All Broadcast articles in 17 February 2017 – Page 5
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Ratings
Moorside dominates for BBC1
TUESDAY: ITV Studios’ Shannon Matthews-inspired drama The Moorside maintained its strong performance to dominate the 9pm slot.
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News
Arri, Red and Sony scoop technical Academy Awards
Arri, Red and Sony were among the manufacturers to pick up Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements earlier this week.
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News
Discovery plots second free channel
Discovery is to launch a second free-to-air channel in the UK, following its acrimonious carriage deal negotiations with Sky.
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News
Teletubbies creator wins CBeebies show
The indie established by Teletubbies and In the Night Garden co-creator Andrew Davenport has secured its first commission – a CBeebies series set in a picture-book world.
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Video
Mutiny, Channel 4
Windfall Films production recreating the legendary Mutiny on the Bounty voyage.
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News
Facebook launches TV app
Facebook has launched a video app for TV to offer users the ability to watch content on a bigger screen.
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News
Jigsaw24 finalises deal to acquire rival reseller Root6
Jigsaw24 has bought rival reseller Root6 in a deal that also includes its systems integration team and its technology division.
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Behind The Scenes
Andrew Marr: My Brain and Me, BBC2
The presenter agreed to our doc on one condition: he wouldn’t cry for the camera
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News
Amazon hires Euro commissioning boss
Amazon has hired Fremantle Media International executive Georgia Brown as director of original TV for Europe as its originations push accelerates, Broadcast has learned.
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News
C4 reveals sports tenders winners
Whisper Films and FilmNova are to produce two of Channel 4’s major sporting events following a competitive pitch process.
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Video
Prime Suspect: 1973, ITV
Noho Film and Television drama which portrays the young Jane Tennison.
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News
BBC2 closes in on SNL-style show
BBC2 is preparing the last of its late-night variety pilots in the next few weeks – paving the way to launch a show this summer.
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Ratings
Valentine’s boost for First Dates
MONDAY: Channel 4 found love with a First Dates Valentine’s Special which soared ahead of its Hotel spin-off.
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News
'Obsolete' radio regulation in spotlight
The government has kicked off a consultation to overhaul the “increasingly obsolete” regulation of national and local commercial radio stations.
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News
Manic Street Preachers doc heads to Sky
Manic Street Preachers’ album Everything Must Go is to be the subject of a feature-length documentary for Sky Arts.
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News
Prue Leith set to join Bake Off
Former Great British Menu judge Prue Leith is to step into Mary Berry’s shoes on Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off, according to reports.
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Critics
First Dates; Girls; The Wedding Day; Art of France
“The voyeuristically delicious action on the tables-for-two was by far the best thing here.”
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Video
The Trouble with Dad, Channel 4
Sundog Pictures doc on David Baddiel, his brother Ivor and their father who suffers from Pick’s Disease.
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News
Warner Bros unveils UK strategy
Warner Bros is bringing its UK indies including Wall to Wall, Twenty Twenty and Ricochet closer into the corporate fold following the departure of Claire Hungate and Nick Emmerson.