All Broadcast articles in 19 June 2015 – Page 2
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Comment
BBC Academy puts focus on digital
BBC Academy director Joe Godwin responds to claims training is slipping down the BBC’s agenda
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News
Sports stars go head-to-head in ITV format
Richard Bacon is to front a six-part entertainment format for ITV in which eight sports stars will compete in a series of physical and mental challenges.
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News
Peter Fincham: ITV not a citadel
Peter Fincham has dismissed allegations that ITV is becoming a “citadel” in which commissioning decisions favour its growing in-house production empire.
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Podcast
Talking TV - BBC3 special: Jimmy Mulville & Jon Thoday
Jimmy Mulville and Jon Thoday visit Broadcast towers for a Talking TV special, where they discuss their mission to save BBC3.
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News
Chris Evans urges fans to apply for Top Gear job
Chris Evans has urged listeners of his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show to apply to work on the next series of Top Gear - but warned there was “no guarantee” that a member of the public would land a job.
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News
New culture committee chair elected
Jesse Norman, the Tory MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, will replace John Whittingdale as the chair of the influential Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMSC).
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News
Former C4 disability exec Alison Walsh joins BBC
The BBC has handed Shell diversity boss Tunde Ogungbesan and former Channel 4 disability executive Alison Walsh lead roles in its diversity and inclusion team.
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Features
Behind the scenes: Deutschland 83
With a Cold War backdrop and an ’80s pop soundtrack, US-German co-pro Deutschland 83 is hotly tipped for international success. Andy Stout finds out how the sounds and look of the period were recreated
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Ratings
The Interceptor stumbles for BBC1
WEDNESDAY: BBC1 police drama The Interceptor shed almost 1m viewers from last week’s opener as England’s Women’s World Cup victory netted 2.3m for BBC3.
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News
BBC tests brain-controlled iPlayer
The BBC has developed an internal iPlayer prototype which can be controlled by viewers’ brainwaves.
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Comment
Resolution revolution
It’s time for broadcasters and media companies to face the issue of Ultra HD, says John Ive
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Features
Big Box, Little Box
Create titles for the series about people roadtesting a variety of gadgets, making sure that the sequence related to as many people as possible.
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Features
The John Bishop Show
Picture and audio post for the 8 x 45-minute variety series that features acts selected by comedian John Bishop for the show, which is recorded at the Hackney Empire in London.
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Features
Hoff the Record
Picture and audio post for the 6 x 30-minute semiimprovised comedy in which David Hasselhoff comes to the UK to reignite his flagging career.
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News
Conservative MP calls on BBC to embrace change
Conservative MP and former BBC reporter Julian Knight has argued that the corporation must use charter renewal as an opportunity to fundamentally re-examine itself.
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Critics
TV Critics: The Bin Laden Conspiracy?; Long Lost Family;
“Corbin attempted balance but was thwarted by lack of footage and sources. We were left having learnt pretty much nothing.”
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News
BBC Children’s to host 2017 World Summit
BBC Children’s is to host 2017’s 8th World Summit on Media for Children in Manchester.
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Features
Drama special: ratings analysis
Home and abroad, British drama is in demand, with hits over the past 18 months ranging from BBC2’s adaptation of Wolf Hall to ITV’s Cilla biopic. Stephen Price reports