All Broadcast articles in 29 January 2016
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Ratings
BBC1 digs up a whopper
BBC1’s Sunday dominance boosted by sizeable audience for Attenborough’s dinosaur doc
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Ratings
C5 wins Big Bro face-off
The best of Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother this week was Sunday’s 2.4 million, the second best so far after the series launch
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Ratings
Gossip hits a high for ITV2
ITV2’s brand extension Take Me Out: The Gossip hit a series high of 610,000 on Saturday at, beating episode two’s previous series best
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Ratings
Sky 1 strikes it Lucky with Lee
Fortune smiled on Sky 1’s original commission Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, which landed with 600,000/ 3% at 9pm on Friday.
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Ratings
Dickensian in slow decline
After a cracking start, BBC1’s Dickensian is showing signs that perhaps 20 episodes might be too many.
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News
DCMS eyes radical plans to devolve BBC commissioning power
The government is exploring proposals to hand BBC funding and commissioning power to other organisations to boost public service genres such as arts and children’s.
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News
Roughcut lands BBC NI chatshow
Patrick Kielty is to dig into the internet histories of celebrity guests in a chatshow format for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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News
January ratings quiz: how did they perform?
How well did January’s biggest shows perform? Test your knowledge with Broadcast’s ratings quiz
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News
MOTD chief to join Whisper Films
Channel 4-backed indie, Whisper Films, has hired the BBC’s Match of the Day chief as its head of television.
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Podcast
Talking TV: Big-name departures & Superstar Vloggers
Talking TV looks back over a fortnight of seismic change at the top of the industry including the decision to axe the role of BBC2 controller after 50 years and Peter Fincham’s departure from ITV.
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News
Tin Roof Media backs Blink
Blink Films has received financial backing from Tin Roof Media, an investment group of which Twofour founder Charles Wace is a non-exec director.
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Ratings
Jericho overhauled by Celebrity Big Brother
THURSDAY: Jericho was overhauled by Celebrity Big Brother as the ITV drama slumped to a series low.
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Critics
TV Critics: The Good Wife; The Nightmare Worlds of HG Wells; The Story of China; Death In Paradise
“If you like your TV drama diamond-hard and dressed to kill in needle-sharp stilettos, there’s nothing better.”
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News
RTS TV journalism nominations revealed
The BBC is leading the way in the RTS Television Journalism awards after picking up 20 nominations.
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News
Sky and October back US indie
Sky and October Films have invested in a US production company established by former History exec Julian Hobbs and ex-MTV chief Elli Hakami.
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Sky suffers £12m profit drop
Sky added 146,000 subscribers in final three months of 2015 but reported a £12m fall in pre-tax profits.
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James Murdoch appointed Sky chairman
James Murdoch is to return to Sky as chairman four years after he stepped down from the role.
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BBC inks £100m network deal with BT
The BBC has awarded a £100m, seven-year contract to BT to provide its broadcast network.
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Features
Robert Banks Stewart: 1931 - 2016
The Bergerac creator will be remembered for much more than casting Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Darling Buds of May.