All Broadcast articles in 14 August 2014
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BBC Production Music launches score toolkit
BBC Production Music has launched The BBC Orchestral Toolkit to allow editors to build their own music scores.
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Ratings
Boomers underway with 4.5m
FRIDAY: BBC1’s new comedy Boomers made a solid start as the finale of Channel 5’s Big Brother fell by 500,000 from last year.
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CHARTS: Sweet return for Bake Off
Cookery contest rises to the occasion on BBC1 debut but Tumble disappoints on Saturday night
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CHARTS: WWI tribute wins for BBC2
On Monday at 9pm, BBC2’s World War 1 Remembered From Westminster Abbey netted 2.4 million/13% for two hours
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CHARTS: Cuckoo series two falls short
BBC3’s comedy Cuckoo returned after a near two-year hiatus with 654,000/3.8%
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CHARTS: Solid return for Sky 1‘s Cloth
At 9pm on Saturday, the first part of Sky 1’s A Touch Of Cloth III: Too Cloth For Comfort achieved 268,000/1.4%
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CHARTS: BBC2 unearths tunnelling hit
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway ended on 30 July 2014 with a live rating of 2.2 million/11%. After more than 240,000 recorded and watched, it ended on 2.4 million/11%.
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Nigel Farage slams Panorama Ukip special
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has angrily refused to cooperate with an upcoming BBC Panorama special about the controversial political party.
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4Music launches arcade game app
4Music has launched a classic arcade style mobile game featuring music from electronic producers including Savant, Chipzel and Rymdreglage.
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Sunset + Vine scores Spurs YouTube deal
Sunset + Vine has been appointed to relaunch Tottenham Hotspur’s YouTube channel ahead of the 2014/15 Premier League season.
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Comment
Directors take gaming to the next level
Increasingly immersive video games demand TV directors’ skills
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BBC Sport boss hails Match of the Day's diversity
BBC head of TV sport Philip Bernie has hailed the progress Match of the Day has made on diversity as the football highlights show prepares for its 50th anniversary.
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Sony completes CSC acquisition
Sony Pictures Television has completed its acquisition of CSC Media Group and its 16 UK channels.
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Mammoth lands ITV crime drama
ITV has given the greenlight to a three-part crime drama series from Endeavour-producer Mammoth Screen.
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Ratings
Brian Blessed steadies Who Do You Think You Are?
THURSDAY: BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? dominated the 9pm slot as ITV’s Kids With Cameras continued with 1.5m.
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Critics
TV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are?; Last Secrets of 9/11; The Honourable Woman
“No one booms like Brian Blessed, and in real life he’s the fruity-voiced thesp exactly as advertised.”
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Sky greenlights geek gameshow
Britain’s biggest geeks and fanatics are to appear in a new Victory Television gameshow for Sky 1.
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ITV revives Palladium variety show
ITV is to revive classic variety format Sunday Night At The Palladium after 40 years with a six part series.
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Four Rooms producer Claudia Lewis joins the BBC
Four Rooms and Young Apprentice executive producer Claudia Lewis has left Fremantle Media UK label Boundless to return to the BBC.
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Comment
Our World War gets interactive
Tim Plyming and Will Storer on BBC Learning’s experiment in immersive drama