All Broadcast articles in 09 November 2007 – Page 2
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NewsLove Trap snares just 911,000 for C4
New Channel 4 dating series Love Trap only managed to attract 911,000 viewers (5.4%) at 10pm last night, losing out to all the other terrestrial channels and BBC3.
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FeaturesCasualties of war
ITV’s star-studded drama about Rudyard Kipling’s son was 22 years in the making.
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News
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If you run a post facility, Broadcast’s Post Production Sector Survey 2008 needs your help. There are two forms to complete.
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NewsIndies face tough regime over trust
The trust in TV crisis has prompted the BBC and Channel 4 to try to rewrite their contracts with indies, in a bid to make producers more responsible for their output - including financially.
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NewsEvolutions achieves UK first with US opening
Independent post house Evolutions claims to be the first UK long-form broadcast post company to open a facility in the US.
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FeaturesEureka! Free Agents
Free Agents producer Nira Park explains why C4’s new show was forged from experience
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NewsSouthern Africa channel launch
Southern Africa Direct, a new free-to-air lifestyle TV channel, is planning its first round of commissioning in the new year.
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NewsBBC Horizon explores execution
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo is to hunt for a humane method of execution in an edition of the BBC’s science strand Horizon.
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CommentWhy we must embrace our multiplatform future
Carole Dunlop on why there has never been a more exciting time to be a content creator.
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CommentStriking writers are wrong to think they should be paid more
Emily Bell on the US writers' strike
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CommentSafeguarding trust is still a job for broadcasters
Broadcasters are right to turn the screw on indies over trust - but not to pass the buck
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NewsC4’s First Cut airs new talent
Channel 4 is lining up films from Raw Television, Century Films, Talkback Thames, Renegade Pictures and Eleven Films for its new primetime documentary strand for up-and-coming directors.
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CommentJeremy Dear and Heather Croall
Jeremy Dear and Heather Croall review the week's television programmes.
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FeaturesOn location: Exodus
Writer/director Penny Woolcock staged an epic recreation of the Old Testament - in Margate
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus: Five Sport
Five has become ever more successful since it decided to rethink its sports offering. Katy Elliott looks at the broadcaster’s new agendas.
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NewsFive’s Hidden Lives to end?
The future of Five’s successful shock doc strand Hidden Lives is uncertain, with indies believing the next series could be its last.
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NewsFive pulls plug on scripted comedy
Five will not develop or commission any more scripted comedy shows for at least the next 12 months and will instead concentrate on light entertainment and comedy panel shows.
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NewsFountain invests
Fountain Television has purchased a ProBel Sirius 256 x 256 high-definition router
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NewsNHU sets off on new Expeditions
BBC1 is to examine the landscapes and wildlife of Guyana and Papua New Guinea in two major new series for its Expedition strand.