All Broadcasters articles – Page 871
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NewsMillionaire creator to pen gangster drama for BBC2
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow has ordered the first self-contained TV drama series from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? co-creator Steve Knight – a 6 x 60-minute period drama exploring gang life in 1920s Birmingham.
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NewsDCD Rize explores wedding traditions for BBC2 series
DCD’s Rize USA will investigate how couples from different cultures and religions plan weddings for a BBC2 series.
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NewsITV1's The Agenda to return
Tom Bradby’s current affairs debate show The Agenda is to return for a second series on ITV1.
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NewsSuchet to follow in footsteps of St Paul for BBC1
BBC1 has lured David Suchet away from his usual ITV1 duties to front a series on Biblical figure St Paul.
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VideoVIDEO: BBC2’s new drama showreel
BBC2 has unveiled its new Original British Drama season, with a first look at upcoming shows including The Girl, Parade’s End and Dancing on the Edge.
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NewsLine of Duty locks in second series
BBC2 has wasted no time in recommissioning Line of Duty after the police corruption drama bowed out with more than 3.3m viewers last night.
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NewsUS talk show Dr Oz heads to UK
Discovery Networks UK has acquired a US talk show hosted by author and cardiac surgeon Dr Mehmet Oz.
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NewsDownton indie to produce Dracula drama for Sky and NBC
Downton Abbey indie Carnival Films is to produce a new version of classic vampire story Dracula for Sky Living and US network NBC.
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NewsCharity criticises C4's Beauty and the Beast
A facial disfigurement charity has called on Channel 4 to stop ordering programmes with ‘sensational titles which justify their existence by pretending to explore a social theme’, following the second series of Beauty and the Beast.
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NewsBBC slams 'misleading' tax reports
The BBC has slammed “inaccurate” newspaper reports that it is railroading presenters and freelancers into being paid through limited companies.
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NewsVirgin Media hits 1m Tivo subs
Virgin Media has reached a million subscribers to its connected-TV Tivo service after adding a further 260,000 users in the last three months.
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NewsBGT striptease cleared by Ofcom
ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent has been cleared by Ofcom on several fronts including the failure of its voting app and the performance of a burlesque dancer.
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NewsMalone to front The Choir US
Choirmaster Gareth Malone is heading to the US for a remake of Twenty Twenty’s BBC2 series The Choir.
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NewsC4's Underwood to step into Whitehead's shoes
Channel 4 director of audience technologies and insight Gill Whitehead will have her maternity leave covered by director of strategy Keith Underwood.
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NewsJane Johnson departs Sky Living after 18 months
Sky Living director Jane Johnson is leaving the broadcaster after 18 months to be replaced by commissioning editor Antonia Hurford-Jones.
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NewsTributes flood in for ITN's Burnet
Alastair Burnet, most famous for fronting ITN’s News at Ten and the nightly ITN bulletin, passed away following a series of strokes at a London nursing home last night.
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NewsBBC2 riot docs cleared for TX
BBC2 will finally air innovative drama-doc The Riots: In Their Own Words next month after a controversial injunction was lifted.
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NewsBig Brother in fresh racism row
Big Brother has become the subject of a fresh round of racism-related complaints after last night’s episode saw one housemate taunt another about her eating habits.
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NewsMiranda Hart pilots BBC panel show
Miranda Hart is to front a new BBC panel show pilot that will ask questions about groups of people connected by nothing more than their names.
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NewsDick and Dom to celebrate inventors for CBBC
Kids presenters Dick and Dom are to celebrate important inventors as part of a trio of new CBBC commissions.