All Broadcast articles in 15 July 2005 – Page 4
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Beattie fills Sky feature commissioning position
Sky One has drafted in former RDF head of features Anna Beattie to take on the newly created role of commissioning editor for features.
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Gillbe leaves Optomen
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmaresboss Peter Gillbe has stepped down as managing director of indie Optomen Television.
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NewsITV pays dearly for Trisha loss
ITV1's failure to find a long-term successor for Trishahas cost the channel over 15% of its morning audience.
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News'Citizen reporter' sets challenges for TV news
The broadcast coverage of last week's London bombings were marked by the emergence of 'citizen reporters' armed with a mobile phone camera and a media-savvy sense of what to do with the images they create.
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ITV reopens Real Crime casebook
ITV1 is to revive its Real Crimestrand with a new 12 x 60-minute series.
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NewsITV News appoints Bradby as political editor
ITV News has promoted home news editor Tom Bradby as its new political editor.
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Sony TV poaches New Tricks exec
Fresh from its purchase of a 15% stake in indie Shine, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has added further muscle to its UK programming arm by poaching the executive producer behind BBC drama New Tricks.
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NewsRamsay's Kitchen Nightmares ends with 3.7m
Channel 4's successful second series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmarescame to a close last night with an average of 3.7 million (18%).
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NewsEcosse signs DVD deal
Monarch Of The Glenproducer Ecosse Films has signed a DVD publishing deal with 2 Entertain, the company run by the BBC and VCI Group.
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NewsITV1 stacks up daytime orders
ITV1 has commissioned three new shows for its daytime schedule, including a show that aims to find Britain's best amateur portrait painter.
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NewsS4C hands out£1m development cash
Welsh broadcaster S4C has handed out£1m in development funding to five local indies.
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NewsNewsnight under fire
The BBC has once again been forced to defend Newsnight's treatment of MP George Galloway during interviews.
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NewsFive pulls Tarantino's CSI
Five pulled its much-hyped CSI: Crime Scene Investigationend of series finale last night due to the storyline ringing an unfortunate chord with events in London last week.
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NewsCox: 'Established broadcasters face digital decline'
Barry Cox, chairman of SwitchCo, the government body overseeing digital switchover, last night said the traditional broadcasters moving to turn off the analogue system was like 'Turkeys voting for Christmas'.
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NewsGrade defends bonuses
BBC chairman Michael Grade has stood by a governors' committee decision to award half a million pounds of bonuses, in the face of union calls to give the money back.
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NewsTop of the Pops leaves BBC1 with 1.9m
BBC1's last edition of the long-running music show Top of the Popswas met largely with viewer indifference as the special programme only attracted 1.9 million (11.4%).
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NewsThompson forgoes£135k bonus
BBC director general Mark Thompson has turned down an annual bonus worth around£135,000, claiming 'it wouldn't have felt right' taking the money while he axes nearly 4000 jobs.
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NewsWelsh indies merge
Welsh indies Cwmni Da and Tonfedd-Eryri are set to merge after securing a development budget of£300,000 from broadcaster S4C.
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NewsPoliakoff to hit out at TV execs
Acclaimed writer-director Stephen Poliakoff is gearing up to issue a broadside against TV executives' at this year's Edinburgh TV festival.
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NewsJowell to face Lords BBC grilling
Media secretary Tessa Jowell will face questions in the House of Lords next week over demands that the BBC should surrender some of its£2.8bn-a-year licence fee revenue to help fund ITV's regional news.