All Broadcasters articles – Page 897
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NewsBafta TV Awards 2012: winners
The winners and nominees of the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2012.
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NewsLegal wrangle over BBC4's Room At the Top resolved
A BBC4 adaptation of classic 1950s novel Room At The Top will finally make it to air after being dropped last year because of a legal wrangle over the rights to the story.
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NewsAdam Smith: getting News Corp bid through was not Hunt's ulitmate aim
The special advisor to Jeremy Hunt, who resigned over his relationship with News Corporation, has denied feeding the company an inside line on government thinking.
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NewsBBC strikes three-year Premier League highlights deal
Match of the Day will be made available on iPlayer for the first time after the BBC struck a £180m deal to hold on to Premier League highlights for another three years.
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NewsMulville: Sky 'shaking up' TV like C4 in 1980s
BSkyB’s content push is “shaking up” the TV industry in the same way Channel 4 did when it launched in the 1980s, comedy producer Jimmy Mulville has claimed.
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NewsC5 drops The Restaurant Inspector until June
Channel 5 has pulled The Restaurant Inspector from its Thursday night home and will not reschedule the factual series until the middle of next month.
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NewsMcCartney to jam with Ronnie Wood for Sky Arts special
Sir Paul McCartney is to appear on Sky Arts’ The Ronnie Wood Show in a 60-minute special.
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NewsWestwood leaves 1Xtra drivetime in schedule shakeup
Digital radio station BBC 1Xtra will replace Tim Westwood as host of its drivetime show with up-and-coming talent Charlie Sloth as part of a schedule shake-up.
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NewsHunt warned PM about "caving in to" Sky bid opponents
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a memo to prime minister David Cameron in November 2010 in which he warned against “caving into the Mark Thompson / Channel 4 / Guardian line” over News Corp’s takeover bid for Sky.
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NewsSarah Mulvey took her own life, inquest finds
The “bright and articulate” former Channel 4 commissioner Sarah Mulvey killed herself with an overdose of opiate toxicity, the coroner hearing the inquest into her death has found.
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NewsBBC2 follows Tube hit with spotlight on Planners
BBC2 is looking to follow the success of ob doc series The Tube with an eight-parter lifting the lid on life as a council planning officer.
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NewsPeretti probes obesity for BBC2
BBC2 has greenlit a 3 x 60-minute Jacques Peretti documentary series for Fresh One investigating the history of obesity.
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NewsC4’s Comedy Blaps to feature Dr Brown
Dr Brown, the creation of mime artist and clown Phil Burgers, will feature in the next set of Channel 4 Comedy Blaps – the broadcaster’s online comedy shorts initiative.
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News4Talent targets areas of youth unemployment
Channel 4’s division aimed at helping young entrants into the creative industries is to stage networking events in six areas of high youth unemployment around the country in a bid to attract fresh talent.
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NewsCrimewatch’s Wilding to front C5’s Police Enforcers
Channel 5 has ordered a blue light documentary series from ITV Studios, which will be fronted by former police detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding.
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NewsBBC 999 Awards to challenge ITV’s Pride of Britain
BBC1 is poised to celebrate the heroics of the UK’s emergency services in a special awards ceremony that will rival ITV1’s Pride of Britain Awards.
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NewsP&G mulling TV after signing Olympic mums
Procter & Gamble is thought to be mulling broadcast opportunities around the exclusive access it has secured to a number of mothers of British athletes set to take part in this year’s Olympic Games.
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NewsITV returns to scene of The Bill
ITV1’s first daytime drama in nearly four years will be an innovative police procedural from the indie and key creatives behind The Bill.
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NewsWarren in talks to roll out Box Nation internationally
Boxing manager and promoter Frank Warren is planning to roll out his recently established subscription channel Box Nation internationally as it approaches 100,000 UK subscribers.