All Broadcasters articles – Page 1132
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The Broadcast InterviewJana Bennett, BBC Vision
Director of BBC Vision Jana Bennett talks about BBC bashing, shifting production to the nations and regions and the reasoning behind the Strictly/X Factor scheduling clash.
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NewsBBC orders legal, art and war docs from regions
BBC1 is to investigate libel law in a 6 x 60-minute ob doc co-production from BBC Scotland and Matchlight as part of a batch of orders from the nations and regions.
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NewsO’Grady could return to C4 in chat show deal
Paul O’Grady may be returning to ITV1 - but his indie Olga TV is poised to hang on to the teatime Channel 4 slot that is currently home to his show.
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NewsCandidates line up for C4 entertainment role
Channel 4 has set tongues wagging as it seeks to move swiftly to hire new blood for the entertainment part of Andrew Newman’s commissioning brief.
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NewsC4 takes back seat on co-pros to boost doc series budgets
Channel 4 is scaling back its investment in co-productions for strands such as Bodyshock to boost the budgets for major documentary series such as The Family.
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NewsBig Talk secures BBC2 urban church sitcom
The Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo is to return to his TV roots for a BBC2 sitcom about a frustrated urban Anglican vicar.
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NewsMark Gatiss to adapt HG Wells novel for BBC4
League of Gentleman star Mark Gatiss is to star in his own adaptation of HG Wells’ sci-fi romance, The First Men In The Moon, for BBC4.
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NewsBBC to give BNP annual platform
The BBC will give the BNP a platform on a range of political programmes but no more than once a year, director general Mark Thompson has said.
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NewsThis Week pulled over race fears
The BBC has pulled an episode of This Week from the internet amid worries of a race backlash after host Andrew Neil compared Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo with a chocolate HobNob biscuit and a custard cream.
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NewsBBC integrates press and PR effort
The BBC is to integrate all its press and public relations operations into one division, which will report to communications director Ed Williams.
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NewsSports bodies attack Ofcom intervention
The UK’s leading sports bodies have attacked Ofcom’s proposed intervention in the UK pay TV market claiming it is “fatally flawed in a number of key areas”.
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NewsComic hits out at BBC producers
Mock The Week star Frankie Boyle has hit out at the programme’s producers for asking panellists to avoid discussing serious issues.
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NewsQuestion Time prompts 290 complaints to Ofcom
Almost 300 viewers have complained to the regulator Ofcom about last week’s edition of Question Time.
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NewsBoomerang wins £3.2m S4C contract
Welsh indie Boomerang Plus has won a lucrative four-year contract with S4C worth £3.2m to film and broadcast events from the Royal Welsh Showground.
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NewsQI to face-off against The Bill
BBC1 is to pitch panel show QI against ITV1 police drama The Bill when the Stephen Fry-fronted show returns for its seventh series next month.
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NewsStrictly to move for Remembrance
Strictly Come Dancing fans will need to tune in early next month after BBC chiefs announced the dance show will be brought forward to make way for coverage of a Remembrance Day event.
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NewsFilm4 ups Lavender to head of development
Film4 has promoted Sam Lavender to head of development. He replaces Katherine Butler, who was promoted to senior commissioning executive in September.
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NewsC4 to explore dawn of aerial warfare
Channel 4 is to recreate the aerial battles of World War One for a 90-minute documentary from Darlow Smithson Productions.
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NewsToksvig wades into TV ageism row
The television industry does not value older women as much as their male counterparts, and women tend to get ahead by being young and pretty, comedian Sandi Toksvig has claimed.
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NewsMore4 teams up with National Theatre for arts strand
More4 has created a new peaktime Saturday arts strand spanning ballet, theatre, literature and an offbeat ‘magic realist’ documentary.