All Broadcast articles in 29 May 2014 – Page 2
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News
C4 gets graphic with animal mating doc
Channel 4 and US network PBS are to study animal reproduction in graphic detail in a four-part series produced by Windfall Films.
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Critics
TV Critics: The Police Commissioner; My Granny The Escort; The Seduction of Smoking
“Twenty Twelve and W1A etc – are pretty much redundant. Because this is so much better.”
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UKTV remakes Storage Hunters
UKTV has ordered a UK version of hit factual entertainment series Storage Hunters from All3Media-owned indie North One Television.
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Lion hires BBC development exec
Emma Lorenz, the BBC head of channel development behind BBC3’s Life and Death Row and forthcoming BBC1 doc The Met, is to join Lion Television as director of development.
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Ratings
MasterChef's ratings feast
After the return of Wallander this week, with bigger-than-ever numbers, BBC4, instigator of the Nordic Noir boom, might just be in line for a gong.
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CHARTS: Sky Atlantic is in for a Penny
The Victorians, those straightbacked Empire-builders with virtue preserved, forked out a penny each week to be thrilled by sensational dread
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CHARTS: Mum's the word for E4
The recent round of series culls in the US left The Big Bang Theory untouched and barging on for more
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CHARTS: Budding start for RHS Show
Monday brought a clash of quintessentially British obsessions: gardening and weather.
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CHARTS: ITV wins with BGT and footy
It’s probably just coincidence, but the weather that is making such a mockery of May is storming in from Europe.
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Comic Relief bans controversial investments
Comic Relief has banned indirect investments in alcohol, arms and tobacco companies following a review prompted by a Panorama documentary last year.
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First RTS Scotland nominees revealed
BBC Scotland leads the pack of nominees in the first RTS Scotland Awards, designed to honour excellence in all forms of TV production.
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Ratings
Derek second series stutters
The second series of Channel 4’s Derek bowed out with a series average 300,000 viewers below its debut run on a slow night for the terrestrial channels on Wednesday.
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Sky promotes comedy exec Boyer
Sky’s Ben Boyer has been promoted to commissioning editor of comedy to replace the ITV-bound Saskia Schuster.
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Diversify to offer practical tips to producers
TV execs will benefit from a series of tips about how to improve the diversity of their production teams at a Diversify event to be held next week as part of Creative Week.
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Comment
The web is egalitarian – all you need is a great idea
Web series are opening up many possibilities, says Lisa Gifford
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Critics
TV Critics: Derek; Mad Men; Episodes
“The show seems to have been devised by someone of Derek’s limited intelligence”
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BBC’s Samantha Anstiss returns to production
BBC documentaries commissioner Samantha Anstiss is returning to programme making to set up a creative label within the corporation’s in-house production arm.
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Behind The Scenes
BBC iPlayer: comedy shorts
Pett Productions discuss ‘micro-producing’ an eclectic mix of experimental shorts
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Maverick boss: get talent to use Twitter
Getting talent to tweet about their programming can help significantly boost VoD views but does not provide a silver bullet for ratings success, according to Maverick Television digital boss Dan Jones.
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Ukip to petition Ofcom for major party status
Ukip has pledged to “campaign hard” to convince Ofcom its major party status should be extended for the 2015 general election.