All Broadcast articles in 4 March 2016
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Ratings
Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 22 - 28 Feb 2016
On Sunday at 7pm, Sky 1’s Dogs Might Fly struggled to take off with an audience of 224,000
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Ratings
Top 15 consolidated shows: 15 - 21 Feb 2016
BBC1’s adaptation of The Night Manager consolidated to 8.3 million after 2.2 million recorded and watched, only fractionally behind War And Peace’s opener
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News
BBC World Service experiments with chat apps
The BBC World Service will launch two pilots this weekend distributing content via messaging apps Viber and WhatsApp.
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News
In brief: Vice; Albert; Animation Exchange; National Apprenticeship Week
Vice UK is hunting filmmakers to compete to win a £25,000 commission, while sustainability thinktank Albert is establishing a a renewable energy collective. Click for more.
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Ratings
Too few viewers for Too Much TV
THURSDAY: BBC2’s new live teatime show Too Much TV wobbled in its first week, as the second series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive failed to match last year’s opener.
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Video
VIDEO: Doctor Thorne, ITV
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel
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News
Playground options Guardian reporter's refugee drama
Colin Callender’s drama indie Playground is developing a refugee drama based on a book by Guardian journalist Patrick Kingsley.
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News
ITVS to make The Voice from 2017
ITV Studios will take on the production contract for The Voice UK when the Talpa Media singing format moves to ITV next year, Broadcast can reveal.
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Behind The Scenes
Get Me To The Church, W
Finding six courageous couples willing to risk missing their own wedding was hard enough, but the friends they took with them had to be dynamite on camera too, says Sarah Veevers
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News
ITV uncorks wine format
ITV has acquired glossy lifestyle series The Wine Show from Infinity Creative Media, the indie chaired by Conservative grandee Lord Grade.
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Features
Her Story: the Female Revolution, BBC World News
Films of Records’s Neil Grant on partnering with advertising agency JWT Entertainment.
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News
C4 hires fact-ent commissioner
Danny Carvalho is to become a commissioning editor for factual entertainment at Channel 4.
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News
Channel 4 leads RTS nominations
Channel 4 has secured more nominations than any other channel in the Royal Television Programme Awards, including all three nominations in the single drama category.
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News
British Film Commission partners with Broadcast on rebranded Location UK
The British Film Commission (BFC) has partnered with Broadcast’s parent company Media Business Insight (MBI) to deliver its rebranded guide to the UK’s talent, facilities and locations available to the film and television industries.
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News
Greg Dyke appointed to BAFTA TV role
Former BFI chairman succeeds Sophie Turner Laing in the role as vice president for television.
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News
Murphy joins Rapid Pictures
West London post facility Rapid Pictures has appointed Charlotte Murphy as client account manager.
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Ratings
ITV's Granchester returns confidently
WEDNESDAY: ITV drama Grantchester won the 9pm slot despite returning half a million behind its first ever episode.