All Broadcast articles in 20 April 2018
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Behind The Scenes
Fatberg Autopsy: Secrets Of The Sewers, Channel 4
Flushing out the secrets of London’s sewers
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News
Tim Davie: BBCS is no longer a distributor
‘I’m not hiring salesmen to flog finished programmes. I’m hiring creative dealmakers’
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News
Viceland renamed amidst digital realignment
Channel to extend digital programming to linear channel
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Ratings
True Horror spooks 620,000
THURSDAY: C4’s drama-doc beat BBC2 and C5 - but did not hit the heights of producer Eleven Film’s previous chiller The Enfield Haunting
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News
Ynon Kreiz resurfaces at Mattel
Ex-Endemol boss to oversee cross-platform strategy for toy brands such as Thomas & Friends
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Video
High & Dry, Channel 4
Baby Cow sitcom which follows a sociopath air steward and a group of air crash survivors stuck on a remote Pacific island
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News
Hillbilly options Bedford cult story
Loaded indie secures rights to former ITV Anglia journalist Claire McGlasson’s debut novel
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News
Clementi: BBCS key to FAANG fight
BBC chair also details challenge of reaching ‘smartphone generation’
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Critics
True Horror
“It felt vague, as if there were not enough material to fill the hour so it used horror film techniques to make viewers jump”
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News
Matt Stagg named BT Sport Director of Mobile Strategy
EE’s Matt Stagg given role heading up BT Sport’s mobile division
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News
Royalty-free music library Oook Audio launched
New production music library promises straightforward licensing model with no strings attached
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News
Amazon picks up Utopia remake
First project of a wider deal between writer Gillian Flynn and Amazon Studios
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News
Scandinavian TV tech festival unveiled
One-day event focuses on the impact of the latest TV technology developments
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News
Nat Geo gives Mary Shelley the Genius biopic treatment
Broadcaster is also lining up Hidden Figures series from Pharrell Williams
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News
CNN to film Everest climb
Cameras follow Ben Fogle and Victoria Pendleton’s challenge for two-part doc