All Broadcast articles in 7 October 2016
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News
Robot Wars returns to BBC2
Menacing robots charged with crushing, sawing and scorching their opponents will return to BBC2 after Mentorn Scotland’s Robot Wars was renewed for another series.
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Comment
The changing role of the broadcast engineer
Broadcast engineers are no longer just boffins who configure kit, says John Maxwell Hobbs.
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News
UKTV's W buys property formats from Cineflix Rights
Cineflix Rights has sold more than 200 hours of lifestyle and crime programming to UKTV, Sky and CBS Reality.
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Behind The Scenes
Reggie Yates: Life and Death in Chicago, BBC3
Online shorts perfectly supported a Reggie Yates doc on gun crime in Chicago, writes Dov Freedman
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News
C4 to name the best place to live in the UK
Channel 4 has tasked Outline Productions with identifying the best places to live and work in the UK in a one-off doc that will air next spring.
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News
Walter Presents eyes factual move
Foreign-language drama service Walter Presents is planning to move into factual programming nine months after its launch.
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News
GroupM Entertainment turnover grows by 20%
Group M Entertainment (GME) grew its revenue by more than £5m in 2015, although profits at the WPP-owned firm dipped slightly.
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Ratings
Victoria closes with 5.5m
WEEKEND: Victoria came to a close 300,000 ahead of ITV’s slot average and up on BBC1’s Poldark, which continued with 4.9m
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News
Sky Living acquires procedural Conviction
Sky Living has picked up investigative procedural Conviction from Entertainment One ahead of Mipcom.
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News
BBC4 acquires remake of slave drama Roots
BBC4 has bought A+E Studios’ high profile remake of Roots, the classic 1977 American slavery drama.
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Critics
TV Critics: Boy George’s 1970s; 200mph at Le Mans; Wild West; Victoria; Michael Palin Meets Jan Morris
“There have been quite a few programmes looking at the social and cultural impact of pop music – but none with such a charismatic, opinionated and downright entertaining presenter.”
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News
Plimsoll lands major Nat Geo co-pro
Plimsoll Productions has promoted Andrew Jackson and will co-produce a major wildlife series for Nat Geo as part of its international expansion plans.
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News
Creative Skillset expands production manager course
Creative Skillset has made additional London places available on a new Production Co-ordinator course due to overwhelming demand.
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Podcast
Talking TV: The Young Pope & Jack Thorne
National Treasure creator Jack Thorne discusses the Operation Yewtree-style drama in this week’s Talking TV.
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News
Buccaneer Media to adapt Rose Tremain novels
Marcella indie Buccaneer Media have acquired the rights to adapt two Rose Tremain novels for TV.
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News
ITVS UK scores first Netflix original
ITV Studios UK has scored its first original commission for Netflix with the animated kids series Robozuna.
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News
TVF strikes global doc deals
London-based distributor TVF International has inked global sales for US political series America By The Numbers ahead of the presidential election.
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News
Amazon orders horror anthology
Amazon has boarded unscripted horror anthology series Lore, produced by The Walking Dead indie Valhalla Entertainment and Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content.
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Ratings
The Apprentice kicks off with 5.6m
THURSDAY: The Apprentice returned with almost a million fewer viewers than last year, while C5’s The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door beat C4’s Hunted.
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Comment
Kit evolves, but the art of storytelling remains key
Natural history film-making is about more than drones and UHD, says Paul Reddish