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  • Broadcast Greenlight

    The results of the Indie Survey 2012

The Bill:

ITV returns to scene of The Bill

24-May-2012 | By

ITV1’s first daytime drama in nearly four years will be an innovative police procedural from the indie and key creatives behind The Bill.

Sarah Mulvey

Sarah Mulvey took her own life, inquest finds

24-May-2012 | By

The “bright and articulate” former Channel 4 commissioner Sarah Mulvey killed herself with an overdose of opiate toxicity, the coroner hearing the inquest into her death has found.

Bumps, Babies and Beyond

Yahoo! has £1m for VoD series

24-May-2012 | By

GroupM Entertainment is to invest more than £1m in original digital video content in partnership with online portal Yahoo!.

Derren Brown

Objective magics up first order from Discovery

24-May-2012 | By

Objective Productions, known for producing illusionist Derren Brown’s shows, has won its first order from Discovery Networks International to make a global series which combines magic with science.

Albury

Albury steps down from RTS

24-May-2012 | By

Royal Television Society chief executive Simon Albury is stepping down after 12 years.

Lewis

Lewis continues slide

24-May-2012 | By

WEDNESDAY: ITV1’s crime drama Lewis sunk to a new record low, as a double firing on The Apprentice helped it to its biggest ratings in three weeks.

Catch Phrase

ITV eyes Catch Phrase revival

24-May-2012 | By

ITV is in talks to bring back classic gameshow Catch Phrase for the first time in 10 years as it seeks to continue a strategy of reviving successful formats.

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TOWIE towers with 920k

24-May-2012 | By

WEDNESDAY: The Only Way is Essex drew one of its biggest audiences of the series and beat all-comers in the 10pm slot.

Total Wipeout

Hammond to front Saturday night prank show

24-May-2012 | By

BBC1 is lining up Richard Hammond to head a team of actors and comedians who will play pranks on members of the public for the Saturday night slot vacated by Total Wipeout.

Only Connect

Zodiak reviews future of Only Connect indie

24-May-2012 | By

The future of Only Connect producer Presentable hangs in the balance as parent company Zodiak Media assesses its viability.

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BBC2 follows Tube hit with spotlight on Planners

24-May-2012 | By

BBC2 is looking to follow the success of ob doc series The Tube with an eight-parter lifting the lid on life as a council planning officer.

Box Nation

Warren in talks to roll out Box Nation internationally

24-May-2012 | By

Boxing manager and promoter Frank Warren is planning to roll out his recently established subscription channel Box Nation internationally as it approaches 100,000 UK subscribers.

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Peretti probes obesity for BBC2

24-May-2012 | By Ben Dowell

BBC2 has greenlit a 3 x 60-minute Jacques Peretti documentary series for Fresh One investigating the history of obesity.

Strangeways

Steve Hewlett sets up indie Genie Pictures

24-May-2012 | By

Former Panorama editor and media commentator Steve Hewlett has set up an independent production company with director James Cohen.

Emergency Bikers

BBC 999 Awards to challenge ITV’s Pride of Britain

24-May-2012 | By

BBC1 is poised to celebrate the heroics of the UK’s emergency services in a special awards ceremony that will rival ITV1’s Pride of Britain Awards.

Panel

TV Fast Train: A springboard to learning

By Ben Dowell

Celebrating the third annual Fast Train event, TV executives, commissioners and creative talents gathered at White City to reconnect with the value of training.

MORE ANALYSES

Alison Sharman

Alison Sharman, factual and daytime, ITV

ITV’s director of factual and daytime talks to Jake Kanter about reining in celebrity travelogues, the downfall of Daybreak and why these are the ‘most exciting times’ to be at the broadcaster.

MORE INTERVIEWS

Selfridges

Off Cuts: Shopping and fussing

Commissioners love to greenlight writers’ “passion projects” but something tells us ITV1’s Mr Selfridge is a different proposition.

MORE OFF CUTS

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