All Broadcast articles in 18 December 2015 – Page 2
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NewsBafta and Beijing Film Academy sign MOU
Bafta and the Beijing Film Academy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support greater collaboration between film and TV students and professionals.
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NewsObjective unveils fact-ent label
All3Media indie Objective Productions has taken the wraps off its factual entertainment label, headed up by former Sky entertainment commissioner Deborah Sargeant.
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NewsBroadcastnow log-in problems
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NewsITV to step in as BBC backs out of F1
The BBC is to back out of its Formula 1 coverage three years early, with ITV poised to pick up free-to-air rights from next season.
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RatingsPeep Show ends on low
WEDNESDAY: Peep Show’s final ever episode went out with a ratings whimper, as The Apprentice semi-final comfortably won the 9pm slot.
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NewsLiberty Global hires programming boss
All3Media co-owner Liberty Global has hired a managing director of programming to oversee its international content strategy.
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NewsUS network AXS lands Hoff The Record
US cable network AXS has picked up Dave’s mockumentary Hoff The Record.
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CriticsTV Critics: Peep Show; Love You To Death: A Year of Domestic Violence
“I kind of wish Peep Show could just continue every year until Mark and Jez die in soiled trousers from appropriately mundane illnesses.”
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RatingsRatings analysis: teatime dramas
Shunted around the Saturday schedule and with stiff competition from ITV, Doctor Who’s latest series was its lowest-rating yet. Stephen Price examines how it compares with its predecessors
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Behind The ScenesBeowulf, ITV
The producers of ITV’s take on the Anglo-Saxon epic tell Olly Grant how they created a fantasy universe from scratch and made an ancient saga work for a modern audience
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CommentTV in 2015: rolling with the punches
It was a memorable year for British telly, with high-profile exits, Top Gear and Bargain Hunt bust-ups, poltergeists performing wonders for Sky and BGT hit by a doggy-double scandal
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Behind The ScenesDickensian, BBC1
On a vast Victorian street set in a warehouse in west London, James Rampton hears how Red Planet took a light-footed approach to its rummage through Charles Dickens’ brain
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Behind The ScenesWar and Peace, BBC1
At more than 1,400 pages, adapting War And Peace as a six-part drama was not for the fainthearted. Olly Grant meets the director, producer and crew charged with bringing the epic story to life
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CommentTurning a launch into an event
Expect more experimental release models in 2016, says Kate Bulkley
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NewsThe global trends for 2016
Broadcast international editor Peter White makes his predictions for the year ahead
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NewsGlobal news in the spotlight
Growth in international news channels is a response to increasing appetite among audiences for multiple perspectives, according to panellists at the RT 10th anniversary conference in Moscow last week.
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NewsBBC1’s youth task laid bare
BBC1 faces an uphill battle to retain young audiences in the absence of a linear BBC3, with its volume of viewers aged 16-34 on course to fall nearly 10% this year.
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NewsPlimsoll targets growth by mixing factual genres
Plimsoll Productions, the indie set up by former RDF exec Grant Mansfield, wants to blend fact ent and wildlife formats as it builds on the 125 hours of orders it has won in its first two years.
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NewsBBC object-based trials explained
Alex Farber reports on four projects designed to improve efficiency and evolve storytelling