All Broadcast articles in 16 September 2011 – Page 4
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FeaturesWFTV: learning from the masters
The WFTV Mentoring Scheme provides an opportunity to gain valuable insight from some leading industry figures. Rebecca Waller-Davies finds out how this year’s intake got on.
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CommentProtect the World Service
Will changes to funding damage or revolutionise this key resource?
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FeaturesTickety Toc, Zodiak
Broadcast shines the spotlight on a new animated kids series that takes place behind the face of a clock.
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NewsITV1 and C5 cut regional spend
ITV1 and Channel 5’s out-of-London spend and production hours declined last year, with ITV1’s dropping for the second year in a row.
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NewsBBC2 flies in Pan Am doc to partner US drama
BBC2 has ordered a one-off documentary charting the history of US airline Pan Am to coincide with the channel’s acquisition of the ABC drama bearing its name.
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NewsBBC3 kicks off bid to create buzz about The Fades
BBC3 is distributing a range of additional online content around new drama The Fades to attract young horror fans and kickstart a viral buzz about the series.
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NewsC4 re-enacts ‘Great Escape’
A group of serving RAF officers will replicate the legendary World War II ‘Great Escape’, immortalised in the 1963 Steve McQueen film, for Channel 4.
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NewsE4 to offer Made In Chelsea fans 'rewards'
Structured reality series Made In Chelsea will be the next E4 programme to offer viewers exclusive stickers and rewards if they ‘check in’ using US social network GetGlue.
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NewsTragedy of Turing to be made into C4 drama doc
Alan Turing, the British mathematician who broke the Enigma code in World War II, will be the subject of a Channel 4 drama documentary.
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NewsC4 recommissions Four Rooms
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of dealmaking show Four Rooms.
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News71 Degrees North goes global
ITV reality show 71 Degrees North has been sold to six new territories by Banijay International.
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NewsGutteridge close to UK two-screen app deal
TV executive Tom Gutteridge is on the brink of signing a deal with a UK broadcaster for a new two-screen technology called Screach.
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NewsUKTV launches first app
UKTV is launching its first paid-for mobile app, for DIY channel Home, to boost its profile across new platforms and generate extra revenues.
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NewsParthenon boosts team as major orders come in
Parthenon Entertainment has boosted its Bristol production office with three appointments and unveiled two major commissions for broadcasters in Austria and Germany.
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NewsMilestone buys Oil to flesh out digital offer
Oil Productions, the multiplatform producer behind Channel 4 Education project Routes, has been acquired by AIM-listed technology and media consultant Milestone Group.
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NewsCake wins rights to Pocoyo
Cake has snapped up the distribution rights to children’s show Pocoyo, after ITV Studios Global Entertainment walked away from the series earlier this year.
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NewsYesterday expands commissioning strategy
UKTV factual channel Yesterday is moving beyond its traditional heartland of 1940s-themed programming to the end of the 1970s as the channel ramps up its investment in UK content.
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NewsPrimeval goes dark for spin-off
Impossible Pictures has secured an order from Canadian sci-fi broadcaster Space for an “older, darker and scarier” post-watershed spin-off of dinosaur drama Primeval.
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NewsFast Show pair to tour UK
Fast Show stars Simon Day and John Thomson are fronting a travelogue about the differences between the UK’s counties for AETN’s History channel.