All Broadcast articles in 2 November 2012
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NewsC4 News' Carl Dinnen joins ITV News
Channel 4 News reporter Carl Dinnen is joining ITV News as political correspondent later this year.
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NewsJonathan Ross lands ITV film show
Jonathan Ross will front a movie review show for ITV which he claims will be “much bigger” than his BBC film series.
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NewsCrufts final moved to C4 for first time
The final of pedigree dog show Crufts will be shown on Channel 4 rather than More 4 for the first time in 2013.
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NewsTwofour secures sales Down Under
Twofour’s distribution arm has sold a package of completed factual shows to Australia’s Foxtel Networks and The Living Channel in New Zealand.
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RatingsMasterChef: the Professionals serves up 2.3m
MasterChef: the Professionals returned on Monday with its lowest series launch audience since the show moved into primetime in 2009.
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CommentDiary of an AP: First day blues
The only guarantee in TV is the first day chaos, says AP Ollie Scarth
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NewsSky wins trademark dispute
BSkyB has won a high court trade dispute over the branding of its new IPTV service.
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Behind The ScenesHow We Invented The World, Discovery
Tracing origins of iconic inventions was vast challenge, says series producer James Buchanan.
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CommentDodgy dealings in the desert with Stacey Dooley
PA Almudena Garcia-Parrado finds generosity among “criminals”.
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CommentTV Critics: Young Apprentice; The Year the Town Hall Shrank; The Human Mannequin
“Its big strength is that it doesn’t condescend to its pimply contestants.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsYoung Apprentice fails to recruit 4m
Lord Sugar’s final hunt for a protégé in the Young Apprentice got underway with an audience over 200,000 down on last year’s opener.
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CommentHow C4 must approach its next 30 years
Academic Dr James Bennett questions C4’s future in a competitive, digital landscape
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NewsAbraham pledges risk-taking future for C4
Channel 4’s David Abraham has hinted at controversial forthcoming shows on topics such as end of life care and human tissue in a wide-ranging 30th anniversary speech highlighting the broadcaster’s free speech credentials.
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NewsTalkTalk hires Viasat exec as director of TV
TalkTalk has appointed Viasat Broadcasting executive Laurence Miall as its director of TV to head up its YouView service.
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RatingsFall brings US dramas
In the US, the fall TV season is under way and the business of wondering what will survive is on. Some of those new dramas launched here this week, from sci-fi to a US take on Sherlock Holmes.
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RatingsX Factor loses out to Strictly
New Tricks goes down a treat and Savile’s toxic legacy proves popular for Panorama.
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RatingsChoir ends on a high note
As the weather around the world goes nuts with alarming regularity it didn’t help that this week Derren Brown convinced some poor sap the world was ending; forget the aid of skilful suggestion, just watching the news makes it feel like it actually might happen.
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FeaturesBake Off beats critics
Alas and alack the cakes, buns, bunting and icing sugar are but a memory. Alas and alack for BBC2 anyway, for everyone else the end of The Great British Bake Off might evoke a more bitter ‘thank goodness, get lost’.
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NewsTake 2 adds Codex Vaults to optimise workflow
Rental company Take 2 has added four Codex Vaults and additional Codex M recorders and datapacks to its inventory.
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NewsButler joins Cinesite to head animation
VFX specialist Cinesite has appointed Eamonn Butler as animation director and to its board.