All Broadcast articles in 13 May 2011 – Page 2
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NewsKutcher drops Two And a Half Men hint
Twitter king Ashton Kutcher has given his followers a big clue that he may be joining Two And A Half Men.
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NewsClive Jones: local TV plans 'not dead'
Former ITV managing director Clive Jones is to chair the Channel 6 bid to run the government’s local TV network and claimed that rumours of the plan’s demise are “exaggerated”.
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NewsKatie Price in model search for Sky Living
Katie Price is to hunt for undiscovered modelling talent for new agency in her latest outing for Sky Living.
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NewsWise Buddah hires former Fresh One exec
Radio indie Wise Buddah has appointed Fresh One founding executive Simon Willis as its head of content.
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NewsC5 ties with Samsung
Channel 5 has rolled out its catch-up TV service Demand 5 via Samsung connected TVs and DVD players.
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Comment13 May '11
“Perhaps the real trick was to appreciate all the subtler things this film managed to do.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice tops ITV2’s ratings for the year
THURSDAY: ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice broke its own record entertaining the channel’s biggest overnight audience of the year.
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RatingsShadow Line loses 1m
THURSDAY: BBC2 crime drama The Shadow Line lost nearly a million viewers but remained above slot average, as ITV1’s Long Lost Family recorded its second best audience of the series.
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Camp Orange hits the UK
Nickelodeon is launching a UK version of its international reality format Camp Orange, which sees eight kids sent to compete in a series of bush challenges in the Australian outback.
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NewsITN extends 4Music deal
ITN Productions has signed a two-year deal with 4Music to supply entertainment news for its weekday morning TV show following a three month pilot.
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NewsIndie duo join forces
The makers of Exit Through the Gift Shop and One Born Every Minute have joined forces to create a new production company.
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NewsBBC draws up online plans for London 2012
The BBC is finalising its plans for how its coverage of the London 2012 Olympics will be structured online.
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NewsC4 plans King of… Twitter campaign
Channel 4 is to support Claudia Winkleman’s talkshow King Of… with an active Twitter strategy that will see one viewer crowned King Of Tweets.
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Comment12 May '11
“It was intriguing to see animation paired up with such a heavy subject.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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FeaturesCarmi Zlotnik, Starz
Liberty Media-owned Starz is a premium pay-TV channel that reaches about 22 million homes in the US. Originally focused on screening theatrical movies, the last two years have seen the company make a major move into content origination.
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FeaturesRichard De Croce, BBC America
BBC America is a 13-year-old BBC Worldwide-owned entertainment channel reaching 68 million cable homes via major platform operators such as Time Warner, Cox, DirecTV and DISH. The channel has been expanding its audience for some time and is on track for its fifth straight year of growth in primetime.
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FeaturesErika Kennair, Syfy
Syfy, the network formerly known as Sci-Fi, is part of the NBC Universal family. One of the most popular cable channels in the US, Syfy currently ranks in the top 10 among 25-to 54-year-olds.
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FeaturesCBS
CBS started as one of the largest radio conglomerates in the Unitied States in the late 1920s and, though now a television network, CBS has stayed in the foreground of entertainment since its inception. Currently the most-watched network in the US, CBS has kept this position for almost a decade.
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FeaturesNBC
NBC had enjoyed unparalleled dominance in US broadcasting, claiming number one spot in primetime ratings throughout the 1980s and 1990s - fuelled by scripted powerhouses Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, The West Wing and ER, not to mention the earlier classics such as Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Knight Rider and ...