All Broadcast articles in 18 December 2014
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NewsDiscovery scores rights to Real Madrid match
Discovery is ramping up its interest in football with a deal to broadcast a high-profile friendly between Real Madrid and AC Milan on UK free-to-air channel Quest and British Eurosport later this month.
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NewsBBC spends £800,000 settling unfair dismissal claims
The BBC has spent more than £800,000 settling nearly 50 claims of unfair dismissal over the past 10 years, a Freedom of Information Act request has revealed.
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NewsRona Fairhead blocks publication of Savile review correspondence
Rona Fairhead has blocked the publication of some BBC correspondence with the Dame Janet Smith Review amid concerns the corporation has attempted to delay the investigation.
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NewsBBC quest for disabled The Apprentice candidate
The BBC is on the hunt for the first visibly disabled entrepreneur to star in next year’s series of The Apprentice following criticism over a lack of diversity in previous series of BBC1’s business show.
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VideoVIDEO: George Clooney in Downton Abbey, ITV
George Clooney will star with the cast of ITV’s hit period drama Downton Abbey in a mini episode recorded exclusively for Text Santa
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NewsSyfy picks up Extant TV rights
Syfy has picked up the TV rights to CBS Studios International’s Extant after it launched earlier this year on Amazon Prime Instant Video.
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NewsTV accountant gets suspended jail sentence over tax fraud
Television accountant Jonathan Lunn has been handed a four and a half-year suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of tax fraud.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Playhouse Presents: Marked
“The painstaking procedural elements were confidently compelling and the performances uniformly classy”
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RatingsThe Fall finale arrests series high
THURSDAY: The conclusion of Gillian Anderson’s BBC2 drama The Fall arrested a series high of 2.5m.
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NewsOfcom kicks off Sky Sports wholesale consultation
Ofcom has opened a fresh consultation to investigate whether Sky should continue to offer its Sky Sports channels to rival pay TV operators.
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NewsBlast! rides London night bus for C4
A London night bus is to be fitted with 16 cameras for Channel 4’s latest fixed-rig format from Blast! Films.
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RatingsLibrarians books a strong audience
On Monday the first episode of SyFy’s new series The Librarians from US network ABC achieved 351k/1.5%
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RatingsClassy performance for Remember Me
BBC1’s spooky triptych Remember Me finished on Sunday 7 December at 9pm with a consolidated rating of 5.4million/18%
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RatingsSkint turns tables on Posh People
On Monday at 9pm, the third episode of Channel 4’s Skint (1.1million/5%;267k+1) grew by 150k week-on-week
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NewsBorix FX to acquire Imagineer Systems
VFX plug-in developer Boris FX is set to acquire Imagineer Systems.
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NewsJames Harding: Panorama won’t be ‘hived off’
BBC director of news and current affairs James Harding has argued that it is unlikely that the corporation will hive off Panorama into a commercial entity under plans to transform in-house production.
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RatingsA quantum of success for BBC4
On Tuesday, the first of BBC4’s two-part The Secrets of Quantum Physics achieved 0.6million/2.7%
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NewsUkip move forces Michael family off Gogglebox
Channel 4 has axed Gogglebox’s Michael family from the show after father Andrew announced he plans to stand for Ukip in next year’s general election.