All Broadcast articles in 17 April 2014
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News
Dock10 adopts Avid-based end-to-end workflow
IBC 2014: Dock10 has implemented an integrated, end-to-end workflow based on Avid’s Media Central Platform.
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News
DPP-compliant file delivery firms revealed
IBC 2014: The first group of companies to have developed file delivery tools that have passed the Digital Production Partnership’s Compliance Programme have been announced.
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News
The Farm turns to files for programme archive service
The Farm has launched a storage service for finished programmes that it believes will help production companies with the shift to file-based delivery.
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News
ITV pilots sitcoms from Green Wing writers
Darren Boyd and Katherine Parkinson have been lined up to star in two separate ITV sitcoms from the writers behind Channel 4’s cult comedy Green Wing.
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News
Major TV dramas face disruption in pay dispute
Bectu has threatened to derail production on dramas including Call the Midwife and Doctor Who if a long-running pay dispute is not resolved.
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News
Discovery and Sky drop C5 bid
Discovery Communications and BSkyB’s £350m bid for Channel 5 appears to have been insufficient to land the broadcaster from Northern & Shell.
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News
Waitrose & C4 partner for cookery AFP
Channel 4 has teamed up with Waitrose to create an ad-funded programming (AFP) Saturday morning live cookery show fronted by Steve Jones and Lisa Snowdon.
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Comment
Obituary: Richard Broke
Producer Richard Broke, whose credits included Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, has died
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Comment
London studios must rise to the challenge
With several sites closing, studio owners must react to changing demands, says Piers Read
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News
C4 orders Shed of the Year show
Channel 4 is to go behind the scenes at Britain’s “prestigious” Shed of the Year competition for a three-part series.
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News
Chinese TV delegation heads to UK
A delegation of Chinese TV industry executives is heading to London in September to forge ties with UK indies and broadcasters as part of the Screen China event.
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Ratings
Mad Men fails to sell Sky Atlantic
Mad Men returned for a seventh series on Wednesday with a meagre audience of 28,500 - as Channel 4’s How to Get a Council House was back with record ratings.
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Behind The Scenes
Jamaica Inn, BBC1
The Cornish moors of Daphne du Maurier’s story were even more breathtaking than director Philippa Lowthorpe could have believed
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Video
VIDEO: I Wanna Marry Harry, Fox
Click to view the trailer for Zig Zag Production’s reality-romance format I Wanna Marry Harry for Fox.
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Critics
TV Critics: How To Get A Council House; Mad Men; Ian Hislop's Olden Days; Party House
“He undermined his argument with soundbites from the usual Socialist Worker types”
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News
NAB 2014: what we learnt in Las Vegas
We take a look at some of the key announcements and unveilings that took place at the broadcast equipment extravaganza.
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News
Shetland to return to BBC1
BBC1 has commissioned a second series of crime drama Shetland from ITV Studios.
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News
Tivo boosts Netflix UK subscribers
The number of Netflix subscribers has grown to 14% of the UK’s online population - bolstered by the launch of the service on Virgin Media’s Tivo platform, according to a survey from Decipher Media.
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Comment
Lenny Henry: The Roadmap for Change
TV Collective founder Simone Pennant on bringing Lenny Henry’s diversity vision to life
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Features
Preparing for television 2.0
The internet is likely to have a more profound impact on TV than the shift from analogue to digital, says Mike Grieve