All Broadcast articles in 24 July 2014 – Page 3
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Features
What big data means for TV
Broadcast assembled a roundtable of major players to debate the issues
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News
Barcroft sets sights on MCN
Barcroft Media will invest hundreds of thousands of pounds into developing a premium multichannel network (MCN) after commissioning its first presenter-led YouTube series.
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News
MTV UK trials Tunepics app for Geordie Shore
MTV UK is trialling fledgling mobile social network Tunepics for the current series of Geordie Shore.
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News
Love develops projects for new stakeholder Sky
Love Productions is understood to have up to two major projects in development with Sky after the pay-TV broadcaster acquired a 70% stake in The Great British Bake Off indie this week.
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E4 takes Bad Robots to series
E4 has strengthened its comedy slate with a hidden-camera series in which people are pranked by machines such as photo booths and electronic road signs.
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BBC3 vision being finalised
BBC daytime boss Damian Kavanagh to present formal plans to the Trust in a ‘few weeks’
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Comment
Bright ideas needed for Bloke TV
ITV’s call to action is a chance to revisit a major TV challenge
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News
ITV challenges indies to shoot for football gap
ITV has challenged indies to create up to four major male-skewing brands as it races to replace more than 100 hours of European and domestic football.
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News
Jane Lush returns to TV with Bruce Forsyth
Strictly Come Dancing commissioner and former Splash Media managing director Jane Lush is back in production with a Bruce Forsyth fronted BBC1 variety show.
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Love tackles local Immigration Street concerns
Love Productions will meet with Channel 4 to discuss the future of Immigration Street after some Southampton residents lobbied the indie to stop filming of the series.
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News
Sky Sports News revamps ahead of Premier League season
Sky Sports News is to jump up the EPG following a relaunch in which it will move to an upgraded studio and increase its focus on a revamped suite of apps and its social media.
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News
Rondo wins S4C sports magazine
Welsh indie Rondo Media is to produce a Grandstand-style Sunday sports magazine show for S4C.
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News
Conroy joins ITV drama
ITV has appointed Sarah Conroy as commissioning editor for drama to cover the maternity leave of Charlie Hampton.
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News
The X Factor UK heads to Asia
The UK version of The X Factor is to air overseas for the first time after RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network struck a deal with sister firm Fremantle Media.
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News
BBC develops Sebastian Faulks screenplay
The BBC is developing Sebastian Faulks’ first self-penned screenplay, On Green Dolphin Street, after Eleventh Hour Films picked up the rights to the book.
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News
Curtis Brown agent strikes Endemol indie deal
Former Curtis Brown agent Tally Garner has set up an indie and struck a distribution partnership with Endemol.
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BBC Savile costs swell to £7m
The BBC continues to feel the strain of the Jimmy Savile scandal after it revealed that Dame Janet Smith’s inquiry into the disgraced presenter has racked-up another £2m in costs.
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Ratings
Utopia settles at 450,000
TUESDAY: Channel 4’s audience for thriller Utopia remained steady although it was outperformed by Sarah Millican on BBC2 and Channel 5’s Big Brother.
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News
Diane Coyle fails to make Trust shortlist
The acting chair of the BBC Trust, Diane Coyle, has failed to make the shortlist for the full-time position.
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Critics
TV Critics: Sir Chris Hoy: How to Win Gold; 100 Seconds to Beat the World; Hive Alive; The Mindy Project
“How to Win Gold was such a fascinating and well-made piece of television that it even had me hooked.”