All Broadcast articles in 22 May 2009 – Page 4
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Behind The ScenesDispatches: Orphans of the Storm
Evan Williams’ Dispatches doc traces orphans left behind under the country’s harsh regime.
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Features...interviewed a US high school shooter
Going Postal producer Storm Theunissen says fostering community relationships was key.
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FeaturesArchive restoration
With ever-growing demands for high-quality and high-definition footage, the pressure is on to ‘up-res’ mountains of archive material. Andy Stout looks at technology improving the past.
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The Broadcast InterviewSir Michael Lyons, BBC Trust
Whether it’s the licence fee, Lonely Planet or Wossy’s big mouth, the BBC Trust is criticised outside as well as within the BBC. How does its chairman manage?
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The Broadcast InterviewMichael Hirst, The Tudors
Michael Hirst, the man behind swashbuckling soap opera The Tudors, talks to Chris Curtis about scripting sexed-up history and facing criticism of taking right royal artistic licence.
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RatingsTV profits from MPs' expenses
Political row a turn-off for viewers of news bulletins and a switch-on for debate and analysis shows.
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RatingsGrim drama success for C4
Channel 4’s hard-hitting drama The Unloved managed to find affection with the viewers in an unlikely Sunday night slot.
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Ratings
TV lovers' ups and downs
There were mixed fortunes ratings-wise for some of TV’s star-crossed lovers this week.
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BBC1 to hunt Junior Apprentice
Sir Alan Sugar will challenge 10 teenagers to win a £25,000 career boost in spin-off series Junior Apprentice.
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Comment
21 May '09
“Colossally boring, self-indulgent — and an insulting waste of the licence fee.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
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News
Lyons: No area of the BBC safe from cuts
BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons has told Broadcast there are “no safe areas” at the corporation as it continues to squeeze every pound of the licence fee.
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Screen Yorkshire abandons ITV studios bid
Screen Yorkshire has ruled out making a rescue bid for ITV’s Kirkstall Road Studios after deciding that its money would be better spent on trying to generate new production work.
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Ratings
Five trounces ITV1 ratings for a second week
Five got the better of ITV1 for the second week running at 9pm last night as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation gained 2.8m viewers (12.8% share), 200,000 more than ITV1’s Holiday Showdown.
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Pay freeze at Ofcom; executive bonuses scrapped
Ofcom has frozen pay for all staff and scrapped this year’s bonuses for its executive committee.
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BBC names new Scotland commissioner
The BBC has hired Sam Anthony as its knowledge commissioning executive producer for Scotland – fresh from Jane Root’s new indie Nutopia.
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Attenborough to unveil 'missing link'
David Attenborough is set to explore the 47 million-year-old ‘missing link’ in human evolution in a primetime BBC documentary.
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BBC Children's names new scheduling boss
Disney Channel’s Louise Bucknole has been appointed the new head of scheduling at BBC Children’s - replaces Philip Stagg who has moved to the BBC HD Channel.
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Kids TV campaign revived
Indie trade body Pact has stepped up a campaign to increase children’s television production in the UK, which will see the return of a Womble as their spokesman.
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New C4 acquisition axed
Privileged, the US teen drama acquired by Channel 4 last week, has been axed after just one season - and before it has had a chance to air in the UK.