All Broadcast articles in 26 November 2004 – Page 5
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Bazalgette gains global brief.
Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette has become the indie's global head of creative operations as part of a move by Spanish owner Telefónica to shift power from the Big Brother creator's Dutch base to Britain, writes Maria Esposito.
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All3Media launches German TV offshoot.
All3Media is to further expand its international clout by launching a TV production company in Germany, writes Paul Revoir.
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Off the record - Spoof Mark Thompson email.
This is the spoof email doing the rounds at the BBC purporting to be from the
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BBC set to cut 250 jobs with factual merger.
The BBC's specialist factual and documentaries and contemporary factual departments - homes to shows such as Pompeii and What Not to Wear - are set to merge, in a move that could cost at least 250 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV launches 'Strictly Ice-Skating' show.
ITV is to take on the BBC with its own ice-skating show and has signed the king and queen of the ice rink, Torvill and Dean, to front it, writes Paul Revoir.
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Five gets£17m boost to budget.
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has been handed a£17m budget boost to strengthen the
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RatingsITV1's peaktime share tops 40% again
ITV1 completely dominated viewing as I'm a Celebrity? and a double helping of Coronation Street sent the broadcaster's peaktime share to over 40% for the second time this week.
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Race for the PSP prize
It's interesting to speculate what Ofcom's proposed public service publisher (PSP) could look like. Perhaps it might be an offshoot of Channel 4, with a brand name of E5 and run by Roly Keating out of Birmingham. Perhaps a mobile phone giant could run it. Perhaps its proposed budget of£300m ...
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MPC sale hits snags
Reports of the sale of ITV-owned The Moving Picture Company (MPC) to French technology group Thomson appear to have been premature. The sale is yet to go through with the main stumbling blocks thought to be price and terms offered to the existing management. This may have opened up an ...
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Golden Sq new staff
Golden Square Post Production has recruited two new staff. Senior producer Andrew Swepson joins from Pepper, where he was facility manager and senior producer. His recent credits include the BBC documentary Dirty War and ITV's Lawless. Senior Inferno artist ...
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A place in? finds new homes in world
Channel 4 International has inked several deals for Tiger Aspect series A Place in? including a second window in the UK. Discovery UK has picked up repeat rights to all four titles - A Place in France, Greece, Spain and ...
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Shine to follow final legal hunt
Members of Britain's oldest hunt have given permission for cameras to follow them as they take part in what could be the final season of the blood-sport following its banning by Parliament last week.
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Format Focus: Music Farm
An Italian format gives one-hit wonders the chance to make a second impression.
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Five orders more Extraordinary People
Five is bringing back its science strand Extraordinary People with four documentaries about people with unusual abilities or medical conditions.
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UK on top at Emmys
British television was the resounding winner at the International Emmy Awards, picking up six out of seven trophies.
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Electric Sky takes on At it's slate
Distributor Electric Sky has picked up a raft of new titles from indie At It Productions. Among the new titles are 25 x 30-minute travel series Perfect Getaway, which focuses on destinations that have yet to make holiday brochures and is to air on Channel ...
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Radio indie goes into distribution
Somethin' Else, the UK's largest radio indie, is launching an international distribution arm.
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Folio wins order for domestic disasters
Indie Folio has been commissioned to make a BBC1 popular factual series about domestic disasters. The 10 x 30-minute working titled Help will follow specialists who clean up when things go wrong in the home. It is series produced by Becky Clarke at Folio Scotland's ...
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Darkhorse FX opens
Three former BBC Design employees have opened a new vfx company in Bristol. Darkhouse FX is owned by broadcast designer Jean Cramond and digital effects designers Craig Higgins and Adrian Woodward. They have worked on projects including the award-winning Monsters We Met and ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...