All Broadcast articles in 28 October 2016 – Page 2
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NewsThe Crown creator predicts bigger drama budgets
The Crown creator Peter Morgan believes the convergence of TV and film is set to accelerate and has predicted that drama series’ budgets could swell to many hundreds of millions of pounds.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: The Great British Bake Off
Click to see how well the Love Productions show has fared on the BBC.
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CommentHunted, C4
Capturing footage of contestants for C4’s Hunted required some special kit, says Shaun Wilton
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NewsAttenborough: too much cooking on TV
TV has become saturated with cooking and gardening shows, according to former BBC2 controller David Attenborough.
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NewsBlakeway hires new MD
Zinc Media-owned indie Blakeway has appointed producer Lucy van Beek as managing director.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; The Missing; Gogglebox
“This was a curious final. Not just for the elephant the size of Paul Hollywood’s pay cheque that lurked in the tent, but for the oddly low-key tasks.”
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FeaturesHacienda House Orchestra
Post on two versions of a doc in which New Order bassist and Hacienda co-founder Peter Hook, M People’s Mike Pickering and DJ Graeme Park try to reinvent house music with 70-piece classical orchestra the Manchester Camerata.
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NewsSister Pictures hires Humans exec
Humans producer Chris Fry has joined his old boss Jane Featherstone as an executive producer at Sister Pictures.
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FeaturesBritish Treasure, American Gold
Post on a six-part antiques and trading series fronted by Storage Hunters’ Jesse McClure
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NewsProduction Services boosts Technicolor's revenues
The Technicolor group’s revenues rose significantly in the third quarter of its 2016 financial year, with its Production Services division playing a major role.
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NewsDRG inks Thoroughly Modern deal
Modern Times Group-backed distributor DRG has inked a two-year first-look deal with fledgling indie Thoroughly Modern Media.
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NewsAdstream founders secure Honeycomb funding
Honeycomb, the TV and video advertising management platform started by James Carpenter and Richard Carter, the founders of Adstream, has raised £3m in Series A investment funding.
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RatingsGBBO bows out on a high
WEDNESDAY: BBC1’s final episode of The Great British Bake Off bowed out with a peak of 14.9m viewers – the format’s biggest overnight audience yet.
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NewsDistributor Holdan hires brand manager
PEC managing director Dan Wheeler has quit the company to join equipment distributor Holdan as its brand manager.
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NewsFormer Technicolor duo set up media services facility
Two former Technicolor colleagues have opened a media services facility backed by ES Broadcast, the equipment sales and rental firm.
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FeaturesMipcom: simple formats shine
There was no breakout hit at this year’s Mipcom, but themes around conflict resolution, secrets and ageing emerged. Manori Ravindran takes a closer look at the shows that stood out
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NewsNat Geo opens doors to UK producers
US cable network National Geographic is looking for British producers to follow up its big-budget Mars mission and is already in development with a major UK-originated unscripted project.
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NewsLime embraces WhatsApp after Hollyoaks success
Lime Pictures is to embrace messaging service WhatsApp and story curation platform Wakelet across its programme slate after a successful Stand Up To Cancer-related campaign.
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NewsVice plots global expansion
Vice is set to close almost a dozen global distribution deals for linear channel Viceland in the next 12 months and expects to strike agreements with Sky’s pay-TV rivals in the UK.