All Broadcast articles in 03 December 2004 – Page 4
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Top of the Pops loses its rhythm.
TV'S longest running music show, Top of the Pops, has been moved from BBC1 to BBC2 after ratings dropped to just 3 million (15%), writes Jon Rogers.
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FUNGUS GROWS ON BBC.
BBC1's new Sunday drama Fungus the Bogeyman, starring Martin Clunes, peaked with 5.3 million (23%) at
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TOP TEN TOTP SHOWS SINCE REVAMP ON 28.11.2003.
While Top of the Pops, the chart show that once made a household name of dance
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Trafford sets up Scarlet TV.
Paula Trafford, the former managing director of Carlton-owned producer Planet Wild, has teamed up with the owner of Fountain Television to launch an indie, writes Paul Revoir.
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PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLISHER IS A 'GHETTO'.
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has warned that Ofcom's proposed£300m public service publisher could become
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BBC'S BATTEN-FOSTER MOVES TO FLASHBACK.
Andy Batten-Foster is leaving the BBC to join indie Flashback Television, producer of Superhomes. A senior
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Five psychic talks to babies.
Mentorn is to begin work on a factual series for Five in which a psychic communicates with children to help solve their problems, writes Michael Rosser.
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AIRD JOINS NEAME AT CARNIVAL FILMS.
Carnival Films' incoming managing director Gareth Neame has made his first appointment. Former BBC development executive
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Powers exits C4 for Endemol.
Sharon Powers, the Channel 4 commissioning editor behind this year's 'evil' Big Brother, is jumping ship
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FORD TAKES CONTROL OF DRAMA AT FIVE.
Five head of acquisitions Jeff Ford has been handed an enhanced role overseeing drama. He will
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CELEBRITIES LINE UP FOR XMAS MILLIONAIRE.
Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Alex Ferguson will be sitting in the Who Wants to be
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Vice grips BBC mornings.
Daytime television audiences used to a staple fare of cheap talk shows and Australian soaps had better brace themselves - BBC1 has commissioned a hard-hitting morning show featuring pornography, prostitution and hard drugs, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC TO ANSWER BARWISE AND GARDAM.
The BBC is due to publish its response to the government-backed Barwise and Gardam reports into
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DJ Jezza in the frame to replace Trisha.
Capital FM DJ 'Jezza' is being courted by Granada to be the successor to ITV talkshow host Trisha following her defection to Five, writes Paul Revoir.
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ITV holds off Nick deal.
ITV has stalled plans to set up a co-production deal with Nickelo-deon for its CiTV strand until it hears back from Ofcom about how much kids programming it is obliged to make, write Paul Revoir and Susan Thompson.
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Burns warns on licence fee.
Commercial broadcasters could be invited to bid for chunks of the TV licence fee in a
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Van Klaveren gets cost-cutting job at BBC news.
BBC director of news Helen Boaden has appointed Adrian Van Klaveren as her deputy and has charged him with implementing a cost-cutting strategy across the division, writes Maria Esposito.
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Takeaway exec moves to Target.
Target Entertainment has lined up the executive producer of ITV hit show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Ed Forsdick, to take over its new in-house production arm, writes Paul Revoir.
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Indies strike new BBC deal.
Indies will be able to sell programmes originally commissioned for BBC1 and BBC2 to multichannel outlets
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Comment - Handle with care.
The cuts in ITV's regional hours need to be managed more sensitively by Ofcom, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.