All Broadcast articles in 29 April 2016 – Page 3
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Critics
TV Critics: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome; Normal For Norfolk; Caravanner of the Year; Plebs
“A thoughtful and resolutely British series that, like its predecessors, deserves to draw in viewers by the million.”
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News
Netflix boards BBC's Watership Down
Netflix has boarded BBC1’s remake of classic children’s novel Watership Down.
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News
Amazon hunts UK content chief
Subscription VoD service Amazon is hunting for an original programming chief to run its UK production division.
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Comment
Sky needs dramas that can get the nation talking
Pay-TV giant’s splurge on original content has yet to pay dividends, says Stephen Arnell
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Comment
Online v TV: the ad battle rages
Broadcasters can have the best of both worlds, says Kate Bulkley
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News
UKTV sets out strategy for W
UKTV has set out the commissioning priorities for its female-skewing channel W for the first time following its rebrand.
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C4 reveals how data informs commissioning
Channel 4 data chief Pedro Cosa has provided an insight into how his team helps inform commissioning decisions.
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Spun Gold eyes growth rush
Spun Gold is weighing up either a sale or an acquisition spree after reaching a “fork in the road” in its plans to build on shows including Great Canal Journeys.
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News
Analysis: BBC Studios set to launch
BBC Studios will formally launch as an operating division within the BBC on 29 April, paving the way for its next challenge of becoming a fully commercial operation in April next year.
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News
DCMS meetings offer hints at possible C4 suitors
Culture secretary John Whittingdale, who met with the likes of Viacom, Disney, Warner Bros and Sony last year, has claimed there will be “no shortage” of buyers for Channel 4.
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News
All3Media focuses on talent
All3Media chief executive Jane Turton has claimed that 2016 is all about talent for the super-indie after it ushered in a new era for Optomen and struck a fresh deal with Gordon Ramsay.
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Comment
John Whittingdale’s misguided plan
Culture secretary has a solution for C4 - but what’s the problem, asks Chris Curtis
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News
Brexit: the TV industry reacts
The clear majority of the British television industry believe that leaving the European Union will damage the UK’s position on the global content stage.
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News
Muslim docs take centre stage
The BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will go head to head with programming about British Muslim communities amid concerns that broadcasters focus too heavily on extremism.
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News
BBC plans diverse university push
The BBC is looking to hire candidates from a wider range of universities with a new recruitment process designed to ensure its workforce reflects modern Britain.
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BBC prepares Hillsborough special
BBC2 has ordered an in-depth documentary about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster following this week’s inquest verdict, to air early next month.
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News
Former Clear Cut MD takes sales role at Forscene
Former Clear Cut Pictures managing director Max McGonigal has joined the management team of Forscene, Forbidden Technologies’ cloud-based editing platform.
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Ratings
The A Word bows out respectably
TUESDAY: BBC1 drama The A Word bowed out with its second biggest audience of the series, as Flowers shed viewers for Channel 4.
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News
Twofour lands ITV property format
Twofour is bidding to reinvigorate the home renovation format with an ITV daytime makeover show that cuts out ‘the boring building stuff’.
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BBC hires comedy commissioner
CPL producer Alex Moody has joined the BBC comedy commissioning team and will take an active role in the broadcaster’s diversity push.