All Broadcast articles in 15 January 2015 – Page 3
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BBC2 rustles up food season
BBC2 has lined up some of its top chefs and culinary talent to front a season of food programmes exploring how what we eat shapes who we are.
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Desi Rascals rushes to be ‘leaked’ on Twitter
The rushes from Sky Living structured reality show Desi Rascals are to be ‘leaked’ on Instagram and Twitter as the broadcaster hopes to spark reaction from viewers that will help shape the show.
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Latimer hires Dragonfly exec to lead growth
Latimer Films, the fledgling indie responsible for Channel 4’s Penny Woolcock documentary Going To The Dogs, is ramping up its TV ambitions after hiring former Dragonfly executive Tamara Abood.
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Quiet rise of Sky boss Gary Davey
Gary Davey will be tasked with shaping Sky’s pan-European content strategy after quietly rising to become one of the pay-TV operator’s most senior figures.
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Endemol Shine unveils UK senior management
Endemol Shine Group has assembled its senior management team in the UK – the first change to directly impact the company’s 17 UK indies since its mega-merger last year.
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Simon Dickson resurfaces at Shiver
Former Dragonfly managing director Simon Dickson will create his own label within Shiver as ITV Studios’ factual arm attempts to boost its documentary output.
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Jane Featherstone: end of an era
Kudos chief executive Jane Featherstone will seek a fresh drama challenge when she returns to work in 2016 following her departure from the Endemol Shine Group-owned indie.
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Channel 4 ‘raises the diversity bar’
Lenny Henry has praised Channel 4’s diversity plan as an “extraordinary step forward”, but still believes that ring-fenced funds for BAME projects is the best solution as the industry bids to better reflect UK society.
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Comment
Diversity goes beyond rivalry
Broadcasters must be brave enough to learn from other strategies
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Diversity: TV united and divided
Channel 4 unveiled a comprehensive vision to tackle diversity this week, highlighting the challenge facing an industry united in its goals but divided on its solutions.
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In Brief: Woody Allen & Secret Life of 4 Year Olds
Woody Allen’s forthcoming series for Amazon and an RDF doc for Channel 4 feature in Broadcast’s news in brief round-up.
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BBC makes a season of song & dance
The BBC has lifted the curtain on a season of programming celebrating song and dance which will stretch across radio and TV.
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Vice producer to head up Random Acts
Channel 4 has hired a Vice Media senior creative producer as editor of Random Acts to supercharge the arts strand.
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Tony Hall: 2015 a ‘high risk’ year for BBC
Director general Tony Hall has called on all BBC staff to become “ambassadors” for the corporation as it faces a “high risk” year which includes the general election and charter renewal.
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Ratings
Cockroaches unearths 480k on ITV2
TUESDAY: ITV2’s post-apocalyptic comedy Cockroaches was slightly up on its slot average with 480,000 viewers, but well down on the debut audience pulled in by Plebs.
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Comment
4K and smart TVs dominate CES
Gary Woolf looks beyond the ‘rocket’ rollerskates at this year’s CES
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Critics
TV Critics: Cockroaches; Nature's Weirdest Events; Suspects
“So this is what The Walking Dead would be like if it had a sillier sense of humour and British TV budget.”
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Richard E Grant commits sins for Discovery
Richard E Grant is to investigate the origins of the seven deadly sins and their effect on humans and the animal kingdom in a factual series for Discovery UK.
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Comment
Making Asian voices heard
Reality TV is ahead of other genres when it comes to diversity, says Gurinder Chadha
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Fortitude to simulcast across Sky Europe
Sky’s big-budget Arctic drama Fortitude is to air simultaneously across five territories – the first time the broadcaster has released a show in this way since the creation of Sky Europe.