All Broadcasters articles – Page 683
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NewsFood Network calls for Kitchen Superheroes
Scripps Network UK is to serve up cooking format Kitchen Superheroes as part of a six-figure brand deal agreed with kitchen appliance firm Kenwood.
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NewsBBC re-hires sacked staff at a cost of £10m
The BBC has spent more than £10m on redundancy packages for staff it has gone on to re-employ.
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NewsC4 racks up record eight Grierson gongs
Channel 4’s much-garlanded Educating Yorkshire has added two more awards to its tally at this year’s Grierson Awards.
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NewsSky Arts moves into foreign comedy
Sky Arts has picked up its first foreign comedy and a new Scandinavian drama in its latest international acquisitions raid.
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RatingsDownton Abbey delivers 8.3m
SUNDAY: The penultimate episode of Downton Abbey came close to rivalling its series high opener.
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NewsC4 plans live theatre broadcast on election night
Channel 4 has commissioned Twofour to produce a live broadcast of a play set in a polling station as part of its election night coverage.
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RatingsStrictly hits series high
SATURDAY: Strictly Come Dancing achieved another series high, peaking with 10.5m viewers, while The X Factor steadied its audience from last week.
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RatingsCitizen Khan returns with 2.9m
FRIDAY: BBC in-house comedy Citizen Khan returned on BBC1 with an audience in line with the second series opener last year despite moving to an earlier slot.
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NewsArthur Williams explores remote locations with Blast!
Arthur Williams is to explore remote regions which can only be accessed by the air in a Blast! Films documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsStrictly Come Dancing embraces Vine
Strictly Come Dancing has generated a record number of Vine video views and plans to adopt Twitter’s live content editing tool for the show’s final.
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NewsC4 signs formats commissioner from Pulse
Channel 4 has bolstered its formats commissioning team with the hire of former Pulse Films and ITV Studios exec Danny Carvalho.
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PodcastTalking TV: Tom Bradby & BBC Productions
The latest edition of Talking TV hears from ITV political editor Tom Bradby about The Great Fire and considers the latest update on the BBC’s plans to transform its production division.
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Ratings24 Hours In A&E returns with 2.4m
THURSDAY: 24 Hours In A&E returned solidly for Channel 4 as BBC1 natural history series Life Story dipped by around 400,000 viewers.
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NewsCohen backs Clarkson in Argentina row
Danny Cohen has thrown his full support behind Jeremy Clarkson in the on-going row over Top Gear’s trip to Argentina.
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NewsMost BBC staff based outside London
The majority of BBC staff are now based outside of London, as the broadcaster hit its target of becoming more geographically diverse one year early.
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NewsBirmingham local TV launch delayed
The launch date for Birmingham’s local TV channel has been pushed back as Ofcom assesses the credentials of a new bidder to take over the licence.
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NewsBBC rejects Green Party demands
The BBC has claimed that the Green Party lacks sufficient punch at the ballot box and in opinion polls to be included in next year’s televised leaders’ debates.
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NewsAlan Titchmarsh to explore the Queen’s Garden
Secret Life of Cats producer Oxford Scientific Films has lured Alan Titchmarsh from Spun Gold to front a series about Buckingham Palace’s garden.
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NewsChannel 4 puts Ukip in power
Channel 4 is to imagine what the country would look like if Ukip was in power in a docu-drama produced by Raw TV.
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RatingsScott & Bailey captures 4.5m
WEDNESDAY: ITV’s Scott & Bailey concluded its fourth series on a high, although it was 1 million down on its previous series.