All Broadcast articles in 12 March 2015 – Page 5
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NewsKevin Spacey to front CNN White House doc
Kevin Spacey is to front a documentary series about the White House for CNN, produced by Raw TV.
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NewsHelicopter crash kills 10 on Zodiak TF1 show
A helicopter crash in Argentina has killed 10 people working on French reality series Dropped, which is produced by Zodiak Media’s Adventure Line Productions for TF1.
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NewsForbidden wins IMG deal
IMG has licensed the use of Forscene for all of IMG’s digital rights channels in 2015.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Mystery of Murder; The Billion Pound Hotel; Arthur and George; Bluestone 42
“Instead of A Horizon Guide, they might have gone for something more honest. Gee, Isn’t Horizon Great? for example, or Horizon: It’s Been Going For Ages And Here Are All The Clips To Prove It.”
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CommentIt pays to be fair in hiring staff
Promoting equal opportunities need not make you a light touch, argues UKTV chief executive Darren Childs
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NewsDon't Tell The Bride travels to China
Don’t Tell The Bride is to be remade in China after distributor DRG sold the format to local broadcaster Shenzhen.
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NewsLabour and Lib Dems commit to keeping C4 in public hands
Business secretary Vince Cable and shadow minister for the arts Chris Bryant have committed to keeping Channel 4 under public ownership if Labour or the Liberal Democrats win the general election.
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NewsMP tells Rona Fairhead to resign
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Margaret Hodge has called on BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead to resign over her handling of the HSBC tax evasion scandal.
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NewsOfcom diversity record 'shabby'
Former RTS boss Simon Albury has branded Ofcom’s diversity record “shabby” in evidence to the media regulator’s PSB review.
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NewsBroadcast’s International Rising Stars open for nominations
Broadcast will celebrate talented young British execs making their mark in international TV with an awards cocktail event at Mip TV.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: Twitter trends
Click for the latest data from Kanter Media about who is tweeting about TV in the UK.
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NewsBBCW hires Twenty Twenty producer
BBC Worldwide has appointed Twenty Twenty executive producer Kirsty Hanson as commissioning executive for its recently-launched international channel BBC Earth.
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RatingsTake Me Out loses 10% of audience
SATURDAY: Take Me Out’s seventh series ended with 400,000 fewer viewers than last year, as The Voice UK remained the top-rated Saturday night show.
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FeaturesPoldark, BBC1
BBC1’s adaption seeks to do justice to the books of Winston Graham and the elemental passion of the Cornish landscape
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RatingsPoldark makes strong start
SUNDAY: Poldark got underway with almost 7m viewers to become BBC1’s best performing Sunday drama launch since The Muskeeters.
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NewsEuston Films options Tana French best-sellers
FremantleMedia UK indie Euston Films has optioned three murder mystery novels by Tana French as it establishes its development slate.
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NewsStudioCanal restructures TV division
The creator of The Killing and Red Production Company are to forge closer ties following a restructure of StudioCanal’s TV business.
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NewsHorror Channel heads to Freeview
The Horror Channel is to be made available in around 17m extra homes after striking a deal to launch on Freeview.
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NewsThree River Fiction hires drama exec
Three River Fiction, the drama division of Jonathan Drake’s indie, has hired former Emmerdale writer Ben McGrath as development producer.
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; Call the Midwife; Indian Summers
“A beautifully filmed Sunday night romp with a nice bit of substance.”