All Broadcast articles in 24 July 2015 – Page 2
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Critics
TV Critics: Britain Sees Red: Caught on Camera; The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime; Dogs On the Dole
“Grainy footage of rush hour traffic bumping over pavements to get past rubbish carts makes very dull viewing.”
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News
Media Parents launches third back to work scheme
Flexible working group Media Parents is running a mentoring and work placement scheme at the Edinburgh International TV Festival to help parents get back into work.
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News
ITV Studios America hires scripted boss
ITV Studios America has hired former Endemol Studios chief executive Philippe Maigret as it continues to boost its scripted arm.
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Video
VIDEO: Ripper Street, BBC
The third series of the Lookout Point and Tiger Aspect co-production is coming to BBC1 following its debut on Amazon Prime Instant Video.
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News
Sky acquires Charles Manson drama
Sky Atlantic has acquired David Duchovny-fronted US drama Aquarius after striking a deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
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News
Maker Studios asks UK indie to make GamesMaster-style pilot
Maker Studios has commissioned its first pilot from a UK indie – a GamesMaster-style video game show produced by Somethin’ Else.
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News
Mary Beard returns to Pompeii for BBC1
Professor Mary Beard is to front an hour-long documentary on the restoration of Pompeii for BBC1.
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News
Norwich City friendlies to air on local TV
Premier League club Norwich City’s pre-season friendlies are to be aired on Norfolk’s local TV channel Mustard TV.
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Features
Dragons' Den
Design, shoot and deliver a new set of opening titles for the return of the series in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business.
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News
EU slams Sky and US studios for blocking content
The European Union has launched an anti-trust case against Sky and the six major Hollywood studios, accusing them of illegally curbing cross-border access to pay-TV content.
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Features
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Post for Ben Fogle’s fourth series about people who have turned their back on the modern world and set up home in some of the world’s most remote locations.
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Features
Great Ormond Street
Final post-production for the third series about the world-famous UK children’s hospital.
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News
IABM debuts online training with file formats course
The IABM Training Academy is launching its first online courses for the broadcast and media technology industries.
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News
Imagine Communications appoints new marketing head
Imagine Communications has promoted Ramnik Kamo to the post of chief marketing officer.
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News
In brief: Boundless; Twofour; Videology
Boundless has signed Michael Portillo for his tatest BBC2 railway adventure and Twofour is to explore tragedies for Nat Geo. Click for more
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News
Trust consultation receives 4000 responses in 24 hours
The BBC Trust has received more than 4000 responses to its public consultation into the future of the BBC less than 24 hours after it launched.
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Critics
TV Critics: Witnesses; One Born Every Minute; Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
“What gives Witnesses its own identity is that its particularly morbid plot makes it arguably even creepier than anything else to come out of Scandinavia.”
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Ratings
Witnesses unable to outperform The Returned
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4’s French thriller Witnesses got underway with an audience around one third the size of The Returned - as Desi Rascals doubled its figures following a leap to Sky 1.
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News
CMS committee to probe charter review process
Culture secretary John Whittingdale’s handling of the BBC charter review process will come under scrutiny as part of an inquiry launched by the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee.
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News
Discovery takes full control of Eurosport
Discovery Communications is to take full ownership of sports broadcaster Eurosport after agreeing a £345m deal with French broadcaster TF1.