All Broadcast articles in 24 April 2020
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NewsGrayson’s Art Club: reckoning with the pandemic through art
Swan Films’ three-person team are camping outside the artist’s rigged-up studio for C4’s fast-turnaround show
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CriticsNormal People
“A beautiful piece of work capturing the fervid intensity of a first teenage sexual relationship with charm and poignancy”
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NewsITV: government wants Corrie back asap
MPs keen for soaps to re-enter production to lift nation’s morale
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FeaturesBroadcast Podcast: Freelancers, soaring Netflix subs and self-isolation drama
The week’s biggest news stories analysed in the debut episode of the Broadcast Newswrap podcast
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NewsLynn Faulds Wood: ‘an impressive and courageous consumer journalist’
Esther Rantzen and Nicky Campbell pay tribute to former Watchdog presenter, who has died aged 72
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VideoArranged Gay Marriage Scam, Vice
Reeta Loi’s year-long investigation unearths a bogus business that is cashing in on India’s LGBT+ communities’ search for love
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VideoBeat The Chasers, ITV
The Chase spin-off in which contestants will compete against all five chasers for the first time ever. Produced by Potato
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NewsSky dramas top download chart
Second series of Save Me and Bulletproof outperform BBC and C4 shows on platform
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NewsBBC3 orders Michelle Visage lockdown show
World of Wonder scores eight-parter as Drag Race UK host’s chat show remains on hold
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RatingsBig Night In steers Clap to 8.5m peak
THURSDAY: Star-studded fundraiser averages 6.7m over three hours
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NewsFreelancer latest: HMRC update offers good news
PAYE workers whose contracts recently ended can now be re-hired and furloughed
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CommentReality smash offers reasons to be cheerful
Too Hot to Handle should pave the way for a British boom in Netflix non-scripted
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CommentCovid-19 poses unprecedented challenge to TV
The route to recovery is uncharted and only innovation will guide broadcasters through the choppy waters ahead, says Kate Bulkley
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NewsBBC daily show chiefs: ‘thinking long-term is absurd’
The editors of The One Show and BBC Breakfast on keeping the nation entertained and informed in an unprecedented era of television
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FeaturesOne World: Together at Home: ‘we proved we can still execute big shows’
Putting a BBC1 spin on an ambitious remotely-produced global event meant being on Zoom calls from dawn till dusk, says David Brindley
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VideoThe A Word, BBC1
Third series of Keshet Productions and Fifty Fathoms’ produced drama about a Lake District-based family with a son who has autism