All Broadcast articles in 3 April 2015 – Page 5
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Top 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 16 - 22 Mar 2015
BBC2’s new the-way-we-used-to-eat doc Back In Time For Dinner attracted 2.2 million/10%
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Sky buys stake in US producer
Sky has acquired a majority stake in US production company Jupiter Entertainment.
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Top 30 multichannel programmes: 16- 22 Mar 2015
BBC3’s winning show was ITV2-bound Family Guy with 510,000/6% on Friday at 11.25pm
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C4 orders fast-turnaround Germanwings film
Channel 4 has ordered a fast-turnaround documentary about the safety of flying following last week’s Germanwings air disaster.
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Top 50 Non-PSB shows: 16- 22 Mar 2015
At 9pm on Tuesday, the fourth episode of Sky 1 drama Critical fell to its lowest live rating yet
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Top 15 consolidated shows: 9- 15 Mar 2015
BBC1’s Poldark (8.1 million/29% after 1.6 million recorded and watched this week) is pulling in more than its two drama rivals combined
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TV's gender imbalance revealed
Men outnumber women 2:1 on TV and programming continues to reinforce gender stereotypes, according to research commissioned by the BBC last year.
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NBC picks up First Dates for US remake
Channel 4 dating show First Dates is headed to the US after NBC ordered an eight-part run of the Twenty Twenty format.
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Ofcom targets social media in kids' guidelines update
Ensuring child contributors to TV and radio programmes are not subject to bullying on social media is one of the key elements of a new set of Ofcom guidelines.
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England match scores 6.8m peak
FRIDAY: England’s victory over Lithuania in the Euro 2016 qualifier peaked with 6.8m viewers to become the channel’s most popular game of 2015.
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Re:fine rebrands as Visual Data
Content processing firm Re:fine has rebranded as Visual Data Media Services.
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Mr Selfridge sheds 1.2m
SUNDAY: Mr Selfridge bowed out with its biggest audience in seven weeks - but was unable to prevent the third series falling to become the lowest-rated to date.
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Ofcom probes C4 Romanian doc
Ofcom is investigating Channel 4’s The Romanians are Coming after it received 120 complaints about how the documentary series portrayed the Romanian community.
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Dog House Media embraces cats for C5
Dog House Media has produced two documentaries about cats for Channel 5.
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HBO buys Nick Broomfield murder doc from Sky
US network HBO leads the line-up of international broadcasters that have acquired Sky’s Nick Broomfield documentary Tales of the Grim Sleeper.
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Trevor Eve strikes first-look deal with ZDF
Projector Pictures, the indie set up by Waking The Dead star Trevor Eve, has inked a first-look deal with ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the German public broadcaster.
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The Office sequel among BBC Films slate
Ricky Gervais is to resurrect The Office’s David Brent for a feature as part of a slate of BBC Films projects.
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Broadcast launches mobile app
Broadcast has launched a mobile app, available exclusively to subscribers, offering easy access to the site and extending the access to daily overnight ratings data.
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BBC greenlights Steve McQueen drama
The BBC has formally commissioned its “epic” Steve McQueen drama about the experiences of a black community in west London.
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Stacey Dooley backs BBC3 online move
BBC3 investigative reporter and presenter Stacey Dooley has revealed she is optimistic about the channel’s proposed move online and has begun producing short films ahead of the shift.