All Broadcasters articles – Page 1115
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Rise Films scores coup with rights to Semenya story
Factual indie Rise Films has beaten ITN and Oprah Winfrey to secure world exclusive documentary access to Caster Semenya, the South African world champion athlete at the centre of a gender controversy.
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NewsFriends to swap C4 for Comedy Central
Comedy Central UK will become the new home of Friends next year after succeeding with a 12-month “all-singing, all-dancing” campaign to land the show from Warner Bros.
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NewsNickelodeon drops splat for ‘older’ identity
Nickelodeon UK is ditching its famous orange splat as part of a major global rebrand.
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NewsC4 earmarks prime AFP slots for new ent ideas
Channel 4 is opening up its 10pm and 11pm slots to AFP for the first time.
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NewsBragg heads back to the South Bank for last hurrah on ITV1
The South Bank Show, the long-running arts strand that was controversially ditched by ITV, is set for a last hurrah with a 10-part series mixing new interviews with archive footage.
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NewsBBC Trust orders review of sports rights spending
The BBC Trust is to launch a major review into the BBC’s spending on sports rights.
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NewsDon’t cave in on star salaries, BBC urged
Execs, in-house producers and indies have urged the BBC to stand firm on its refusal to reveal talent deals in the face of mounting media and political pressure.
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NewsProduct placement for Corrie, but not X Factor
ITV has drawn up a top 10 list of programmes that are ripe for product placement that includes Coronation Street and Emmerdale - but not The X Factor.
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NewsLove bridges The Generation Gap for BBC2 series
BBC2 is to send a group of young people into an old people’s home in a bid to persuade them the elderly should not be “consigned to the dustbin”.
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NewsTime Team ordered until 2013 but budget cut back
Channel 4 has moved long-running history series Time Team to Wales and guaranteed that it will air until at least 2013 - but has cut the budget by about 15%.
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NewsUKTV beefs up spring schedule for Good Food
UKTV has beefed up the spring schedule of cooking channel Good Food with five culinary series from around the world.
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NewsITV gearing up for fresh push on Studios content
ITV Studios is poised for a fresh content push under the commercial broadcaster’s new management, with programming executives across the business preparing for a closer alliance between commissioning and production.
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NewsSea Patrol UK to return
Wall to Wall series Sea Patrol UK is to get an extended 8 x 60-minute run for its second series.
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NewsFreeview: we will take a fifth of Sky HD customers
Freeview has predicted it will take nearly a fifth of Sky HD customers when it launches its own HD offering in March, following YouGov findings.
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NewsAndre’s tearful Sky interview sparks 865 complaints
Ofcom has received 865 complaints about Peter Andre’s breakdown in a live interview with Sky News presenter Kay Burley.
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NewsC4 to drop Friends
Channel 4 is to wave goodbye to US comedy Friends after 15 years, freeing up slots on both C4 and E4 for new shows - with Comedy Central picking up the rights.
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NewsAndrew Mackenzie leaves C4 for Twofour
Twofour has ended its year-long hunt for a group creative director with the appointment of Channel 4 head of factual entertainment Andrew Mackenzie.
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NewsHotel Inspector heads Home
UKTV-owned channel Home has picked up the rights to the first three series of Five’s factual entertainment hit The Hotel Inspector.
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NewsMilitary History buys WW2 series
The Military History Channel is to screen new 10-part history series Britain at War after picking up the UK TV rights from Simply Media.
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NewsC4 asks: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
Channel 4 plans to test the nation’s mathematics skills with a web game tied into a forthcoming edition of Dispatches.