All Broadcast articles in 20 March 2014 – Page 6
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News
TV accountant Christopher Lunn faces retrial in HMRC fraud case
Christopher Lunn faces a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict on four of the charges brought against the founder of TV accountancy Christopher Lunn & Company (CLAC) for defrauding HMRC.
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Investors back start-up ratings firm
A London-based start-up that provides real-time television ratings has secured £1.2m funding.
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Disney orders live action series from Lime
Disney has ordered a four-part live action series from Lime Pictures to air internationally including in the US.
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BBC apologises for North Korea doc
The BBC has apologised after a high-profile undercover Panorama film on North Korea last year breached a number of the corporation’s editorial guidelines.
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Explorer Ed Stafford back at Discovery
Explorer Ed Stafford will attempt to survive in some of the world’s most remote places in his latest extreme survival series for the Discovery Channel.
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Big Brother breaches Ofcom rules
Channel 5 has been found in breach of Ofcom rules after an altercation between two contestants on Big Brother last year.
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Sunset+Vine opens women’s sports unit
Sunset+Vine has launched a production unit focused exclusively on women’s sport and headed by its former head of news Lisa Hynes.
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Comment
The Twitter verdict: Live From Space
“I keep being drawn in by the sheer incredible thrill of it all.”
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Comment
Down the rabbit-hole
Online storytelling dominated the debate at the SXSW festival, found The Project Factory’s Guy Gadney
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Ratings
Top Gear drives off with 6m
Top Gear drove off with over 6m viewers on Sunday, while Channel 4’s Live From Space peaked with 2.4m viewers.
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Ratings
Gogglebox settles into Friday home
Gogglebox settled into its Friday night home with a near identical audience to last week’s series debut, as Jonathan Creek ended on a low.
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Critics
TV Critics: Harry’s South Pole Heroes; Oh Do Shut Up Dear!; The Americans
“It was laughs as well as sheer admiration that made this such inspirational viewing.”
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Chrysalis revived as drama indie
The Chrysalis brand is being revived as a drama indie by its former exec team and entrepreneurs Luke Johnson and Roger Parry.
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Ratings
The Americans returns with 1.3m
The Americans returned on Saturday with nearly a million fewer viewers than last year’s debut, while Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway again outperformed The Voice UK.
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News
Content acquires Chinese producer
Content Media has acquired Chinese production company Alive Group as part of a deal in which its owner, Bruno Wu, has invested in the UK distributor.
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Kate Harwood leaves BBC to revive Euston Films
BBC in-house drama boss Kate Harwood is leaving the corporation after 24 years to revive an iconic production brand for Fremantle Media UK.