All Broadcast articles in 21 August 2014
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Behind The Scenes
Bring Me Back To Life, Channel 4
Unlike other hospital docs, we wanted our film to focus entirely on the patient rather than the doctors and nurses. But we had no idea how personal it would become, says Graeme McAulay
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News
Doctor Who playalong quiz tests 100k
Monterosa has created a play-along Doctor Who game for BBC America that has launched with around 100,000 players.
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Ratings
CHARTS: Sky Sports 1 beats rival BT
The best football of the new season was Sky Sports 1’s Saturday coverage of Arsenal v Crystal Palace from 4.45pm
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Ratings
CHARTS: E4’s Hollyoaks rides high
E4 had the highest-rated, non-repeat homegrown show of the week: Hollyoaks on Monday at 7pm with 994,000/6%
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Ratings
CHARTS: Commandos see off Adie
C4’s Royal Marines Commando School’s solid 2 million/9% (306,000 +1) defeated BBC2’s Kate Adie’s Women Of World War One
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Ratings
CHARTS: BBC1 up as ITV takes a Tumble
Gymnastics show improves on last week as MOTD return caps a strong night for channel
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News
Moore blames social media for Generation Game mishap
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore has blamed social media for the confusion over Miranda Hart’s involvement in a revival of The Generation Game.
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Podcast
Talking TV: Edinburgh special
A special edition of Talking TV heads to the Edinburgh International Television Festival to sort through all the major themes of this year’s conference.
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News
Ben Stephenson urges industry to back BBC
BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson has called on the TV industry to get behind the corporation as it faces a “worrying time” in the run up to charter renewal.
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News
BBC3 shows to air in BBC1 peaktime
Some BBC3 shows will play in the heart of peaktime on BBC1 after the youth-skewing channel moves online, as part of a push to better serve young viewers.
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News
Tory MP: government has interfered in BBC Trust hire
Conservative MP Conor Burns had admitted the government has interfered in the appointment of the next BBC Trust chair.
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Ratings
Singer Takes It All bows out on 700k low
FRIDAY: The Singer Takes It All bowed out on Channel 4 with a low of fewer than 700,000 viewers as BBC1 pensioner sitcom Boomers dropped by 1m from last week’s debut.
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Features
Gallery: Edinburgh International Television Festival 2014
Click to view the best photos from this year’s festival.
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News
Shine opens R&D production lab
Factual entertainment indie Shine North has opened a R&D production lab in Sunderland to bolster its creative presence in the north east.
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News
Cohen: BBC in-house will hold onto hit shows
Long-running BBC in-house shows, such as EastEnders and Top Gear, will not be put out for tender as part of plans to scrap quotas and free-up internal producers to pitch to all broadcasters.
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News
Bryan Elsley & Tony Jordan: writers need to grow up
Leading drama writers have called on their peers to “grow up” and take more responsibility for the production of their shows as high-end series increasingly adopt a US showrunner–style model.
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News
Audio Network promotes Tebbs to expanded TV role
Music company Audio Network has promoted head of creative and sync Lina Tebbs to the expanded role of head of TV, Europe, which now includes the Nordics.
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News
BBC to relaunch e-commissioning system
Danny Cohen has revealed that the BBC will relaunch its e-commissioning system this autumn as he bemoaned the corporation’s commissioning performance.
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News
Darlow Smithson travels to Victorian workhouse for BBC1
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore is keen to introduce new angles to the channel’s factual programming, kicking off with a series focusing on the poorest members of Victorian society.
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News
C5 set to renew Big Brother
Channel 5 has fought off interest from rival broadcasters to renew its deal to air Big Brother and its celebrity spin-off.