All Broadcasters articles – Page 1014

  • bodies
    News

    Bodies creator returns with gritty cop drama

    2011-03-15T12:22:00Z

    Bodies writer Jed Mercurio is to put the “controversial and perverse realities of 21st century policing” under the spotlight in his new BBC2 drama, Line of Duty.

  • ITV News
    News

    ITV overhauls senior news team

    2011-03-15T12:10:00Z

    ITV is to scrap its most senior regional news roles and incorporate Daybreak into the network news team as part of a management shakeup.

  • Channel 4
    News

    C4 lines-up transgender films

    2011-03-15T12:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is to broadcast a week of short films focussed on transgender issues as part of a drive to improve their portrayal in the media.

  • Twenty Twelve
    News

    BBC dismisses copycat claims

    2011-03-15T11:38:00Z

    The BBC has dismissed claims its new BBC4 comedy Twenty Twelve is a plagiarised version of Australian sitcom The Games.

  • BBC
    News

    BBC1 orders daytime legal drama

    2011-03-15T11:30:00Z

    Daytime controller Liam Keelan has ordered a new legal drama from Liverpool-based Lime Pictures, to air on BBC1 later this year.

  • Brian Cox
    News

    BBC issues audibility guidance

    2011-03-15T11:27:00Z

    The BBC is issuing best practice guidance for programme makers in a bid to address audibility issues, following a year-long research project into the problem.

  • Wonders of the Universe
    News

    Cox criticises BBC for turning down music

    2011-03-15T09:00:00Z

    TV presenter Professor Brian Cox has criticised the BBC for agreeing to turn down the music on his science series Wonders of the Universe.

  • Midsomer Murders
    News

    Midsomer creator suspended over all-white remarks

    2011-03-15T08:50:00Z

    The producer and co-creator of ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders, who implied in an interview that there was no place in the show for ethnic minorities, has been suspended.

  • Jeremy Hunt
    News

    DCMS reveals local TV hopefuls

    2011-03-14T16:21:00Z

    The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has received more than 50 expressions of interest in its plan to create a local TV network.

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    News

    Being Human to return in 2012

    2011-03-14T13:23:00Z

    The BBC has commissioned a fourth series of supernatural drama Being Human.

  • Rupert Murdoch
    News

    Media groups warn over BSkyB deal

    2011-03-14T09:20:00Z

    An alliance of media organisations has criticised News Corporation’s bid to takeover BSkyB, claiming that plans to spin off Sky News are “ineffective” and should be blocked by the Government.

  • Lord Patten
    News

    Lord Patten confirmed as BBC Trust chair

    2011-03-14T08:50:00Z

    The appointment of former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten as the chairman of the BBC Trust has been approved by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

  • Sky
    News

    Sky expands Scottish operations

    2011-03-14T08:47:00Z

    Sky is to expand its Scottish operations with the creation of 100 jobs.

  • Shirley Bassey
    News

    BBC2 takes multi-genre approach to mixed race

    2011-03-11T16:06:00Z

    BBC2 has commissioned a raft of programmes across genres for a mixed-race season, highlighting that Britain has the largest mixed-race population in the Western world.

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    News

    Sarah Caplin departs ITVS

    2011-03-11T12:50:00Z

    Sarah Caplin, ITV Studio’s long-standing head of features & factual entertainment, has left the business as part of its strategic shake-up.

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    News

    Bectu to investigate what makes a good boss

    2011-03-11T11:48:00Z

    Bectu is to investigate what makes a good TV boss in an event prompted by Broadcast’s Freelance Survey at the start of the year.

  • Jay Hunt
    News

    C4 kicks off indies clinics

    2011-03-11T08:50:00Z

    Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt will hold the first of 12 indie surgeries in London on 31 March.

  • Mark Thompson
    News

    World Service "wholly part of the BBC"

    2011-03-11T08:37:00Z

    The World Service could be given a separate service licence and its own trustee on the BBC Trust, but no representative on the board when it is rolled into the corporation in 2014.

  • Sky News
    News

    Sky News backs iPad app with dedicated team

    2011-03-11T08:36:00Z

    Sky News is planning to roll out the broadcaster’s first iPad app, which is being supported by a dedicated editorial team.

  • Dancing on Ice
    News

    ITVS to overhaul ent development process

    2011-03-10T16:25:00Z

    Plans to reinvigorate ITV Studios will see it overhaul its entertainment development processes and make a factual primetime ITV1 show in conjunction with charity Save the Children.