All Broadcasters articles – Page 588
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NewsLiberty Global increases stake in ITV
Liberty Global has increased its stake in ITV to almost 10% but confirmed that it does not intend to make an offer to fully acquire the broadcaster.
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NewsViewer panel starts to inform C4 commissioning decisions
Data gathered from Channel 4’s viewer survey panel Core4 has started to help inform its commissioning and programme marketing decisions.
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RatingsInside The Post Office delivers 1.4m
WEDNESDAY: BBC2’s Post Office ob-doc delivered 1.4m viewers but was beaten by Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords and Channel 4’s One Born Every Minute.
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NewsPett Television founder to produce Top Gear
Pett Television founder Lisa Clark is to replace Andy Wilman as the executive producer of Top Gear.
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NewsC5 Football League show to use fully tapeless workflow
ITN Productions will use a new fully tapeless, data-driven workflow to deliver its Football League coverage for Channel 5.
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Behind The ScenesLenny Henry's Got The Blues, Sky Arts
Lenny Henry wanted to know why there are so few black British blues singers. The story we uncovered was far more colourful and complex than we ever imagined, says Chris Wilson
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CommentAdam Crozier’s King Canute strategy
ITV boss cannot ignore the rising digital tide, writes Kate Bulkley
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NewsItaly opens up to UK formats
Bigger commissioning appetites among Italian pay-TV broadcasters, including Sky and Discovery, are offering an increased opportunity for UK formats in the country, particularly shiny-floor shows and factual entertainment formats.
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NewsDeal Or No Deal banker’s indie wins first order
Possessed, the ITV Studios label set up by Deal Or No Deal banker Glenn Hugill, has won its first series commission and has assembled an executive team to create risk-taking formats.
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NewsSeries producers to face brunt of 40 BBC job cuts
Series producers will be hardest hit by the BBC’s plans to cut 40 roles in its London-based daytime and factual production unit.
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NewsITV bids to calm indie fears as in-house spend surges
Adam Crozier has moved to quell indie concerns about vertical integration at ITV, after its in-house spend jumped 11% in the first half of 2015.
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NewsShine secures bumper police doc for Sky
Sky 1 has ordered a bumper 20-part documentary about the Greater Manchester Police force from Shine TV.
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NewsIn brief: Swan; Vice; Icon; RTS; TriForce
Muslim drag queens and multi-million pound mega-yachts are to be the subject of two Channel 4 documentaries from Swan Films and Icon Films.
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RatingsChild Genius bows out on a high
TUESDAY: Child Genius, Great Ormond Street and Benefits by the Sea all came to an end last night with mixed results.
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NewsSky eyes Euro expansion for Now TV
Sky is preparing to roll-out Now TV across Europe, aggressively taking on Netflix in the online video space.
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NewsC4 unable to reach new NFL deal
Channel 4 is to stop screening its NFL coverage after two years as the two parties failed to agree a new deal.
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NewsLiz Kilgarriff named BBC indie drama boss
BBC in-house drama executive producer Liz Kilgarriff has been promoted to become the corporation’s indie commissioning boss after Polly Hill replaced Ben Stephenson in May.
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NewsSky passes 12m subscriber ‘milestone’
Sky has posted a 5% increase in revenue as the pay-TV broadcaster passed 12m subscribers for the first time with its highest growth in new customers in the UK for 11 years.
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NewsObjective wins retro C4 commission
Objective Productions has revealed its first commission following the departure of chief executive Andrew Newman – a full series building on two-part documentary It Was Alright in the 70s.
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RatingsBen Fogle beats BBC2 and C4
MONDAY: Channel 5’s Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild rounded up competition from BBC2 and Channel 4 at 9pm, as The Boy Who Wants To Cut His Leg Off performed well.