All Broadcast articles in 11 March 2016 – Page 6
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News
Evans rapped for plugging TFI on R2
Chris Evans was given a verbal warning by the BBC for repeatedly plugging TFI Friday on his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show last year, it has emerged.
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Ratings
Country Life doc lands 1.3m
FRIDAY: Jane Treays’ documentary about Country Life magazine was unable to compete with her previous BBC2 series about high-end hotel Claridge’s.
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Comment
Time for indies to engage in future of kids TV
Making children’s TV is a job, not a hobby, yet still producers must fight to get it taken seriously, argues Tony Collingwood
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BBC seeks BAME trainee script editors
The BBC is seeking “passionate” candidates from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds keen to get their first experience in drama script editing.
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Ratings
Doctor Thorne crushed by The Night Manager
SUNDAY: Tom Hollander’s starring role in ITV’s Doctor Thorne was crushed by his appearance as a dastardly sidekick in The Night Manager.
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Critics
TV Critics: Doctor Thorne; Thirteen; House Of Cards
“Doctor Thorne feels akin to the best TV adaptations of Trollope.”
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Ratings
Take Me Out bows out with 3.6m
SATURDAY: The eighth series of Take Me Out closed with an average audience of 3.6m, as The Voice UK slumped to yet another low.
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News
C4 head of drama development departs
Channel 4’s head of drama development Surian Fletcher-Jones is leaving the broadcaster after three years to join the indie sector.
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News
Sony launches crime channel
Sony Pictures Television is launching a free-to-air true crime channel in the UK.
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News
Super Bowl director to speak at Media Production Show
Super Bowl director Hamish Hamilton and Dickensian creator Tony Jordan are among the industry leaders who will speak at the Media Production Show.
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News
Endemol Beyond boss exits
Endemol Shine Group’s digital chief Georg Ramme is to leave the company and will be replaced by commercial boss Wim Ponnet.
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Raw TV lands latest C4 experimental drama
Cyberbully and Blackout indie Raw TV has landed its latest drama from Channel 4’s documentaries division – a one-off film focusing on domestic abuse.