All Broadcast articles in 27 February 2014
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NewsBBC Worldwide plots African focus
BBC Worldwide is to beef up its business across Africa after appointing European channels exec Joel Churcher to head the division.
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NewsThe Kumars remade in Turkey
The Kumars are heading to Turkey after a local broadcaster struck a deal with Hat Trick International to remake the resurrected comedy.
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NewsC5 orders three crime docs
Channel 5 has commissioned three crime docs from Twofour, Title Role and Crackit Productions.
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NewsBBC to open Top Gear talks
The BBC is poised to open talks with hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May over another long-term deal for Top Gear.
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NewsC4 hunts for Ultimate Dealer
Channel 4 is searching for the ultimate wheeler dealer with its latest commission, a 15-part daytime series from IWC Media.
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PodcastTalking TV: Top Gear & Ripper Street
It’s destination Top Gear on the Talking TV podcast as executive producer Andy Wilman drops in to discuss the BBC2 motoring show.
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NewsSky drops BBC retransmission fees
Sky is to drop the retransmission fees it charges the BBC and ITV after agreeing fresh terms with both broadcasters.
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NewsMatt Lucas indie makes senior hires
The Voice UK production executive Roz Pound and Maverick Television development executive Phil Tredinnick have been hired by Matt Lucas’ John Stanley Productions.
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NewsRadio 4 leads BPG nominations
BBC Radio 4 has dominated the 40th Broadcasting Press Guild Awards with four nominations for best radio programme.
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NewsNFTS 2014 gala to focus on diversity
The National Film and Television School’s 2014 fundraising Gala will attempt to improve diversity in the film, TV and gaming industries.
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RatingsSky 1’s Stella holds steady
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando’s bad boy Stanley stands at the foot of the steamy New Orleans apartment’s stairs and screams “Hey Stella!”. Stella’s languid descent ends in a slightly sweaty tryst; Romeo and Juliet it ain’t.
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RatingsLow launch for Moone Boy
As a nipper, I lived opposite Cardiff City striker and local hero Johnny Vincent, and then in Northampton in the same street as cricketing wizard Mushtaq Mohammad. So when Sky 1’s Moones stumbled across Irish World Cup hero Patrick ‘Packie’ Bonner’s house while on holiday, I understood.
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RatingsKnox doubles with repeats
One day in 1989, I came home to my shabby flat and even shabbier flatmates to be confronted with the sight of a gently listing bin spewing its contents, mostly the previous night’s curry, across the living room floor.
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RatingsThe Taste falls to new low
The sliding-about-a-lot has ended and GB won four medals, the best return since 1924; the year Mallory and Irving were lost trying to ascend Everest for the first time.
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NewsITV buys Danish indie United
ITV has acquired Danish indie United as it continues to snap up global production companies.
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RatingsInspector George Gently ends on high
Inspector George Gently bowed out on a series high, locking out competition from the drama at White Hart Lane on ITV.
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NewsDixon departs RTE for BBCW
George Dixon is to join BBC Worldwide to oversee commissioning across its international channels after leaving Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.
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CriticsTV Critics: Bluestone 42; Storyville; The Storms That Stole Christmas
“The banter is caustic, the cameraderie is palpable and the slapstick is explosive.”
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NewsBBC signs Agatha Christie deal
The BBC has signed a deal with the Agatha Christie estate to return the author to the “pantheon of truly great British writers” on the 125th anniversary of her birth through a range of new dramas.
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RatingsBrits not a hit with viewers
Where was the parent-jarring madness? Gone, it seems, are the days of rock stars mooning or machine-gunning on the Brit Awards stage, or an anarchist band hurling water over the deputy prime minister.