All Broadcast articles in 8 July 2016
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News
VR headset sales to hit 14.5m in 2016
Sales of smartphone VR devices such as Google’s Cardboard and Samsung’s Gear VR headset will reach 14.5m this year, according to a forecast by CCS Insight.
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Ratings
Top 100 network programmes: 27 June - 3 Jul 2016
Home nation’s defeat to minnows Iceland draws 11 million as Euro 2016 again dominates the table
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 27 June - 3 July 2016
The final episode of Top Gear on Sunday - and, it turns out, also Chris Evans’ last episode - was watched by just 1.9 million/ 9%
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 27 June - 3 July 2016
Tabloid coverage of the naughty goings-on on ITV2’s Love Island helped Tuesday’s episode reach 1.2 million/6%
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Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 27 June - 3 July 2016
The final episode of Sky Atlantic’s latest series of Game Of Thrones drew 682,000/3% in its Monday 9pm slot
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Top 15 consolidated shows: 20 - 26 Jun 2016
The most recorded show this week was BBC1’s swashbuckling drama The Musketeers on Monday at 9pm.
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Behind The Scenes
A Very Sicilian Justice, Al Jazeera
Court restrictions, bomb threats and intense security challenged our attempt to tell the story of the judge who took on the mafia, says Paul Sapin
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Podcast
Talking TV: the highlights part 1
In the first of two special highlights episodes, Talking TV revisits interviews with former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman, No Offence exec Martin Carr and Murdered By My Father’s Aysha Raphael.
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Liz Warner launches blistering attack on TV
TV has become “old and boring” and regurgitates “risk-averse, culturally bland programming”, according to Betty founder Liz Warner.
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Hat Trick plots Brexageddon satire for BBC2
The Hat Trick team responsible for BBC3’s The Revolution Will Be Televised is to produce a fast-turnaround satirical comedy for BBC2 reacting to the Brexit fallout.
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CBeebies prepares dedicated games app
CBeebies is to launch a third app to host HTML5 games previously only available via the channel’s website.
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Dating in the Dark heads to ITV2
Dating In The Dark, the Talpa format which ran for three series on Sky Living, has been picked up by ITV2.
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Features
Just Call Me Martina
Provide remote offline editing facilities followed by complete picture and audio finishing on a 1 x 60-minute doc about tennis legend and gay rights campaigner Martina Navratilova.
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Ratings
Euro 2016: ITV semi-final outscores BBC
THURSDAY: BBC1’s second Euro 2016 semi-final between France and Germany was down by over 4m viewers compared with ITV’s match featuring Wales.
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Features
Educating Joey Essex
House the offline and complete full post on the travel show in which the reality TV star bids to fill gaps in his knowledge.
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Features
The Living and The Dead
Provide picture post on the 6 x 60-minute supernatural period drama.
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News
Avid releases updates based on Orad technology
Avid has updated two graphics products based on technology it absorbed as part of its acquisition of Orad last year.
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CTBF and Big Talk launch emerging writer scheme
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF) has teamed up with Big Talk Productions and the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival to launch a major emerging writers scheme.
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BBC lines up Bake Off Christmas special
Previous contestants from The Great British Bake Off are to return to the tent for a BBC1 Christmas special.
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Working Title hires ex C4 drama development boss
Channel 4’s former head of drama development Surian Fletcher-Jones is to join Working Title Television UK as head of development.