All Broadcast articles in 27 January 2017
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News
Envy wins Best Post House award for record sixth time
Envy scooped the Best Post Production House award on Wednesday evening, making it the most decorated post firm in the history of the Broadcast Awards.
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Boutique facility Lucky Cat expands Soho operations
Boutique Soho post facility Lucky Cat has expanded, taking 1,200 sq ft in a building next door to its original Poland Street base.
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Podcast
Talking TV: Sky / Discovery carriage wars & Rocket Ronnie
The latest edition of Talking TV delves into the ongoing war between Sky and Discovery over carriage fees and picks over the sale of Channel 4’s Growth Fund indie True North.
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Princess inks Rimmel deal
Princess Productions has forged a deal with make-up brand Rimmel to launch an online series featuring 12 of YouTube’s biggest beauty influencers.
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Loose takes CTO role at Wazee Digital
Cloud-based video management and licensing services firm Wazee Digital has promoted Greg Loose to the role of chief technology officer.
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Broadcast's Pick of the Week
The Great Pottery Throw Down and Tracey Ullman return in new slots next week, as ITV sends Robson Green on its latest travelogue.
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ITV unveils pricing for pay-per-view venture
ITV is to charge £9.95 to watch Chris Eubank Jr’s forthcoming super middleweight title bout via its forthcoming pay-per-view service.
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Fledgling indie scores Tough Mudder Sky show
Sky Sports has commissioned fledgling indie Wilson Worldwide Productions to follow British Olympians as they compete in a selection of Tough Mudder challenges.
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Ratings
Sherlock slips to series low
The last episode of BBC1’s latest Sherlock triptych achieved its lowest overnight to date.
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News
Positive return for Salvage Hunters
There must be quite a lot of salvage still around as Quest’s Salvage Hunters returned on Wednesday with pleasing results. Elsewhere, Gold’s comedians-watching-comedy show – a sort of Gigglebox – failed to strike a resounding chord.
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Ratings
BBC4 enjoys trip below
BBC4’s two-part series Britain Beneath Your Feet began on Tuesday at 9pm with 660,000/3%, the channel’s best of the week;
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C5 ads to target Sky homes
Channel 5 has become the first terrestrial broadcaster to join Sky’s targeted advertising platform AdSmart.
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Ratings
A+E to the rescue for C4
C4’s hospital factual drew 2 million viewers last Tuesday, defeating CBB’s 1.8 million.
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Midwife delivers for BBC1
Period drama tops the table on its return despite attracting its lowest overnight launch audience yet
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Realscreen: entertainment and politics dominate DC
Realscreen Summit was marked by the issue of indie sustainability and discussion of how the stormy political climate would impact unscripted television.
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Ratings
Fortitude slips for Sky
THURSDAY: Arctic drama Fortitude returned to Sky Atlantic with less than half of the audience who tuned in for the series one debut.
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News
Rugby League World Cup to remain on BBC
The BBC has retained the rights to the next Rugby League World Cup ahead of this year’s tournament.
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Emerging writer join Dancing Ledge
Dancing Ledge Productions has awarded its second writer in residence bursary after receiving submissions from over 150 writers.