All Betty TV articles – Page 5
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NewsCohen warns talent over 'inappropriate conduct'
Danny Cohen has written to an on-screen BBC star to warn them about their inappropriate behaviour, the new director of television has revealed.
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NewsC4 heads undercover with Betty
Harry Wallop is to front a Betty-produced series for Channel 4 which will uncover the secret sales techniques used by shops and restaurants across the UK.
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NewsFox invites pitches at CFF
Fox has been named the official pitching partner of Broadcast’s Commissioning and Funding Forum next month and will use the event to meet a selected number of new producers.
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NewsAyoade hired as C4's Gadget Man
IT Crowd actor Richard Ayoade is to explore innovative technology for Channel 4 after taking over the role of Gadget Man from Stephen Fry.
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NewsDiscovery Upfronts: At a glance
Discovery held its upfronts in New York yesterday, announcing a raft of new series including commissions for UK indies, as well as an Oprah Winfrey Network programming block on the forthcoming TLC channel in the UK.
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NewsUK indies storm US upfronts
British indies’ position at the centre of the US cable content explosion was cemented this week as producers Left Bank Pictures, Neal Street Productions, Monkey Kingdom and Betty all snagged major deals.
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NewsBetty and Ricochet win first Fox content orders
Pay-TV broadcaster Fox has ordered its first original commissions, including an ob-doc series from Ricochet and a factual entertainment format from Betty.
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NewsBetty launches school for freelancers
Betty, the indie behind The Undateables, is launching a school for aspiring series producers to address the lack of training opportunities available to freelancers.
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NewsDNI recommissions over 50 hours
Discovery Networks International has ordered 54 hours of original content from UK producers as it recommissions five series for 2013.
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NewsBectu leaflets indies in factual campaign
Media union Bectu is targeting employees working in factual TV by leafleting outside high-profile producers.
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Behind The ScenesHeston’s Fantastical Food
Avoiding death by supersized ice cream, creating a huge dunking biscuit and putting a pie in a pub was all in a day’s work for Heston Blumenthal’s new series, says Jenny Byrom
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NewsCharity criticises C4's Beauty and the Beast
A facial disfigurement charity has called on Channel 4 to stop ordering programmes with ‘sensational titles which justify their existence by pretending to explore a social theme’, following the second series of Beauty and the Beast.
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NewsBetty teams up with C4 for more compulsive viewing
Betty will lift the lid on life as an obsessive compulsive cleaner for Channel 4.
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NewsBBC2 explores servants’ lives ‘real Downton Abbey’
BBC2 has ordered a factual series that aims to portray the real Downton Abbey, lifting the lid on the true relationship between servants and their masters over history.
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NewsBetty lands fashion and food shows on TLC
Fashion and food formats will be the first commissions Betty has landed with Discovery Networks International (DNI) since being acquired by Discovery Communications last year.
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NewsC4 mixes old and new as campaigns return
Cooking, fishing and property are among the themes on Channel 4’s features slate as the broadcaster unveils new commissions and returns to its high-profile campaigning series.
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NewsFood Inspectors to return to BBC1
BBC1 has ordered a second series of The Food Inspectors and is moving it to the 8pm slot.
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NewsUndateables gets second outing
Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of matchmaking show The Undateables.
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NewsGrylls working up programme ideas with Betty
Discovery-owned production company Betty TV is understood to be developing new programme ideas with survival star Bear Grylls.
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NewsHeston to “feed the 5,000” in new C4 show
Heston Blumenthal is to explore traditional British eating habits and produce giant gastronomic creations for a new Channel 4 series.