All Broadcasters articles – Page 718
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NewsC4 orders classical music drink & drugs doc
Northern Irish indie Big Mountain is to explore the lives of a group of 10 classical musicians struggling with alcohol and drug addiction in a Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsBBC rejects subscription model
BBC policy director James Heath has argued replacing the licence fee with a subscription model would create “many more losers than winners”.
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NewsBBC culture committee hearing
Click to catch-up with the live blog from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s (CMSC) inquiry into the future of the BBC - which heard evidence from four of the corporation’s most senior executives.
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NewsCreative industries fund 300 BAME interns
300 black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) youngsters are to secure internships in the creative industries after the government pledged £4m to boost diversity.
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NewsCreative skills fund set for £37m boost
Businesses from the creative sector are to plough £17m into skills training, boosting the UK’s total investment pot to £37m.
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NewsLenny Henry 'fed up' of waiting for diversity boost
Comedian Lenny Henry is “fed up” of waiting for meaningful diversity initiatives to be introduced in the UK television industry.
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RatingsOn The Yorkshire Buses beats Million Pound Drop
FRIDAY: Channel 5 ob-doc On The Yorkshire Buses drove off with an audience of 1.2m – just above the return of The Million Pound Drop on Channel 4.
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NewsGordon Ramsay’s final Kitchen Nightmares cooks up sales
Gordon Ramsay’s final Kitchen Nightmares series has been pre-sold to 110 territories ahead of its Channel 4 TX later this year.
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Behind The ScenesThe Secret Life of Your Clothes, BBC
Africa is a film-maker’s dream - unless you want access to disabled facilities, says Nicole Kleeman
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NewsC4 forced to defend Utopia opener
Channel 4 has defended Kudos Film & Television’s controversial drama Utopia after it was criticised for dramatising the murder of Tory MP Airey Neave.
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NewsThe Garden observes London dogs for C4
The Garden Productions is to make an ob-doc about London’s dogs for Channel 4’s First Cut strand.
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NewsLove Productions to visit Immigration Street for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Immigration Street from Love Productions in addition to the indie working to deliver series two of Benefits Street.
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PodcastTalking TV: BBC quotas & Secret Life of Students
This week Talking TV focuses on the BBC’s proposal to scrap its quota system - and goes behind the digital rig of Channel 4’s Secret Life Of Students.
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NewsBBC pilots Nina Conti variety show
The BBC is piloting a variety show hosted by comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti.
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NewsBBC production plans a ‘historic moment’
Plans to break open the BBC’s television supply model have been hailed as a “historic moment” for the UK television industry – but some have warned that the changes will be fraught with difficulty.
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NewsBBC radio must follow TV lead
The BBC has been urged by senior industry execs to extend its plans to scrap television quotas to the radio sector.
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NewsLord Burns sounds note of caution over BBC plans
Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns has voiced concerns about the future of the indie sector and the licence fee following Tony Hall’s plans to scrap BBC quotas.
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NewsHall: BBC must ‘compete or compare’ to survive
Tony Hall has unveiled plans to introduce a “compete or compare” culture at the BBC to ensure the corporation is on the strongest footing possible going into charter renewal negotiations next year.
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NewsThe industry reacts: TV execs on BBC quota plans
Tony Hall’s plans to tear up quotas at the BBC and ‘liberate’ in-house production has been largely welcomed by the indie sector and rival broadcasters.
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NewsTony Hall: speech in full
The director general outlined his plans for major changes to BBC Productions at City University in London earlier today.