All Broadcast articles in 6 January 2017
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News
Rare Day's Peter Dale joins NFTS
Rare Day founder Peter Dale is to join The National Film and Television School to support one of its flagship factual degrees.
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News
Harry Hill plans TV pitching format
Comedian Harry Hill is developing a show about the TV pitching process and has issued a call to members of the public to submit their ideas.
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Behind The Scenes
Faking It: Tears of A Crime, Investigation Discovery
Why do criminals think TV is the place to protest their innocence?
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Ratings
Spies slips below the radar
THURSDAY: Minnow Films’ espionage series Spies failed to hook a million viewers while Death in Paradise returned on murderous form.
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News
BBC Worldwide takes first VR steps
BBC Worldwide has taken its first steps into virtual reality – partnering with Oculus to launch three VR experiences that immerse users in the world of a caracal cat, oogpister beetle and black bear.
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All 4 takes aim with BDO darts game
Channel 4 has stepped up to the oche with a mobile darts game ahead of its coverage of the BDO World Darts Championship.
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Critics
Unforgotten; Death in Paradise; Spies
“This is proper, thought-through writing in which character, plot and meaning are all in play.”
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News
Miles and Davies join TSL Products
TSL Products has made two senior appointments with Karlie Miles recruited to the role of worldwide sales director and Mark Davies joining as director of products and technology.
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Video
Bowie: The Last Five Years, BBC2
BBC Music doc featuring unseen and rare archive footage of the legendary musician.
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News
Future of Longcross Studios assured 'for forseeable future'
The owner of the Longcross Film Studios site has committed to maintaining the production facility “for the forseeable future” after the government backed plans to build 1,300 houses on the Surrey site.
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News
Buzzfeed & Ted Talks channels to bolster TVPlayer
Video-streaming service TVPlayer has struck a three-year deal with content aggregator Frequency to offer 150 on-demand channels from the likes of Buzzfeed, Machinima and Ted Talks.
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News
Revolting star defends Real Housewives of ISIS sketch
The creator of BBC2 comedy Revolting has defended an ISIS-themed sketch parody of the Real Housewives franchise after the Hat Trick-produced show received a number of complaints online.
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News
TV Moment of 2016: shortlist unveiled
The 10 shows that will compete at the Broadcast Awards to be crowned Timeline TV Moment of the Year have been unveiled.
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News
C4's Abraham & ITV's Davey headed to Jerusalem
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham and ITV’s head of comedy entertainment Peter Davey have been lined up to speak at InTV, a Jerusalem-based conference established by The A Word firm Keshet.
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News
ITV to 'sprinkle showbiz' onto Voice
ITV has unveiled plans to reinvent The Voice by preserving “the show the audience loves” but “with even more show business sprinkled on it”.
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Ratings
The Chase outruns BBC1
WEDNESDAY: ITV gameshow The Chase gripped an audience of almost 4m viewers – enough to beat every single show on BBC1 apart from its news bulletins.
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News
Halo to add Atmos in dubbing stage overhaul
Halo’s flagship Studio 1 dubbing stage is to be refurbished with the installation of a Dolby Atmos system.
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News
Sundog hires development chief
Sundog Pictures has tapped Nicky Huggett as head of development as it looks to “double down” on documentaries and expand into the US.
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Critics
No Offence; Italy’s Invisible Cities
“Just the thing for January nights and indeed the rest of the year.”