All Broadcast articles in 12 February 2016 – Page 6
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 25 - 31 Jan 2015
E4’s best was Tuesday’s outing of Tattoo Fixers with 850,000/4% at 9pm, down from last week’s series high
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 25 - 31 Jan 2016
C4’s third series of The Jump kicked off 500,000 viewers short of 2015’s launch but still defeated ITV’s Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands and BBC2’s Dragons’ Den
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Top 100 network programmes: 25 - 31 Jan 2016
ITV’s Sugar Free Farm launches well against Holby City, while BBC1 stalwart Countryfile tops table
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ITV parts company with Richard Klein
ITV has parted company with director of factual Richard Klein after two-and-a-half years.
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Creative Access places 500th BAME intern
Diversity charity Creative Access, which helps ethnic minority talent break into the industry, has placed its 500th intern.
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Sally Miles to exit Passion
Sally Miles is to leave Passion Distribution, the international TV sales firm that she founded eight years ago, Broadcast has learned.
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Survey finds docs at risk of becoming 'selective and self-serving'
Documentary film-making is in danger of becoming “selective and self-serving” after an independent survey laid bare the genre’s financial difficulties.
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Nat Geo acquisitions boss exits
National Geographic’s international acquisitions and co-production chief Maggie Rhodes has left the broadcaster.
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Garbutt takes MD role at Halo
Halo Post Production has appointed head of production Will Garbutt as its managing director.
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AJA unveils UHD block camera
BVE 2016: AJA has launched the RovoCam, the company’s first compact block camera.
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BBC to give online recipes the chop
The BBC is reported to be planning to cut magazine-style content from its website after the chancellor accused the broadcaster of building an “imperial” web presence last year.
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Vice UK staff move to unionise
Staff at Vice UK have sent a letter to their colleagues to drum up support to “get everyone involved” in forming a union.
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The X-Files boosts C5 to five-year high
MONDAY: The return of The X-Files helped Channel 5 to its biggest audience for five years - and became its most successful US import since CSI.
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Plimsoll explores cats for ITV
ITV is to investigate the relationship between big cats in the wild and domestic pussycats in a three-part doc series from Plimsoll Productions.
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Critics
TV Critics: The X-Files; Royal Navy School; Addicted to Sheep
“Not an unmitigated disaster, but underwhelming and ultimately unnecessary.”
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C4 orders safety review into The Jump
Channel 4 has asked The Jump producers Twofour to review the show’s safety procedures after the rising number of injured celebrities.
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Commercial broadcasters pledge to protect kids
The Commercial Broadcasters Association (Coba) has pledged to prioritise the protection of children around catch-up content.
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In brief: Puttnam inquiry; 7 Wonder; CTBF; Anim8
David Abraham, Sharon White, Lenny Henry and Tony Hall are among the speakers at a series of events to debate the future of TV. Read on for more
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Broadcast Indie Summit: Colette Foster
Broadcast is hosting its inaugural Indie Summit on 17 March to help producers of all sizes learn from one another. Full Fat TV creative director Colette Foster, who is to appear as part of the Winning That Commission session, reveals her experience of developing returnable formats
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War and Peace sold to Russia
BBC1 drama War and Peace is to be translated into Russian after commercial broadcaster Channel One acquired the six-part drama.