All Broadcast articles in 09 November 2001 – Page 3
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Kids ITV to suffer as budgets are slashed
ITV can no longer compete with the BBC's kids output and is being forced to scale back its children's programming ambitions radically as budgets at the network become slimmer, ITV controller
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Stars secure Brighter future
Endemol Entertainment UK-owned Brighter Pictures has bagged a range of commissions, including a show for the BBC which highlights the pitfalls of celebrity.An as yet untitled 6 x 40-minute documentary series,
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Thomson drops Philips brand
Thomson Multimedia has ditched the Philips name across its broadcast product range, following the merger of the Philips Broadcast and Thomson Broadcast systems divisions over the past 12 months.All products within
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ON THE BOX - Tarbie on top form
Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment writer/ director Tony Collingwood was taken with Linda Green but horrified by My Uncle Silas.
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PRODUXION.COM BOUGHT
Emap has taken full control of online service Produxion.com, after buying out the minority stakes in the venture held by Channel 5 and Netdecisions. The move will see Emap title Broadcast
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BT BIDS FOR TV SERVICES
BT has made a bid to use its telephone network to provide TV services to its customers. The telecoms company has applied to the Independent Television Commission for a local delivery
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Execs put weight behind ITV Digital
ITV Digital senior executives leapt to the defence of the beleaguered platform this week to counter mounting City pressure on shareholders Carlton and Granada to drop the service, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC may be ITV Digital's saviour
A deal between the BBC and ITV Digital to make their services available through cut-price set-top boxes could be concluded before the end of the year, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC tx service is delayed
The BBC has been forced to postpone the launch of its new commercial television transmission service after it emerged that the White City building set to house it will not be ready in time, writes Barbara Marshall.
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BBC FINDS TREASURES
More than 100 long-lost radio programmes and over a dozen television shows have been restored to the BBC archive after the corporation made an appeal for missing recordings. Among the haul
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Top writers pen BBC NHS series
The BBC is set to turn its sights on the National Health Service with a major new drama series featuring the work of four leading screenwriters.The 4 x 60-minute episodes of
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BBC Online rebrands to boost new media
BBC Online was this week rebranded as BBC i, as part of a strategy to boost use of the BBC's new media services, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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EMMY FOR BBC FILMS
BBC films' collaboration with HBO Films, Conspiracy: The Meeting at Wannsee, picked up two prizes at the 53rd annual Emmy awards. Loring Mandel won best writing for a mini-series or movie,
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Hairdresser wars make BBC drama
The BBC is beefing up its comedy drama output with a new series on 'the Manchester hairdressing wars' from the creator of The Riff-Raff Element, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Bain moves to 'bold' Shine
Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) head of entertainment Rosetta Bain has become the latest senior industry figure to defect to Elisabeth Murdoch's fledgling indie, Shine, writes Steve Aston.
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Initial back in Breakfast race
Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Initial has re-entered the race for the Big Breakfast slot less than two months after dropping out of the bidding, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BAFTA AWARDS DATE
The Bafta children's awards will now take place on Sunday 2 December, after the original date which was fixed for last weekend was dropped because it clashed with the world premiere
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RTS TECH AWARDS
The Royal Television Society (RTS) credited Texas Instruments' digital light processing display technology as 'the engineer's dream' at the RTS Technical Innovation awards, held last Monday (5.11.01), and gave it the
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Robinson double wins Promax award
Anne Robinson's virtual-reality double scooped a gold gong at the Promax UK awards last Saturday (3 November), writes Jon Rogers.
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Indies reflect on US attacks
The rash of programmes being commissioned in the wake of the 11 September attacks grew this week after Wall to Wall unveiled a 60-minute piece on Muslims in the US for