All Broadcast articles in 18 February 2011 – Page 3
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NewsChristopher Lunn triumphs in High Court battle
Christopher Lunn & Company has won back its tax agency status after a High Court Judge ruled that HM Revenue & Customs was not within its rights to blacklist the company.
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NewsCorrie launches mini 'webisodes'
Fans of ITV’s Coronation Street have been given a peak into the late-night pillow talk of two of the soap’s most legendary characters.
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NewsBBC Showcase moving to Liverpool
BBC Worldwide’s annual programme event is to leave Brighton after more than 30 years and move to Liverpool.
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NewsTwitter can aid businesses, says chief exec
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo has told a major conference that the micro-blogging website can become a massive tool for promoting businesses and increasing their profile.
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NewsVision+Media cuts 40% of staff
Screen agency Vision+Media is to make 40% of its staff redundant as it bids to hit its budget ahead of being merged into Creative England.
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NewsOutcasts cast out of peak slot
BBC1 controller Danny Cohen has moved drama Outcasts from its peaktime Monday and Tuesday evening slots to 10.25pm on Sundays, after a less than arresting start to the series.
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NewsC5 signs playout deal with Ascent Media Network Services
Channel 5 has switched the playout of its multichannels from Red Bee Media to Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS).
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The Broadcast InterviewRuth Jones: keeping everything Tidy
Sky 1 asked for ‘the British Roseanne’, but Tidy Productions’ first major commission snowballed into something bigger. Ruth Jones tells Robin Parker about taking control.
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CommentSpice Trail / House of Anubis / Model Agency
Screenchannel’s Emma Barker and Mentorn’s Emma Riley on a spice girl, school house and model angst.
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CommentBrit drama rivals best of US
We’ve got the writing talent, if not the budget of a Boardwalk Empire.
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The Broadcast InterviewMonkey’s Kingdom building
NBCU-owned indie eyes the US after making key hire and winning major E4 commission.
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FeaturesCardiff takes on the capital
New technology is making it easier for Welsh post houses to compete for work with Soho, but super-indies taking facility work in-house is a growing concern. George Bevir reports.
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Behind The ScenesThe Sparticle Mystery, CBBC
The series may be set in a place where there are no grown-ups, says Stephen Smallwood, but it was important that parents could enjoy it too.
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CommentEmployers are losing the plot, not Skillset
I have to take issue with a couple of items in Moray Coulter’s otherwise useful article on the TV freelance skills gap (‘Why TV faces a growing skills gap, Broadcast 21.01.11).
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NewsBBC2 HD still two years away
It will be at least two years before the BBC launches another simulcast high-definition channel - despite producers being required to supply all content as HD from 1 April.
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NewsBBC faces £20m more pain
The BBC will have to find an extra £20m not previously factored in to the cut to the licence fee to pay for redundancy and restructuring costs at the World Service.
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NewsNHU wins first BBC3 order with dog swap series
The BBC’s Natural History Unit has secured its first commission for BBC3, with a series in which teenagers swap their spoiled pooches for “extreme” working dogs.
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NewsC4 spells out aims for multiplatform orders
Channel 4 is implementing a new framework for measuring the success of multiplatform commissions.
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NewsThe Garden pays visit to A&E for C4 fixed-rig doc
Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple are making their biggest ever fixed-rig show, using 70 cameras to film a London hospital’s accident and emergency department for Channel 4.
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NewsC5 drops plan to link pay to performance
Channel 5 has made a U-turn on its plans to link supplier pay to the performance of shows.