All Broadcast articles in 06 March 2009 – Page 4
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News
Waddell gets a kick out of Bruce Lee deal
Waddell Media has secured a major commission from History US and Biography Channel UK/EMEA to make a two-hour special on Bruce Lee.
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News
Kwei-Armah to retrace Queen's charm offensive
Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is to visit his family's West Indian roots in a Channel 4 series retracing the Queen's 1953 tour of the Commonwealth.
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Features
Analysis: Project Canvas
Project Canvas is the IPTV initiative from the BBC, ITV and BT - and unlike its cousin Kangaroo, it stands a good chance of becoming reality. Chris Curtis explains its plans.
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News
Five orders more Milkshake to bolster kids' web offering
Five is planning to commission more short shows for children's strand Milkshake in a bid to fill gaps left by declining advertising and to bolster its kids' web content.
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The Broadcast Interview
David Frank, RDF Media Group
RDF Media Group’s chief executive tells Katherine Rushton how engineering a private equity-backed MBO just 18 months after Queengate has made him philosophical.
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Features
The buyer: Nick Ware
Nick Ware is managing director of online documentary channel joiningthedocs.tv
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News
Passion takes rights to BBC1 obesity doc
Passion Distribution has picked up the worldwide rights to a BBC1 documentary about teenage obesity by Daisybeck Productions.
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Comment
Blog: ITV suffers torrid year
As ITV reveals it is to cut 600 jobs and a question mark hangs over the future of its bases in Leeds and Manchester, Andy Viner looks back on a harsh year for the commercial broadcaster.
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News
Five to profile YouTube lion
Video: A lion reared by two London shopkeepers that went on to become a YouTube phenomenon is to be the subject of a new documentary for Five.
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News
Birds of a Feather comeback in pipeline
Hit comedy Birds of a Feather could return to TV after an 11-year absence.
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News
ITV2 imports restaurant show in Granada US deal
ITV2 has bought a Marco Pierre White-fronted reality format that Granada America has made for NBC.
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Comment
TV Critics 4 March '09
'A kind of edible-circus-performance-art-madness thing.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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News
Richard Deverell lands deputy role at BBC North
Controller of BBC children's programmes Richard Deverell has secured the number two job at the corporation's new broadcasting and production centre in Salford Quays.
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News
Action needed to secure TV's future, say industry figures
Against the backdrop of this week's cuts at ITV and Five, senior industry figures have warned of the need for radical action to safeguard TV's future.
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News
ITV Yorkshire staff cut by 25%
ITV will close its main television centre building at its site in Leeds, making 180 permanent staff redundant and moving Countdown to Manchester.
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Ratings
Heston serves up 2.3m for C4
Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal kicked off his new series Heston's Victorian Feast with a respectable 2.3m viewers (9.8% share) at 9pm.