All Broadcast articles in 17 July 2014 – Page 4
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News
BBC S&PP delays TVC return
BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) will not return to Television Centre until 2017.
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BBC to quadruple disabled talent levels
The BBC is to appoint a disability executive and aims to quadruple the level of disabled talent appearing on-screen over the next three years.
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Time Warner rejects $80bn Fox takeover
Time Warner has rejected an $80billion takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.
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BBC Store hunts boss ahead of Simon Danker exit
BBC Worldwide is hunting for a general manager of BBC Store ahead of the departure of Simon Danker this autumn.
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ITV's High Noon wins US gameshow
ITV-owned US indie High Noon is to make a queue-based gameshow for US broadcaster Game Show Network.
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Behind The Scenes
Testing Britain's Worst Drivers: Crash Course, ITV
Technical pre-production was key to ensuring our crashes went smoothly
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Comedy Central debuts Sky Living show
Sky Living sitcom Give Out Girls is to debut on Comedy Central after the broadcasters reached an agreement over the Big Talk Productions show.
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Ofcom hits Discovery with £100k fine
Ofcom has fined Discovery £100,000 for broadcasting several episodes of Deadly Women which featured dramatic reconstructions of torture, knife attacks and dismemberment before the 9pm watershed.
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Ratings
Too Many Immigrants transports 3.5m
TUESDAY: Too Many Immigrants fell around 2m short of BBC1’s slot average - as BBC3’s Glasgow Girls outperformed Channel 4’s Utopia.
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Watch cleans up with Bin There, Dump That
Watch is to explore Britain’s waste industry in its new ob-doc series Bin There, Dump That.
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Comment
Finally, an end to quotas is in sight
It’s encouraging to see the BBC taking heed of indies’ calls to liberate in-house production
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Trevor McDonald meets mafia for ITV
Trevor McDonald is to follow up his hard-hitting prison documentaries by delving into the murky world of the American mafia in a two-part series for ITV.
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Critics
TV Critics: Nick and Margaret; Glasgow Girls; Exposure
“As the hour went on, I felt increasingly outraged.”
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Union strikes to disrupt BBC Commonweath Games coverage
The BBC’s coverage of the opening day of the 2014 Commonwealth Games faces disruption as unions agreed to strike after rejecting a revised pay offer from the corporation.
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Danny Cohen signals major terms of trade shakeup
BBC director of television Danny Cohen has argued that super-indies should not receive the same terms of trade as smaller producers.
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C4 orders classical music drink & drugs doc
Northern Irish indie Big Mountain is to explore the lives of a group of 10 classical musicians struggling with alcohol and drug addiction in a Channel 4 documentary.
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BBC rejects subscription model
BBC policy director James Heath has argued replacing the licence fee with a subscription model would create “many more losers than winners”.
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Arqiva, Bauer & UTV team for DAB bid
Arqiva, Bauer Radio and UTV Media have issued a joint bid to operate a second DAB multiplex offering the capacity for a further nationwide 10 digital radio stations.
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Comment
BBC needs to be lean for creativity to flourish
The BBC must avoid the bureaucracy of the Birt era in its plans to cut production quotas
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Comment
The Twitter verdict: Royal Marine's Commando School; Utopia
“So commandos do go commando then #CommandoSchool”