All Broadcast articles in 20 February 2014 – Page 3
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Ratings
Bleak winter lifts ratings
It may just be an of-the-moment thing, but in this most miserable, annoying, bleak and dank of winters, where chinks of cheeriness are obscured by cold, grey swirling waters, quite a few TV series are enjoying their best of times.
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Slow start for Bond drama
As a nipper, one of my favourite jokes was to go around saying my name was Bond – Brooke Bond; ‘like the tea’, I would always add anxiously, as the silence yawned on.
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Rock fans like the ‘80s best
One day in the year 2095, a child wired for music intravenously will ask in wonder: ‘Grandad, what’s an MP3 player?’.
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Olympics in winning form
The nation is gripped by the sliding about of athletes, often in lycra and occasionally with brooms.
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A Scandi boost for Midsomer
Down through the ages, the UK has often found itself smitten with a fad that promised adventure or riches.
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News
Broadcast Awards 2014 highlights
Click to view the video highlights from the Broadcast Awards 2014.
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News
RTS Journalism winners revealed
ITV’s report on the Woolwich attack and Dispatches’ Plebgate report were the big winners at last night’s RTS Television Journalism awards picking up scoop of the year and the independent award respectively.
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News
BBC2 leads BPG Awards nominations
BBC2 leads the nominations for the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards as the channel’s drama push continues to reap rewards.
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Comment
ITV digs for US gold with DiGa deal
ITV is doubling down its bet that the US holds the key to its success following its deal with DiGA.
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Ratings
Brit Awards falls to eight-year low
The Brit Awards walked away with its lowest audience since at least 2006 on Wednesday.
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Critics
TV Critics: Living with Parasites; Webcam Girls; Inside Number 9; Line of Duty; Suspects
“Mosley was magnificent. It made for gloriumptious television.”
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News
BBC to drop single supplier model and invite tech bids
The BBC is moving away from a single supplier for its in-house technology as Atos’s 10-year, £2bn technology framework deal draws to a close.
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News
Four in the frame for BBC in-house comedy job
ITV comedy boss Myfanwy Moore is understood to be among the contenders to head up the BBC’s in-house comedy division following the promotion of Mark Freeland last year.
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BBC1 signs Red Planet Motown series
BBC1 has picked up Tony Jordan’s large-scale Motown ‘jukebox musical’ and is developing a series of smaller studio plays with the writer’s indie Red Planet Pictures.
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Analysis: ‘Investment is key for ITVBe’
ITV will need to invest heavily in its new female-skewing channel ITVBe to ward off the risk of cannibalising its audience, according to the bosses of rival stations.
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Comment
A little personality goes a long way
If you’re a bullying, egomaniac sociopath, you’ll go far in TV, says Steven D Wright
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News
The Musketeers to go global
The Musketeers is set to swashbuckle across the world after BBC Worldwide closed several deals with international broadcasters.
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News
Bectu survey points to BBC improvement
Bectu has claimed that it has seen improvement in working conditions at the BBC’s religion and ethics department since investigating the matter last year.