All Broadcast articles in 26 February 2016 – Page 2
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Ratings
Top 15 consolidated shows: 8 - 14 Feb 2016
The reboot of The X-Files achieved 5.1 million/19% for C5 after 1.4 million recorded and watched.
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Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 15 - 21 Feb 2016
UKTV’s Watch became W and brought with it BBC3’s erstwhile EastEnders catch-up
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 15 - 21 Feb 2016
The third episode of BBC4’s Icelandic saga Trapped achieved 640,000/3%, 300,000 short of last week’s 9pm launch.
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 15 - 21 Feb 2016
Only when you rewatch 1994’s slow car chase down the LA freeway do you realise just how bonkers and generally unsavoury the whole OJ Simpson thing was.
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Top 100 network programmes: 15 - 21 Feb 2016
Saturday Night Takeaway hits the spot for ITV, as BBC1’s The Night Manager gets off to a strong start.
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News
TOWIE strikes product placement deal with high street retailer
The stars of The Only Way Is Essex are set to appear in the latest fashion collections from high street retailer Select Fashion as part of a wide-ranging product placement deal.
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News
Tony Blackburn ‘fell short’ of Smith review demands
BBC director general Tony Hall has confirmed that Tony Blackburn has been sacked because he “fell short of the standards of evidence” that the Dame Janet Smith inquiry demanded.
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Hall: BBC must take responsibility for creating Savile
Tony Hall has argued that the BBC must take responsibility for creating sexual predators Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall – and has promised to take a series of actions to address Dame Janet Smith’s recommendations.
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News
DPP: UHD to be mainstream by end of 2017
BVE 2016: The tipping point for Ultra High Definition (UHD) adoption in the UK will be the end of the 2017, the DPP (Digital Production Partnership) has calculated.
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Ratings
The Brits hits right notes
WEDNESDAY: The Brit Awards turned in a performance in line with last year’s event and more than double the channel slot average.
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News
4K-capable E1 camera on show at BVE
BVE 2016: A palm-sized 4K camera with a micro four-thirds lens mount was on show at the Excel this week.
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News
SBTV reaches out to indies
Music brand SBTV is planning to work more closely with indies to feature content aimed at its established online community after hiring Channel 4 commissioner Isaac Densu.
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Sharon Horgan indie strikes Sky Vision deal
Merman, the indie co-founded by Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan, has struck a development deal with Sky Vision that will give the distributor international rights to a number of scripted projects.
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Yuneec drone includes collision avoidance tech
BVE 2016: Yuneec showed off its latest drone at BVE, the Typhoon H.
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Smith: BBC must examine child protection measures
Dame Janet Smith has recommended the BBC “undergo a period of self-examination” and audit its child protection procedures to reassure the public in light of her findings on Jimmy Savile.
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Critics
TV Critics: Inside Buckingham Palace; Prosecutors; One Child
“This may have been worthless as history, but someone deserves a knighthood for bad telly this good.”
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News
Dame Janet Smith: BBC ‘unaware’ of Savile’s actions
Dame Janet Smith has concluded that senior BBC management was unaware of Jimmy Savile’s record of abuse, despite a number of prominent producers being privy to evidence of his behaviour.
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News
Tony Blackburn 'sacked' by BBC over allegation in Savile review
Tony Blackburn has claimed that he has been sacked by the BBC days before the publication of a report on Jimmy Savile’s reign of abuse at the corporation.
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Behind The Scenes
Churchill's Secret, ITV
ITV’s one-off drama reveals a hidden, vulnerable side to Britain’s WWII leader as he copes with family tragedy and encroaching old age.
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Features
Light entertainment feels the squeeze
With the likely closure of Fountain Studios, shiny-floor shows could struggle to find space within the M25, but expansion elsewhere should ease the problem.