All Broadcast articles in 26 August 2011 – Page 2

  • Top Gear presenters
    News

    Top Gear steered onto Facebook

    2011-08-23T12:34:00Z

    BBC Worldwide is to offer special editions of Top Gear on Facebook for less than £1 each.

  • News

    Harmonic launches media server

    2011-08-23T13:00:00Z

    Harmonic today announced that it has added the MediaDeck 7000 system to its Omneon Spectrum media server product line.

  • Cherry’s Body Dilemma
    Ratings

    BBC3’s Cherry takes a bruising

    2011-08-23T13:08:00Z

    MONDAY: The latest BBC3 doc special from Cherry Healey drew the lowest ratings for the presenter this year – on a poor night all-round for multichannel.

  • iPad
    News

    Online TV dwarfed by porn

    2011-08-23T13:21:00Z

    Viewing of television VoD services comprises a tiny proportion of total online video consumption in the UK, according to new research seen by Broadcast.

  • Roary the Racing Car
    News

    Chapman to lose third of staff

    2011-08-23T13:53:00Z

    Chapman Entertainment, the kids indie behind Roary the Racing Car and Fifi & the Flowertots, is losing a third of its workforce but expansion could be on the horizon, its creative director has said.

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    News

    Attenborough to be honoured by IBC

    2011-08-24T09:35:00Z

    Sir David Attenborough will receive IBC’s International Honour for Excellence at this year’s trade show.

  • Richard Klein
    News

    BBC goes potty with V&A

    2011-08-24T10:00:00Z

    The BBC is running a year of programmes that aims to be the most wide-ranging examination of the decorative arts as part of a partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

  • Simon O’Brien
    News

    Home to transform wrecks into dream houses

    2011-08-24T10:02:00Z

    UKTV’s Home has ordered a new series in which dilapidated houses will be renovated into the owners’ dream houses.

  • Million Pound Drop
    News

    C4 to plough millions into viewer research

    2011-08-24T10:27:00Z

    Channel 4 has made a multi-million pound investment in a major audience research project and has named the senior team that will drive it forward.

  • Frank Skinner
    News

    Room 101 set to return

    2011-08-24T10:30:00Z

    Room 101 is set to return to our screens with the BBC poised to greenlight a new series, this time presented by Frank Skinner.

  • The X Factor
    News

    X Factor launch sparks 86 complaints

    2011-08-24T11:10:00Z

    The return of The X Factor has drawn complaints over aggressive behaviour during one audition and a quick flash in another.

  • Harry's Arctic Heroes
    Comment

    24 Aug '11

    2011-08-24T11:14:00Z

    “It was far from gratuitous as, true to squaddie stereotype, the hills they trained in rang with banter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Harry’s Arctic Heroes
    Ratings

    Prince Harry reigns with 4.4m

    2011-08-24T11:36:00Z

    TUESDAY: Prince Harry’s mission to the North Pole with four disabled Afghanistan veterans helped BBC1 claim the 9pm slot but slipped below the broadcaster’s usual figures.

  • pinewood.jpg
    News

    Film revenue boosts Pinewood results

    2011-08-24T11:39:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton has seen a rise in revenue for the first half of the year, with the continuing decline in income from TV offset by the growth of its film services division.

  • Jon Ronson
    News

    Channelflip signs Ronson for web doc

    2011-08-24T11:43:00Z

    Jon Ronson, the documentary maker and writer of The Men Who Stare at Goats, is to launch an online series in which he will explore the people who try to control the internet.

  • Cloudbabies
    News

    Ellis and Howells win first acquisition

    2011-08-24T12:00:00Z

    Former Target Entertainment executives Oliver Ellis and Helen Howells have won their first acquisition from Cbeebies.

  • david_Haye.jpg
    News

    iPlayer via IPTV up 77%

    2011-08-24T12:17:00Z

    The BBC iPlayer saw requests from IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, Freesat and Virgin Media’s Tivo jump by 77% in July.

  • Watching TV
    News

    Social networks drive TV viewing

    2011-08-24T12:21:00Z

    A fifth of television’s key commercial demographic regularly discover new shows through social networking websites, a study has found.

  • Frozen Planet
    News

    China lands on Frozen Planet

    2011-08-24T12:38:00Z

    A major new BBC doc series from the makers of Planet Earth has been picked up by China’s CCTV.

  • Body of Proof
    Ratings

    Body of Proof tones up

    2011-08-24T12:54:00Z

    TUESDAY: US crime drama Body of Proof scored its biggest audience since its record-breaking debut on Alibi last month.