All Broadcasters articles – Page 937
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NewsSilver River puts retired people to work for BBC1
The BBC is to explore the effects of the country’s ageing workforce in a constructed experiment documentary that follows 2010’s The Day The Immigrants Left and this year’s The Street That Cut Everything.
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NewsHealey seeks answers in first major BBC3 series
BBC3 has handed immersive doc specialist Cherry Healey her first major series, in which she will examine the challenges faced by women in modern Britain.
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NewsHunt: C4 restructure will boost creativity
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has revealed the thinking behind her commissioning restructure and explained the spate of recent departures from the broadcaster.
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NewsC4 crime pilot to use footage supplied by public
Channel 4 is piloting a format that is like an updated version of Crimewatch and which will call on viewers and members of the public to contribute their own amateur footage of crime or anti-social behaviour.
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NewsC5 orders Mentorn series on extreme events
Channel 5 has ordered a four-part series from Mentorn that looks at extreme events and near-misses.
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NewsSky Atlantic to air 'Glee for grown-ups'
Sky Atlantic has scored exclusive UK TV rights to NBC’s new “Glee for grown-ups” drama Smash.
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NewsSky Atlantic ups content push
Sky Atlantic has commissioned its highest-profile UK content yet, including an adaptation of Robert Wilson’s Javier Falcón novels and two landmark series on Britain from Jane Root’s Nutopia and Morgan Spurlock.
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NewsBBC pushes case for diversity
Results of a major research project for the Cultural Diversity Network are to be published next year.
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NewsBoomerang in Pooh tie-up
Welsh producer Boomerang is co-producing a live-action and book-style motion graphics series based on Winnie the Pooh for Disney Junior.
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NewsDaybreak deputy ed to leave
Less than a week after taking up the mantle of Daybreak editor and David Kermode has already made his mark – overseeing the departure of deputy editor Paul Connolly.
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NewsEdgar-Jones takes Sky entertainment reins
Sky has snapped up former Big Brother executive producer Phil Edgar-Jones to become head of entertainment just a few weeks after he quit Running Bare.
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NewsYearly ratings plummet
This year’s ratings reveal some major headaches for the commercial PSBs: Channel 4 is on course to miss its 7% share target, Channel 5’s gamble on Big Brother has not paid off and ITV1’s 2010 ratings renaissance is over.
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FeaturesDelivery crisis: a call to arms
At a Broadcast debate on the future of TV, industry-wide specifications were top of the agenda for content providers coping with the rapid growth of VoD and catch-up services.
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NewsITV to expand pay-TV offering
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has hinted at the possibility of launching more international pay-TV channels while detailing how the broadcaster’s transformation is ahead of schedule.
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NewsE4's Paul Mortimer lands ITV digital channels role
Paul Mortimer, E4 and More4’s head of scheduling, is to step down and join ITV as controller of digital channels.
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NewsBBC1 collars Doorstep Crime series
Gloria Hunniford is to front a new daytime series for BBC1 that will help viewers avoid the tricks of cold calling con-men.
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NewsBlack Mirror "pig sex" sparks 332 complaints
The first episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror attracted more than 300 complaints to Ofcom and Channel 4.
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NewsZone Reality bags Who Do You Think You Are?
The latest series of Who Do You Think You Are?, featuring Harry Potter author JK Rowling, has been acquired along with two other shows by Zone Reality.
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NewsBBC to mark Titanic centenary
The BBC is to recount the tragic story of the Titanic through performance, documentary and archive footage exactly 100 years after the ocean giant sank.
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NewsDQF cost £750,000 and rising
The BBC’s Delivering Quality First process has cost the corporation more than £750,000, a new FOI response has revealed.