All Broadcast articles in 24 April 2015 – Page 2
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RatingsNigel Farage triumphs in Leader Interviews
WEDNESDAY: Nigel Farage triumphed over the main political party leaders in Evan Davis’ series of general election interviews, as ITV’s comedy line-up lost more than a million viewers.
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Newsi-D lands first commission from C4
Vice Media’s fashion magazine i-D has landed its first TV series, weeks after hiring Ravi Amaratungara as its head of video.
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NewsLeftfield hires Optomen exec
Leftfield Entertainment has established a production company which will produce “smart and authentic” digital programming.
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Behind The ScenesFright Club, Sky1
The first rule of Fright Club was to create a drama-filled series that used extreme methods to help people with their phobias, says Kaye Godleman
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FeaturesHow to get the best from contributors
BBC Academy executive producer Lucy Hooper asks five programme-makers how they cast their shows and deal with sensitive subjects and vulnerable people
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CriticsTV Critics: World's Richest Terror Army; The Last Hours of Robin Williams; Secret Britain
“This was journalism at its best.”
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NewsC4 News creates GIF wall
Channel 4 has launched a news site that features short stories supported by shareable animated GIFs.
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NewsE4 shuts down for general election
Channel 4 will shut down its youth-skewing digital channel E4 on the day of the general election to encourage young people to go out and vote.
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CommentAgencies are calling the shots
Ad-funded content is increasingly sophisticated, says Kate Bulkley
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NewsDrone zone takes off at NAB
Everywhere you looked in the Las Vegas Convention Centre there was a drone dangling from the top of a stand or hovering overhead.
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NewsSony sales boss joins WTS to head product channel
Sony regional sales manager Dave Cheesman has joined WTS as the kit supplier and systems integrator’s first product channel manager.
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NewsC4 sets out model to grow games business
Channel 4’s freshly launched games publishing arm is to take around a 15% share of revenue from developers’ apps to engineer a “win-win” situation in which it drives more traffic to its own titles.
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NewsHoldan places order for 4K Panasonic camcorders
UK distributor Holdan has snapped up Panasonic’s latest 4K camera.
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NewsTop executives to speak at Global TV Summit
Jana Bennett, Wayne Garvie, Stephen Lambert and Andy Harries are some of the executives that will speak at Broadcast’s Global TV Summit on 3 June.
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NewsSafe House
Picture post-production on the 4 x 60-minute drama series in which Christopher Eccleston stars as an ex-copper who turns his home into a police protection refuge.
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NewsC5 in Comedy Central link-up
Channel 5 and Comedy Central have outlined plans to co-commission comedy content, laying out a two-year strategy that includes prank shows, sketch shows and other scripted series.
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NewsMurder in Successville
Provide picture and audio post for the 6 x 30-minute murder mystery series set in the celebritypacked fictional town of Successville.
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NewsBBC Studios battle lines drawn
The BBC has been warned by some of the UK’s biggest production companies that it will face fierce opposition to plans to commercialise its in-house production division unless it puts its biggest shows up for tender.
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NewsNetflix turns to natural history
The producer of Netflix’s first major natural history series has lifted the lid on how his company secured a slice of the subscription VoD service’s £2.15bn content budget.