All Broadcast articles in 19 March 2015
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Ratings
Top 15 consolidated shows: 2 - 8 Mar 2015
BBC1’s Poldark launched on Sunday 8 March at 9pm with an impressive 8.8 million/29% after more than 1.7 million recorded and watched.
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Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 9 - 15 Mar 2015
Sky 1 entertainment show Wild Things launched on Sunday at 7pm with 170,000/0.8%
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 9 - 15 Mar 2015
On Thursday at 9pm, BBC4’s India’s Frontier Railways launched with a strong 860,000/ 4%
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 9 - 15 Mar 2015
After a couple of weeks off for darts and shorn of its Top Gear inheritance, BBC2’s Dragons’ Den averaged 2.1 million/9%
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Top 100 network programmes: 9 - 15 Mar 2015
You’re Back In The Room entranced the audience to win its slot, while big hitters took a dive
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News
Dinah Caine to become Creative Skillset chair
Dinah Caine is to become chair of the Creative Skillset board, prompting the training body to begin a hunt to replace her in the chief executive role.
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News
Clarkson petition delivered to BBC by tank
The campaign to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson has taken a theatrical turn with The Stig delivering a nearly million-strong petition to the BBC’s Broadcasting House in a tank.
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News
BBC1 pilots motoring format
BBC1 is to pilot a motoring format in which members of the public travel abroad to take part in a series of driving challenges.
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BBC expenses: five things we learnt
Broadcast sifts through the BBC senior management’s expenses and hospitality register to unearth some nuggets about the corporation’s biggest names.
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Podcast
Talking TV: C5 & Clarkson
This week’s edition of Talking TV sizes up Viacom’s ambitious plans for Channel 5 and picks over the Jeremy Clarkson ‘fracas’ scandal.
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News
Mark Damazer among BBC Trust appointments
Mark Damazer, the former BBC deputy director of news and controller of Radio 4, is among three new members of the BBC Trust.
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Directors UK to recognise edit directors
Directors UK has formally voted to recognise the role of edit directors, making them eligible for production royalties, and encouraged the rest of the industry to do the same.
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In brief: Plebs; CDN; Way To Blue; The Affair; Writers’ Guild
Plebs is to return for a third run on ITV2, while the Creative Diversity Network has kicked off its hunt for commissioners from under-represented backgrounds. Read for more in today’s round-up.
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BBC2 charts Melvyn Bragg’s life
BBC2 is to celebrate the life and career of The South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg with a 75-minute documentary from Storyvault Films.
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Ratings
Trevor Phillips race doc engages 1.7m
THURSDAY: Trevor Phillips’ film about racism for Channel 4 performed solidly, almost overhauling ITV’s triplets documentary.
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Spike to launch with Breaking Bad
Viacom’s Spike has acquired critically-acclaimed US drug drama Breaking Bad and ordered its first UK commission ahead of its launch next month.
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Jeremy Clarkson claims to have been sacked in public outburst
Jeremy Clarkson made an angry outburst at a charity auction last night in which the Top Gear host revealed he expected to be sacked over the ‘fracas’ incident.
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Critics
TV Critics: Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True; Muslim Miss World; The Truth About Sugar
“Things We Won’t Say about Race That Are True may be among the most important documentaries of the decade.”
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News
TV3 hires director of content
Irish broadcaster TV3 Group has appointed Lynda McQuaid as director of content to replace the outgoing Jeff Ford.