All Broadcasters articles – Page 479
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NewsITV drama: Lygo demands more fun & lightness
ITV director of television Kevin Lygo has called on programme makers to come up with more “happy, life affirming” dramas like The Durrells, saying he was “tired of endless murders”.
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NewsVice News staffs up
Nightly show Vice News Tonight is to launch on Vice in the UK as the fledgling broadcaster staffs up its newsroom with eight hires.
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Behind The ScenesCrazyhead, E4 & Netflix
Outrageous switches of tone are a key part of this contemporary supernatural story, but were hard to pull off, says Julian Murphy
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NewsPaxman to travel UK rivers for C4
Jeremy Paxman will journey along four of the UK’s greatest rivers in an upcoming Channel 4 series.
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RatingsWho Dares Wins recruits 1.3m
MONDAY: SAS: Who Dares Wins was unable to match its debut as it returned for a second outing on Channel 4.
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NewsIn brief: Thunderbirds; NBCU; Avanti; Aurora; World of Weird
Thunderbirds go to China as Pinewood forges a development funding deal with Avanti.
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NewsBBC releases Question Of Sport tender
Regional producers could be best placed to scoop the £4m contract to produce A Question of Sport after the BBC released its first tender document since scrapping its in-house guarantee.
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NewsNBC's Timeless heads to E4
Channel 4 has picked up the first-run UK rights to time travel drama Timeless which it will air on youth-skewing channel E4.
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NewsLightbox wins child refugee doc
Channel 4 is to follow four child refugees escaping war-torn Middle East to safety in Europe in a documentary from the producer of Man on Wire.
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NewsArrow preps Pearl Harbour film
Arrow Media and Canadian indie Handel Productions will mark the 75th anniversary of the World War Two attack on Pearl Harbour by examining who was to blame for the disaster.
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NewsShiver to cut jobs as part of ITVS efficiency drive
Factual label Shiver has put all staff below executive producer level at risk of redundancy, as part of a wider efficiency drive by its parent, ITV Studios.
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NewsITV orders wedding doc series
Couples facing some of life’s toughest challenges will tie the knot in an ITV documentary series.
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RatingsStrictly hits 10m peak
WEEKEND: Strictly Come Dancing hit a series high on Saturday as The X Factor slipped to a low.
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NewsVictoria reigns in 150 countries
Mammoth Screen’s period drama Victoria now been sold to over 150 countries following a raft of deals at Mipcom.
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RatingsCrystal Maze locates 3m
SUNDAY: The revival of cult gameshow The Crystal Maze smashed Channel 4’s slot average but could not beat BBC1 and ITV dramas Poldark and Tutankhamun.
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NewsITV recommissions Cold Feet
ITV has greenlit another series of Big Talk’s comedy drama Cold Feet following a highly rated return.
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NewsITNP lands US commission
ITN Productions has been commissioned to produce the 2016 Power Triumph Games by US Veterans organisation OurVetSuccess.
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News5 Star returns to 100% Hotter
Viacom’s 5 Star has ordered a second series of 100% Hotter, the debut show from Simon Andreae’s Fremantle-backed Naked Entertainment.
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NewsWildscreen Panda Awards: winners revealed
A Netflix documentary about the global ivory trade scooped the top prize at last night’s Panda Awards, while presenter Chris Packham was given the Outstanding Achievement award.
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FeaturesBoom time for UK studios
The impact of Brexit has, in the short term at least, increased demand for space as TV projects and feature films battle it out while studios expand capacity. Adrian Pennington reports.