All Broadcast articles in 27 March 2014 – Page 5
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Bennett: BBC3 must place 'big bets' on fewer shows
BBC3 must place Netflix-style “big bets” on certain programmes to make a success of its move online, according to Zai Bennett.
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Calrec acquired by private equity firm
Console manufacturer Calrec has been acquired by private equity firm Electra Partners for £14m.
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Comment
Where are the female aviation experts?
Tami Hoffman says few women experts have commented on the year’s biggest news story.
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Corona teams with Fremantle on Birds of Prey
Corona Pictures, the UK indie set up by Richard Johns and Rupert Jermyn, has teamed up with Fremantle Media International to produce a TV adaptation of novel Birds of Prey.
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Mustard TV braced for launch
Mustard TV is to become the first start-up local TV licence holder to launch on Freeview this evening.
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Phil Edgar-Jones to run Sky Arts
Sky’s head of entertainment Phil Edgar-Jones is to run Sky Arts following the departure of James Hunt.
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AOL supercharges video output
Clips from Channel 4 News, Embarrassing Bodies and Supernanny will feature across AOL’s network of UK sites as the web giant beefs up its video presence.
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R3 and Proms boss to leave BBC
BBC3 Radio 3 controller and BBC Proms boss Roger Wright is to leave the corporation after a 16-year spell.
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C4's Educating... heads to Walthamstow
Twofour is heading to East London for its latest Educating…series, where it will install its fixed rig camera systems at Walthamstow’s Frederick Bremer School.
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BBC3 plans prompt 750 complaints
The BBC has received nearly 750 complaints and comments about its plans to close BBC3 as a linear television channel.
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BBC and C4 vie for corruption reporting award
BBC1’s Panorama and Channel 4’s Unreported World are to square off in the inaugural award for corruption reporting at this year’s One World Media Awards.
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Ratings
Louis Theroux in form for LA trip
Louis Theroux’s LA Stories was his best performing doc in two years for BBC2 on Sunday.
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Fox loses European boss Jesus Perezagua
Fox International Channels’ European boss Jesus Perezagua is leaving the broadcaster after ten years at the company.
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The Millie Show opens on CBBC
CBBC has commissioned a series from The Foundation fronted by Dani’s House star Millie Innes.
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Ratings
The Voice UK live round draws low
The Voice UK’s audience slumped to a series low for its first live round of the series on Saturday.
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Sport Relief peaks with 10m
BBC1 charity extravaganza Sport Relief raised over £50m for good causes on Friday as it gained 2m more viewers from its previous outing two years ago.
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DRG launches standalone formats arm
Distributor DRG has launched a standalone formats division and hired a number of senior executives including former ITV Studios executive Jennifer Harrington.
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C5 Prods tackles The Limbless Mountaineer
Channel 5 has commissioned a feature length documentary following quadruple amputee Jamie Andrew as he attempts to climb the Matterhorn from its in-house production team.
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Critics
TV Critics: Louis Theroux's LA Stories; Martin Amis's England
“This time it was not the pretensions of his subjects being parodied, it was his own over-familiar format.”
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Peaky Blinders leads Bafta Craft nominations
Gangster drama Peaky Blinders has received six nominations in this year’s British Academy Television Craft Awards.