All Broadcast articles in 16 June 2006 – Page 2
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NewsPEER POLL: C4's new media rights deal
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is C4's deal with Pact good news for Indies? To vote you must be a registered user of broadcastnow.co.uk. Click here to ...
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Digital channel launches - Designs on digital?
Although it's getting easier to launch a new channel, there's morecompetition out there once you have. David Wood finds out what needs tohappen to make the channel last longer than the launch night party.
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NewsBig Brother wins out over Spiritual Sisters with 4.9m
Channel 4 and BBC2 went head to head last night in a battle of the reality shows. BBC2's reality offering The Convent attracted a respectable 2.7 million (11.4%) at 9pm but failed to beat C4's long running popular reality show ...
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NewsWorld Cup Watch: Germany v Poland scores 7.1m for BBC1
BBC1 scored another ratings winner victory last night with their coverage of the Germany v Poland match drawing in 7.1million.
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NewsBBC chooses Salford Quays for new Manchester site
BBC governors have chosen Salford Quays as the location for its new north-west base, after months of deliberations.
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Quickfire wins Timewatch tsunami order
Bristol-based Quickfire Media has been commissioned to make a 60-minute film about the devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami which hit Crete in 1600BC for Timewatchon BBC2. The programme will look at new evidence about the scale of the eruption and 120-foot waves it produced. The ...
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Old school tie still worn in newsroom
The image of TV newsrooms as the preserve of privately educated journalists has been given further credence after a survey showed that more than 60% of the UK's leading news presenters went to independent schools.
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MTV reorders September lookalike show
September Films has been commissioned to make a second series of its fantasy dating format My Ownfor MTV in the US . The 20 x 30-minute series, to air later this year, will be executive produced by David Green. In the show music fans get ...
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Proms has Klass
Former CD:UKpresenter Myleene Klass has been hired by the BBC to add a touch of glamour to its classical music coverage, giving her a presenting role for BBC4's coverage of this year's Proms.
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UKTV history looks at wartime love lives
UKTV History has commissioned a series exploring the British pursuit of sex and love during the Second World War. Sex, Love and Warlooks at people who pushed aside convention and broke many of the taboos that existed in Britain in the 1940s. Made by Bristol-based ...
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HD Smoke for Jelly
Bristol-based post facility Jelly Television has invested in a Smoke HD editing and finishing system running on Linux, in addition to upgrading its existing Smoke system to version 7. The newly installed system will be used to create the graphics for the second series of BBC's ...
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MTV hires Harvey
MTV Networks UK has hired John Harvey to the role of vice-president of production and development to create a long-term programming strategy across its nine-channel music portfolio. Harvey, the former creative director and co-director of Jam Creative, will lead the production team that serves all MTV's channel brands and commission ...
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Format Focus: How to get the guy
The producers of Queer Eye for the Straight Guyreturn with a new romantic reality series
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Evolutions poaches
Evolutions has poached The Facility's facilities director, Tracy Thomas, as business development manager. Thomas had also overseen sales and marketing with clients such as North One Television, Al-Jazeera, Endemol and RDF. She will join the business development team working across both Evolutions and Nats.
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Endemol sells Spoons to Germany
Channel 4 sketch show Spoons has become the latest Endemol UK format to sell around the world.
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VTR Group moves to dismantle TMR
The VTR Group is dismantling its loss-making archive and restoration subsidiary TMR, which includes closing its two Soho offices and making redundancies.
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Hit meets demand
Kids TV production company and rights owner Hit Entertainment has installed universal encoding platform ContentAgent-XR from Root6. The new kit will be used to help generate and distribute material for client and sales presentations more quickly. The purchase comes in response to an increased demand for encoded clips on DVD.
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UKTV Food tours Scotland's cuisine
UKTV Food has bought The Woman Who Ate Scotland, one of two series picked up by acquisitions executive Katie Keenan to air this year. Made by Tern Television, the 8 x 30-minute STV series follows food writer Nell Nelson as she explores her native Scotland ...
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The Convent completed by Envy
Envy has completed the post for Tiger Aspect's The Convent. Produced and directed by Sandi Scott and Rebecca Ciallella, the 4 x 60-minute series follows four women who leave everything behind to live for 40 days with a community of nuns at Arundel in Sussex ...
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Commissioner's Q & A
The UKTV commissioning executive (entertainment) has an eye for talent and wants shows that take its core UKTV Gold concept forward while for UKTV G2's younger audience, it's edgy comedy that appeals