All Broadcast articles in 22 January 2016
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Ratings
Top 15 consolidated shows: 4 - 10 Jan 2016
Viewers made their choices from the crop of new and returning stuff, and a goodly number of them favoured the familiar.
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Ratings
Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 11 - 17 Jan 2016
The second best sport rating this week was Dave’s foray into boxing with 1.3 million on Saturday at 9pm for David Haye V Mark de Mori.
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 11 - 17 Jan 2015
The Saturday repeat of ITV’s Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands drew 200,000, after last week’s episode one repeat mustered 500,000
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 11 - 17 Jan 2016
On Monday, 2 million sought the answer on Channel 4’s How To Lose Weight Well - a strong performance but still behind BBC2’s brainy duo of University Challenge and Only Connect
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Ratings
Top 100 network programmes: 11 - 17 Jan 2016
BBC1’s new carbased gameshow fails to overtake ITV rival in the race for Saturday viewers
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News
BBC3 comedy trails prepare viewers for online move
BBC3 is to flag up its move online to viewers for the first time via a marketing campaign featuring the likes of People Just Do Nothing’s Chabuddy G and Steves.
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Behind The Scenes
The Day Hitler Died, ITV
A treasure trove of archive interviews was the key to unlocking our Hitler doc. The next step was to rebuild his bunker, says Sue Summers
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News
Battle of the bongs: how news ratings are shaping up
With the relaunch of ITV News at Ten and the BBC’s extension of its flagship bulletin, there has rarely been so much scrutiny on the performance of TV news. Broadcast attempts to separate fact from fiction in a rundown of the way in which the changes are shaping up.
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News
Lightbox lands LA riots anniversary doc
Channel 4-backed indie Lightbox is to mark the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots with a feature-length documentary for National Geographic Channel.
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News
Janice Hadlow to exit BBC after 30 years
Former BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow will become the latest high-profile executive to step down, as she prepares to leave after a near 30-year career at the BBC.
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News
Broadcast Indie Survey - open for entries
Entries have now opened for this year’s annual Broadcast Indie Survey.
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News
BBC2 explores East End poverty
Wall to Wall will transform a corner of London’s East End into a Victorian slum for a living history experiment to air on BBC2 towards the end of the year.
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News
Shakespeare to get Philomena Cunk treatment
Weekly Wipe’s Philomena Cunk will provide a ‘comprehensive’ guide to the life and work of William Shakespeare in a 30-minute show for BBC2.
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Ratings
2015 consolidated ratings analysis
BBC1 and C4 were the only PSB channels to increase share in a year when overall viewing fell, with the likes of Poldark and Humans hitting the mark with viewers.
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Ratings
BBC2's China season off to a slow start
THURSDAY: BBC2’s China season did not bring particularly good fortune to the channel, as Jericho continued to suffer on ITV.
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Ratings
Top 10 shows of 2015: by genre
Downton Abbey, Britain’s Got Talent and The Great British Bake Off ride high in our breakdown of the year’s biggest shows - by genre.
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News
BBC comedy hit by second exit
The BBC’s in-house comedy unit has suffered its second departure of the week – after it emerged executive producer Ben Farrell is returning to Objective Productions.
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Critics
TV Critics: The Story of China; Date My Mum; Jericho
“This was one occasion when, rather than an expert, we needed a holidaying comedian to present the show.”
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News
Sky News facing Gherkin exit
Sky News could be forced to leave its studio in London’s Gherkin after the landlord began weighing up plans to rent out the space.
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News
Whittingdale pledges to preserve C4 remit
Channel 4’s public service remit will be preserved should the broadcaster be sold, culture secretary John Whittingdale has promised.