All Broadcast articles in 5 February 2015 – Page 3
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News
FEU welcomes external help on BBC bullying
The broadcasting unions have welcomed the BBC’s pledge to introduce external input into its bullying and harassment procedures.
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News
Inside the Immigration Street row
The row over Channel 4’s upcoming Immigration Street is set to play out on screen as the broadcaster prepares to show footage of Love Productions’ crew being threatened by local people.
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ITV factual in the spotlight
ITV’s factual strategy is in the spotlight after a number of recent commissions struggled to make an impact.
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BBC recruits for diversity push
The BBC has hired six diverse, industry-facing assistant commissioners as part of the corporation’s mission to represent every family and community in the UK.
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Comment
Licence fee battle lines are drawn
Rona Fairhead stressed the quiet public support for the BBC
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News
Vice on verge of A+E deal as TV and online collide
Vice Media, one of the pioneers of original digital content, is to shake up the US cable landscape by agreeing a deal for a programming block with A+E Networks.
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Features
Workflow: The Collectv moves into reality TV with ITV2 show
The Collectv has delivered a set of logging, recording and media management services for Twofour’s ITV2 reality show Ibiza Weekender as as part of its venture into a wider range of genres.
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Love wins Broadcast’s indie crown
Love Productions was crowned Best Independent Production Company and scooped the Best Popular Factual Programme award for The Great British Bake Off at the 20th annual Broadcast Awards.
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Features
Best Comedy Programme: Harry And Paul’s Story Of The Twos
“A total treat,” declared our judges of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s irreverent and truly impressive skewering of 50 years of BBC Two.
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Features
Best Soap or Continuing Drama: EastEnders
“EastEnders has had a real reboot under Dominic Treadwell-Collins,” said one judge. “It feels like a fresh show again.”
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Features
Best Music Programme: Coldplay: Ghost Stories
The judges were impressed by the scale and ambition of Sky Arts’ exclusive recording of Coldplay performing their latest album Ghost Stories.
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Features
Best Documentary Programme: Storyville: Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
Injecting a little punk rock into the BBC Four schedule, Storyville’s film raised important questions about the battle lines drawn between artistic freedom and state control in Russia.
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Features
Best Original Programme: Glasgow Girls
Glasgow Girls may not be the highest-profile show to win a Broadcast Award this year, but it is one of the most distinctive.
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Features
Best Drama Series: Happy Valley
Such was the impact of Happy Valley when it aired in April 2014, it was used as one of Charlotte Moore’s ripostes to criticism of BBC One.
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Features
Best Post Production House: Envy Post Production
This award is given to a post house that provides outstanding service, and there was broad agreement among the judges that Envy had consistently delivered to an industry-leading standard.
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Features
Best Independent Production Company: Love Productions
Love Productions is never far from the headlines, but 2014 was the year its reputation for provocative programming was exceeded by its status as a producer of huge, high-quality hits.
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Features
Channel of the Year: BBC One
In a multichannel, on-demand age, BBC One is still the channel the nation turns to for big events.
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Features
Best Pre-School Programme: Lily’s Driftwood Bay
An incredible 50,000 photographs of more than 10,000 beachcombed items were taken to produce this 52-part series.
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Best Popular Factual Programme: The Great British Bake Off
The Great British Bake Off was a TV juggernaut before it moved to BBC One – but no one would have predicted what happened when its fifth series debuted on the flagship channel.