All Broadcast articles in 26 November 2004 – Page 7
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C4 to air more one-off drama
Channel 4 plans to increase its single drama output by screening one feature-length special each month.
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C4 takes Touchpaper series
Touchpaper TV, the indie behind Channel 4's recent transatlantic series NY-LON , has bagged another C4 order with a political thriller.
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C4 asks if football is the new religion
SFX, the management agency that fixed David Beckham's move to Real Madrid, is making a one-hour documentary for Channel 4 about football's relationship with religion. Hallowed Be Thy Game will see former Dominican friar and football fan Mark Dowd consider whether the devotion to the ...
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C4's mobile games
Channel 4 has launched a mobile phone gaming service through 4Interactive, entering a Eu100m (£70m) market. Games are downloaded through the C4 website for£4.50 each. Research has suggested that the downloadable Java games market could generate revenues of up to $2bn (£1.08bn) by 2008. C4 has teamed up with European ...
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Evolutions posts C4's Auschwitz
Evolutions Television has finished post on Auschwitz - The Forgotten Evidence for Flashback Television and Channel 4. The documentary studies reconnaissance photos of the Nazi death camp that were taken by Allied planes in 1944 and why, despite Churchill's recommendations, no action was taken. Evolutions' ...
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BBC2 follows house-building couple
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has commissioned an 8 x 30-minute series that will follow a couple as they attempt to build their own home. The House that Dick Built will feature Dick Strawbridge and his wife as they construct a self-sufficient and environmentally friendly house. ...
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Map Man gets a second series on BBC2
Indie Tern Television is to make a second series of BBC2 factual series Map Man. BBC2 commissioner Nicola Moody has ordered an 8 x 30-minute series, presented by cartography expert Nicolas Crane. Each episode explores 'ingenious and revolutionary' British maps. A delivery date has ...
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3rd Rock finds permanent home on ITV2
ITV2 has exclusively acquired the entire catalogue of US series 3rd Rock from the Sun in the UK, which it will air from January, writes Paul Revoir.
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£400m bill to switch over-75s to digital
Financial assistance should be given to the over-75s and the vulnerable during the switchover to digital TV, Ofcom has said. In a recommendation that could cost up to£400m, the regulator said during switchover those eligible for TV licence exemptions should be helped to meet the cost of new equipment and ...
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Auctionworld folds with debts of£14m
Teleshopping channel Auctionworld has gone into administration with debts of around£14m. The station went off air on Friday (19 November) after Ofcom last week ordered it to cough up£450,000 after repeatedly failing to suspend misleading price guides and for poor customer service. Around 300 staff are thought to have lost ...
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ITV1 looks at ?changing' stars
ITV has commissioned RDF Media to make a series that will attempt to uncover which celebrities have had cosmetic surgery.
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NewsFive gets£17m boost to budget
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has been handed a£17m budget boost to strengthen the broadcaster's schedule next year.
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NewsDuncan bids for licence fee
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has called for direct access to the licence fee and said he wants C4 to
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NewsBBC 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.
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NewsITV 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.
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NewsAllen offers staff help with setting up indies
ITV is trying to persuade regional programme-makers facing the axe to set up indies by offering to pay for independent legal and business advice.
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Street-Porter to star in second reality show
She may have branded it 'brain-rotting' television, but Janet Street-Porter is to appear in yet another reality TV series - this time with Five.
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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.
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Murphy's Law to go to US
BBC1 detective drama Murphy's Law is the latest British drama series to be picked up for a US remake.
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BBC3 drops Liquid Assets
The BBC3 series examining celebrities' finances, Liquid Assets , has been axed as part of the channel's shift away from showbiz-based content