldest butcher did rather nicely.
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Ratings
Bun fight fails Benefits test
Last year, there was a Twitter-based hoo-ha about one of the Bake-Off finalists. It was largely ludicrous, if unpleasant for the baker involved, but creator Love Productions probably felt that as controversies go, it was manageable.
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News
Smith to lead AmberFin's EMEA sales
AmberFin has appointed Adrian Smith as vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).
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Features
The Musketeers
Picture post services for the 10 x 60-minute adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel
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Features
Ross Kemp: Extreme World
Picture and audio post-production for the third run of the 6 x 60-minute Sky 1 factual series
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News
BBC technology boss John Linwood sacked
The BBC has revealed that John Linwood, the technology boss that oversaw the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco, was formally relieved of his duties in July last year.
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Comment
Filming Davos
Bloomberg Television reveals how it is bringing the World Economic Forum to life
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News
Leopard Films beefs up US division
Leopard Films is beefing up its US division with the hire of Rex Vigil from Welsh indie Wild Dream Films.
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Critics
TV Critics: Silent Witness; Restoration Home; World’s Worst Holiday Horrors; My Kitchen Rules; Benidorm; Ghost Adventures
“All good series come to an end eventually and it can’t be long before a BBC commissioning editor calls time on this one.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Ratings
Benidorm takes the honours for ITV
ITV’s Benidorm pipped BBC1’s Silent Witness to the post on Thursday evening - as Birds of a Feather continued to soar.
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News
Fox lands John de Mol's Utopia
Simon Andreae has bought John de Mol’s new social experiment format Utopia as his first major deal for Fox.
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News
HBO culls Family Tree and Hello Ladies
HBO has cancelled BBC coproduction Family Tree and Stephen Merchant’s Hello Ladies but is expected to renew the US remake of Getting On.
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News
London Live cues up late-night strand
London Live has revealed a raft of late-night commissions and acquisitions with an urban theme, from emerging production businesses.