All Broadcast articles in 30 March 2012 – Page 5
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RatingsTop consolidated programmes
Find out which programmes gained the biggest audience through recording from 12-18 March and browse the top titles.
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RatingsDemographic Focus
Explore the ratings breakdown demographically across the main terrestrial and multichannel broadcasters from 19-25 March.
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RatingsGenre Overview
Browse the top ten children’s, factual, drama, entertainment, sport and current affairs programmes from 19-25 March.
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NewsKindle updates Dickens for BBC1
Bafta-winning kids’ indie Kindle Entertainment is reimagining Charles Dickens’ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby in a 21st century setting for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsTouchpaper returns to supernatural for ITV2
The indie behind Being Human is to create a supernatural drama for ITV2 about contemporary witches living in London.
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NewsS4C strives to make a Welsh killing
S4C is hoping to turn Wales into the next Denmark by creating programming to be sold worldwide.
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NewsC4 goes on Fox Watch for spring
Channel 4 is lining up an ambitious natural history event looking at the lives of urban foxes for this spring
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NewsC4 in talks with Pact over template for sharing viewer data
Channel 4 is looking to establish a contractual template for sharing the viewer data that indies generate through their multiplatform properties.
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NewsNutopia appoints Hepton for The 80s
Nutopia has hired the head of specialist factual development at Fremantle Media UK’s Boundless to executive produce its new commission for Nat Geo US.
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NewsAbsolute app to control Android connected TVs
Absolute Radio is to launch a “proof of concept” app that allows users to control its connected-TV app via their Android phone.
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NewsAckerman sets up indie with Prdctbl backing
Sebastian Scott’s production hub Prdctbl Media has invested in a third start-up indie, led by former Chatty Man exec producer Richard Ackerman and focused on comedy and entertainment.
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NewsViacom to pilot gameshow with slo-mo action replays
Viacom is to pilot a pioneering 3D-ready physical gameshow that is co-produced by ITV Studios USA and Zig Zag USA.
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CommentReaching for a new ad model
Google’s bid to rival Barb points to the future of TV, says Kate Bulkley.
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Reaction: Director UK's BBC agreement
Directors including Simon Curtis, Paul Unwin, Paul Elston, Susanna White and Paula Milne give their reaction to Director UK’s long-sought agreement with the BBC.
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NewsBBC agrees Directors UK deal
The BBC and Directors UK have signed a landmark agreement aimed at putting directors back at the centre of programme-making.
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CommentOff Cuts: Danny’s A-list guest list
It was a long way from Frankenstein’s Wedding, reportedly lacked the combat of Women, Weddings, War And Me and thankfully someone remembered to Tell The Bride.
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DNI sets out ambitious plans
Discovery Networks International has ordered 20 hours of content from indie Maverick Television, as Julian Bellamy outlined the broadcaster’s “step change in ambitions” at the Broadcast Business Breakfast.
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NewsSky Atlantic signs comedy duo
Sky Atlantic has commissioned a Mrs Merton-style comedy chat show hosted by two American Jewish mothers.
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NewsVoD operators threatened with closure in Atvod dispute
The Authority of Television on Demand (Atvod) is threatening to wind up several VoD operators unless they pay their regulatory fees of £2,900.
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CommentMatt Lucas Awards Show / Just A Minute / Facejacker
Sky Atlantic’s Heather Pople and Nat Geo’s Hannah Demidowicz on banter, wordplay and genius pranks.