All Broadcast articles in 25 May 2012 – Page 3
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NewsMichael Lyons to chair local TV bid
Former BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has been named chairman of local TV bidder YourTV.
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NewsSyco bolsters UK TV team
Simon Cowell’s Syco TV has promoted executive producer Michael Jochnowitz to become the head of its UK television operations.
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RatingsHit and Miss debuts with 160k
Paul Abbott’s new drama about a transgender assassin doubled Sky Atlantic’s usual audience on its debut.
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RatingsSilk sheds 300k viewers
BBC1 legal drama Silk continued to pull a strong audience but could not match last week’s debut.
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NewsYahoo! has £1m for VoD series
GroupM Entertainment is to invest more than £1m in original digital video content in partnership with online portal Yahoo!.
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NewsBBC2 follows Tube hit with spotlight on Planners
BBC2 is looking to follow the success of ob doc series The Tube with an eight-parter lifting the lid on life as a council planning officer.
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NewsPeretti probes obesity for BBC2
BBC2 has greenlit a 3 x 60-minute Jacques Peretti documentary series for Fresh One investigating the history of obesity.
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CommentTwilight of the Porn Stars / Routes That Made Britain / Born In The USSR: 28 Up
Maverick’s Paolo Proto and Tonight’s Natalie Fay on porn, British routes and Russian tales.
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NewsC4’s Comedy Blaps to feature Dr Brown
Dr Brown, the creation of mime artist and clown Phil Burgers, will feature in the next set of Channel 4 Comedy Blaps – the broadcaster’s online comedy shorts initiative.
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News4Talent targets areas of youth unemployment
Channel 4’s division aimed at helping young entrants into the creative industries is to stage networking events in six areas of high youth unemployment around the country in a bid to attract fresh talent.
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NewsCrimewatch’s Wilding to front C5’s Police Enforcers
Channel 5 has ordered a blue light documentary series from ITV Studios, which will be fronted by former police detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding.
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NewsBBC 999 Awards to challenge ITV’s Pride of Britain
BBC1 is poised to celebrate the heroics of the UK’s emergency services in a special awards ceremony that will rival ITV1’s Pride of Britain Awards.
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NewsMidwife delivered across Europe
Hit BBC1 drama Call the Midwife has been snapped up by broadcasters across Europe, following sales to the US and Australasia.
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NewsHat Trick eyes audio watermarking after app success
Hat Trick Productions’ Facejacker iPhone app, which used innovative audio watermarking technology, has been downloaded 70,000 times since its launch in February.
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NewsP&G mulling TV after signing Olympic mums
Procter & Gamble is thought to be mulling broadcast opportunities around the exclusive access it has secured to a number of mothers of British athletes set to take part in this year’s Olympic Games.
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NewsAlbury steps down from RTS
Royal Television Society chief executive Simon Albury is stepping down after 12 years.
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FeaturesDiamond Jubilee: by royal appointment
The state occasion of the Diamond Jubilee is unprecedented in the scale of its outside broadcast. Adrian Pennington reports on the key broadcasters’ production plans.
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CommentFor a more realistic view of kids’ TV, ask the family
Who needs children’s programmes to stay on BBC1? Not children, says Damon Pattison.