All Broadcasters articles – Page 1080
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NewsC4 to put model agency under the spotlight
Channel 4 is to extend the fixed, multi-camera set-up of The Family and One Born Every Minute to a model agency’s office - with Maverick lined up to produce.
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NewsUKTV sides with Five on call for full review of TV ad market
UKTV has backed Five’s call for a full review of the TV advertising market as speculation grows that Ofcom is warming to the idea.
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NewsCrozier pinpoints areas where ITV can be improved
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier outlined key areas in which he wants the broadcaster to improve during a tough-talking session with execs last week.
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NewsBBC staff rush to join unions
“Livid” BBC staff are flocking to join unions over plans to overhaul their pension scheme, with parallels being drawn with 2005, the last time corporation employees went on strike.
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NewsBerbridge exits Leopard
Leopard head of programmes Dan Berbridge has left the Cash In The Attic indie after two years.
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NewsNBCU eyes UK market with fact ent boost
NBC Universal is ramping up production activity in the UK, with one show already under way and four others in the pipeline.
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NewsElectric Sofa seeks content for new entertainment channel
The backers of a new entertainment channel are looking to commission up to 10 hours a week from UK indies, including a weekly gossip show.
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NewsTake Me Out gets second date
ITV1’s Saturday night speed-dating gameshow Take Me Out is set to return “bigger and better than ever”, according to host Paddy McGuinness.
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NewsDawson supersizes regional dishes for Good Food
UKTV’s Good Food has ordered a series that will see rugby player-turned Celebrity MasterChef winner Matt Dawson create giant versions of local speciality dishes from around the UK.
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NewsITV unveils wishlist to indie producers
Talent-led factual formats, non-crime drama and a Friday night entertainment show are top of ITV’s programming wishlist, as revealed at the broadcaster’s Producers’ Forum in London last week.
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NewsPart two of WoCC review
The BBC Trust has kicked off its second review of the BBC’s Window of Creative Competition, two years after it was last put under scrutiny.
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News'Lucky' Ross records final BBC show
Jonathan Ross said he was “grateful, lucky and honoured” to have worked at the BBC as he recorded his last chat show for the corporation.
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NewsSir Michael Lyons responds to sexism accusation
Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, has offered to meet Selina Scott after the former newsreader accused the corporation of “malign sexism and ageism”.
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The Broadcast InterviewJohn Linwood: driving the BBC's digital revolution
The broadcaster’s chief technology officer tells Will Strauss about progress on the Digital Media Initiative and moving to HD and 3D.
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NewsBBC in legal action over The Scheme pirate copies
The BBC has taken legal action to stop pirate copies of the unseen episodes of hit TV show The Scheme from being distributed.
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Good Food cooks up Malaysia AFP
UKTV’s Good Food channel has commissioned an ad-funded Malaysian cookery show from indie Denham Productions.
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NewsBBC Breakfast move to Salford confirmed
The BBC has confirmed that 88 staff from its BBC Breakfast operation will be relocating to the corporation’s new production hub in Manchester’s Salford Quays.
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NewsITV marketing and research chiefs step down
ITV’s director of group marketing David Pemsel and head of research Chad Wollen are to leave the company at the end of July.
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NewsBBC2 bucks trend as PSBs cut spend on new shows
BBC2 was the only PSB channel to increase its spend on new shows last year, when more than £150m was stripped from the total pot for first-run programmes.
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NewsCall to split World Service funding
A peer has called for the cost of the BBC World Service to be shared between the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfID) in order to protect it from cuts.