All Broadcast articles in 18 March 2016 – Page 3
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Features
Channel 5: making progress
Channel 5 is a broadcaster in transition, and while many of its main suppliers remained the same in 2015, it has started to get to grips with life under its new owner.
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Features
Channel 4: creative comeback
Channel 4 has gone up in the indie community’s estimation, with survey respondents naming it this year’s best broadcaster to deal with.
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Features
ITV: losing ground
ITV’s sturdy performance on indie relations in recent years is a source of much pride for former director of television Peter Fincham.
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Features
BBC: falling behind
The BBC has dropped to third place in the best broadcaster to work with ranking this year, and tops the worst broadcaster to work with list for the first time since 2013.
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News
Sky establishes virtual reality division
Sky has created a dedicated in-house virtual reality production unit which is to make its debut with two films from this weekend’s Formula 1 launch.
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News
Lambert: C4 privatisation 'disastrous'
Gogglebox and Wife Swap creator Stephen Lambert has claimed that the privatisation of Channel 4 would be “disastrous” for the British independent television sector.
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News
Evolutions acquires Bristol's Big Bang Post
Evolutions has increased its presence in Bristol by buying the trade and key assets of Big Bang Post Production, securing 14 jobs in the process.
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News
ITV America hires non-scripted chief
ITV America has appointed former Turner and Mark Burnett executive David Eilenberg to run ITV Entertainment.
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Ratings
Brendan O’Carroll's Easter Rising doc lands 1m
WEDNESDAY: Brendan O’Carroll’s personal history of the Easter Rising informed 1m on BBC2.
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Features
Watershed moment for TV
BBC Studios, charter renewal and a potential privatisation of Channel 4 are the big issues for indies in this year’s survey as fears grow over government tinkering in ‘distinctive’ TV
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Comment
It's TV, but not as we know it
Our definition has to change to fit the audience, says Kate Bulkley
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News
Labour accuses government of 'bullying' BBC & C4
Shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle has criticised the government’s “ideological approach” to the broadcasting sector and accused her opposite number John Whittingdale of “bullying” the BBC and Channel 4.
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Critics
TV Critics: Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War, Horizon: The Immortalist; The Interviews: Peter Sellers
“A solid narrator with an eye for a good line and a nice way with a haunting image.”
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News
BBC3 orders Jane Treays addiction doc
Mum, Heroin and Me director Jane Treays is to produce a Rare Day documentary about drug addiction for BBC3 – as Pulse Films secures a film about legal highs.
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Digital editions
Broadcast Indie Survey 2016
The definitive report on the UK independent production sector
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News
Vice expands across Eastern Europe
Vice is expanding across Eastern Europe with the launch of country-specific online services and production hubs in seven territories.
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News
Theroux explores alcoholism and brain injury for BBC2
Louis Theroux will return to BBC2 this year with two hour-long films dealing with alcohol addiction and brain injury.
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Features
Game on for sport OB firms
Outside broadcast suppliers are in a race to upgrade to Ultra High Definition and IP as the technology teeters on the cusp of becoming mainstream.
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Features
The new crop of hit-makers: ones to watch
With credits including BBC1 Le Carré thriller The Night Manager, Sky 1 music panel show Bring The Noise and C4’s Formula 1 coverage, we profile 10 UK indies on their way up