All Broadcast articles in 8 April 2016 – Page 2
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News
Stacey Dooley and Reggie Yates sign up for latest BBC3 docs
Stacey Dooley and Reggie Yates will continue their successful partnership with BBC3 after signing up to present two new immersive documentary series.
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BBC kicks off World Service campaign
The BBC has launched its first domestic campaign promoting the World Service in seven years to raise awareness of the station’s programming.
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Critics
TV Critics: How to Stay Young; Workers or Shirkers?; Army Girls
“It was a thought-provoking hour that will have had every viewer mentally calculating how many years they could add to their life by dropping this, taking up that and eating more of the other.”
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Henry Normal to leave Baby Cow
Henry Normal is to leave Baby Cow Productions nearly two decades after launching the Alan Partridge indie with Steve Coogan.
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Ratings
Grantchester continues ITV's scripted run
WEDNESDAY: ITV’s strong scripted run continued as Grantchester bowed out with a slot-winning performance.
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News
In brief: Grantchester; H&C TV; UKTV Play
Grantchester is to return while Horse & Country TV has kicked off a vlogging talent show. Read on for more
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Snoddy: Whittingdale planned quiet C4 sale
Culture secretary John Whittingdale planned to quietly privatise Channel 4 as part of the spring budget, a leading media commentator has claimed.
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BBC3's Life and Death Row gets digital twist
BBC3 is to give one of its highest-profile factual formats, Life and Death Row, a digital twist – after producing a serialised version of the documentary.
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Critics
TV Critics: The People Next Door; Grantchester; The Reassembler
“A glittering puzzle box of a mystery that hinted at dark deeds without ever fully showing its hand.”
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Lord Puttnam lined up for Doc/Fest panel
Director Tilda Swinton, sportsman Ronnie O’Sullivan and Lord David Puttnam are to feature as part of the Sheffield Doc/Fest line-up.
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Sky cancels Bring The Noise
Sky 1 has cancelled music quiz Bring The Noise after a single series.
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Harry Hill heads to Sky 1
Harry Hill is heading to Sky 1 with a new show described as TV Burp meets MasterChef - alongside a raft of new entertainment formats, including a series set in the British Museum and an adaptation of a major Australian spelling format.
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The Broadcast Interview
Celia Taylor, Sky
Sky’s non-scripted boss talks to Peter White about flying dogs, why ‘funny factual’ is harder than it looks - and why she couldn’t turn down Renegade’s Don’t Tell The Bride
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Mip TV: Netflix, BBC, Hulu deals
Netflix enters Versailles; BBC1 drama Capitol inks deals; Roots world premiere; Walter Presents buys Spanish drama for UK; Hulu reads The Book Of Negroes; Olivier Megaton doc gets sales deal.
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Comment
Taking a gamble on talent is vital for the future of TV
Being allowed to fail can help comedians learn how to create future hits, says Luke McQueen
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Comment
TV is stuck in a ’90s time warp
No wonder young people are deserting us, given what’s on offer
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Features
The Sporting Mavericks
Provide full post-production on the 4 x 60-minute series focusing on uniquely gifted sportsmen from the worlds of snooker, motorsport, boxing and darts.
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News
SGL makes FlashNet compatible with Sony Ci
NAB 2016: SGL has adapted its FlashNet content storage management system so that it works with Ci, Sony’s professional media cloud platform.
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Imagine adds three apps to Microsoft Azure platform
NAB 2016: Imagine Communications is making three more of its broadcast applications available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
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FilmLight adds features to Baselight grading system
NAB 2016: FilmLight has added a new tool to its Baselight grading system (pictured) that it says allows colourists to “mimic the way the eye appreciates colour.”