All Broadcast articles in 5 March 2015
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NewsFocal Awards shortlist revealed
BBC2 50th anniversary quiz All About Two and BT Sport documentary An Ordinary Hero are among the programmes and films shortlisted for this year’s Focal International Awards.
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NewsTektronix expands file-based AQC line-up
Tektronix has expanded its file-based content analysis portfolio to include Aurora, an automated file-based QC product.
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NewsDTG warns against 4K "exaggeration"
The Digital TV Group (DTG) has warned against over-promising the 4K experience after DSG Retail was rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for its Currys PC World ad for 4K TVs.
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NewsLBC presenter handed ITV series
LBC Radio presenter James O’Brien has signed up to front a topical debate show for ITV Daytime in the run up to the election.
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NewsBroadcasters stand firm on leaders’ debates
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have held firm on their original plans for the proposed election debates – raising the possibility of prime minister David Cameron being empty-chaired if he fails to participate.
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RatingsTop 15 consolidated shows: 16 - 22 Feb 2015
The best of the BBC1 soap’s 30th anniversary week was the 9.30pm episode on Thursday 19th
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RatingsBanished locks up slot with 3.4m
THURSDAY: BBC2 period drama Banished won the 9pm slot but just fell short of Wolf Hall’s debut audience in January.
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RatingsTop 50 Non-PSB shows: 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2015
After last week’s surge, Sky Atlantic’s fifth episode of Fortitude slipped back to 336,000/2%
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel programmes: 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2015
BBC4 enhanced BBC2’s drama offering with a conveniently scheduled doc.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2015
On Sunday at 8pm, BBC2’s Top Gear drew 5.4 million/21%, defeating both ITV’s All Star Family Fortunes and C4’s The Auction House.
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RatingsTop 100 network programmes: 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2015
Call The Midwife delivers; Now in its fourth series, the BBC drama defeated all-comers as 8 million viewers tuned in
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: Gogglebox
Click to see the consolidated success of the fifth series opener of Channel 4’s TV-watching format.
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NewsShed of the Year returns to C4
Channel 4 is to extend its coverage of the annual Shed of the Year contest with a four-part recommission for Plum Pictures.
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CriticsTV Critics: Banished; The Nation's Favourite 70s Number One; The Supervet
“Elements of the story verged on the sentimental. Others felt like they belonged in a Seventies Bond film”
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NewsGomorrah lands second series
Filming on the second series of acclaimed Sky Italia crime-drama Gomorrah is due to get underway in Naples next month.
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CommentITV is wrong to blame BBC for ratings woes
Jake Kanter dissects Adam Crozier’s claims the BBC is the source of ITV’s ratings slump.
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PodcastTalking TV: BBC Trust future & Sky's Wild Things
Talking TV walks you through a busy fortnight of news, providing an analysis of Rona Fairhead’s speech on the future of the BBC Trust and unpicking ITV’s Talpa takeover bid.
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NewsBBC acquires female aviator film
BBC4 has acquired a film that will follow a female pilot’s mission to fly from Cape Town to London.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: Broadchurch
Click to see how the second series of the Kudos drama compared with its 2013 debut.
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NewsThat's TV takes controlling stake in Manchester TV
That’s TV has swooped to take a controlling stake in the local TV licences for Manchester and Blackpool and Preston following the failure of rival operator YourTV to get the channels on-air.