All Broadcast articles in 25 September 2014
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FeaturesNewsround Rebrand
Design and develop new titles and branding for Newsround that are fresh and engaging while reflectingthat it’s a children’s news service on CBBC.
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FeaturesRamsay's Costa Del Nightmares
Provide the online, audio dub and colour grade on the 4 x 60-minute series in which celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay visits Spain and France to help expats with their failing restaurants.
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FeaturesThe Furchester Hotel
Create the opening titles, hotel exteriors and in-show song sequences for a new 52 x 11-minute pre-school series about a hotel run by puppet monsters.
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NewsSophie Turner Laing to run Shine & Endemol merged group
BSkyB’s former managing director of content Sophie Turner Laing is set to get the top job at the merged Shine, Endemol and Core Media group, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsArts Council boss lands Radio 3 role
Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey has been named controller of BBC Radio 3.
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NewsVera producer joins new BBC drama team
Vera and Shetland producer Elaine Collins has left ITV Studios to join the BBC as part of a new team created by BBC Scotland’s head of drama Christopher Aird.
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NewsFight Club director David Fincher backs TV
Fight Club director David Fincher has claimed that TV has the edge over films when it comes to developing characters.
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NewsYouView appoints Thexton as CTO
YouView has appointed Nick Thexton to the role of chief technology officer.
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RatingsMarvellous scores 1.5m
THURSDAY: Peter Bowker’s BBC2 musical biopic Marvellous entertained 1.5m viewers – in line with Channel 4’s Educating the East End.
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NewsE4 to tackle nation's worst tattoos
E4 is to attempt to fix the nation’s worst tattoo disasters in a one-off doc from Studio Lambert.
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NewsBBC3 docs boss to lead current affairs
BBC3 docs boss Fiona Campbell is to become the corporation’s head of current affairs as news chief James Harding reshuffles his top team.
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NewsCBeebies picks up Tee and Mo
CBeebies has extended a deal with Plug-in Media to transform its online animation Tee and Mo into a 50-part TV series.
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CriticsTV Critics: Marvellous; Your Home in their Hands; Jungle Atlantis
“An hour-and-a-half spent watching that was as good as a week’s holiday.”
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NewsSky scores NFL Monday Night Football rights
Sky Sports has picked up the rights to NFL Monday Night Football as part of a five-year agreement kicking off in 2015.
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NewsMatthew Price takes senior Today reporting brief
Radio 4’s Today programme is to appoint its first full-time chief reporter in a bid to give its domestic news a more consistent voice.
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RatingsX-Factor’s still top dog – just
BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off finished just 85,000 behind ITV’s Saturday edition of The X Factor on 10.2 million/43%; the biggest show of the week
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RatingsCHARTS: Tasty Leftovers for Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic’s new US drama The Leftovers launched on Tuesday at 9pm to 231,000/1%
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RatingsCHARTS: An Education in repeats
On Tuesday at 10pm, BBC3’s Bad Education returned for a third series with 762,000/5%
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC2’s slice of success
On Friday at 9pm, BBC2’s The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice achieved its best rating so far (2.6 million/13%) for half an hour.
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RatingsCHARTS: Cilla and Downton on song
ITV’s biopic of the Liverpudlian singer and the return of the Crawleys give broadcaster the edge