All Broadcast articles in 17 July 2014
View all stories from this issue.
-
FeaturesCommonwealth Games 2014
Reflect the fierce competition between nations and athletes’ world-class sporting prowess
-
-
FeaturesThis Old Thing
Provide picture and audio post services for the Channel 4 show about shopping for vintage clothes
-
NewsBBC pay strike cancelled
A planned strike for BBC workers on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games in July has been cancelled following a successful union negotiations with management today.
-
RatingsCHARTS: BBC takes World Cup final glory
BBC1 beats rival ITV 4-1 in ratings terms as broadcasters go head-to-head for first time in Brazil
-
RatingsCHARTS: C5’s OAPs kick up a storm
On Thursday at 9pm, C5’s OAPs Behaving Badly performed strongly with 1.7 million
-
RatingsCHARTS: 100 scores best ever E4 launch
E4’s latest US import, sci-fi series The 100, launched with an epic 1.7 million
-
RatingsCHARTS: Dave’s Storage packs them in
This week, more than half of the top 50 programmes were Dave’s Storage Hunters
-
RatingsITV produces the goods
ITV’s trip to Old Bond Street with Inside Asprey: Luxury By Royal Appointment served the channel well on Thursday 3 July with a live rating of 3.1 million/15%.
-
NewsFremantle promotes Chris O'Dell
Fremantle Media has promoted Chris O’Dell to head of global entertainment production.
-
NewsOfcom names Hollyoaks most violent soap
Emmerdale and Hollyoaks have become more violent over the past ten years, but Eastenders has slashed its violent content according to an Ofcom report.
-
NewsMicrosoft to shut Xbox Entertainment Studios
Microsoft is to close its TV production arm Xbox Entertainment Studios responsible for its Halo series and forthcoming Kudos-coproduced Channel 4 drama Humans.
-
NewsC4 orders fast turnaround on flight MH17 tragedy
Channel 4 has commissioned a fast turnaround Dispatches investigating the tragedy of the Malaysia-bound flight shot down in Ukraine.
-
NewsRobert Marsh to chair BCMA
Former Zodiak Active and Fremantle Media exec Robert Marsh has been hired as global chairman for the Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA).
-
NewsSewing Bee heads to Denmark's TV2
Denmark has caught the sewing bug after broadcaster TV2 ordered a local version of Love Productions’ The Great British Sewing Bee.
-
RatingsPosh nannies reach 2m
THURSDAY: ITV’s documentary about Britain’s Poshest Nannies could only muster half the channel’s slot average as Celebrity Masterchef drew its best audience of the series.
-
NewsAmazon to remake Mad Dogs
Left Bank Pictures is to remake Sky 1 drama Mad Dogs for video-on-demand service Amazon.
-
NewsSky Living ob-doc tracks billionaires
The lifestyles of the rich and famous are to be explored by Remy Blumenfeld’s indie Thinking Violets in an ob-doc series for Sky Living.
-
CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Poshest Nannies; Horizon: What's Wrong With our Weather?; The Great Big Romanian Invasion
“Britain’s Poshest Nannies was like the introduction to a good documentary, with its juicier second part missing.”
-
NewsC4 launches Singer Takes It All app
Channel 4 has launched the playalong app for its forthcoming entertainment format The Singer Takes It All ahead of the show’s August debut.