All Broadcast articles in 16 January 2014 – Page 5
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News
Creative industries worth £8m an hour to UK
The UK’s creative industries are worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy, according to new DCMS statistics.
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Comment
The BBC in 2014: what's in store?
Expect 2014 to be a busy year for the BBC as it gears up for charter renewal and struggles to shake off the Savile crisis.
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Sound Women maps out audio careers
Absolute Radio’s Vicki Blight and award-winning comedy podcast producer Helen Zaltzman are among the speakers at the forthcoming Sound Women event.
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Features
The Musketeers, BBC1
A convincing and gritty recreation of 17th century France - with not a blue tabard in sight
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News
ITV's High Noon preps polka show
US cable network Reelz Channel has ordered a band-based reality series from ITV-backed indie High Noon Entertainment.
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UBS: Fox or Vodafone could buy Sky
Hollywood studio Fox or telcos Vodafone and O2 could target a merger with Sky, according to investment bank UBS.
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Beyond's Connell joins Heaney's TCB
Paul Heaney’s emerging distribution company TCB Media Rights has poached sales exec Karen Connell from Beyond Distribution.
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Nat Geo & Fox set for space sequel
National Geographic and have Fox partnered to launch high-end science series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey in the UK.
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Harding: press woes 'not BBC's fault'
BBC News boss James Harding hit back at the “mistaken view” that the corporation damages regional newspapers.
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Critics
TV Critics: Benefits Street; Bake Off; Uncle; Icebound
“The programme did not mock poor people. It’s necessary viewing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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BT Sport greenlights WRC
Live TV coverage of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) is to return after rights holders struck a deal with BT Sport.
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Sky acquires 24: Live Another Day
Jack Bauer is to return to the UK after Sky 1 picked up action thriller series 24: Live Another Day.
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Ratings
Benefits Street expands to 5.1m
The controversy surrounding Benefits Street translated into ratings, as the Channel 4 show’s audience leapt to 5.1m on Monday.
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Hat Trick seeks more umbrella deals
Hat Trick Productions is to embark on its next expansion phase with funds earmarked for more “pod deals” with indies.
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Comment
How Sherlock cracked Twitter
Twitter’s Dan Biddle breaks down what made Sherlock one of the biggest TV events of the year so far
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Video
VIDEO: The Musketeers, BBC1
Click to view the trailer introducing BBC1’s forthcoming action adventure.
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BBC1 orders The Great North Passion
BBC1 has commissioned a third ambitious re-telling of the Passion story - the centrepiece of which will be a giant cross made up of shipping containers in South Shields.
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Comment
Multiplatform content in 2014: what's in store?
Interactive formats and YouTube content are here to stay - but remote controls are out
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News
BBC hires new Horizon editor
Steve Crabtree will become the editor of Horizon in January, replacing Aidan Laverty.
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Ed Vaizey to probe diversity stats
Ed Vaizey, UK Minister for UK Culture, Communications and Creative Industries is calling on senior figures in TV, film and arts to explain the lack of diversity in their industries at a ministerial roundtable next week.