All Broadcasters articles – Page 921
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NewsTurner across Ballooniverse
Turner Broadcasting has ordered a live-action pre-school series featuring a balloon artist and a magician from 2 Sides TV for Cartoonito.
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NewsSky Arts in star-led Playhouse push
Sky Arts is beefing up its Playhouse comedy and drama strand with 12 plays, including Sir Tom Jones in his first acting role and Emma Thompson playing the Queen.
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NewsUTV ousts chairman
UTV has ousted its chairman John B McGuckian because of his “close association” with one of the Northern Irish broadcaster’s biggest shareholders.
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NewsFoyle’s War to return to ITV1
ITV1 is to revisit Foyle’s War after the rights to detective series were rescued from defunct indie Greenlit.
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NewsSTV profits fall 88%
Scottish broadcaster STV saw its profits plummet to £600,000 as the cost of settling its legal dispute with ITV hit home.
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News‘Tax breaks can earn the UK £1bn’
Tax breaks for British-made high-end drama would “transform” the industry and could yield a net return of £1bn annually to the UK economy, a report submitted to the government has claimed.
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NewsITV1 plans push on weekend mornings
ITV1 is targeting a major push on original content for weekend mornings and is lining up a rival to BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen plus a fresh stab at Let’s Do Lunch With Gino & Mel.
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NewsSky 1 picks up C4 pilot Chickens
Sky 1 has plucked Simon Bird, Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas’ comedy Chickens from Channel 4 in a deal that will see Big Talk Productions produce its first show for the channel.
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NewsBBC2 buys rights to Ad Hoc’s QPR story
The tempestuous boardroom activities at Queens Park Rangers Football Club are the focus of a documentary acquired by BBC2.
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NewsBBC3 rejigs QT spin-off
BBC3 series Young Voters’ Question Time is being overhauled, rebranded and expanded into a regular monthly format, with Formula One presenter Jake Humphrey taking on hosting duties.
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NewsEducating Essex shifts location for return to C4
Fixed-rig documentary series Educating Essex is set to be recommissioned by Channel 4 – but with the cameras moving to a new school in a different part of the country.
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NewsStephenson examines effects of fame for More 4
Psychologist Pamela Stephenson will ask Oscar winner Tatum O’Neal, former Spice Girl Mel C and actor John Hurt about the psychological impact of being famous, in a 60-minute documentary for More 4.
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NewsC4 orders Springer’s Baggage pilot in deal with Chocolate
Channel 4 is gearing up to pilot a UK version of Game Show Network’s Jerry Springer-fronted dating show Baggage.
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NewsC5 takes global road trip for Gadget Show revamp
Channel 5’s The Gadget Show is set for its biggest shake-up after 16 series, swapping its studio for an international road trip format and dropping three presenters.
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NewsC5 goes Inside the Titanic with Dangerous Films
Channel 5 has picked up the UK rights to Inside the Titanic, a big-budget factual drama from producer Dangerous Films.
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NewsITV set to lose out in HMRC actors dispute
ITV is poised to lose a second court appeal in a long-running legal battle with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to avoid paying substantially more tax for hiring high-profile actors.
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NewsPBS UK to show Murdoch film a day after US debut
An investigative documentary about Rupert Murdoch’s US media empire will air in the UK less than 24 hours after its US premiere.
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NewsBBC Bristol execs exit ahead of factual move
Bristol-based BBC execs Andrew Jackson and Ben Gale are leaving the corporation amid the relocation of its Birmingham factual team to the city.
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NewsFrostrup series leads Sky Arts into new era
Mariella Frostrup is to front a Sky Arts series in which the likes of Damien Hirst, Sir Paul Smith and Manolo Blahnik discuss the world’s most desirable objects before donating their own prized possessions for a charity auction.
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NewsDCMS calls for TV tax breaks
The DCMS has called on the Treasury to safeguard the future of British-made animation and high-end drama by introducing tax breaks, Broadcast has learned.