All Broadcast articles in 13 January 2012 – Page 2
-
RatingsBBC3 Sex Season begins with 610k
MONDAY: BBC3’s new season about sex and sexuality boosted the channel’s usual audience by more than 30%.
-
RatingsAbove Suspicion returns with 6.3m
MONDAY: Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion returned to ITV1 with its biggest audience in two years - while Nick Hewer failed to make a huge impact on his Countdown debut.
-
Comment10 Jan '12
“When they come knocking at the door they’re generally mistaken for Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
-
NewsCelebrities join BBC3's Real Hustle
BBC3 has ordered a new series of The Real Hustle that will see celebrities helping con members of the public.
-
NewsBox TV wins Asian Beats pilot
Channel 4 and Bauer Media’s joint venture Box TV has won a TX pilot for a new music show trumpeting the British Asian scene.
-
NewsRadio Fast Train tickets now available
Places at the Radio Fast Train at the BBC Academy next month are now available.
-
NewsNews Corp ties with Xbox
The Simpsons, Family Guy and Glee are to be made available via Xbox games consoles following a deal between Microsoft and News Corporation.
-
NewsC4 confirms Sutcliffe departure
Channel 4 has confirmed Dispatches commissioning editor Kevin Sutcliffe is leaving the broadcaster after ten years.
-
NewsSalford staff complain over Derbyshire
Staff at BBC Radio 5 Live are understood to have complained over preferential treatment for presenter Victoria Derbyshire following the station’s move to Salford.
-
NewsFremantleMedia promotes Clark
Rob Clark has been given a beefed up role at FremantleMedia handling the development of its entertainment formats around the world.
-
NewsITV demands Take Me Out review
ITV has urged Talkback Thames to review its contestant selection process on Take Me Out following reports a male participant on last weekend’s show was convicted with assaulting a woman.
-
CommentFree Radio: act of vandalism
The decision to re-brand Midlands heritage commercial stations BRMB, Mercia Sound, Radio Wyvern and Beacon Radio as Free Radio, is an act of vandalism by owners Orion Media, write Paul Robinson.
-
Behind The ScenesThe Exit List, ITV1
Endless testing of our ambitious new format ensured everything would run smoothly when the cameras finally came in, says Tamara Gilder.
-
NewsC4 awards Dispatches contracts
Channel 4 has awarded Blakeway Productions, October Films, Nine Lives Media and ITN Productions contracts to make programmes for the Dispatches strand in 2012.
-
RatingsSherlock tops 10m viewers
CONSOLIDATED: Sherlock’s return to BBC1 was recorded by nearly 2m viewers, putting it just behind Pam St Clement’s exit from EastEnders as the most watched show of New Year’s Day.
-
NewsPiction puts down roots at The Greenhouse
Brand design and illustration company Piction Media has opened an office at The Greenhouse at MediaCityUK.
-
NewsShamed Take Me Out contestant edited out of show
Talkback Thames has edited the Take Me Out contestant with a criminal conviction from the Saturday’s instalment of the show.
-
NewsBBC orders more Saturday Kitchen
Saturday Kitchen, the BBC1 weekend food show hosted by James Martin, has been recommissioned for another 12 months.
-
NewsITV eyes Something for the Weekend
ITV has approached Princess Productions about providing a new home for axed BBC2 Sunday morning show Something for the Weekend.
-
NewsKandola ties with Australian indie
Jay Kandola, ITV’s former director of acquisitions, is to spearhead the European growth for an Australian production company – and has already made a pre-sale in the UK.