All Broadcast articles in 6 November 2015
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Video
VIDEO: Film is GREAT
UKTI’s showreel showcases fantastic actors and stunning locations, through to a wealth of behind the camera talent.
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News
BBC TV braced for £30m cuts
The BBC’s television division has been tasked with making cuts of up to £30m in 2017/18 as the corporation bids to close the £150m funding gap created by the iPlayer loophole.
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Podcast
Talking TV: ITV attacks BBC - plus Kirstie & Phil interview
ITV’s attack on the BBC’s distinctiveness comes under the microscope in the latest edition of Talking TV, which also features an interview with Kirstie & Phil.
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News
BBC entertainment boss hits out at ITV's ‘cultural prohibition’
Alan Tyler has argued that ITV’s attempt to ban the BBC from importing formats is tantamount to “cultural prohibition”.
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News
S4C unveils vision for future
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has unveiled three core ambitions for its future that hinge on being granted sufficient funding in the government’s forthcoming spending reviews.
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News
BBC Birmingham ramps up digital activity
An online Shakespeare Festival marking 400 years since the playwright’s death, is the latest digital initiative to come out of the broadcaster’s growing Birmingham base.
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Features
China Q&A: Samuel Raff, UKTI
The first secretary and head of creative industries and sports in Beijing discusses how to capture 75m eyeballs.
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News
In brief: GMB; Oxford Scientific; C4 daytime; Sky Sports; Red Planet
BBC News planning editor Sally Watson has joined Good Morning Britain, while C4 daytime commissioner Sagina Shabaya is joining the indie sector. Read on for more
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Ratings
Chris Tarrant steams off with 1.5m for Channel 5
THURSDAY: Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railway Journeys gathered viewers across its six-parts to disembark with a series high performance.
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News
Downing Street reassures BBC over funding deal
Downing Street has reassured the BBC that it will honour the funding deal struck in July, including linking the licence fee to inflation.
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News
UKTI hunts indies for Italy trip and International Broadcaster event
UKTI is hunting for indies to travel to a roundtable in Italy and attend a day-long event in partnership with the Indielab TV Accelerator initiative.
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Critics
TV Critics: Class of ’92; Unforgotten; Shark Attack
“This could well have been balls, but I found it enthralling.”
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News
Renegade explores tax avoidance for BBC Black Economy season
Renegade Pictures is to produce a one-off social experiment for BBC2 in which businesses in a small town attempt to adopt the tax avoidance techniques of major corporations.
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News
Zig Zag explores African business for Bloomberg
Zig Zag Productions is to make a 12-part series about African business for Bloomberg shortly after partnering with South African indie Urban Brew Studios.
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News
ITV entertainment chief: X Factor changes ‘went too far’
ITV entertainment chief Elaine Bedell has acknowledged that some of the format tweaks made to The X Factor this year have failed.
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News
NEP Visions reveals extent of Bracknell fire damage
NEP Visions has confirmed the extent of the damage caused by the fire which ripped through its Bracknell HQ on Tuesday evening.
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