All Broadcast articles in 17 February 2012 – Page 5
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NewsITV1 eyes Jonathan Ross panel show
Jonathan Ross is gearing up to pilot an ITV1 comedy panel show inspired by Twitter.
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NewsBBC staff plan second Birmingham strike
BBC Birmingham staff are to hold a second strike over plans to relocate all factual production to Bristol and Salford.
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Comment15 Feb '12
“They come out of it as they come out of their carriages - fabulously. Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsSteps returning to Sky Living
Reformed pop group Steps are to feature in a second series for Sky Living, tracking their 22-date comeback tour around the UK.
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RatingsGypsy Weddings returns with 4.8m
TUESDAY: C4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings returned with more than 4.8m viewers - around 800k down on last year’s series launch.
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NewsCurrent plans Spurlock Sunday
Current TV is dedicating an entire day to Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock built around his award-winning expose into fast food giant McDonalds.
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NewsCountryfile's Thorman to leave BBC
Andrew Thorman, named as having contributed to the discrimination and victimisation of Miriam O’Reilly during last year’s tribunal, is leaving the BBC after 35 years.
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RatingsTOWIE recorded by 400k
CONSOLIDATED: ITV2’s The Only Way is Essex was recorded by 400k viewers to take its total audience close to 1.3m.
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NewsBroadcast Indie Survey: last call for entries
Broadcast urgently need indies to return their complete forms for our annual indies survey.
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NewsTarget Entertainment in sales talks
Target Entertainment, the international distributor of Fifi and the Flowertots, is up for sale just 18 months after being bought by Metrodome.
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NewsC4 acquires Black Cab Sessions
Channel 4 has picked up online music format The Black Cab Sessions USA, which has been adapted into a longer form for TV.
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NewsBafta to screen Stephen Lawrence film
Bafta is holding a special screening of the recent Panorama Special – Stephen Lawrence: A Time For Justice next month, in aid of the charity set up in his name.
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NewsNuttall returns to BBC as marketing chief
Lindsay Nuttall is returning to the BBC to head up marketing for drama and flagship channel BBC1.
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Comment14 Feb '12
“I was sympathetic, without being surprised by the treatment dished out.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsDiamond Queen loses 700k
MONDAY: The Diamond Queen lost 700k viewers and its victory crown as Whitechapel took the honours.
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RatingsGrimm debuts with 386k
MONDAY: US fantasy crime drama Grimm launched with nearly five times the usual audience for Watch.
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NewsZig Zag to produce Whitney Houston doc
The downward spiral of US singer Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday, will be chronicled via a fast turnaround doc from Zig Zag Productions and US magazine The National Enquirer.
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NewsAnimation tax break lobby grows
Animation UK has signed up a further three companies to its lobby group, which is calling for tax breaks for British animators.
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NewsPolice Interceptors sold into Europe
Channel 5 series Police Interceptors has been sold into Europe and Australia by Target Entertainment.
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CommentWild India, Nat Geo Wild
Working with local crews can take a production to the next level, writes Icon Films’ Harry Marshall.