All Broadcast articles in 14 July 2006 – Page 4
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NewsBBC4 showcases photo pioneer
The BBC is to follow up on the success of archive series The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyonwith a nine-part BBC4 series on one of the world's earliest photography pioneers.
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C4 plans Occult Week
Channel 4 is to dedicate its 11pm slot to a week of programming about secrets of dark cults - and has so far ordered two new shows to be part of it.
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C4 commissions gay prom series
Channel 4's commissioning editor for education Deborah Ward has greenlit September Films to make a 2 x 60-minute series following the adventures of five gay teenagers as they attempt to put on a gay prom for 200 British teens.
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Japanese show piloted by C4
Channel 4 is looking at launching a UK version of one of Japan's most popular gameshows to be fronted by Johnny Vaughan as part of its Friday night entertainment line-up.
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ITV orders 12th Trial and Retribution
ITV is bringing back its crime drama franchise Trial & Retribution, starring David Hayman, for a 12th run, with a new story about the rape and murder of a young primary school teacher.
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NewsEight out of 10 viewers pick BBC1 for World Cup final
The World Cup final between France and Italy, shown live on both ITV1 and BBC1 on Sunday (9 July), hit a combined peak audience of 21.2 million - just over a third of the entire population of the UK - at 9.15pm.
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Red Bee goes back to the 1960s
Red Bee Media has created the promo for UKTV History's 60s Season - a strand featuring original programming such as The Beatles' Decade, with personalities of the time such as Mary Quant explaining how the world changed during the 1960s.
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Skaramoosh engineers promo
Skaramoosh has completed the logo design and promo for Discovery Channel's Industrial Revelations: Best of British Engineering, a six-part series celebrating our greatest engineering icons including Concorde, the Channel Tunnel, the Routemaster Bus and Tower Bridge.
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Smoke & Mirrors speaks for E4
Smoke & Mirrors has created E4's new Espeak idents, which give viewers the lowdown on festivals such as the V Festival and Joust 2006 in a vox pop style.
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Sky wins Premiership mobile rights
BSkyB has confirmed it has won the mobile content rights to Premiership football in partnership with News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sunand News of the World.
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NewsGoogle rolls out UK video service
Google has launched a new online video service allowing consumers to upload their own videos and view content from a selection of television networks and independent producers.
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NewsJenkins quits BBC Scotland 'on matter of principle'
BBC Scotland's head of news and current affairs Blair Jenkins has quit in what is understood to be a protest over the ongoing job cuts within his department.
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NewsFreudenstein to stay within News Corp
BSkyB's chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein is to stay within the News Corp stable after being hired to run News Limited's new media empire.
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NewsThompson denies ban on Jonathan Ross clip
BBC director general Mark Thompson has denied that there is a blanket ban on showing Jonathan Ross's controversial interview with Conservative leader David Cameron.
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NewsDouble Jab opens Leeds office
London-based documentary and multi-media producer Double Jab Productions is to open a Leeds office.
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News'Move to Xfm was my idea' says Bacon
Capital drivetime DJ Richard Bacon has claimed it was his idea to move to back to Xfm, squashing suggestions he was axed after poor ratings.
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NewsFreeSat launch delayed until autumn 07
The launch of FreeSat - the BBC and ITV-backed free satellite service - looks set to be delayed until next autumn as no common standard for the service has been agreed upon.
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NewsNot much love for ITV1's reality island
ITV1's reality series Love Islandhad a tough time on its opening night with a lowly 3.2 million (15%) tuning in to the start of the second series at 9pm - forcing it into third place behind other reality offerings from BBC1 and Channel 4.
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NewsBBC appoints new head of Birmingham factual
The BBC has promoted executive producer Nick Patten to head up its Birmingham factual operation - the final appointment in outgoing factual director John Willis' reshuffle of the department.
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NewsC4 acquisition Brothers and Sisters to star Sally Field
Oscar winning actress Sally Field has joined the cast of the hyped new US drama Brothers and Sisters, recently snapped up by Channel 4.