All Broadcast articles in 28 October 2016 – Page 4
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Studio Lambert eyes entertainment
Studio Lambert is moving into shiny floor entertainment for the first time with the launch of a label run by a former series producer of The X Factor and Celebrity Big Brother.
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ITV plans Late Late-style show dry run
ITV is setting up a two-week dry run of its multi-million pound late-night stripped comedy show.
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King's Speech indie preps horror format
King’s Speech indie Bedlam Productions is developing and co-producing a southeast Asia-set horror anthology series to be presented to buyers for pre-sale at next month’s American Film Market.
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Top 50 non-PSB shows: 10-16 Oct 2016
Harry Hill’s back on TV at tea-time, but we’re not talking TV Burp figures here. Nevertheless, Sky 1 will be happy with the debut of the prosaically titled Harry Hill’s Tea-Time: 391,000/2% at 6pm on Sunday.
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Top 30 multichannel shows: 10-16 Oct 2016
Although Celebrity Juice (Thursday, 10pm) tops this week’s table with 960,000/6%, up from last week’s 780,000/5%, perhaps we should be considering another metric, in which it wouldn’t do quite so well – the number of words in a programme title.
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Top consolidated shows: 3-9 Oct
In the week that actress Jean Alexander died, it’s appropriate to be thinking about occasions when a show recorded its biggest ever audience.
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 10-16 Oct 2016
It was a triumphant return for Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze on Sunday at 9pm (3 million/13.8%).
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Top 100 shows: 10-16 Oct
One of the most over-used and obsolete phrases in politics is “we’re not going to give you a running commentary on…”. It’s usually about something long-running that everyone knows the answer to already, like the third runway at Heathrow.
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Wellcome bursary opened up to TV
The recipient of a £30,000 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship bursary is to be unveiled at a 23 November event.
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Fraser hunts public films for Yaddo
SVoD documentaries service Yaddo is to commission 125 documentaries from members of the public over the next 12 months.
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Walking Dead shocks 800k
MONDAY: The Walking Dead roared back onto Fox with 800,000 viewers – outperforming Channel 5 in the 9pm slot.
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Ballantine recruited to lead Deluxe in Europe
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has recruited Neil Ballantine to the role of managing director of the company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Media Services division.
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Critics
TV Critics: Cold Feet; Saving Africa’s Elephants: Hugh and The Ivory War
“Seven million viewers, in this age of about six million ways of watching TV, aren’t easy to come by.”
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All3Media forges Lynda La Plante ties
Lynda La Plante is set to start developing projects with All3Media after the super-indie picked up the rights to 124 hours of the writer’s crime drama catalogue.
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Video
Be Your Own Doctor, C4
Former Bake Off contestant Dr Tamal Ray fronts Love Productions’ medical format alongside Kate Quilton.
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Culture secretary sets out C4 options
Culture secretary Karen Bradley has laid out four different options around the privatisation of Channel 4 but declared that a decision is not imminent.
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120 jobs to go as Brexit bites ITV
ITV is to make 120 jobs redundant across its business to “futureproof” following Brexit.
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Sky prepares 1,000 hours for 2017
Sky is to debut 1,000 hours of original commissions over the next twelve months across Europe with 80 series in production and another 170 in paid development.
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Children on the Frontline duo explore homelessness for C5
The filmmakers behind Syrian doc Children on the Frontline are making a 90-minute doc about homelessness for Channel 5.
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Obituary: James Zafar, set designer
Tributes have been paid to James Barrie Zafar, set designer of Masterchef and The Great British Bake Off, who has died at age 48 after a battle with cancer.