All Broadcast articles in 09 November 2001 – Page 2
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INDIE FINANCE - Heavyweight that can hold its own
Since Brook Associates merged with Brian Lapping four years' ago, high ratings have never been on the indie's agenda - but that has not hampered the creation of a successful business.
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VENICE TV FESTIVAL
The first Venice International Television Festival will take place between 21 and 26 March next year. Canal Grande Awards will be presented for best fiction, documentary, cartoon and format (game, sitcom,
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TX - Single white farmers
It was hardly ideal timing, but Thames Television's decision to press ahead at the height of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year with The Farmer Wants a Wife -
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FARMER JOB FOR SKARAMOOSH
Skaramoosh designed the titles and graphics for The Farmer Wants a Wife, produced by Thames Television for ITV 1. The series follows a group of farmers - originally featured in a
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It's a fact: history does a lot for minority ratings
Take away The Weakest Link from BBC 2's early evening and what do you get? An unusually varied minority channels' top 10. This is one of those weeks when BBC 2's
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Nats and others still expanding
Nats Post-production has made an array of appointments in light of the company's expansion, writes Jon Rogers.
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Sky entertainment head goes to indie
September films has poached the driving force behind Sky One's original programme output to become the indie's first director of programmes, writes Steve Aston.
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Eyewitnesses to Eichmann
Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery.
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STRANDED DOWN UNDER
Channel 4 has ordered a£3m follow-up to RDF Media reality format Shipwrecked (above) that will see viewers control the lives of six participants living in the Australian rainforest, writes Penny Hughes.
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Telewest director poached for Japanese post
Telewest director of content acquisitions and business development Andrew Shaw has been poached by one of the company's biggest shareholders, Liberty Media, to join its Japanese joint-venture company Jupiter Programming, writes Simon Ellery.
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TWG EASES DEBTS
The Wireless Group (TWG) has massively relieved its debt burden after selling its Southampton-based local radio station Wave 105FM to Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) for£18m in cash. As part of
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GRANADA CUTS FRASER
Granada's director of international production David Fraser is to leave the company as part of its ongoing cost-cutting drive. Fraser was responsible for overseeing Joy Luck Street, the Chinese version of
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CORRECTIONS
There were two errors in last week's Broadcast (2.11.01). The headline 'Glassworks/Passion strike gold at Bafta' was incorrect and should have referred to the British Television Advertising Awards (BTAA) craft awards.Elsewhere,
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More upheaval for CITV as Granada rejigs kids
ITV's plans to build a children's media empire on the back of its CITV brand suffered a further blow this week after it emerged that Granada has been forced to downsize
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OSF hires natural history chief
Oxford Scientific Films (OSF) has appointed former United Wildlife producer Mark Strickson as head of programming for its natural history unit, writes Steve Aston.
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IBC CHANGES FOCUS
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) has scrapped its production festival, known as the Nombre D'Or, and instead will focus on developing the producer briefing and conference sessions in order to attract
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FOULSER NAMED CEO
Television Corporation, owner of Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC), has given acting chief executive Jeff Foulser the job permanently. Executive director Tom Gutteridge will be his deputy, stepping down as chairman of
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DEADLINE FOR CELTIC
The deadline for entries to the Celtic Film & Television Festival, taking place between 20 and 23 March next year in Brittany in France, closes today (9 November). Competition categories include
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OFF THE RECORD - Celador's Wolf's rose-tinted past
Where were they then? Unbelievably, Celador International commercial director Adrian Wolf once enjoyed a short-lived career as a presenter on Top of the Pops. Back then he was known as Adrian
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Cable giants launch interactive strategy
NTL and Telewest have taken a step closer towards a full merger after launching a joint interactive strategy - dubbed the 'broadband Treaty of Rome', writes Simon Ellery.