All Broadcast articles in 05 November 2004 – Page 3

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    Humphrys about

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    John Humphrys, the presenter of Radio 4's Today programme and scourge of Big Brother , has been lined up as the star turn at the Media Society's Great Reality TV Debate next week. Humphrys will join fellow reality television baiter, ...

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    Five cuts 7pm news in half

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Five is to slash its 7pm news bulletin to 15 minutes from January after Ofcom agreed to reduce its news output requirement by more than 60 hours a year.

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    BBC4 explores Vanity Fair

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Flashback Bristol is to make a film about highbrow celebrity glossy Vanity Fair as part of a series of magazine profiles for BBC4's Profile strand.

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    C4 gives go-ahead for civil war series

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has confirmed a commission for its former director of television Tim Gardam's landmark two-part series about the English Civil War. Mentorn is producing Civil War: Blood on our Hands and Civil War: Regicide for January after getting the ...

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    Imago puts new boy together for C4

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Norwich-based indie Imago Productions is making a one-hour documentary designed to change four teenage boys' lives for Channel 4. New Boy , created and presented by life coach Kate Marlow, takes the four participants away from home for a month and teaches them how to ...

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    4 Ventures to bring German quizzes to E4

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4's commercial division, 4 Ventures, has struck a deal with a German broadcaster to trial interactive quiz formats on entertainment channel E4.

  • Ratings

    Sky gives last-minute boost to ITV3

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    ITV3 launched this week to a strong start, attracting a 3.46% share of multichannel homes, making it more popular than all other non-terrestrial channels except Living.

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    Pepper grades Lawless for ITV1

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    Pepper has completed grading and special effects on Newcastle-based police drama Lawless. The two-part ITV1 series produced by Company Pictures focuses on corruption within the police force and stars Trevor Eve. Pepper's effects team, Scott Hinchcliffe and Simon Giblin, created special effects including a ...

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    BBC1 wins The US election coverage

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 won the ratings battle for coverage of the US election results. The corporation's coverage, which was anchored by David Dimbleby, started at 11.50pm on Tuesday (2 November) and ended at 1.55am. It averaged 900,000 viewers, almost a quarter of all viewers at that time. ITV1's ...

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    TSI spends£500,000 to boost audio facilities

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    TSI Post Production is spending£500,000 on audio facilities following a huge increase in audio bookings over the past year.

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    September agrees£550,000 of overseas sales

    2004-11-04T08:30:00Z

    September International has picked up around£550,000 worth of overseas sales, including shifting its forthcoming BBC1 commission Kid Camp to four territories.

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    200 more jobs to go in ITV regions

    2004-11-04T07:50:32Z

    Another 200 jobs are set to be axed from the ITV regions as a result of Ofcom's proposal to cut the broadcaster's regional programme commitments.

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    'PSP could be the UK's HBO'

    2004-11-04T07:50:30Z

    Ofcom senior partner Ed Richards this week said the regulator's proposed public service publisher (PSP) could be the UK equivalent of HBO, as he issued a

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    Broadcasters fight CPS ban

    2004-11-04T07:50:18Z

    The BBC, BSkyB and ITN have teamed up to mount a challenge to the Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) ban on giving TV producers access to video evidence used in criminal trials.

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    C4 to seek£100m from public purse

    2004-11-04T07:50:16Z

    Channel 4 is planning a radical shift in its thinking and will seek about£100m in public funding, possibly through tie-ups with the BBC.

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    BBC Worldwide in Endemol deal

    2004-11-04T07:50:12Z

    BBC Worldwide has signed its first output deal with an indie, securing distribution rights for all of Endemol UK's BBC commissions for the next three years in an agreement expected to be worth more than£5m.

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    C4 unveils new season

    2004-11-04T07:50:10Z

    Channel 4 is planning to broadcast the decomposition of a human body as part of a winter season of factual programmes.

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    Governors' role 'must change'

    2004-11-04T07:50:08Z

    Media secretary Tessa Jowell has said the BBC's current governance system is no longer sustainable.

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    Redmond takes over Hollyoaks storylines

    2004-11-04T07:50:06Z

    Hollyoaks creator Phil Redmond is to take back overall control of the Channel 4 soap's storylines after its joint series producers left following a clash over its creative direction.

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    Watson guides BBC series

    2004-11-04T07:50:04Z

    Veteran documentary-maker Paul Watson has cemented his relationship with the BBC by agreeing to mentor film-makers on a new daytime documentary strand.