All articles by Balihar Khalsa – Page 71
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NewsNews Corp: deal off, pressure on
Scrutiny of News Corp, including its existing 39% holding in BSkyB, looks set to continue despite the media giant walking away from a full takeover bid on Wednesday.
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NewsProducers defend standards of TV journalism
Current affairs producers and investigative journalists have given TV newsgathering practices a clean bill of health in light of the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal.
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NewsPilkington to head up factual at October Films
Channel 4 specialist factual commissioning editor Lucy Pilkington has joined October Films as head of factual formats.
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NewsSky chief commends staff after week of upheaval
Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BSkyB, has commended staff for their focus following a week of developments that has seen News Corporation withdraw its takeover bid for the company.
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NewsNews Corp withdraws Sky bid
News Corp has withdrawn its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB after a week of intense pressure from across the political spectrum.
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NewsBBC3 orders teen drag queen doc from Firecracker
Firecracker Films, the indie behind Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, will provide an insight into a teenager’s journey of becoming a drag queen for BBC3.
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RatingsBBC3's Small Teen scores big
MONDAY: BBC3’s night of new series on teenage dilemmas delivered mixed results.
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RatingsArctic Monkeys look good on BBC3
WEEKEND: The Arctic Monkeys drew the biggest audience of BBC3’s coverage of T in the Park across the weekend, with a peak audience of more than 800,000
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NewsOfcom wants "fit and proper" updates from police
Ofcom is asking the police to update it with information that may impact whether News Corp passes the “fit and proper” broadcast licence test, as the phone hacking fall out continues.
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RatingsDynamo charms 622,000 for Watch
THURSDAY: Watch’s series Dynamo: Magician Impossible improved on the channel’s audience six-fold on its debut with an audience of 622,100 (2.64%) across the 9pm hour.
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NewsC4 reworks Dispatches evidence for news bulletin
Material intended to form the basis of a third Blakeway Productions’ Dispatches on the phone hacking scandal will instead be used to make fresh allegations against the police in Channel 4 News tonight.
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NewsObjective wins All3 pitch for interactive pilot
Objective Productions has won funding from parent company All3Media to develop and create a pilot for an interactive quiz show.
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NewsC4 set to appoint first games commissioner
Channel 4 is planning to recruit its first games commissioner as it continues to push into the digital landscape.
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NewsTiger to lift lid on UK housing for C4 campaign series
Channel 4 has commissioned Tiger Aspect to make a campaigning series that will raise the roof on empty houses in the UK and look at ways to address the country’s burgeoning housing issues.
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NewsSilver River to bring AFP to C4 primetime
Silver River is producing Channel 4’s first primetime AFP series - an ambitious multiplatform project that will attempt to tap into the British public’s latent talents.
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NewsC4 Sri Lanka doc sparks outrage and praise
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, Channel 4’s harrowing film about the final weeks in the country’s civil war, sparked nearly 470 viewer comments of both praise and complaint.
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RatingsFalling Skies debut gives FX audience high
TUESDAY: Falling Skies, Steven Spielberg’s new alien invasion drama, gave FX UK one of its biggest overnight ratings to date.
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NewsBBC to revisit Gypsy Wars
BBC1 is to follow up seminal documentary Gypsy Wars five years on as the community of 400 traveller families prepare for eviction.
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NewsC4 poaches OMD UK boss
Jonathan Allan has been appointed Channel 4 sales director, taking responsibility for delivering almost £1bn in revenues and overseeing a sales team of around 200 people.
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NewsJon Snow to front Thatcher doc
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow will front a one-off documentary looking at the career of Margaret Thatcher for Channel 4.