All articles by Alex Farber – Page 146
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NewsShine Now VoD launches on Roku set-top boxes
Shine Group wants to give more international consumers direct access to its content on a variety of digital platforms after launching VoD service Shine Now.
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RatingsThe Complainers rings up 1m
Channel 4’s three-part doc The Complainers failed to muster a huge crowd on Tuesday – only narrowly outperforming the finale of The Mentalist on Channel 5.
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RatingsChampions League scores 7m peak
Real Madrid’s victory in the Champions League final on Saturday peaked with 7.2m viewers in the closing stages – over 1.5m viewers above last year’s climax.
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NewsBT landed with £120k ESPN Ofcom fine
BT has been landed with a £120,000 fine from Ofcom that was incurred by sports broadcaster ESPN for failing to meet audio description targets.
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NewsNorth One & Maverick to share Farringdon offices
All3Media stablemates North One Television and Maverick Television are preparing to move into shared offices in Farringdon.
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RatingsDel Boys and Dealers takes in 4m
BBC1 ob-doc Del Boys and Dealers pulled in almost 4m viewers on Wednesday, while Episodes’ audience shrunk by around 100,000.
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NewsQuarter of adults admit to binge-viewing shows
The UK has become a nation of binge-viewers, with almost a quarter of people watching several episodes of their favourite shows back-to-back, according to Deloitte research.
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NewsFacebook: BBC3 could profit from online binge-viewing
Facebook strategic media partnerships exec Karla Geci has claimed that BBC3 could benefit from its move online by being freed from traditional TV distribution models.
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RatingsPenny Dreadful debuts with 354,000
Sky Atlantic’s gothic thriller Penny Dreadful sunk its teeth into an audience of 350,000 on Tuesday – making it the channel’s most popular show of the year after Game of Thrones.
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NewsDeloitte: UK a nation of binge-viewers
The UK has become a nation of binge-viewers, with almost a quarter of people watching several episodes of their favourite shows back-to-back, according to Deloitte research.
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RatingsMasterchef final peaks with 6.4m
The final of Masterchef peaked with 6.4m viewers for BBC1 on Friday, narrowly beating climax of last year’s competition.
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RatingsTV Baftas draw 5.1m
The Bafta Television Awards walked away with 5.1m viewers on Sunday – almost 1m below 2013’s seven-year high.
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RatingsA Family of My Own locates 2.2m
Nicky Campbell’s series for ITV on adoption Wanted: A Family of My Own failed to grow its audience across its three parts – bowing out on Thursday with 1m fewer viewers than the channel’s slot average.
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NewsEndemol, Shine & Core: key facts
A guide to the businesses set to form Fox and Apollo Global Management’s mega-indie.
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NewsTurner reveals TruTV plans
Turner UK is planning to invest in original shows, UK reversions and acquisitions after revealing it will launch general entertainment channel TruTV as its first British free-to-air channel this summer.
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Ratings24 Hours To Go Broke banks 200k
Dave’s latest format 24 Hours To Go Broke got off to a relatively slow start on Tuesday – banking just over 200,000 viewers.
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NewsTurner to launch UK free-to-air channel TruTV
Turner Broadcasting is gearing up to launch its first free-to-air TV channel in the UK - general entertainment network TruTV.
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NewsIndies land 12 Radio Academy awards
BBC Radio 2 was crowned Radio Academy UK station of the year on Monday – as independent production companies walked away with 12 awards.
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NewsPete Flamman exits Turner
Turner EMEA’s chief operating officer and kids boss Pete Flamman has exited the broadcaster as part of a shake-up of its leadership team.
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