All Broadcast articles in 17 September 2015 – Page 5
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Ratings
Longleat opens its doors to 3m
MONDAY: BBC1’s All Change at Longleat took more than 3m viewers behind the scenes of the Wiltshire stately home, in line with its recent access series The Met: Policing London.
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News
Renegade co-founder takes on Warner group role
Renegade Pictures creative director Jon Rowlands is leaving the indie after nearly 10 years to take on a newly created brief at Warner Bros. Television Production UK.
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Comment
How to avoid 24 hours in A&E on foreign shoots
Faced with a medical emergency in Athens, Paul Elston was confronted with a stark choice: to protect his health or the shoot?
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News
Kudos reshuffles production team
Kudos joint chief executives Diederick Santer and Daniel Isaacs have reshuffled the company’s production team.
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C4 orders wedding format from US indie
US indie Half Yard Productions is setting up in the UK to make a series for Channel 4 loosely based on its hit TLC format Say Yes To The Dress.
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News
Hello Halo lands debut BBC commission
Greenbird-backed Hello Halo has won its first BBC commission – a five-part wildlife series featuring celebrity guests including Dermot O’Leary.
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News
BBC4 plans interactive pop music series
7 Wonder is to produce a four-part interactive history format about pop music for BBC4.
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Critics
TV Critics: Countdown to Life; All Change at Longleat; Six Degrees of Separation
“Mildly interesting, mildly edifying. Born a touch prematurely, perhaps.”
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News
Big names lined up for Broadcast Commissioning Forum
Recently appointed BBC genre chiefs Patrick Holland and Polly Hill are among the big names speaking at Broadcast’s Commissioning Forum in November.
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News
BBC Children’s reshapes senior team
BBC Children’s has shaken up its senior management team, appointing Sarah Muller as its first in-house creative director of scripted, animation and co-productions.
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News
Weinstein Company acquires Icelandic drama
Icelandic drama Trapped, which has been picked up by the BBC, is set to launch in the US after it was acquired by The Weinstein Company.
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Ratings
This Is England locked up by An Inspector Calls
SUNDAY: This Is England struggled to reach 2m viewers in slot dominated by drama, including BBC1’s adaptation An Inspector Calls.
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The X Factor hits series high
SATURDAY: The X Factor hit a series high of almost 8m viewers for ITV, twice the crowd entertained by BBC1’s Last Night of the Proms coverage.
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News
Analysis: why Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour will fight for the BBC
In June, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell strode into a Parliament committee room midway through a debate on the future of BBC.
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News
Children's producers urge BBC to double spend
The creator of Teletubbies and Aardman Animations’ co-founder are among nearly 80 executives to have signed a letter urging the BBC to double its spend on children’s programming and establish a £55m contestable funding pot.
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Comment
Drama Village's decade proves doubters wrong
Birmingham base’s output has put drama at heart of daytime and nurtured many careers, says Will Trotter
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News
BBC orders Aneurin Bevan bipoic
The BBC is developing a 90-minute film with screenwriter Andrew Davies about post-war health minister and founder of the National Health Service Aneurin Bevan.
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Features
David Kosse, Film 4
Film 4 director David Kosse and his team talk Andreas Wiseman through the company’s direction, its roster of up-and-coming directors and future projects.
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Critics
TV Critics: This is England ’90; An Inspector Calls; It Was Alright in the 1980s
“Harry Enfield used to do a sketch about thick, thieving Scousers. This Is England was like an hour of that.”
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Ratings
Gogglebox returns with record ratings
FRIDAY: Gogglebox returned with record ratings, breaking the 4m viewer mark for the first time.