All Broadcast articles in 22 January 2015 – Page 6
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News
BBC Trust: no back door deal on BBC3
The BBC Trust could make a “provisional conclusion” on the future of BBC3 in April and has insisted that there will be no “back door deal” when deciding the channel’s fate.
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Critics
TV Critics: Catastrophe; Broadchurch; Silent Witness; Food Unwrapped; Exposure
“Solid, delicious chunks of funny pudding rather than the funny-flavoured foam we’ve been doused in lately.”
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Ratings
Catastrophe kicks off with 800k
MONDAY: Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe opened up with just under 1m viewers as Broadchurch dipped by a further 400,000 viewers.
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News
C4 to pilot King Bert porn comedy
Miranda Hart and David Walliam’s fledgling indie King Bert Productions is to pilot a sitcom set in a porn shop for Channel 4.
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Behind The Scenes
The Eichmann Show, BBC2
The trial of the Nazi war criminal was also the birth of mass media, discovered producer Laurence Bowen
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News
Hat Trick and Avalon to make BBC3 bid
Hat Trick Productions and Avalon Entertainment are to make an audacious bid for BBC3 in an attempt to save it as a TV channel.
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News
BBC and PBS strike factual content deal
The BBC has struck an ambitious partnership with PBS to develop and commission blue-chip natural history and factual programming.
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News
BBC unveils plans for Victoria Derbyshire show
Victoria Derbyshire’s daytime business programme is to air simultaneously on BBC2, BBC News and online with a host of “digital-first” content.
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Sioned Wiliam joins Radio 4 commissioning team
Former ITV comedy controller Sioned Wiliam is to become BBC Radio 4’s comedy commissioner.
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Video
VIDEO: Catastrophe, C4
Click to watch a preview of the opening episode of the Avalon TV / Merman Films sitcom for Channel 4.
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The Broadcast Interview
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Catastrophe
The writers and stars of Channel 4’s sitcom Catastrophe talk to Paul Whitelaw about their transatlantic partnership
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News
In brief: Simon Cowell & Supernanny
Hear about Simon Cowell’s latest Fox deal and Jo Frost’s trip to Holland in today’s round-up.
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News
Boundless hires The Apprentice exec
Undercover Boss executive producer Cal Turner has joined FremantleMedia UK indie Boundless to oversee the new series of The Apprentice.
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Comment
How French TV coped with Paris tragedy
The Charlie Hebdo attack forced French broadcasters to confront how they break rolling news
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Ratings
Foyle’s War bows out on a low
SUNDAY: The final episode of Foyle’s War struggled in a strong 8pm slot, as ITV’s latest entertainment format Get Your Act Together launched with fewer than 3m viewers.
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Ratings
Katie Price boosts Celebrity Big Brother
FRIDAY: The arrival of Katie Price on Celebrity Big Brother boosted the Channel 5 show’s ratings by more than half a million viewers.
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Critics
TV Critics: Call the Midwife; Foyle’s War; Spiral
“I’m certain Call the Midwife would be much improved by morphine.”
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News
Sky Arts delivers Stephen Mangan pregnancy drama
Stephen Mangan is to star as a heavily pregnant man in a new one-off drama for Sky Arts.
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Ratings
The Voice rises 500,000
SATURDAY: The Voice UK gained half a million viewers, thrashing a poor second outing for Stars In Their Eyes.
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News
Simon Andreae leaves Fox
Fox’s reality chief Simon Andreae has left the US network after just over a year and been replaced by a former Electus executive.