All Broadcasters articles – Page 1007
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NewsOutrage over Time Team move
Channel 4’s re-schedule of Time Team sparked more than 130 complaints.
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NewsC4 bosses defend Kosminsky drama
Channel 4 boss David Abraham has defended Peter Kosminsky drama The Promise following a wave of complaints that claimed its was anti-Jewish.
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NewsSky to invest £500k into arts
Sky Arts has created a £500,000 annual fund which it will use to invest in new arts projects and emerging artists.
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NewsBBC1 orders live weather show
BBC1 is hunting live and interactive programmes and has kicked off by ordering The Weather Show Live (w/t) from Love Productions.
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NewsSchlesinger to leave BBC comedy
Paul Schlesinger, the award-winning executive producer of BBC4 sitcom Twenty Twelve and Comic Relief, is to leave the corporation.
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NewsMiriam O'Reilly back on BBC1
Miriam O’Reilly, the woman who won an ageism industrial tribunal against the BBC, is to become co-host of BBC1 daytime’s Crimewatch Roadshow.
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NewsChannel 5 acquires William and Kate film
A feature-length dramatisation of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance has been picked up for broadcast by Channel 5.
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NewsMister Maker returning to CBeebies
CBeebies has recommissioned two series for transmission on the pre-school channel later this year, one of which has secured new sales in Australia and Thailand.
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News"Second class" travel for BBC boss
A BBC executive whose taxi bills are among the biggest at the corporation has revealed she has been using second class rail travel as she visits staff to discuss efficiencies.
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NewsTrue North puts focus on features after UKTV deal
Indie True North is ramping up its features output following its first deal with UKTV home and gardening channel Home.
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NewsFX UK snaps up rights to Spielberg’s alien invasion
FX UK is to air Steven Spielberg’s new alien drama Falling Skies three weeks after its US broadcast, after snapping up the UK rights from Turner Broadcasting System International.
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NewsFlaws appear in DQF drama plan
The BBC proposal to repeat highend drama in daytime or overnight would barely save any money, Broadcast has discovered.
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NewsITV writes off Carbon and Crackit indie investment
ITV is to close down Carbon Media and write off its stake in Crackit Productions.
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NewsSky to air previously unseen 3D Nazi footage
Sky is to broadcast unaired footage and photographs of Nazi soldiers in 3D following the discovery of World War II recordings.
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NewsBig Brother returns on C5
Endemol plans to draft in a big-name executive producer from outside the company to lead the resurrection of Big Brother on Channel 5.
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The Broadcast InterviewGerhard Zeiler, RTL
The RTL chief executive talks to Andy Fry about his plans to expand the ‘family of channels’, and how the group bounced back from the economic downturn to produce record revenues in 2010.
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NewsITV bets on Cowell gameshow
Simon Cowell and ITV are creating an epic gameshow in which thousands of contestants compete to win a million pounds - on the spin of a roulette wheel.
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NewsSugar confirms new Apprentice series
Lord Sugar has revealed the next series of his hit show The Apprentice will begin next month.
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NewsCast unveiled for Titanic TV series
Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville are to head the cast of Julian Fellowes’s epic dramatisation of the Titanic story.
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NewsITV royal wedding to be 'ad free'
Ofcom rules will prevent ITV from running commercial breaks during the royal wedding, it has emerged.