All Broadcast articles in 24 April 2014
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RatingsITV hits high note with BGT
There’s no stopping the singing, dancing and juggling (or all three) talent show.
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RatingsSlim pickings for Mad Men
It’s about slightly awkward headwear, faraway places, high politics, a whiff of debauchery, existential despair and massive swords swishing metaphorically, and sometimes literally, about the place.
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RatingsParking problem for ITV
Having made it through the neverending rain with the increasingly panicky impression that January might not actually have ended, the spring bewilders us with a sudden phalanx of bank holidays showering themselves upon our pasty, sun-starved faces and the chance to watch a Bond movie or six.
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RatingsBees create a buzz for BBC4
Winnie the Pooh, not one of literature’s great thinkers, was nonetheless prepared to gamble everything if honey was involved, as illustrated by the whole bees/tree/balloon fiasco of legend.
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RatingsBBC2 sows the seeds of a hit
Get out the cloche, pull up the radish, snip the beans and sweep the duckboards – the latest craft to master has arrived.
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PodcastTalking TV: Good Morning Britain & Sarah Phelps
The latest edition of Talking TV looks ahead to the launch of Good Morning Britain and The Crimson Field’s Sarah Phelps reveals why writing primetime drama for BBC1 is a politicised process.
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NewsBBC and ITV aim to resolve pay row
The BBC and ITV will attempt to resolve a long-running pay dispute with specialist drama production crew after Bectu threatened to disrupt work on some of the UK’s biggest shows.
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VideoVIDEO: Gravity Road short films released
Click to view the winners of Bombay Sapphire’s short-film competition - produced by Gravity Road after five winners were selected from 1,300 entries.
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NewsC4, Twitter & YouTube to reveal digital strategies at Media Summit
Industry leaders from businesses including ITV, Channel 4, Twitter and YouTube are to outline their digital strategies at Broadcast’s Media Summit.
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NewsBBC Proms push includes iPlayer feature
The BBC has promised to make a record amount of Proms content available online this year, including the launch of a special iPlayer feature.
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CriticsTV Critics: Trying Again; A Family Of My Own; Protecting Our Parents; Kevin’s Supersized Salvage
“The script fizzed with wordplay and pop culture references.”
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RatingsITV’s Family of My Own draws 2.3m
Wanted: A Family of My Own, ITV’s latest factual format from Long Lost Family producer Wall to Wall Television, failed to locate a big audience on Thursday.
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NewsVision Mixers Guild holds annual roadshow
The Vision Mixers Guild will hold its fourth annual roadshow at Sky Studios next week.
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NewsDeluxe invests in compliance kit to meet DPP deadline
Deluxe Media Europe (DME) has spent almost £100,000 on compliance equipment in readiness for the Digital Production Partnership- led October deadline for the file-based delivery of programmes.
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NewsElstree nears completion of mound clearance
The development of additional studio space at Elstree Studios is edging closer as levelling works of a four-acre site at the facility near completion.
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Arqiva upscales Community Channel for HD service
The Community Channel has launched a 24-hour HD service on Freeview channel 109, using Arqiva’s new DTT upscaling technology to turn its standard-definition feed into 1080i.
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NewsBroadcast firms win Queen's Award for Enterprise
VFX firm Axis and Adder Technology were among the companies to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
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NewsIonoco provides stage tech for ITV quiz
An Ionoco stage-control system is being used for ITV’s new daytime quiz show Ejector Seat.
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NewsMaxon links with Side Effects for 4D plug-in
3D software firm Maxon is to partner with Side Effects Software to develop a plug-in that will give Cinema 4D (below) users access to the Houdini Engine.
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NewsBroadcast Text rebrands
Access services firm Broadcast Text International has rebranded as BTI Studios.