All Broadcasters articles – Page 932
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NewsBBC3 eyes The Voice US
BBC3 is close to securing the rights of the US version of The Voice, to air after the UK version debuts on BBC1 next year.
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NewsAll3 secures group-wide rights deal with Discovery
All3Media has flexed its muscles to win a group-wide rights agreement with Discovery Networks International that gives its indies more flexible terms when making content for the factual specialist.
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NewsUnions ballot members over 3% ITV pay offer
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Unite are balloting ITV members for the second consecutive year over the company’s offer of a 3% pay increase for 2012.
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NewsBBC3 trials long-form online push
BBC3 is trialling long-form online comedy as part of a major push in the genre that includes a Jack Whitehall sitcom and recommissions for Pramface and Him & Her.
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NewsMcGregor back on BBC2 for Unicef docs
Ewan McGregor is to front a BBC2 documentary series charting the delivery of vaccines to some of the most deprived areas of the world.
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NewsPercy looks at Russia and the West in BBC2 season
Unseen interviews with poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, the president of Georgia and other top world politicians will form part of a Norma Percy BBC2 season investigating the West’s relationship with Russia.
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NewsFresh Meat tops 4oD chart
Channel 4 comedy drama, Fresh Meat, was the most watched series on 4oD in October by half a million views.
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NewsDCI Banks set to return
ITV1 is on the brink of commissioning a second full series of Stephen Tompkinson crime drama DCI Banks.
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NewsSky Arts resurrects South Bank Show
Melvyn Bragg’s The South Bank Show is returning to TV for Sky Arts in 2012 after a three-year hiatus.
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NewsGrayson Perry to explore class and taste for C4
Turner prize winning artist Grayson Perry will explore taste and class for Channel 4 in a three-part series due to be shown next year.
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NewsDavid Morrissey to star in C4 riots drama
The riots that engulfed parts of London this summer will be at the centre of the new Channel 4 drama starring David Morrissey.
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NewsS4C is ‘secretive and arrogant’, says report
A new report published by S4C has painted the Welsh broadcaster as secretive, arrogant and politically naive.
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NewsRichard Life to leave ITVS
Richard Life, ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s head of acquisitions and co-productions, is to step down at the end of the year.
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NewsITV1 to review the year in news
Mark Austin is to front a two-part review of the year in news for ITV1.
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NewsMurdoch re-elected as Sky chairman
James Murdoch, chairman of Sky, has been re-elected to the broadcaster’s board with a majority vote of 81% at the broadcaster’s AGM.
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NewsITV1 conjures up more Harry Potter
ITV1 has picked up the free-to-air broadcast rights to the penultimate Harry Potter story.
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Directors UK opens to wider membership
Directors UK is opening its membership to directors beyond TV and film for the first time.
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NewsDaybreak boss apologises to staff
ITV Studios’ daytime boss Fiona Keenaghan has apologised to Daybreak staff over confusion last week surrounding the future of Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley.
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NewsE4 axes Dirty Digest
E4 has dropped new comedy show The Dirty Digest after only three episodes were broadcast, due to an unexpected change of crew.
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NewsS4C to air Gary Speed tribute
Welsh broadcaster S4C is to air a tribute to Wales manager Gary Speed who died yesterday.