All Broadcast articles in 15 May 2020 – Page 4
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Critics
Paul Hollywood Eats Japan
“Hollywood never lost the look of a man who was counting the minutes till he could go home”
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News
HBO Max collars C4’s Dog House
SVoD acquires Five Mile Films format as services bolster lockdown offers
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News
Localisation specialist Premiere Digital expands into UK
The company has recruited UK-based staff as it begins a marketing and sales drive here
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News
Damazer, Mosey, Currie: BBC news budget must be ringfenced
Trio of grandees call for axe to fall on areas beyond corporation’s core remit
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Ratings
Millionaire cashes in with 4.3m
TUESDAY: Young viewers flock to ITV format as contestant almost becomes sixth-ever jackpot winner
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News
Big Bro’s best bits to return to E4
Stripped 10-part run to highlight standout eps from its decade-run on C4
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News
Vizrt ‘teleports’ two presenters 2,000 km apart into the same studio
The setup enables a chat show format to be created during lockdown, with only two frames of latency between the participants
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News
iPlayer approaches 1bn views under lockdown
BBC platform consumption leaps 61% year-on-year since late March
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News
Rise reveals mentor pairings for 2020
Industry scheme for women working in broadcast tech roles is pairing up 30 mentors and mentees
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News
Banff World Media Festival goes online
Masterclass about TNT/Netflix’s post-apocalyptic drama Snowpiercer heads the line-up
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News
Sunak extends furlough scheme by four months
August alteration will allow employers to bring workers back part-time with government still supporting wage bill
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News
The great freelancer debate
Broadcast and ScreenSkills hosted a Zoom debate about the precarious nature of freelance TV production work
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Ratings
Ricky & Ralf take 250,000 on Northern Road Trip
MONDAY: Latest Gold original is UKTV channel’s third-best overnight of year so far, while ITV’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire? returns with 4m
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News
Government confirms socially-distanced film and TV production can resume
Workplaces open up to staff who cannot work from home
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News
Donalda MacKinnon: curb ‘politically motivated’ criticism
Outgoing BBC Scotland chief appeals to detractors of division’s news output
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News
BBC Studios hires Wales production chief
Longstanding BBC exec to drive growth across multiple genres in the country
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News
ESG signs multi-territory deal with Plex
Big-budget dramas and factual shows become available on US AVoD