All Broadcast articles in 30 January 2014 – Page 4
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Behind The Scenes
Suspects, C5
Semi-improvised dialogue and a documentary shooting style give C5’s police drama an edgy, contemporary feel
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Ratings
Series lows for The Taste, The Jump and Death In Paradise
Death In Paradise, Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans, The Jump and The Taste all put in series low performances on Tuesday.
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News
iPlayer enjoys record breaking year
BBC iPlayer enjoyed a record breaking year in 2013 as favourites such as Top Gear and its online-first strategy drove 3bn views.
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Critics
TV Critics: Inside the Animal Mind; The Zoo Next Door; The Taste; Extreme World
“Just the right blend of science and spectacle.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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News
BBC distribution boss to join Vodafone
Alix Pryde, the BBC executive who helped lead the successful digital switchover project, is leaving the corporation to join Vodafone.
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News
ITV launches pay-TV drama channel
ITV is to launch its first new channel brand in eight years - a pay-TV service on Sky showcasing the best of its recent drama series.
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News
DRG swoops for Babylon and Genius
DRG has picked up the rights to distribute Danny Boyle’s forthcoming Channel 4 drama Babylon and National Geographic doc series Genius.
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News
Windfall returns to Strip The City
New York, Venice, Tokyo and Paris will be among the next crop of cities laid bare using innovative CGI technology after Windfall Films’ Strip The City was recommissioned for a second series.
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News
Sacked BBC DMI boss takes legal action
John Linwood, the BBC technology boss sacked in the aftermath of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) scandal, is taking legal action against the corporation.
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News
BBC governance under fire over DMI
The BBC’s governance arrangements have come under fire in a National Audit Office (NAO) report on the failed £100m Digital Media Initiative (DMI).
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News
CNN searches for factual series
CNN is ramping up the number of factual series it commissions and is keen to order more “knowledge based” reality shows.
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News
BBC Scotland launches craft trainee scheme
BBC Scotland is to launch a craft trainee scheme in partnership with Creative Skillset.
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News
Broadcast appoints Chris Curtis as editor
Chris Curtis has been named the new editor of Broadcast.
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Ratings
Room 101 drops to 3.4m
Room 101 returned to BBC1 with an audience 300,000 smaller last year’s series opener on Friday.
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News
ProSieben remakes Release the Hounds
Release the Hounds, the horror gameshow created by Gogglebox Entertainment for ITV2, is to be remade in Germany.
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Behind The Scenes
Children's Emergency Rescue, BBC2
Ian Cundall discusses gaining the trust of doctors and patients
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Video
VIDEO: Big Ballet, C4
Watch the trailer for Rare Day’s Big Ballet, a three-part series following a troupe of plus-size amateur dancers.
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News
TNT & TBS hunt UK formats
Time Warner networks TNT and TBS are eyeing UK formats as part of the broadcasting giant’s drive to order more international shows.
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Critics
TV Critics: Britain's Great War; Food and Drink; Looking
“The BBC has acknowledged that this war isn’t just fodder for a paternalistic lecture.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV,
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Ratings
C4 leaps ahead of the competition
Channel 4 enjoyed a good night on Monday as The Jump held up well and Benefits Street outgunned Jeremy Paxman’s World War I doc for BBC1.