All Broadcast articles in 6 March 2014 – Page 5
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News
Sky Arts raises curtain on Playhouse Presents
Sky Arts has ordered its third run of Playhouse Presents comedies and dramas starring talent including Matthew Perry, Cara Delevingne and Ben Whishaw.
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Critics
TV Critics: Mary Berry Cooks; Mind The Gap; I Never Knew That About Britain
“Mary Berry Cooks is a perfect half-hour of recipes and tips.”
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Features
An Hour to Save Your Life, BBC2
Frontline doctors and ambulance staff battle against the clock to treat emergency injuries
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Production accounting guide launched
Industry collective the Production Accounting Forum has released an online guide to production accounting.
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Discovery snaps up Raw
Discovery Communications has struck a deal to buy Gold Rush producer Raw TV.
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Company & Element secure TV3 soap
Irish broadcaster TV3 has struck a deal with Shameless indie Company Pictures and Quirke-producer Element Pictures to produce a long-running local soap.
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BBC2 plans Stoke City kit-man biopic
Pete Bowker has penned a one-off BBC2 drama about a former Stoke City kit man, which will star Toby Jones and be directed by Entourage’s Julian Farino.
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Radio 1 digital producers exit for social start-up
BBC Radio 1 digital execs Alistair Parrington and Laura-May Coope are leaving the station to launch social media agency, Social Life.
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BBC3 doc ‘infringed’ privacy of nurse
BBC3 has been rapped for failing to disguise the identity of nurse in a Cherry Healey-fronted documentary examining the health conditions associated with excessive drinking.
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Ratings
Dragons' Den investment pays off
Dragons’ Den ended its latest run with a strong performance on Sunday, while The Musketeers continued to struggle against Mr Selfridge.
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BBC launches three apprenticeships
The BBC has launched three apprenticeship schemes as the corporation bids to better reflect the makeup of modern Britain.
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BBC bids on Antiques Road Trip bulk order
STV Productions has been commissioned to make a further four series of Antiques Road Trip for BBC1 and a fourth series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip for BBC2.
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Former Shine exec Hall co-founds indie
Former Shine exec Ben Hall has co-founded factual and reality indie Chalkboard TV.
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Julia Bradbury preps ITV show
Julia Bradbury has quit BBC1’s Countryfile and is preparing to host an ITV series about Britain’s landscape.
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C4 orders floods doc
C4 has ordered a fast-turnaround doc from Pioneer Productions about the UK’s recent floods.
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Comment
Technology vs TV
Has an unstoppable force met an immovable object asks TVCatchup’s Alex Guest
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Susanna Reid joins revamped ITV breakfast show
ITV has confirmed that Susanna Reid will join the broadcaster to host a revamped breakfast show titled Good Morning Britain.
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Critics
TV Critics: Jonathan Creek; Stewart Lee; Fish Fight
“As far as BBC crimey-solvey serials go, JC knocks the Belstaff jacket off of Sherlock.”
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Ratings
Jonathan Creek murders the competition
BBC1’s Jonathan Creek returned for its first full series in a decade with 6.3m viewers on Friday – more than three times the audience of ITV’s new comedy drama Edge of Heaven.
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Discovery and Viacom bid for C5
Discovery, MTV-owner Viacom and UKTV-backer Scripps Network are among the companies battling to acquire Channel 5.