All Broadcast articles in 29 October 2009 – Page 4
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RatingsBBC2 cooks up some ratings
I confess that my idea of cooking is reading the bottom of the box and leaving its contents in the oven for 20 minutes (I do take it out of the box - I am not a philistine).
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RatingsSpin-off puts ITV2 in lead
On Sunday, ITV2’s Xtra Factor managed to clock a whopping 1.8 million/7.4% at 9pm while Liverpool besting Manchester United brought in 1.7 million/ 17% at 12.30pm for Sky Sports 1.
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NewsBig Talk secures BBC2 urban church sitcom
The Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo is to return to his TV roots for a BBC2 sitcom about a frustrated urban Anglican vicar.
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Comment
Neil Fox, Magic 105.4
Magic 105.4 breakfast presenter Neil Fox reveals his biggest lie, what he’d put in Room 101 and his hidden talent.
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NewsE1 raises presence with London base and hires
E1 Entertainment International is set to open an office in London to help it secure more UK programmes for the international market.
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Behind The ScenesCollision, ITV1
Creating a modern epic with a cast of 73 and a feature film director was the easy part - locating our ‘collision’ was another story, says producer Jill Green.
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News
RTS adds indie award to TV journalism line-up
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has created a new award for this year’s Television Journalism Awards, recognising the best news coverage created by an indie or freelancer.
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NewsMark Gatiss to adapt HG Wells novel for BBC4
League of Gentleman star Mark Gatiss is to star in his own adaptation of HG Wells’ sci-fi romance, The First Men In The Moon, for BBC4.
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NewsBBC to give BNP annual platform
The BBC will give the BNP a platform on a range of political programmes but no more than once a year, director general Mark Thompson has said.
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NewsThis Week pulled over race fears
The BBC has pulled an episode of This Week from the internet amid worries of a race backlash after host Andrew Neil compared Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo with a chocolate HobNob biscuit and a custard cream.
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NewsBBC integrates press and PR effort
The BBC is to integrate all its press and public relations operations into one division, which will report to communications director Ed Williams.
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NewsSports bodies attack Ofcom intervention
The UK’s leading sports bodies have attacked Ofcom’s proposed intervention in the UK pay TV market claiming it is “fatally flawed in a number of key areas”.
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NewsComic hits out at BBC producers
Mock The Week star Frankie Boyle has hit out at the programme’s producers for asking panellists to avoid discussing serious issues.
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NewsQuestion Time prompts 290 complaints to Ofcom
Almost 300 viewers have complained to the regulator Ofcom about last week’s edition of Question Time.
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RatingsJames May plays with 3.5m
Top Gear presenter James May’s new series based around toys helped BBC2 take off in the ratings last night, outgunning every other channel except BBC1.
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NewsSky must not avoid pay-TV regulations say rivals
BSkyB should not be allowed to use Project Canvas as a loophole to avoid proposed pay-TV regulations, its two main rivals have claimed in a submission to Ofcom.
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NewsParthenon appoints head of factual
Parthenon Entertainment has bolstered its factual team by appointing former Darlow Smithson exec Richard Sattin to run the department.
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Comment28 Oct, '09
“Both women were visibly happier by the end of the film.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsBoomerang wins £3.2m S4C contract
Welsh indie Boomerang Plus has won a lucrative four-year contract with S4C worth £3.2m to film and broadcast events from the Royal Welsh Showground.
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NewsBBCW: Lonely Planet is not for sale
BBC Worldwide has moved to reject rumours that it is planning to sell Lonely Planet.