All Broadcasters articles – Page 1129
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NewsESPN Classic orders sports panel show
ESPN Classic has stepped up its original programming slate, ordering its first quiz panel show from indie Bite Yer Legs.
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NewsC4 and Talk Talk join Project Canvas
Channel 4 and ISP Talk Talk have become partners on IPTV joint venture Project Canvas.
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NewsC4 reorders Brooker panel show
Charlie Brooker’s satirical panel show You Have Been Watching has been recommissioned by Channel 4.
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NewsInto the Storm and Little Dorrit up for Golden Globes
BBC drama co-productions Little Dorrit and Into the Storm are vying for a prize in this year’s Golden Globe awards.
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NewsUKTV's Eden picks up Animal Armageddon
UKTV channel Eden has bought natural disaster series Animal Armageddon from distributor Parthenon Entertainment.
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NewsESPN to tackle Sky with rugby rights
ESPN will show significantly more Guinness Premiership rugby fixtures than rival Sky Sports from next season, after picking up rights previously held by Setanta.
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NewsHuggers: NHS and Job Centre could use Canvas
BBC director of Future Media & Technology Erik Huggers has raised the prospect of public sector organisations like the NHS and the Job Centre creating apps for Project Canvas – and insisted there is space for Sky as well.
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NewsSky shares surge on election broker note
Shares in BSkyB surged again this morning after broker Cazenove issued a note yesterday suggesting a Tory election victory could be good news for the company.
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NewsCosgrove rebuts TV 'failure' claims
Claims that Channel 4 “failed to deliver” for the TV industry in Scotland have been rebutted by the channel’s head of nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove.
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NewsAll change at the helm of GMTV
ITV has begun its shake up of GMTV, with two new senior appointments and the departure of long-serving editor Martin Frizell.
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NewsMore4 lines up Amanda Knox doc
More 4 is to explore the year leading up to American student Amanda Knox’s 26-year jail sentence for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher.
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NewsConchords grounded after two series
HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords will not return for a third series, its creators have confirmed.
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NewsMurray to debunk German stereotypes for BBC4
BBC4 plans to combat negative stereotypes about German culture in a two-part factual series fronted by comedian Al Murray.
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NewsITV to send celebs on Norway trek
ITV has ordered a cold-weather alternative to I’m A Celebrity… - sending two groups of stars on a 2,000-mile trek through the wilderness of Norway to the edge of the Arctic Circle.
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NewsBBC ditches Siemens from £80m DMI scheme
The BBC’s £80m Digital Media Initiative is floundering so severely that the corporation has ditched technology partner Siemens.
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NewsWe Are The Champions returns for Sport Relief
CBBC is to revive classic children’s show We Are The Champions for next year’s Sport Relief, with Phoenix Nights comic Paddy McGuinness as host.
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The Broadcast InterviewFive comes out fighting
Our partnership remains strong, Five’s Dawn Airey and Richard Woolfe tell Lisa Campbell.
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NewsC4 gets cooking Japanese-style
Channel 4 is lining up a UK version of Japanese gladiatorial ‘cook-off ’ format Iron Chef as a stripped weekday show.
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NewsLiving presents celebs at 75 without the nip-tucks
Living will reveal what an elderly Katie Price would look like if she had not had plastic surgery in one of two major commissions for Granada Media.
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NewsDisney Channels EMEA buys surf series for XD
Disney Channels EMEA has acquired an animated sitcom about six teenagers who come together one summer to surf and work at the world-renowned Surfer’s Paradise Resort.