All articles by Alex Farber – Page 112
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NewsEnders lukewarm on broadcaster shorts
There are very few broadcaster-led online commissions and many of those available are loss-leaders for producers, according to an Enders Analysis report.
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RatingsBrief Encounters & Brian Cox stay strong
MONDAY: Brief Encounters and Brian Cox’s Forces of Nature held onto their audiences as Love Island outperformed BBC2 and Channel 5.
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NewsO'Connell to hunt UK formats for Discovery US
Former ITV factual commissioner Andrew O’Connell has joined Discovery Channel with a remit to hunt for the next US hit from British indies.
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RatingsWales crash out of Euros in front of 15m
WEDNESDAY: Wales’ defeat by Portugal at Euro 2016 dwarfed the crowd who tuned in to watch Andy Murray overcome Jo-Wilfried Tsonga – as Boy Meets Girl struggled on its return to BBC2.
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NewsITV Hub looks to build on Love Island success
ITV is planning to bridge the gap between its commissioning and multiplatform teams following the runaway success of Love Island online.
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NewsDrama enters The Red Tent
UKTV’s scripted channel Drama has acquired Old Testament mini-series The Red Tent.
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NewsC5 political doc tails Nick Clegg, Jacob Rees Mogg and Naz Shah
The working lives of MPs Nick Clegg, Jacob Rees Mogg and Naz Shah are to be laid bare in a one-off Channel 5 documentary.
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RatingsLove Island soars as Brief Encounters starts solidly
MONDAY: The controversy surrounding Love Island helped the ITV2 format to its best performance yet, narrowly shading the audience for Big Brother on Channel 5.
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NewsClarkson & co gear up for online launch
Drive Tribe, the forthcoming online project created by Jeremy Clarkson and the former Top Gear team, has issued a call-out to creators to set-up a network of motoring channels.
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RatingsTour de France ushers in Saturday of sport
SATURDAY: The Tour de France set off on ITV4 with almost 250,000 viewers – well up on the audience for the previous year.
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RatingsTop Gear stalls with under 2m
SUNDAY: Top Gear drew to a close with fewer than 2m viewers, the lowest overnight figure of the series, capping a tough opening run for the rebooted motoring format.
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NewsOctonauts producer wins Netflix order
Netflix has ordered a children’s animation series from Silvergate Media, the creators of CBeebies’ Octonauts.
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NewsEuro 2016 helps BBC Sport to record high
More than 2m fans watched England’s Euro 2016 clash with Wales via the BBC Sport website yesterday, smashing the site’s previous record.
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NewsTV split over online content
Broadcasters are divided on the merits of original online content commissions, but agree that experimentation is key to reaching audiences in new ways, according to a future-gazing panel at Broadcast’s Media Summit.
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RatingsUnderwhelming debut for C4's Born On... as Euro 2016 dominates
TUESDAY: Channel 4’s remake of Norwegian format Born On The Same Day struggled to cut through – with just over 1m viewers – narrowly ahead of ITV2’s Love Island.
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NewsBBC lobbies government over EPG prominence
The BBC has begun lobbying the government to make sure its linear channels remain prominent on Sky Q and other services as platforms shift their focus to on-demand programing.
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NewsBBC3 to explore hate crime
BBC3 has unveiled a trilogy of films examining hate crimes in the US as news continues to emerge about the terrorist attack in a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend.
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RatingsEuro 2016 opener scores 8.6m
FRIDAY: Euro 2016 kicked off with a peak crowd of 8.6m viewers, 2m more than watched the opening match in 2012.
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NewsVirtual reality comes alive in BBC trials
The BBC’s research and development department has unveiled a raft of virtual reality experiences including an Aardman project offering a first-hand glimpse of a refugee’s journey and a spacewalk aboard the International Space Station.
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NewsAOL staffs up for video push
AOL UK has hired a head of video to oversee an expanded in-house team that creates content for sites including The Huffington Post and TechCrunch.