All Broadcast articles in 27 November 2014 – Page 4
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News
BBC and Creative Skillset offer freelance career advice
BBC Academy and Creative Skillset are teaming up to launch a pilot scheme offering free career advice to television freelancers.
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Footballers back video sharing firm Grabyo
Footballers Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie are among the sports stars to have invested $2m (£1.3m) in clip-sharing service Grabyo.
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Chancellor hints at kids live-action tax break
The tax break for live-action kids’ programming is expected to be given the green-light by the government after chancellor George Osborne threw his support behind the plans.
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Sky plans penguin doc
Sky has ordered a documentary about penguins from in-house production arm Sky Vision.
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Comment
Automate to accumulate
The use of robotics helps newsrooms to raise their production values, says Karen Walker
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Young War Widows profiled by ITV
An ITV documentary is to explore the effects of war on three young women whose soldier husbands were killed in Afghanistan.
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C4 dog fighting doc results in arrest
West Midlands Police have arrested a man in connection with organised dog fighting as a result of Penny Woolcock’s Channel 4 documentary Going To The Dogs.
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YouTube accounts for 20% of kids viewing
A study of youngster’s media habits by Ofcom has revealed that older children watch half as much live TV as adults – but six times as much short-form content via services such as YouTube.
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DLT makes development hires
My Family producer DLT Entertainment has beefed up its development team with two new hires.
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C5 tracks down more OAPs Behaving Badly
Channel 5 is to follow another group of pensioners as they blow their children’s inheritance and winter fuel allowance on cheap booze and holidays with a super-sized renewal of OAPs Behaving Badly.
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Gavin Hay resurfaces with disability indie
Brighter Pictures co-founder Gavin Hay has resurfaced as the director of a newly-established indie that will specialise in programming about disability.
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Comment
A land of opportunities
With many commissioning slots up for grabs, Ireland is punching above its weight, finds Danny Fenton
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Ratings
Inside Tatler and Skint draw 1.5m
MONDAY: There was stalemate in the battle of posh versus poor last night, as both Posh People: Inside Tatler and Skint pulled in 1.5m viewers.
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BBC Trust mulls Top Gear investigation after Argentina row
The BBC Trust is considering a request to launch an investigation into Top Gear’s Argentina special from the country’s UK ambassador.
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Pointless approaches 1000 episodes with latest order
The biggest-ever run of Pointless Celebrities forms part of a new multi-series deal for the long-running BBC format.
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Critics
TV Critics: Posh People: Inside Tatler; I’m a Celebrity…
“It was like the distant shout of class war across the EPG, but the Tatler terrarium is mercifully double glazed.”
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Pinewood TV revenue drops as it prepares Teddington exit
Pinewood Shepperton suffered a dip in revenue from its TV operations as it prepares to exit its Teddington facility.
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Brits clean up at International Emmys
Utopia, Educating Yorkshire and The Tunnel were among the winners at the International Emmy Awards.
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Bullseye co-founder joins Euro indie
Bullseye co-founder Dee Smith has joined European extreme sports and culture producer Factory Media.
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ITV greenlights Jekyll & Hyde
ITV has added to its drama slate with an ambitious ten-part series inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.